0083 — House Rules
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For the next two weeks, while we're away on our honeymoon, I'm running three strips a week, M-W-F! These will be ultra-classic, single-row-format Achewood strips like you saw in year one (and of which you also saw twelve last Christmas holiday).
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, and membership has been steady. Why am I doing short strips at all? Because they show an essential flavor of the Achewood approach, and it's also becoming a fun 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.
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 Oil until his belly button leaks. Again.)
Comments
Such an angry typer
Grimaldius Mensch
2024-10-26 05:23:21 +0000 UTCIn fairness, that strikes me as pretty foundational to the Communist aesthetic!
Adam Whybray
2024-09-25 17:50:46 +0000 UTChow many hearts and likes can I add to this?
Alexander Rediger
2024-09-24 15:28:14 +0000 UTCOf course Phillipe, who never ages, has a Peter Pan costume.
Taylor
2024-09-24 13:37:08 +0000 UTCGod! Who put Philippe in charge of the HOA?
Erik Chipchase
2024-09-23 19:07:32 +0000 UTCLyle ONLY takes it the wrong way
Doc G
2024-09-22 18:03:46 +0000 UTCCanonically speaking, our only version of the Lyle origin story is that he spontaneously combusted into existence at the age of 3 years old, from the explosion created by pouring an unknown high-proof brown liquor into the screaming-hot engine bay of a '57 Chevy Apache revved to 8,000 RPM. Unfortunately, the story's narrator was Lyle, and thus Lyle-level unreliable, and overly focused on mechanical details.
2scrogz
2024-09-22 17:08:48 +0000 UTCI found a list of rules a weird kid would make if he were in charge once when I was a summer camp counselor. I've forgotten most of them, but "things made out of concrete should be free" will live in my head forever
Ben Birdsall
2024-09-21 03:49:15 +0000 UTCShocked that Lyle has ever placed a vessel in a dishwasher, tbh.
Gryffyd Dempsey
2024-09-21 01:45:50 +0000 UTCWow, a monitor with mouse ears
Tim from New Hampshire
2024-09-21 01:31:18 +0000 UTCTrue change has to start from the inside, y’know?
Cody Richmond
2024-09-21 01:03:12 +0000 UTCMany laughs at the wholesome comedy. Much needed, many thanks.
Cody Richmond
2024-09-21 00:57:08 +0000 UTCswirlies the day after eating the fish sticks.
Ruxine
2024-09-20 22:59:59 +0000 UTCMake me a Peter Panwich
b.zap
2024-09-20 20:48:50 +0000 UTCLyle continues to surprise me by being very Daddy. Don't take it the wrong way.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-09-20 19:06:09 +0000 UTCI know that Kid Mad. I feel that Kid Mad. I have anger issues IRL.
Kriegsaffe No. 9
2024-09-20 18:46:04 +0000 UTCstumble into the bathroom late at night and fall into the terlet because it is up
GruntyGinMan
2024-09-20 18:44:42 +0000 UTCIn the dark. Can we add in the dark?
Jenn
2024-09-20 18:20:44 +0000 UTCObviously the punishment is that you have to sit on the toilet with the seat up
Jonathan
2024-09-20 18:12:53 +0000 UTCHonestly would like to see classic strip format return more frequently. Quality over quantity.
Mitch
2024-09-20 18:10:18 +0000 UTCPretty sure the Peter Pan thing is going to be showing up in therapy when Phillipe much older and has changed his name to Phyllis while awaiting top surgery.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-09-20 18:08:51 +0000 UTCDO WHAT PHILLIPE SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
2024-09-20 17:50:51 +0000 UTC(To be clear, if you are, you're probably right)
Spyguitar
2024-09-20 17:42:21 +0000 UTCAre you suggesting that his (semi-regular?) man-douche is the extent of his hygiene?
Spyguitar
2024-09-20 17:42:05 +0000 UTCOne day Doctor Andretti's going to publish a very important but also sensationalistic book about his dealings with "Patient R."
Sedric And Charlie
2024-09-20 17:27:23 +0000 UTCThis is me about the toilet seat being left up. What Would Phillipe Do As Punishment?
Jenn
2024-09-20 17:17:31 +0000 UTCDid Lyle just avoid getting Code of Hammurabi-ed by giving Philippe a fun task? Seems so.
Shawn Clark
2024-09-20 17:14:05 +0000 UTCBeing placed face-up in the dishwasher would surely be Lyle's first bath since the day he was born behind something.
Oppido
2024-09-20 17:13:45 +0000 UTCRay should have Dr. Andretti take a look at that belly button problem.
Ismini Roller
2024-09-20 17:08:49 +0000 UTCStraight up carving out steles
Matthew Harris
2024-09-20 17:05:33 +0000 UTCIt should be illegal to sell candy to people who litter.
#1 Fan
2024-09-20 17:05:19 +0000 UTCAh man I love that little guy. I wish he'd run for president again.
Shepton
2024-09-20 17:04:07 +0000 UTCPhilippe, as ever, proving he has wicked sack.
Josh Egbert
2024-09-20 17:03:05 +0000 UTC
