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0071 — Pt. 2 of, "Nice Pete Formalizes His Umbrage"

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Three men you know surprise you by appearing in your securely-locked garage late one evening. They are dressed as a Lost Egyptian Math Rock band. You have recently denied them funding for what you thought was a pretty terrible invention. Do you:

a) Berate them individually, then as a group

b) Take a moment to see what they are trying to communicate with you

c) Sign them to your foundering vanity record label

All three of these options were available to Ray, yet he chose...poorly.

Join us next week to see just what in the Dickens has become of Ray's soul, and how two bass notes opened the geometric portal to the afterlife...if that is indeed what it is.

0071 — Pt. 2 of, "Nice Pete Formalizes His Umbrage" 0071 — Pt. 2 of, "Nice Pete Formalizes His Umbrage"

Comments

Ray has been sealed

Brendan Colson

“Todd! Fuck you! Now!” Is one of the best dialogue lines I’ve ever laid eyes upon

Finbar Clougherty

I wish Chris Onstad was my own dad

TheDoc-Worker

Nice work using a real sigil

E Corcoran

Yes, it's very unlike Pete, Lyle and Todd to engage in bullshit

E Corcoran

A Soul Kennel, really

Cody Richmond

Nice Pete’s backstory over the last handful of years is pouring his shriveled heart and soul into this plan. To have snubbed straightaway… is too grave an offense to merely do a murder in response, y’know?

Cody Richmond

Feel like Sigil of Madness is kind of Todd’s MO.

Cody Richmond

I bet if you played the Dyad of Thutmose through a polyphonic oscillator but ran each note through a separate filter/VCA it would sound fuckin' sick as hell.

Nicholas Williams

Whatever this is, it has to be preferable to humoring these leeches for the next thirty years

Toilet Cobra

Man I hate when a dogg is Consigned to a Soul Cage

severecorvid

Trying not to wake my husband up laughing at “Todd! Fuck you! NOW!”

haveacraigday

This seems…overly disproportionate in response.

Matt Thurston

"I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!"

David Garrett

I think Lyle would appreciate being a tattoo on a stripper's lower back more than a jumbo tron

J Hardy Carroll

I HAVE A PRINCE ALBERT

Oppido

Also, I imagine Pete probably promised Lyle a truly gruesome fate if he didn't comply here. Maybe involving a Jumbotron.

Oppido

Not a Fuck you! NOW! Friday?

Walter Cooke

Wherever Ray is, he just needs to find a Friendly's

Ismini Roller

Jesus, do not fuck with Empire Of The Sun apparently

Ben Sunshine-Hill

Todd's the best guy to be placed on the Sigil of Madness. He's died a couple of times and been unfazed. I don't want Todd in my corner on much of anything, nor as my VP, but on the Sigil of Madness? Absolutely.

Jay Y

Impressive execution from the van-rock trio, though I think banishing Ray to a dimension that appears to be made of music is not going to stop him for long.

Douglas Wykstra

Using Sacred Geometry in combat gives the affected area -1 Polish Integrity for the remainder of the encounter.

Douglas Wykstra

Lyle feels really guilty about not being off-book during their pitch, and if playing a forbidden bass note to banish his friend to the Duat seems like a strange way to clear his conscience, well, that's just how he deals sometimes.

Douglas Wykstra

It's a Fuck You Now Friday.

Steamed_Grahams

“Fuck you! NOW!” will definitely be something I say frequently

Jeff Holt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87M5elTGDBo I apologize in advance--or don't at all--for the song that leapt to mind as the hexillation began.

Kriegsaffe No. 9

Wow, it's the Mister Band reunion we never dreamed possible. They're really leaning into theatricality in this new era. When are the T-shirts available?

Ian Stewart

Awesome. "Ray gets entombed in a mystical prison of his own mind" is my favorite story arc-type

Nicolas Ricci

Surprised to see Lyle playing with Nice Pete after he was threatened with having his salted dick cut off and fed to Nice Pete's dog. I guess he's evolved enough that he's cool with being the woman of the band, but it seems to me to be disrespecting the peculiar Achewood logic. It's like if Connie started listening to top-40.

J Hardy Carroll

Kudos to Nice Pete, both for completing a successful Egyptian Math teleportation on the first try, and for dressing for the occasion!

Brian Sutton

Ray's soul is going to crush it in the Egyptian afterlife

Jonathan

I need to hear more about his disinterest in the seasoned tomato puree aspect of ketchup.

M. J.

Panel 4 artwork absolutely killed me

Nicholas Joliat

Oh my god "Todd! Fuck you! NOW!" is SUCH a good line.

Shawn Ritchie

Oh please let this be leading to a Ray/Lonis Edison reunion.

Oppido

That's a waste of some concrete polish for sure

b.zap

I can’t believe I doubted Nice Pete

Cf Duddy

Lyle's embracing the Pre-Black-Sabbath-Proto-Doom hair there. Lends the gravitas that Nice Pete's occult ritual really needed.

Distant Egg Song

did not know I needed to see Nice Pete as a pharaoh but I'm constantly learning things about myself

elton mesquita

At last, worthy afterlife transportation; no more Subaru Brats.

Mustafa Beg

Sacred Geometry has always been my most hated of D&D feats.

Bill Cameron

some months i look at my budget and think what costs can i cut things are tighter than i like strips like this are why achewood patreon is never a part of that conversation

Zen Window

Lost Egyptian Math Rock? Then what's the reference to Charon's ferry in aid of? Surely he should be all citing the Duat, the Feather of Maat and the Scales of Thoth. Not some Ptolemy usurper's bullshit. I deem this band poseurs.

Matthew Harris

"Fuck you! NOW!" is my favorite line so far in the Patreon era. This whole strip/arc feels very old school, I love it

balbert

Lyle really pulls off that hairstyle

Shawn Warren

The ghost of Lemmy smiles.

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

wait, these idiots actually did something with this? okay, I'm in.

Mackenzie Guillory

Fuck you! NOW! Have not laughed this hard in public in a long time

Jenn

Is Beef going to have to rescue Ray from yet ANOTHER underworld?? Dang.

Ben Wissett

"Burglin' my riches" goes right into the regular rotation. "Fuck you! NOW!" also.

Josh Egbert


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