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22nd Anniversary Flashback: 8-page Color Comic

Twenty-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

Need their mouth to be hot all the time. That is so good. My in laws won’t eat anything that isn’t scalding

Kral

A scholar and a gentleman.

trashdo

Of course Ray isn’t wearing a seatbelt.

Cody Richmond

I 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

I'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

As 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

A most unselfish use of tequila. Bravo.

Dara K. Marzipan

gentle ribbon

Nathaniel R

I 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

I 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

This...pleases me.

Joe Locastro

This is great

bentleyjet

Time for a little Freezepop.

J.

aww yeah, who's the jazz machine. Who's the man who brings the jazz to every situation.

Jordan D Cowman

https://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

This comic is the main bitch in all the land

BootsMcGuffin

Aaaaashhhhhhhhsssh. I am so happy and it is clearly your fault 🖤

Yelahneb Unicornucopiax

This is one of the finest Achewood strips I’ve ever read.

Paul Davies

Chris Onstad is to sentence technology what heaven is to places a dude can get drunk by himself and read Nate Small

Ben Wilinofsky

Every word as true now as it was then

Phineas Jones

De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est. That will be my final comment.

E Corcoran

Poor Teodor really thinks he did something with that enchirito....

Mae

We are all now standing on it, Bre'er Onstad.

Rob Dalton

Please 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

Who, the baboon?

Matthew Harris

Someone's a little bit too sensitive methinks

E Corcoran

Did not know that about the monkey. Thanks pardner

E Corcoran

I love you. That is all.

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

"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

Man, 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

What did AA Milne do? I read his Wikipedia page last year and don't remember anything salacious.

Chris Onstad

At 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

Sigh. "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

So what you're saying is, exactly the kind of guy to make an unflattering cameo appearance in Achewood

Oliver Milne

Yeah, 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

Thank you for the extra info, Matthew. I only ever knew his food writing, as his personal life was essentially unknown here.

Chris Onstad

I'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

A great thing and a good one. Thank you.

blair

AA Gill - good at words, but sadly also good at shooting that monkey that one time

elkweed

Haven't thought about AA Gill in years. He was quite good. Said a funny thing about the Welsh once.

E Corcoran

Congratulations, and thanks for all you do to benefit the nation.

Omurice


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