22nd Anniversary Flashback: 8-page Color Comic
Added 2023-10-01 11:00:07 +0000 UTCTwenty-two years ago today a little otter stood atop a drum machine manual, and in so doing tipped this ponderous universe into motion.
Of all the levers I have pulled with great and specific hope in my breast, this was not the one I thought would become the reference frame for my life. And though at times this mercurial bull has bucked me to the dirt, it has also carried me through essential passages that I have loved, and of which I am cautiously proud.
Thank you for believing in Achewood enough to support me in making it for all the perpetuity I have left in me. To get to do this for real now, after two decades of fits and starts and struggle, is—and I do not say this lightly—heaven.
Please enjoy this 8-page color comic I wrote for Dark Horse back during the second Bush administration. Despite its age, I think you will find that its themes have not yellowed upon the shelf.
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Comments
Genius as ever. However, bittersweet, in that it reminds me that the Double-Decker Taco used to be a thing and then those bastards took it from us.
Safe is for NPC's
2024-06-16 23:55:42 +0000 UTCNeed their mouth to be hot all the time. That is so good. My in laws won’t eat anything that isn’t scalding
Kral
2024-05-12 05:07:28 +0000 UTCA scholar and a gentleman.
trashdo
2024-02-04 00:04:58 +0000 UTCOf course Ray isn’t wearing a seatbelt.
Cody Richmond
2023-10-28 02:03:31 +0000 UTCI am so grateful you took the pains to start again *again*. Words fail me to describe how much the full narrative means to me and how often lines you’ve written come off my tongue in every day conversation or how frequently I think about the characters you’ve created. You’re a genius and a master.
Chase Macri
2023-10-08 01:36:03 +0000 UTCI'm torn between letting this shitpost lie and owning up to it, but I love Achewood too much to leave it at cropdusting the comments and moving on. I sincerely have no idea as to whether AA Milne was a baddie or not. I just ran with the AAs since the current model year of my favorite comic opened with Pooh, and the imagery of the wake and speedboat were too much fun to not use. My wholehearted apology if this has caused even the briefest feelings of uh and/or oh.
Zen Window
2023-10-06 18:07:03 +0000 UTCAs if a daring coupe upon the pallet, upon discovering treacherous seepage of layer 5, 6 is now determined; frightfully and determinedly seeking passage to cortex
Colby Francis
2023-10-05 02:46:23 +0000 UTCA most unselfish use of tequila. Bravo.
Dara K. Marzipan
2023-10-02 15:44:43 +0000 UTCgentle ribbon
Nathaniel R
2023-10-02 14:03:17 +0000 UTCI feel this strip deserves a comment that is not unlike a…. sentence that is above the common…. thing what is good. Dang, dogg.
Chris Gumprich
2023-10-02 11:54:06 +0000 UTCI remember when this was only available to Premium Members, to Patreon patrons before Patreon was a thing. I was not a patron then, and I am thrilled to be one now.
Brandon Rahhal
2023-10-02 03:47:12 +0000 UTCThis...pleases me.
Joe Locastro
2023-10-01 22:00:36 +0000 UTCThis is great
bentleyjet
2023-10-01 21:54:32 +0000 UTCTime for a little Freezepop.
J.
2023-10-01 21:12:17 +0000 UTCaww yeah, who's the jazz machine. Who's the man who brings the jazz to every situation.
Jordan D Cowman
2023-10-01 20:59:58 +0000 UTChttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/the-aa-gill-award-for-emerging-food-writers/ there's even an AA Gill Award for aspiring food writers. Teodor should enter, once he's got his jazz back
E Corcoran
2023-10-01 18:13:48 +0000 UTCThis comic is the main bitch in all the land
BootsMcGuffin
2023-10-01 18:09:39 +0000 UTCAaaaashhhhhhhhsssh. I am so happy and it is clearly your fault 🖤
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
2023-10-01 17:53:20 +0000 UTCThis is one of the finest Achewood strips I’ve ever read.
Paul Davies
2023-10-01 17:47:51 +0000 UTCChris Onstad is to sentence technology what heaven is to places a dude can get drunk by himself and read Nate Small
Ben Wilinofsky
2023-10-01 17:28:34 +0000 UTCEvery word as true now as it was then
Phineas Jones
2023-10-01 17:24:13 +0000 UTCDe mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est. That will be my final comment.
E Corcoran
2023-10-01 17:22:37 +0000 UTCPoor Teodor really thinks he did something with that enchirito....
Mae
2023-10-01 16:32:46 +0000 UTCWe are all now standing on it, Bre'er Onstad.
Rob Dalton
2023-10-01 16:12:11 +0000 UTCPlease lord let this space remain the one place on the internet that strangers to one another do not create cross energy, not on this special day, let us focus on what goodness we share
Chris Onstad
2023-10-01 15:41:28 +0000 UTCWho, the baboon?
Matthew Harris
2023-10-01 15:37:46 +0000 UTCSomeone's a little bit too sensitive methinks
E Corcoran
2023-10-01 15:27:38 +0000 UTCDid not know that about the monkey. Thanks pardner
E Corcoran
2023-10-01 15:26:37 +0000 UTCI love you. That is all.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2023-10-01 15:15:37 +0000 UTC"a fast-forwarded little video of two accordions" is all I'll be able to see next time I make a bad food decision
Anthony Correale
2023-10-01 14:44:29 +0000 UTCMan, here's my uncultured ass thinking AA Gill is a made-up Achewood thing and that people in this comment section are scatting and bebop-ing new fake details about this fictional writer to add comedic heft to his legacy. Only to discover he's real and he sucks. What a humbling start to my Sunday idyll.
Tim from New Hampshire
2023-10-01 14:34:44 +0000 UTCWhat did AA Milne do? I read his Wikipedia page last year and don't remember anything salacious.
Chris Onstad
2023-10-01 14:13:59 +0000 UTCAt least AA Gill's legacy isn't the spreading wake of emotional damage that AA Milne's pervert speedboat of a life left behind him.
Zen Window
2023-10-01 14:09:50 +0000 UTCSigh. "Make no monument to the living, for they may still disgrace the stone," cannot possibly be an Achewood original concept, but it is a warning that still occurs to me daily.
Chris Onstad
2023-10-01 13:43:36 +0000 UTCSo what you're saying is, exactly the kind of guy to make an unflattering cameo appearance in Achewood
Oliver Milne
2023-10-01 13:38:44 +0000 UTCYeah, that's fair enough. I just hope Molly never heard Beef praise him. He was to the Welsh what Salman Rushdie is to Iran.
Matthew Harris
2023-10-01 13:38:17 +0000 UTCThank you for the extra info, Matthew. I only ever knew his food writing, as his personal life was essentially unknown here.
Chris Onstad
2023-10-01 13:36:17 +0000 UTCI'm sorry, but as a UK reader I cannot brook the AA Gill praise. The man was certainly talented at sentences, but he was also a truly horrible man: racist, sexist, homophobic, and once murdered a monkey just to see it die. Perhaps worse, he knew he was scum and was smug and arrogant about it. Even Pat Reynolds at least doesn't understand, let alone celebrate, the fact that he's an asshole. He didn't die soon enough.
Matthew Harris
2023-10-01 13:28:43 +0000 UTCA great thing and a good one. Thank you.
blair
2023-10-01 13:02:33 +0000 UTCAA Gill - good at words, but sadly also good at shooting that monkey that one time
elkweed
2023-10-01 11:25:55 +0000 UTCHaven't thought about AA Gill in years. He was quite good. Said a funny thing about the Welsh once.
E Corcoran
2023-10-01 11:18:14 +0000 UTCCongratulations, and thanks for all you do to benefit the nation.
Omurice
2023-10-01 11:15:28 +0000 UTC
