your lames suggest that Assetbarbarians do not enjoy being addressed as crackers

CRACKERS

Bug-eyed Earl!

Damn that's funny out of context.

Damn, really? I always found this way funnier when I thought it was just a random guy.

I don't know. I'm not really seeing that.
[IMGS OFF]

but he takes them off to go outside - which is kind of weird

a rad dude can't be seen outside in just a thong and sports socks i guess.

it's something worth considering. also, i've given thought to how teodor manages to wash and wear that jumper so much.

Who even said he washes it?

The dude's a stuffed bear. He probably gets washed.

Who washes their stuffed bears? o_0;

(I do.)

A 16-year-old and a 20-year-old both have stuffed bears and even wash them.

This is Assetbarrio.

I bust out of Achewood Manor, throwing teddies at the masses as I shout "Assetica! Assetica!"

Freshly washed teddies.

They let athletes wear leg warmers!

What are you talking about? Honest Abe never had dreads.

Red Meat will always have a warm place in my sick lil' heart. It's the first webcomic I was ever introduced to.

That it was introduced to me by a then Boy Scout leader who may or may not have been drunk at the time, has nothing to do with it.

I still can't tell if these lames come from people who don't understand I don't mean it, or from people who understand I don't mean it but don't find it humorous.

There is not sarcastic typeface on the internet. At least, no inherently sarcastic ones.

if it is any consolation zedpower i got it and thought it was funny and i too have been burnt by people not getting a statement i make on the innernet (i find the easiest solution is to type in a completely non-caps manner and with minimal consideration to grammar and puncuation, people seem to understand then that you are as the bard says jockin em)

Chubby!! And... oh god why have you got a revolver?! And why do you call it a Revolver! You are too familiar with this weapon!

That was a fantastic thing to say. You should bow.

But only if it was open season on the freeway. Otherwise, it would just be ruuuude.

In any case, he certainly couldn't be keeping a close eye on the road.

i'd buy a T-Shirt with this hull on it, in that pose, with Beef's tail and legs. please, Onstad, make it so.

Seconded!

I probably wouldn't buy one.

neither would i, but it would possibly become my desktop background.

In panel one and two, Ray is buggin' on his new socks. New socks are excellent.

Again it is Beef with the killer punchline, saving the funny!

I'm not sure hw funny this is, but I just love these strips that come along once in a blue moon that take a brief moment to address that the world of Achewood really is about cats living in a human world.

I sort of expect that dude to start yelling at me about "de fat, oogley boddle!"

Don't you love it when the alt text immediately answers the first question you had?

i wish they had done more of this, it really intrigues me

though there seem to be many instances where they didn't mind just driving around, looking like cats

It appears as if Ray WAS sliding around hardwood in socks in the previous strip, but his arms swing like that in other walking strips regardless.

I've got similar feelings about the whole Underground distinction, though I definitely give Onstad props for being so thorough and imaginative about it.

That hull scared the everloving piss out of me, though; for which this strip gets rated up, in my book.

I agree with you and was all about to make a very similar comment myself. I find the Underground concept distracting and unnecessary.

I pretty much felt the same way for a while, then it occurred to me that perhaps the whole Underground thing is in fact an ironic parody of precisely the kind of continuity-obsessing that we're criticizing here. At least I'd prefer to look at it that way.

Hmm...but you have to admit that Onstad hasn't exactly kept some rigid, Star Trek-like adherence to these mechanics. I'm with you, I don't care about continuity and fictional integrity in this sense, but it's always seemed to me like the "Achewood universe" situation is invoked no more often than it is ignored. If it provokes his creativity on a given day, then you gotta use what you gotta use.

That's one thing I like about this comic. He was inventive enough to come up with this intriguing universe, but smart enough to know that sticking to it at all costs would probably be a hinderance to the humor.

Alt text: "There is no NSTL to downtown SF because of the complex subterranean human public works."

Does anyone know what "NSTL" stands for?

I don't think that any single sentence has made me laugh more abruptly than the last line of this comic did. Like, zero to crying in 5 words.

Wasn't that guy in American History X?

The concept of hulls is, for me, simultaneously brilliant and creepy. If these things are genuinely hulls, what have they done with the original contents?

Soilent Green.

...oh, no skin or legs:

Soilent Green lite.

for the post-apocalyptic humanoid on the go!

Yikes man.

Also, I am guessing that such a person would be commonplace on either of the coasts, as I hear those places are crazy(?) and full of non-savory characters(?) but I wouldn't know becuase I live in the mid-west(I think?)