0045 - The Account, Pt. 4
Added 2024-01-05 18:00:07 +0000 UTCWelcome back! That run of twelve old-style three-panel strips was fun to make, but what did you think? Might be interesting for some weeks to be a couple of those, spaced out, instead of the one bigger Friday strip. Thoughts? Talk to this man in the comments.
(Also, did you see the big color story that posted at 5am on New Years' Day? My guess is that many deleted that update before their eyes had fully resumed sensing light/moisture.)
Comments
the short form is always wanted
A. C.
2024-01-11 15:32:04 +0000 UTCshort strips were great, would love to see more if that's what you dig to do just wanna see more todd tbh
Datura
2024-01-08 08:03:56 +0000 UTCThis is going to turn into a Problem.
Nicholas Williams
2024-01-07 23:45:16 +0000 UTCDid STALL 117 trigger anyone else?
Ben Cooper
2024-01-07 17:01:43 +0000 UTCI cannot wait for Tina to drop on Teodore that he is an unpaid intern working for exposure
Brian Horstead
2024-01-06 19:33:46 +0000 UTCI’d be very interested in a mix of some weeks being the longer comics and some being a few of the classic style ones
R
2024-01-06 14:04:32 +0000 UTCWhere for me the main thrust of Achewood is in the arcs - when you're recommending something for a friend to read who hasn't yet sampled the delights, for example - it's often the small strips between them that provide the most flavour and some of the best gags. I'd love to see small three-panel strips indeed.
Paul Dunn
2024-01-06 10:12:51 +0000 UTCThe shorts felt really old-school Achewood, I enjoyed them. But I also enjoy this! Just keep going with what feels right to you, I think that'll keep working well. I do think I missed the color story, will have to check.
Thea
2024-01-06 09:36:40 +0000 UTCLove a nice mix of long and short strips
Jeff Holt
2024-01-06 07:25:07 +0000 UTCI enjoy breaking up the longer arcs with a week of one-off comics. The joy of Achewood is equally in the storylines and the quick gags.
Dalton Reyburn
2024-01-06 06:41:59 +0000 UTCYou know, not for nothing, but Picasso was desperately poor in his early 20s, which T might know if he ever picked up a book instead of spending $4,000 on fits that would make the Twitter menswear guy suicide-bomb a Brooks Brothers.
Oppido
2024-01-06 04:43:13 +0000 UTCI really loved the run of short, “old-style” strips. It was awesome to have surprise appearances across the cast of characters each day!
Kolbe Kegel
2024-01-06 02:37:00 +0000 UTCyou can get cheap high quality frames off ebay, I buy old Rodenstocks in titanium
E Corcoran
2024-01-06 02:29:57 +0000 UTCthis page alone clearly demonstrates the value of longform arc pages with some of the fiercest burns you have yet conceived. that being said i am also enjoying your embrace of the ancient art of 4koma
sp
2024-01-06 01:52:47 +0000 UTCIf the muse is singing about four panels you don't gotta run it by us first
jacob moore
2024-01-05 23:50:49 +0000 UTCLove the 12 strips - that was super cool. Thanks for doing what you do!
Joshua Nadas
2024-01-05 22:29:03 +0000 UTC"Look whose cock smells like soap" is now my default statement to anyone I see I think is putting on airs.
Shawn Ritchie
2024-01-05 22:22:14 +0000 UTCOne panel or 12 - I love 'em all ❤️
Ismini Roller
2024-01-05 21:49:51 +0000 UTC"can resell to wealthy Catholic toddler" Never lose this, man.
KTB
2024-01-05 21:14:52 +0000 UTCAll I can think is the dude has been indoors so long, with no one for company but his OnlyFans and his Cheryl Strayed pastiche, that he's forgotten how Things Work.
Oppido
2024-01-05 21:07:59 +0000 UTCI like short and long comics alike, really whatever length suits the joke! Maybe shorter one-and-dones between larger arcs with fullpage comics to met out the pacing?
Keith Richards
2024-01-05 21:07:47 +0000 UTCYour short-form and long-form are both hitting the spot. If you decided to focus on one rather than the other that would be fine, but personally I prefer that you mix it up like you have been doing. Variety being the spice of life and such.
Berthold
2024-01-05 21:04:37 +0000 UTCI also vote for "do whatever feels right"! I'm generally in favor of letting the material dictate the form.
Oppido
2024-01-05 21:01:49 +0000 UTCWell do I have good news for you, then. Order your frames online, pay $25-50 for equal quality to the Luxottica stuff. Any optician will put them in for you. Sorry to tell you so, but if you paid $600 for frames alone, you definitely got ripped off. Now if your lenses are some sort of crazy prescription that costs an arm and a leg to grind, I don't know, but Walmart frames come in regularly at $40.
KTB
2024-01-05 21:01:46 +0000 UTC"Look whose cock tastes like soap" might be the most potent six-word sequence since Hemingway's.
Oppido
2024-01-05 20:53:03 +0000 UTCI retract my earlier "both does and doesn't deserve" comment; he absolutely deserves it.
Oppido
2024-01-05 20:48:55 +0000 UTCShorter form is just fine, I didn't sign up here because I love the full-page format, I signed up because I like Achewood, which has traditionally varied in length.
Eli Parker
2024-01-05 20:13:44 +0000 UTCMix it up and have fun, mang. I do like the idea of periodic short strips, as it feels we're unlikely to hear much from the Lie Bots and Todds of the world in the longform format. And we love our odd tertiary characters.
Jake McIntyre
2024-01-05 20:08:35 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed the garage sale tbh, felt very classic. As others have said, you're starting to hit your stride again with the language being used. I wouldn't mind short ones but don't burn yourself out.
GruntyGinMan
2024-01-05 19:56:32 +0000 UTCT still hasn't worked out that most of his problems are his fault.
GruntyGinMan
2024-01-05 19:55:08 +0000 UTCYeah but he didn't get prescription ones, he got fashion shades. like you can get a pair of Oaklys for under 2 hunnert, hell I have a pair of surplus Swiss army(I'm being serious) glasses I got for $30 I can even wear as eyepro. T just spent money because of the brand.
GruntyGinMan
2024-01-05 19:54:19 +0000 UTCLyle always understands the assignment.
GruntyGinMan
2024-01-05 19:52:18 +0000 UTCI feel so bad for teeodore that I'm actually trying to convince myself that this could pan out.
Bungus Bronbo
2024-01-05 19:47:14 +0000 UTCI would miss the big Friday strips if they stopped, and I would miss the shortform strips if they stopped. I hope that clarifies things.
Bungus Bronbo
2024-01-05 19:43:48 +0000 UTCI’ll enjoy any format you’d like to fling at us!
benzero
2024-01-05 19:38:06 +0000 UTCThis is so great. I love it. I have to say though…any American who thinks $500 is a high price for glasses clearly wears contacts. My last bill was $600+ and I didn’t get anything fancy. The frame game is a scam so old it’s detailed in Slaughterhouse 5 but these days it’s basically a single monopoly who ONLY WILL STOCK fancy brands like Prada, Armani Exchange, Ray Ban. Etc. There are no cheap glasses in the US.
SignOfZeta
2024-01-05 19:21:58 +0000 UTCMan when Lyle hits he HITS. Dude has never pulled a swing to my knowledge.
Joe Locastro
2024-01-05 19:21:42 +0000 UTC"Let's discuss the price or whatever" is exactly how Andrew Carnegie opened every one of his negotiations. On the other topic, I really like the storytelling of the long form, but short form check-ins with the likes of the little shaver and Todd represent some of my most cherished Achewood.
Crumbles
2024-01-05 19:19:57 +0000 UTCTomorrow, the agency is literally on fire. “This could be the moment I’ve been waiting for,” Teodor thinks.
chili sunrise
2024-01-05 19:13:58 +0000 UTCI would hire Lyle over Teodor.
souvlaki Alabama
2024-01-05 19:09:51 +0000 UTCAnd yes it is astounding that Teodor is this hapless! Come on dude.
Matt Mitchell
2024-01-05 19:09:03 +0000 UTCAbsolutely the variety in form is part of the appeal to me. As several others have said, I am happy with whatever emerges. But occasional short(er) form pieces allow for little updates on those from whom we haven’t heard in a while
Matt Mitchell
2024-01-05 19:08:19 +0000 UTCoh t how is it that everyone else knows not to walk under cartoon pianos suspended by crane but you dont
Zen Window
2024-01-05 18:55:01 +0000 UTCRe: the New Year's color update - it is indeed a $9-tier offering (weekly comics + in-universe extras)
Spyguitar
2024-01-05 18:50:15 +0000 UTCOhh this HURTS 😆
Jenn
2024-01-05 18:47:03 +0000 UTCI think a series of "This Month in Achewood" three-strip missives would be a swell, and dare I say manageable, means of staying abreast of things.
Benzo Harris
2024-01-05 18:41:25 +0000 UTCIt was the first thing I saw in 2024, an auspicious beginning to the Year of the Wood Dragon. Maybe if you let your eyes go unfocused…
Omurice
2024-01-05 18:38:31 +0000 UTCIs the Indian food menu the only work we’ve seen T do so far? Are we sure Tina hasn’t constructed a Potemkin agency to get back Ray via T?
Meadow Green
2024-01-05 18:33:28 +0000 UTCre: the color update from New Year's Day, I'm not seeing anything between 12/26 and here either. Is it for people above the first tier only?
Josh Gates
2024-01-05 18:21:20 +0000 UTCI liked the short strips a bunch! I'd be happy to see more if that's not too much on your workload.
AbandonedRocketship
2024-01-05 18:20:06 +0000 UTCYou do have a way with words, Mr. Onstad.
Michael Montour
2024-01-05 18:18:43 +0000 UTCI like the idea of the mini/daily strips, but only very occasionally. It would be like if the Queen woke you up every morning. Too special.
John Robinson
2024-01-05 18:18:10 +0000 UTCsame here?
Christopher Coake
2024-01-05 18:17:30 +0000 UTCTeo never learned about closing. He's part of the "the answer is always yes" crowd. In other words, part of the problem.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-01-05 18:15:09 +0000 UTCAm I tripping regarding the New Year’s Day update Chris just mentioned? I don’t see anything on the timeline.
s b
2024-01-05 18:15:07 +0000 UTCThat leap of faith is Olympic caliber. I believe more in self-sabotage than fake it til you make it, but I'm from the streets and know little of Business.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-01-05 18:14:11 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying both the big weeklies and the dailies were a great treat - A week with a few shorter strips here and there sounds awesome, I think it would let you stretch the ol' brevity and quickfire muscles, but don't burn yourself out on our account!
Max Kreisky
2024-01-05 18:11:19 +0000 UTCOh Icarus...
Ola Leier
2024-01-05 18:10:13 +0000 UTCLyle!
Elyse
2024-01-05 18:09:58 +0000 UTCAchewood always was a mixed bag. Sometimes a quick 3 panel, sometimes an epic that required a bathroom break during the intermission. But I'm always happy to see it no matter the panel count. Do whatever feels right, we ain't gonna mind too hard either way.
Shepton
2024-01-05 18:09:54 +0000 UTCIs that t-shirt a squarespace template?
Zach
2024-01-05 18:08:56 +0000 UTCOld-style was great! Long-form too! Keep up the work in whatever format excites you, and change it up without notice or explanation.
Rob Strong
2024-01-05 18:08:34 +0000 UTCOh shit ... I'm having flashbacks to my first ad agency art department job at age 22. I'm feeling the fishhook all anew.
Marc Harkness
2024-01-05 18:08:29 +0000 UTC“You paid money to look like you don’t know how to change a drill bit” is the single best Achewood line since 2007.
Doctor Link
2024-01-05 18:08:11 +0000 UTCLyle, as ever, wise as the dickens, helps to get that other shoe to start dropping
Josh Egbert
2024-01-05 18:06:39 +0000 UTCAlso, welcome back to the future, El Presidente Onstad 🙏
Vi Hermens
2024-01-05 18:05:30 +0000 UTCJudge from Teodor's fatness
Matthew Harris
2024-01-05 18:05:12 +0000 UTCRuh roh, someone’s an unpaid and unlaid intern!
Vi Hermens
2024-01-05 18:04:42 +0000 UTC"I just realized we never talked about my hourly rate or whatever." I am in pain just reading that.
Benton Sartore
2024-01-05 18:04:16 +0000 UTCOh, no.
Ben Wissett
2024-01-05 18:04:10 +0000 UTC
