0072 — Pete's Umbrage, Pt. 3
Added 2024-07-05 17:00:06 +0000 UTCOuttakes from this strip run at noon today in the Author's and In-Universe tiers. Upgrade today to read those and so, so much more!
Much in the Achewood world is loaded upon the shoulders of Mexican Magical Realism, it is true. However, it is far from the only portal to the unseen. Do you remember the time the boys could only get home by audibly solving a riddle into a toilet at Friendly's?
In the comments, let's see if we can round up all of the ways in which one can transport out of this reality. Yes, this can simply include Ray listening to Sir Duke on a $90,000 sound system.
Comments
He would forget about it by the time it got delivered & have it put in a guest bedroom
Minivet
2024-07-09 19:42:10 +0000 UTCYeah but as you can see the act of todd pissing is releasing a buttload of orgone energy, and the lemmy effigy probably channeled that right into the MMR of that guitar. Up until that point in the story I was wondering how nice pete's egypt museum pamphlet knowledge of a sun god would be enough to imprison ray's brain in a pyramid but obviously the trio's shared belief in that story is being channelled through a very potent, magically charged instrument. the science all checks out.
Ruxine
2024-07-09 06:14:07 +0000 UTCCallbacks to two excellent storylines here with M.M.R. and our household God, the eternal Lemmyflame
RaleighTSakers
2024-07-08 05:08:19 +0000 UTC"Pissed on by Todd" may be the absolute polar opposite of proper stereo output jack maintenance.
2scrogz
2024-07-07 21:17:47 +0000 UTC"Oh no, not again."
Matthew Hutton
2024-07-07 15:25:08 +0000 UTChup... hup...
C C
2024-07-07 02:35:40 +0000 UTCDoes getting into Trent Reznor's high school Volvo count as being transported to another world? It definitely transports your soul
Ste & Danni JM
2024-07-06 15:42:28 +0000 UTCI believe legendarily disturbing childrens' show 'Round the Twist' answers that last one nicely
Oliver Milne
2024-07-06 13:27:28 +0000 UTCGood to see Todd is still out there pissing on magic.
K. Unknown
2024-07-06 02:44:54 +0000 UTC“H-hey, don’t piss in my bass!” There’s a sentence I had to say more than once during my days in a band.
Chris Gumprich
2024-07-06 00:03:41 +0000 UTCNot in the Ric-O-Sound
Jeff Holt
2024-07-05 21:30:19 +0000 UTCMaybe Ray will finally get tennis lessons for that spider bite
Miles McMahon
2024-07-05 20:45:00 +0000 UTCWe've seen the Mexican and North Korean versions, but I'm curious about what, like, Sicilian or Nigerian or Australian magical realism would look like. Actually, I guess Australian magical realism would just look like Australia.
Oppido
2024-07-05 20:06:31 +0000 UTCAnd then commission No-No to perform the murder act. Simple as.
Oppido
2024-07-05 19:56:16 +0000 UTCMy daughter was telling me about a high end mattress store she and her boyfriend stopped into in LA. Apparently Drake and Beyonce and Jay Z all have this fancy pants mattress that costs like 400K and all I could think about was what would Ray think about a 400K mattress?
Michael Akey
2024-07-05 19:26:23 +0000 UTCHecho en Mexico. Dancefloor.
Michael Akey
2024-07-05 19:14:44 +0000 UTCUh oh, somebody better start cooking Ray some damn Emeril food.
denv_eric
2024-07-05 19:06:44 +0000 UTCOh dear...
GregoryM
2024-07-05 19:05:52 +0000 UTCRickenbacker made in Mexico? Lyle's equipment is next level.
Christopher Malone
2024-07-05 19:01:10 +0000 UTCoh shit, piss on the magical realism rick-o-sound
Andy Nemeth
2024-07-05 18:58:31 +0000 UTCDrugs, but ironically
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
2024-07-05 18:42:38 +0000 UTCBlack, 3XL, please.
John Robinson
2024-07-05 18:19:37 +0000 UTCNice Pete doesn't know his Old English / rune-derived letters either. Harmwrthh? wtf Charon with Egypt? Man is toying with powers beyond his apprehension, but as Faustus proved, demons dgaf.
Jay Y
2024-07-05 18:12:35 +0000 UTCOffering a Frisch's Big Boy a tribute of mead made from the foul honey of the vulture wasp will transport you to a realm where the dark transgressions of formerly beloved celebrities never occurred, but the moon is a leering eye of a dead god
Brian Brake
2024-07-05 18:10:30 +0000 UTCMan Todd you know those Hecho en Mexico bass guitars are not to be pissed in.
Shawn Clark
2024-07-05 18:08:04 +0000 UTCHonestly it can only improve the tone.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-07-05 17:48:21 +0000 UTCTodd’s piss compounds are ☢️
Cf Duddy
2024-07-05 17:40:06 +0000 UTCYou can't piss on a man's Rickenbacker like that
Vincent Verweij
2024-07-05 17:38:03 +0000 UTCThe eth as ill-advised a-t ligature is a perfect detail
Don Rowe
2024-07-05 17:37:35 +0000 UTCthe time has finally come to have Ptolemaic Magical Realism
Mustafa Beg
2024-07-05 17:32:27 +0000 UTCOh so that’s why.
Nicholas Williams
2024-07-05 17:28:45 +0000 UTCDinner with Cartilage Head seemed like an effective way to play hooky from reality. And just like playing hooky, you'd be scared and uneasy the whole time.
Duncan
2024-07-05 17:27:13 +0000 UTCTwice
Hunter
2024-07-05 17:24:53 +0000 UTCWRT things said into a toilet, most rocks do weigh about a pound. I’ve looked into this on-and-off for 15 years and it seems to hold up. Probably gross evidence of the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
Anthony Thompson
2024-07-05 17:20:50 +0000 UTCWhen you do, please make another and sell it to me.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-07-05 17:20:46 +0000 UTCno WAY
Blue Delliquanti
2024-07-05 17:19:48 +0000 UTCThis ain't one of the better basses no more
Toilet Cobra
2024-07-05 17:17:18 +0000 UTCI do _not_ know this and I don’t _want_ to know this. Some of us believe!
Anthony Thompson
2024-07-05 17:17:12 +0000 UTCDropping my phone after the 2nd panel to drive to the craft store and buy materials to make a HARMWRATH t-shirt immediately
Travis O.
2024-07-05 17:17:09 +0000 UTCI’ll never forget how much most rocks weigh.
Rob Strong
2024-07-05 17:15:21 +0000 UTCOHHHH SHIIIIIIIIT
Mary (of Doom)
2024-07-05 17:15:16 +0000 UTCreal pissin’ hours
s b
2024-07-05 17:14:23 +0000 UTCEvery time Todd pees on something, everybody wins.
Nick De Cesare
2024-07-05 17:13:17 +0000 UTCTodd's magic urine - the anointing that wakens the old gods.
mutecypher
2024-07-05 17:12:56 +0000 UTCone can always vomit into an electrical socket
Sedric And Charlie
2024-07-05 17:12:15 +0000 UTCCHILLS
Greg Gheorghiu
2024-07-05 17:09:56 +0000 UTCMy index and pinky fingers raised involuntarily as my ring, middle and thumbs came together. Both for the the band and for Todd's impending adventures. My brain favors dissociation as a removal-from-reality move but that's from PTSD and I do not recommend it.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-07-05 17:09:38 +0000 UTCYou just knew it wasn't Pete suddenly becoming capable.
Josh Egbert
2024-07-05 17:04:53 +0000 UTC
