This should be a lot closer to 5 than it is right now.
deimosrising » pro1 years ago
Hey guess what I'm going to do? Agree with you.
chaesar » pro1 years ago
Just easily accessible. You don't have to read it from the beginning and get into the characters to appreciate a stoned cat.
I think the dramatic hangup was to show Beef saying goodbye, slowly and painfully, as the bubble boy did.
willing...but not able?
amutepiggy » pro1 years ago
oooo, good point. maybe the stoned cat will make it on the short list of comics i send to people who don't know Achewood. but i am still not talking to anyone who doesn't dig "Killing is Like Basketball"
(willing, sure; but how do i know i am able if i have not tried it yet?)
tweakzers » pro1 years ago
no you are wrong, this is fact
spinynorman » neu1 years ago
I felt that Roast Beef had become so depressed by his sad tale that he decided to retreat into the bleak darkness, cutting himself off from the superficial world of lightness and frivolity, for he feels that it is only a dream.
Isolation is all.
bixschmix » neu10 months ago
Life is lonely and hard. By telling his story Roast Beef was just reminded of the fleeting nature of happiness.
lucidloon » neu10 months ago
I thought he just figured it was the right time to end the conversation. Because really, what can be said after that?
boredom_man » neu10 months ago
"Nice work down there, by the way. Can I get you a soda? I should have offered you a soda."
bengreens » pro4 months ago
Excellent analysis, thanks! And we get to laugh all over again at the strip.
old_crow » neu2 months ago
My god man... that was practically an essay on the social dynamic power structure in Achewood. We should see if Philippe will have you as his minister of agriculture.
dj_douche » neu2 months ago
Nah hells no. In the Achewood alternative universe this is actually how the bubble boy's life ended. Beef would not joke about such a thing, he doesn't have it in him to make up such a tragic story just to pull Ray's leg. The silence in the last panels is Ray listening in stunned silence to the tragic tale; Beef had not realised how much his relating of the story would affect both of them and the converstion is now over so there is nothing to do but to slowly hang up the phone.
canusdivinus » neu9 months ago
After saying such as what Beef has said, no other words are worth saying. Despite what else may be said, the conversation is over.
gormster » neu11 months ago
"is this Acheworld or some kind of hemp rally "
I don't understand the difference.
mrslickster » con8 months ago
And just what the fuck do you have against hemp rallies? Meester military rodent avatar?
dunkus-bolunkus » neu1 years ago
a lone oboe, piercing the darkness with it's shrill lament...............[sigh].........Poor dude.
mattylite » pro10 months ago
Aww yeah dunkus-bolunkus that third oboe note you played just now was perfect dogg
professorhazard » pro7 months ago
A thick oboe steak, stuffed into my ear.
fineoakstructure » neu3 months ago
A thick bassoon steak, maybe?
gazdatronik » neu1 years ago
I hear Faure's Pavane.
i_love_kate » neu8 months ago
Unfortunately, your avatar looks like that guy from the Creationist videos.
gazdatronik » neu8 months ago
What- Dawkins?
i_love_kate » neu8 months ago
Creationism is the other thing.
gazdatronik » pro1 months ago
O.K., I relent. Beethovens 7th, movement two.
cuddlepaw » neu1 years ago
Best strip.
thommy_h » neu1 years ago
I think the deal is that Ray, in his horror and disgust at the story, just hung up. And Beef waited a second cos he has got depression.
dougthehead » neu1 years ago
Ray doesn't get horrified at Roast Beef too easily, though. He kind of understands that Beef goes off on tangents like that, and is always depressed. But I think that's why Beef waited a second- after all, he got depression.
nurdbot » pro1 years ago
Notice the background getting darker, as if drawing in the depressing aura that clouds our Beef?
sredni » neu1 years ago
Yeah thats rad
phthoggos » neu1 years ago
It's just Beef doin' one of this things.
tombsgrave » pro1 years ago
Chickens and phones are depressing to Roast Beef. He's an inspiration to us all--in the worst possible sense of the word.
centipede_damascus » pro1 years ago
Roast Beef somtimes wishes he had a life as fulfilling as the Bubble Boy's.
charchar » neu10 months ago
On that bleak track
See the sun is gone again
The tears were pouring down his face
He was crying and crying
for a boy who died
So many years before
Sometimes I dream
Where all the other people dance
Sometimes I dream
Roast Beef sometimes
skyliner » pro1 years ago
I love how the background slowly gets darker as the strip progresses.
arcellus » pro1 years ago
It is one of the basic meats
-0_0- » neu1 years ago
no, it is one of the Basic meats.
there is a distinction.
songbirdspectre » neu1 years ago
i love ray's oven mitts.
le_chien_manquee » pro1 years ago
i used to work in an immunology lab and one of the things we used to test for was allergies to chicken. sorry beef.
slab64 » neu1 years ago
The meat, or the feathers? Cause chicken meat is pretty much the most inert substance in the universe, IMO.
molesticide » pro1 years ago
i'm torn between this and "cunt pills" as my favorite strip. the area that both fall into is what i consider the achewood "golden age."
ocarina654 » pro1 years ago
Nearly perfect strip.
The crisp dialogue, the stirring message, the darkening panels, the click of the phone...
The strip was perfect: it was Classical.
stormagnet » pro10 months ago
I would give you a chubby if I had any left.
heccibiggs » neu10 months ago
I gave one on your behalf.
ariamaki » pro1 years ago
Immense-- and perfect Beef. This is pretty much the ultimate strip to make a first comment on, so yeah-- Some of the best dialog ever, and a sweet use of silence.
buttermoths » pro1 years ago
It's customary to post a "first Achewood I ever read", when stumbling upon it in the archives, right?
So...yes. First Achewood I ever read. Lucky me.
dasilodavi » pro1 years ago
Onstad experiments with comedic timing.
geysershitdick » neu1 years ago
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21246628/?GT1=10450
Beef was right!
zzzleepy » pro1 years ago
excellent.
i think RB stays quiet and then just hangs up because really, what else do you say at the end of such a compelling story? nothing. and then you realize you should just hang up. except, because it is Beef, he relishes that uncomfortable, depressing silence.
plus it brings me back to the days where RB would just tell people about his suicidal thoughts at parties.
echidnaboy » pro1 years ago
That slow-motion hang-up is devastating. Roast Beef is a master of this.
vermy » pro1 years ago
Tension done right
neonaoneo » pro1 years ago
I gave this a 1 when I first saw it. I apologise profusely and change my vote to a 5
i_love_kate » neu8 months ago
Was... Was that an accident?
goddessdictator » neu5 months ago
IF it was not in fact an accident i would have to play a game of basketball with neonaoneo. It would be one where i was the winner.
jimjams » pro1 years ago
I must agree with the depression theory. Since the strip is dated after panel 6, the impression is given that Beef hangs up well after the end of the story, after wallowing in the air of depression he has generated. Ray's response is of no importance; Beef is left to consider the many horrors of life in silence and solitude - his preferred media.
onepapertiger » neu11 months ago
I always wonder why Onstad finishes Beef lines pretty quick. He'll indulge Ray all the time, and especially Cornelius, whose dialog style feels pretty fleshed-out by now because he basically gets bundles of whole strips delivered to his door for free (at least lately). But Beef gets cut off pretty quick and here we finally got to see a full thought process. He cuts his social losses when he goes too far and retreats into the obscuring cloud of depression. The fact that most of the action in the last half is totally ambiguous projects an outcome that would make Achewood overly confusing and even turn people off if repeated. And nobody wants to see that every day.
And I haven't read too far into this, either. It was the perfect amount.
unsentletter » pro11 months ago
I love this strip so hard... it sums up the brilliance of Achewood to me. Fantastic.
atmus » neu10 months ago
In little Nephew's defence, Pizza Rolls are generally superior to basically all or most chicken dishes.
robot_satan » pro10 months ago
True, though mini-tacos are far superior to Pizza rolls.
stuart » neu8 months ago
I just had some Totino's Pizza Rolls. I was suprised how much they tasted like spaghetti.
bigtex » pro8 months ago
When I was tiny I didn't like to eat oranges because the pulp got stuck in my teeth. I really liked to drink orange juice, though. So at school when they were handing out orange slices and orange juice, I told them that I was allergic to oranges. But not orange juice.
Might have gotten away with it if my mom didn't work at the school.
tekende » pro7 months ago
"These are the days of miracle and wonder,
This is the long distance call...
Medicine is magical and magical is art
think of The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart"
aperson » neu3 months ago
I always thought that was 'the baby with the battle in the heart'. What a silly person I am.
skaterpix » neu7 months ago
Is it just me or is Beef extra depressed aout bubble boy than the norml cat?
mangtastic » neu3 months ago
My uncle was apparently actually allergic to chicken.
I didn't believe him so I sneaked some chicken into his food once.
I miss him.
rheabird13 » neu1 weeks ago
are we to take this to mean that the chicken you snuck him ended up killing him?
markbro » pro3 months ago
egonbee » pro2 months ago
This is the best one.
decagon » pro1 months ago
David had always wanted to try Coca Cola, after seeing it in many commercials and hearing about it from other children, but the sterilization process required to insert it into the bubble ruined the taste. After he exited the bubble, he requested a Coke but was turned down. His mother said, "David had heard the word Coke so often on TV and from other children that he always yearned to try one. It was one of the first things he asked for when he was taken out of his bubble before he died. But the doctors decided he shouldn't have one in his frail condition."
helixnebula » pro1 months ago
I'm sorry, but the card says "Moops."
howmanywhales » pro3 weeks ago
didn't anyone else besides me read this strip as beef just being like "i told a damn STORY" and hanging up all godfather style? i can't believe everyone thought this was a depression thing. i never got that feeling.
rheabird13 » neu1 weeks ago
the dramatic index-finger hang up is by far the most tragic sort of hang up.
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I think the dramatic hangup was to show Beef saying goodbye, slowly and painfully, as the bubble boy did.
willing...but not able?
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(willing, sure; but how do i know i am able if i have not tried it yet?)
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Isolation is all.
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I don't understand the difference.
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See the sun is gone again
The tears were pouring down his face
He was crying and crying
for a boy who died
So many years before
Sometimes I dream
Where all the other people dance
Sometimes I dream
Roast Beef sometimes
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there is a distinction.
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The crisp dialogue, the stirring message, the darkening panels, the click of the phone...
The strip was perfect: it was Classical.
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So...yes. First Achewood I ever read. Lucky me.
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Beef was right!
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i think RB stays quiet and then just hangs up because really, what else do you say at the end of such a compelling story? nothing. and then you realize you should just hang up. except, because it is Beef, he relishes that uncomfortable, depressing silence.
plus it brings me back to the days where RB would just tell people about his suicidal thoughts at parties.
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And I haven't read too far into this, either. It was the perfect amount.
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Might have gotten away with it if my mom didn't work at the school.
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This is the long distance call...
Medicine is magical and magical is art
think of The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart"
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I didn't believe him so I sneaked some chicken into his food once.
I miss him.
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