0089 — Honeymoon Shorties #6/6
Added 2024-10-04 17:00:02 +0000 UTCThis comic is from an actual double-take I did recently. In reality, I had misread the shirt. I don't know what it actually said, but the idea of drinking so much coffee each day that the belly distends in the manner of a pregnancy captivated me.
For the next two weeks, while we're away on our honeymoon, I'm running three new strips a week, M-W-F. These are ultra-classic, single-row Achewood strips like you saw in 2001.
I'm posting three a week instead of the usual one-on-Friday because, frankly, posting short strips makes me feel insecure about providing enough value for you, even though I love how this set of six captures the old absurdist flavor of original Achewood. It's me, not you.
Why am I doing short strips at all? Because they show an essential element of the Achewood approach, and it's also becoming a pleasant custom for me to do these during my vacations. They make use of the scratch-and-dent part of my writing file — weird little ideas that can't carry a long-form strip.
Please enjoy the change-up, and when I return, you will probably see a comic about what it's like to honeymoon in Italy during a transportation strike. (Hint: Ray will sit in one restaurant in Minori and eat Pasta alla Garlic Butter until his systolic becomes a hum, like the electric pump of an aquarium).
Comments
The small joy a man takes in the fact that Beef is still rockin' the Galaxie.
Earl Hickey
2024-10-11 20:15:05 +0000 UTCThe honeymoon is over. Sixteen-month oblique storylines ONLY
Chris Onstad
2024-10-09 04:08:27 +0000 UTCOnstad is really hitting some short-form home runs during his honeymoon. Get honeymooned again pls
John Krane
2024-10-07 17:16:51 +0000 UTCThis sounds like one of the better life moments, frankly
Chris Onstad
2024-10-05 21:23:18 +0000 UTCAiming low has a certain easy comfort, but you’ll get tired of the dirty toenails and unhealthy belief in “scratchers” soon enough
Chris Onstad
2024-10-05 21:22:41 +0000 UTCAs a newly-minted single man in his mid-forties, I want to thank you, Chris, for illustrating a perfectly clear example of my dating targets. You've cleared up a lot of confusion for me.
Ollin Williams
2024-10-05 19:54:46 +0000 UTCI need that tank, it describes my body perfectly.
Ruxine
2024-10-05 03:55:22 +0000 UTCAlso I’d ordered a downright pugilistic vietnamese coffee right as I loaded up this strip so I declare serendipity at work, trust my Mind on this one
Keith Richards
2024-10-05 01:02:36 +0000 UTCI like the short strips! I’m a firm proponent of something only being as long as it needs to be, and these strips are positively… pregnant with worth.
Keith Richards
2024-10-05 01:01:34 +0000 UTCCome on down to Cash McDuffin's, we got mad ding dongs up in this place!
Crumbles
2024-10-04 19:12:42 +0000 UTCAt first I thought that woman was gonna precipitate a flashback from Beef's childhood with Corliss. But trauma is not for successful honeymoons. No no. Not for honeymoons.
Paul
2024-10-04 18:37:25 +0000 UTC“…the idea of drinking so much coffee each day that the belly distends in the manner of a pregnancy captivated me…” I also respond to this as a challenge…
Anthony Thompson
2024-10-04 18:15:11 +0000 UTCClearly a baby.
Nicholas Williams
2024-10-04 18:05:19 +0000 UTCSo many days I feel like she looks.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-10-04 18:01:26 +0000 UTCThere is always a price for reading Achewood
A. Hamster
2024-10-04 17:53:48 +0000 UTCI'm in favour of any "this ain't a baby"t-shirt, especially if the woman wearing it is smoking a Benson and Hedges or Newport long.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-10-04 17:17:02 +0000 UTC"I couldn't afford laparoscopic hernia repair so I bought this T-shirt instead."
Matthew Harris
2024-10-04 17:08:32 +0000 UTC
