Philippe is standing on it

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HOLY CHRIST IS THAT AN ALIVE STUFFED ANIMAL

No, Saint. It is a drum machine.

I don't even know what to tell you.

jesus christ! saint is back!

There are more subtly executed comics with stories that are as subtle as their execution but those are usually made by folk trying to be sensitive, not funny.

and this one

I kept wondering why the tiny animal had elephant feet.

This link utterly confounds me.

It really makes his name make a lot more sense.

OH NO! Stay away gumfish!

i dont get you, getlaid. all your posts have a link to that website, and it makes me laugh. I think you are being avant garde, but I have no way of knowing for sure.

EXPLAIN YOURSELF

That site is hilarious! Especially the reasons directed specifically at men or women. MEN: There are women looking for casual sex with no strings attached! WOMEN: The men at Adult Friend Finder are much wealthier and more respectable than those at other dating sites!

Why are people marking this lame? that song is dope.

woah woah, tell me what it was called!

Here Comes A Special Boy. You can download it from their website. I'd give you a direct link, but the URL doesn't change. :(

Amen. That's an awesome song. Freezepop for the win.

Actually, that wasn't this comic, it was this one.

Actually, there are references to both strips in the song.
But yes you're right that is the primary one.

Classic Beauty.

it's so true it's scary

Philippe must NEVER know!

I'm so telling SJE to come here and read this.

did you?

The thought of people wanting to masturbate to a 5 year old, regardless of any species, is probably where the lames came from

I'm going through the archive again and this conversation made me laugh. Retardo if you manage to do this, remember to scream "Here comes a special boy!"

closely followed by the special girl.

or the other special boy...

Ultra Peanut?

Really, they are masturbating with a 5 year old. Totally different

And yet, somehow worse.

Retardo is actually a guy.

Thank you for your thoughts, Nolan.

Retardo! This is not squirt.org! Take your horny comments over there where they can be appreciated.

And I think you know what I mean by appreciated.

The thought of anyone wanting to stick Philippe in their ass makes me want to vomit with rage.

The words "Philippe is standing on it" have been permantly etched into my mind.

It always reminds me of when Mr. belvedere accidentally sat on his goods and had to be rushed to the ER by his boys. How can a man recover from that. Some crispy Stellas, that's how!

Oh my god. I suddenly find that I'm very glad I never watched that show.

Say what you will about this strip, but ask yourself: is it possible to read it and NOT click the button to see the next one? I submit to you that it is not.

It started all of this, so you have to love it.

How do his pants stay on that is what I want to know

Did they ever get that drum machine figured out?

Look how bemused Philippe is

It was early days, some folks didn't know what 'spam' meant back then.

There is a DaDaist slant to this that I just love.

This strip is important because it made me keep reading. Classic.

man, philippe can have a good time doing anything.

The really early strips are weird. They're funny, but almost in a completely different way than later strips.

agreed. I love the early days because so many are like 3/4 of typical linear jokes, but my brain can't quite figure it out and so just laughs anyway.

when i was first turned on to achewood, it had already been running for a year or so and my friend said "don't worry about what shows up, just click archive and start from the beginning." this strip is what made this comic what it is, it makes no sense but at the same time it makes all the sense in the world. everytime i tell someone about achewood i say the say thing, read the first strip first.

it gets a five because it is the first and it sets the tone for the rest perfectly

This should be on the flag.

I love how Philippe is not only standing on it, but he's standing on it in a corner, happily oblivious. There's really no other place for him to stand; that much is obvious.

the subtle awesomeness of this strip still amazes me...

Come on Teodor, I thought you were the music guy. That drum machine looks pretty simple to me. Then again, Onstad played up the animal qualities of the characters earlier on (they don't know how to drive, they need to use clandestine methods to get fast food delivery from humans, the whole animal underground concept wasn't really there yet, etc.).

This man is genius.

So classic, so newbie, I hope my comic series starts out as good as this!

I would say that this one at least, does indeed suck.

No way dude, this strip is HELLA GOLD

A solid gold vacuum cleaner.

I think the fact that the strip evolves and develops from something so basic is awesome

they are hell of different and the subtle humor dosen't work very well in them.

I think that, for the most part, the newer strips are better than the really old ones. But this one, the very first, is brilliant and ranks among my favorites.

lots of dudes say this is their favorite strip, and come on, it IS a good strip, but it sucks next to the novel that is now achewood canon. the strip was good, but once roast beef and ray showed up, it was gold. those fellas are straight up rude.

Ray and Roast Beef definitely changed the strip completely, and one of the funniest arcs is when they took the road trip to Bakersfield ("A turd with a bullet in it ain't exactly 5 O'Clock News Ray"), but Ray is over-used nowadays. There are other great personalities, like Cornelius, Teodor, Lie Bot, and Lyle, who just don't get any time on-stage anymore. One of my favorite arcs was when Onstad made Teodor help him pack and ship some merchandise. Teodor was all oppositional about it, and expressed his annoyance by refusing to cover his winky. I'd just like to see more of the rest of the Achewood cast.

this strip is brilliant.

i don't get it, personally.

but it took MAJOR sac to have this, an incomprehensible joke without a punchline, be the first strip of your ongoing comic.

i salute the man for this. this achievement sets Onstad as one of my creative heroes. if i could die in an opium den over a period of several years surrounded by piles of fruit being fed to me by naked girls, with only ONE companion on an adjacent couch to play card games with, i would choose chris onstad as that companion.

it used to be oscar wilde.

I think i would go with Fozzy Bear from the muppets.

I think I would choose myself, a cloned variety.

I think that would be pure hell.

nah. hell would be, the clone, and his girlfriend.

This strip basically challenged me to keep reading Achewood. "You will not like this comic" this strip said. It is kind of punk like that. I am glad I picked a fight with this strip.

Looking back, this strip has a strange and surrealist feel to it compared to the others. I want to know what made Onstad start his comic out with this strip instead of something else.

The closest thing to pure happiness I've ever seen.

Certainly the most original and, to me, the best online comic nowadays. Most strips lack the balls for a punchline like this.

I love how they don't seem to consider asking him to move.

I love how you are Klaus Nomi.

(I just discovered the man yesterday and now it's exciting.)

The strip does not have a standard punchline. Whatever you say about it, it's a typical example of Achewood's surreal universe and has become an iconic strip for its fans. For fans with a knowledge of the strip it does have humour... As a first strip of a comic it is truly bizarre. But if I had to buy any Achewood strip this might be the one. Probably not though, I might have to get the one where Ray orders Pat to say good things about Ray's dick. :D

Its sort of like a really good mixed drink, suble, but then WHAM it hits you

Did it really hit you? Or are you still in the dark about it? Because, I get it but it's not a WHAM effect.

It's Beautiful.

The drum machine will be brought back in Achewood's final season, to devastating effect.

achewood may never end

God I hope not. The last comic I was in love with was 1/0 and I always get sad at the end. :(

I know. You watch Ghanny walk away in his new body and it all feels wrong. It was even worse when it was updating, because you knew the ending was coming at 1000 and every day was a countdown.

I always pegged "Arrested Development" as the Achewood of prime time sitcoms.

How it all began . . . cryptic, elliptical, homely.

I'm assuming this, the very beginning, is where Philippe starts looking like he's maybe retarded, eh?

One cannot fault the start of such a great comic strip. I am sure this has been done before, but much like most things on the internet I shall do it again

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