For whatever reason I skimmed this post and read "Vanilla Ice-esque" sweeping arm gesture, and immediately was scanning my mind for the Ice Ice Baby film clip and remembered a couple of similar gestures.

My memory is a very well-maintained garbage tip apparently.

What's interesting is that it's a regression of the 'stache back to how it was pre-"Sex Funeral."

I have seen it in real life. The guy who was sporting it was probably in his mid 50s.

It was so enormous, so spectacular, so phenomenal, that I immediately went home and shaved my wimpy little mustache right off.

Awww. A true executioner.

I have a hard time disagreeing with this. Lyle's line is just priceless. Lyle's line IS Achewood! :kicks pennyarcade into a well:

Ok, well I don't see why you get lamed and I don't but ok. Completmentary chubby for you, Mr. Riot (because I assume that your name is Rowboat Riot).

Stupid dick jokes > Stupid "It's hard raising a teenager" jokes

I don't wanna come flying to Penny Arcade's defense, but comparing them unfavorably to newspaper pap is a little low.

I also wanted to note that i did not lame you.

Take *THAT* "morning in America!"

also, chubby.

not really.

Yeah. In retrospect, at least.

I agree that it seems weird looking at earlier strips written before the characters were really given personalities. Less satisfying...it seems like a whole different comic.

All these earlier strips are very Phillipe-central. As fantastic a character as he is, the introduction of Ray and Roast Beef are fundamental to Achewood's success.

However little gems of character development appear, and we learn a little more about Lyle here, and his atypical relationship with Phillipe.

That's pretty much the reason I gave it a 5, too. My favourite early strip.

True for the grammar analysis but also the line, as well as being characterful, breaks out of the context and anything you were expecting. This is actually one thing Achewood often doesn't do nowadays.

Lyle is pausing after the word 'listen' to add a dramatic element to his situation.

Lyle is basically the only character who hasn't changed.

Classic Lyle.

dress shirt with sleeves ripped off, indeed classic Lyle

Fun fact: Lyle wasn't seen for a week after this strip ran.

This is the first one that really clicks with me.

i, too, do things like this.

a chubby for you.

The last panel.

If it had been the Mr. Bear Play, Lyle would have been breaking the fourth wall in the worst way.

Early on Achewood seemed to be about a bunch of stuffed animals doing anything to keep boredom away.
This is one of my early favorites just because Lyle epitomizes the worst thing that can happen when watching TV.

If a stuffed tiger hit me up for money I would be buggin on a level harder than that of some chick coming out of a TV to get me.
D:

This may be my favorite Achewood strip that doesn't feature Lie Bot.

...for your health!

A modern day "Mr Bear Show" would be a gem of tele-visual entertainment at a time filled mostly with rubbish reality TV and sketch shows.

I love this one. So good.

The question is; is Lyle talking to Phillipe at home or Connie in the studio? If it's the former we may be able to get such as a discussion of the insidious influence of commercial media and how it's trying to get all our money hey no don't take my money I need that money for me going.

Lyle is really not very different from the people on real tv.

This is Lyle's version of PBS's fundraiser.

Lyle is the best.

as do i

This strip is actually really adorable until panel three.

Oh my god Achewood started when I was nine people what the hell am I doing here what the hell I was NINE.

WHAT IN THE HELL I WAS 13 WHAT IN THE HELLLLL.

Or 12, whatever.

This might be the earliest comic I ever gave a 5.

[B]POOPS