0023 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 7
Added 2023-10-06 17:00:05 +0000 UTCRamathustra Ron's martini with a "twist" begins paying in spades. We see more deeply into Pat's Rod Huggins rabbit hole. We are left with the unshakeable feeling that perhaps, just perhaps, Led Zeppelin was real after all. Can you imagine?!
(Art credit for David the Gnome and his wife Lisa: David el Gnomo, from BRB Internacional and Televisión Española.)
Comments
Been a while since the last time Todd ran for president! Everyone loves a comeback story.
Oppido
2023-10-09 14:57:16 +0000 UTCWe thought he was a monster then... watch out!
Tacocat
2023-10-07 19:06:07 +0000 UTCI mostly remember the TV series playing on Nickelodeon. If I'm not careful, the theme song will worm its way into my brain and lodge there indefinitely.
Jay Y
2023-10-07 18:02:50 +0000 UTCI feel like there is a verrrrrrry specific slice of raised-in-the-80s-by-hippie-parents demographic that instantly recognized the gnomes because that stupid book was inevitably somewhere in the house.
Doctor Memory
2023-10-07 03:07:23 +0000 UTCLast panel is a perfect note of vague foreboding, because I’m pretty sure Pat’s locked in that room & is about to get down to the real darkness
Walter Biggins
2023-10-07 01:57:12 +0000 UTCTo the surprise of nobody that knows him, Ray's ego remains alive and well
kdusjjdhxksj
2023-10-07 01:19:14 +0000 UTCPerfection.
John Robinson
2023-10-06 22:30:38 +0000 UTCWow. That first panel alone was worth the price of admission.
Chris Gumprich
2023-10-06 22:03:29 +0000 UTCAm I reading this right? Pat was so sad at the end of War Games, when WOPR decides not to unleash nuclear annihilation, that he summons that scene as he's trying to fabricate some kind of personal trauma?
Jon
2023-10-06 20:45:49 +0000 UTCWith just the barest hint of a Boston accent, perhaps.
Mightyclaw
2023-10-06 20:27:20 +0000 UTCRay's also got soft-serve ears now, though the significance of this is harder to divine.
Oppido
2023-10-06 19:54:17 +0000 UTCOh no, does Pat have a cluster B personality disorder too? Due to the lack of eyebrows and presence of his 'interesting enjoyment' mouth shape, I am going to assume Ray is having a nice time.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2023-10-06 19:38:57 +0000 UTCPat's "bush league shit" is the Square One I'm still struggling to internalize after a year in therapy.
Oppido
2023-10-06 19:34:33 +0000 UTCAm I the only one who heard a distinct change in Ramathustra Ron's voice for the next-to-last panel? Like a shift from "hushed, reserved, very slightly British, Chakra People" tones to "full-voiced, the grifter drops the façade, distinctly American" harshness.
John Robinson
2023-10-06 18:39:20 +0000 UTCPat's bush league shit pass it on
emitydna
2023-10-06 18:02:45 +0000 UTCI didn't remotely expect to find Ramathustra Ron to be a sympathetic character, but I suppose Pat just brings that out in everyone who isn't Pat.
Zen Window
2023-10-06 17:47:52 +0000 UTCChris is venturing into Little Nemo territory in that first panel. I'd be serving Pat a jailhouse bologna sandwich on white bread and reminding him it's good enough fare for Nice Pete. I guess we need to wait for next week to get to the part that makes sense.
J Hardy Carroll
2023-10-06 17:46:15 +0000 UTCPat is gonna go full Judas after that beatdown
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
2023-10-06 17:31:27 +0000 UTCHe has Ramses and alcoholism; the rest is first-world problems.
blair
2023-10-06 17:28:17 +0000 UTC“Oh, balls.” Exactly the sentiment felt by anyone immediately prior to any interaction with Pat.
Jay Williams
2023-10-06 17:22:26 +0000 UTCRod isn't even crying because of the physical pain, he's just that upset over the betrayal and this being the only conceivable solution to preserve his honor.
Jay Y
2023-10-06 17:10:10 +0000 UTCThe density of Pat's assholishness is such that he has to start from this kind of basic shallow end just to prepare him for the abyss that is the deep end
Matthew Harris
2023-10-06 17:09:59 +0000 UTCRay doesn’t really do trauma. Not his style.
A Cloth Map
2023-10-06 17:08:43 +0000 UTCPat and Ray a truly underrated pair for a storyline. Would love to get a Roast Beef/Todd adventure next perhaps…
Meadow Green
2023-10-06 17:08:24 +0000 UTCMan, I feel bad for Pat. He finally gets to the core of some of his issues, only to be told nobody cares. Bet he comes out of this at new levels of prick.
EndgamerAzari
2023-10-06 17:08:12 +0000 UTCLol, Pat's heroic dose results in extremely diminished returns inside the mind of someone so pent up.
Benzy
2023-10-06 17:07:57 +0000 UTCRamathustra Ron is simultaneously Not Wrong about Pat's trip but also An Asshole about it.
Vijnananath
2023-10-06 17:07:40 +0000 UTCDamn Jimmy Bananas, you ain’t have to kill the guy
chili sunrise
2023-10-06 17:06:52 +0000 UTCOh dang. Been got by the funnies again.
Linus Lee
2023-10-06 17:05:04 +0000 UTCMy two cents: where Pat screwed up was by doing the chessboard thing
Lonesome Cowpoke
2023-10-06 17:05:02 +0000 UTCNever knew I needed David the Gnome on my Achewood but yeah that’s awesome
Aaron J. Rushton
2023-10-06 17:02:28 +0000 UTC
