Kicking the Basketball

Kicking the Basketball 04/23/2002 « prev 1st rand curr next »

You could run up and kick him in the shins.

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Most of the strips I think are underrated I scroll down and see you posting the same thing. We should probably exchange phone numbers/addresses/underwear

yeah you have pretty good taste in awesome. send me a message on AIM sometime or something my name is the same here and there

I have never seen you online

Haha yeah I am currently staying at a friend's apartment so it is not convenient for me to use the computer for long stretches of time.

I find this little scene of future friends on the internet extremely heart warming.

I got really uncomfortable and embarrassed when i was reading this, I don't know why.

Hahaha! This made me laugh a lot.

You don't like it when they talk about gettin' their bone on, do you?

Would extremely heart warming constitute heart burn? Because that's kind of what I'm feeling about it.

so how is it going guys

are you best e-friends

talking on aim every night till 2am

posting myspace comments

sending custom season-related e-cards

i'm going to propose in a week (don't tell deimosrising)

This is genuinely great.

I wonder if he said yes

that is some sweet beans zem

And our sins.

Lyle has ideas, but Jesus has super powers.

i ruined my keyboard with tears when i read the alt text for this one

laughter tears, by the way. definitely one of the best early strips, if not THE best

It is good that you clarified, else we might have thought you were shedding tears for anyone who would do anything mean to Jesus.

Jesus can look after himself. You know... apart from that one time... but I heard that Mel Gibson paid a bunch of people to do that, and most of us don't have those kind of resources.

Onstad just sounds so pleased to say it. Chipper, even.

top ten, maybe top five. its weird that i would never say "lyle is my favorite achewood character" to someone, but the funny in some of my favorite strips come from his ornery attitude.

Lyle just wants to be heard.

He puts up a mean front, but he just wants some love.

His face is that of a desperate, lonely man.

Lyle's logic is airtight as always

Lyle holds that eyebrow arch for a damn long time.

Lyle is a darkhorse.

I remember when I found out you shouldn't kick a basketball.

I remember when I kicked a basketball once. It hurt really, really bad.

I remember when I hit a basketball that my friend had bowled to me with a baseball bat.
similar results

Did it turn into a discussion on how you could crack Jesus with a baseball bat?

I want to hear more of Lyle's ideas if that is ok

This is a lot like many of my conversations (with me as Lyle) except I would never kick a basketball; that is terrible.

Lyle is golden.

ALT TEXT: You could run up and kick him in the shins.

Alt text: "You could run up and kick him in the shins."

Lyle has a lot of ideas about how to best assault Jesus.

I love how in the last panel Lyle's all concerned that no one will get to hear his 'ideas'.

You get the idea that Lyle knows exactly what kind of smack down he'd bring on Jesus, and he's upset that no one will ever know his genius . . .

Come back! I was going to make espresso!

Pretend to be a leper then tug his beard hold on to it and give him loads of little tappy-kicks in the shin!

I think I've had too many conversations where I end up saying "this is rediculous" and walk away.

I want to hear his ideas. Where is that story arc?

it is the responsibility of the readers (since we have a voice) to speculate on lyle's ideas:

-wedgies
-noogies (careful of thorns in your knuckles)
-swim underneath him as he walks, wearing a false shark fin on your back
-sell him to the romans
-joke shocker
-throw a fake rubber cockroach at him
-electrocute his dick.

anybody else?

Bite all the heads off of his Easter Peeps

Oh man. This makes you the worst sort of person.

The saddest thing.

Lyle leans way back in panel 3
so great is the force of his blasphemous certainty

You can't kick Jesus! That'd make him [b]cross[b/]!

Just a few days before, Teodor had a full head of hair...

Everybody has a favorite strip. This one is mine.

Lyle has given this some serious thought.

Lyle ain't afraid of no fuckin' Jesus.

The worst part is Jesus would totally let you kick him, looking all sad and dissapointed in you. Next thing you know you'd end up on an Albrecht Durer wood carving with the caption "Our Lord and the Spiteful Drunkard"