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0015 - Beautiful Dreams

When cats consider cosmetic augmentation, they do not worry themselves with the bits and tips that matter so dearly to you and me. Chief among their notions of vanity are ears with a gently-rounded crest; too pointy, and one is said to be, "putting on the goblin." (Cats have goblins too.) For all his life this mean-spirited accusation has been hurled at poor Roast Beef. Conversely, cats such as Ray, who have ears so rounded their silhouettes are regularly confused for stacks of lemons, are actually thought of as fine. But perhaps a lifetime of inadvertently studying his close friend's various aging crevasses and junctures might have given Beef rarefied insight as to his unique and generally imperceptible flaws. Having seen the same friend vomit gumbo into a salad bowl while also emitting unbroken laughter — a seeming otolaryngic impossibility — can also have the effect of diminishing their beauty.

0015 - Beautiful Dreams

Comments

"Our friends are just mistakes older versions of ourselves made... They shackle us to our early failures in self-development." Are my friends mistakes? Am... I a mistake?

Andrew K

Outstanding

trashdo

Another home run

Joe

Somehow this strip feels like we never left

Nathan

"One-man Mexican standoff". You're still great.

Matthew Hutton

It wasn't until I noticed Beef's Fine Arms that it clicked for me how this strip follows on from last week's. This is the kind of sweaty inadequacy dream that I, too, would have if I'd been radish continental'd by a built gym bro.

Oppido

The nose is the same width as the Chochacho medallion... how did I never see it before

Oppido

The readers care about the dude when the dude does not care about the dude.

Oppido

Truly astounding.

Max Crowe

"Sometimes love is feeling like you trapped an innocent person"

Chris Martin

something deep in my subconscious mind really clicks with that panel

msirok

Little in a comparative sense, if not literal!

Kriegsaffe No. 9

Yes we do but I thought he was the middle cat

Nurndelwyn the Profuse

Oof. Best of the New Ache so far

Ben Cooper

I'm enjoying the ongoing experiments with nonstandard character design. Looking forward to seeing Showbiz as a Eustace Tilley dandy or something.

Oppido

Roast Beef's dream life may have possibly incorporated a never-ending, but pedantic routine of handwritten dinner menus, sweat soaked "Cross-Fit" gym experiences, and bottomless hand mixed Bellini's poolside with the most popular throwaway actor of the week. Hell comes in many shapes, but it will always find poor Roast Beef.

Rex Mantooth

I miss Pat

souvlaki Alabama

Roastbogdanoff

Sedric And Charlie

I feel like if Beef and Molly ever broke up the fanbase would rise up in anger, and I feel like Chris knows this. Let the Pat/Rod romance become as dust upon the wind, but Beef/Molly was fought for hard and it was won

Sedric And Charlie

man they gave RB hair what the hell man

GruntyGinMan

Excellent

A. C.

Hitting your stride man.

Nikhil Brocchini

right on brother

Chris Onstad

I read some snippets from the 2nd cookbook which showed Molly still a part of the ensemble and in good enough standing to contribute to the cookbook.

Eli Parker

Ah yes, thank you for the clarification. I am about as much a hat lady as you are a math guy.

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

I indeed learned this about you long ago. It is Nice how I can know this about you yet we have never met.

Vijnananath

I actually meant that to be the ideal ratio between hat and muzzle, in order to offset the muzzle's coarseness. But I am not a professional math diagrammer, by any means, as we all have learned over time

Chris Onstad

My favorite part of this is that Roast Beef had to literally die to become lucky enough to meet Molly.

Miles McMahon

I went to hunt this strip down and am no closer to answers: https://achewood.com/2007/10/02/title.html

Brandon Rahhal

Deftly framed to keep us guessing as to what the deal with Molly is in 2023, thank you sir.

AJ

RB admonishing himself for the content of his anxiety dreams is so real.

Liz

We love the little cat Roast Beef

Kriegsaffe No. 9

Every time I see Ray going forward I'm going to see that damned frowny face looking back at me.

Brian Sutton

Let us not forget that Ray is lucky. Amazingly lucky in absolutely everything. Beef was only lucky once, when he met Molly. But Ray is wholly and utterly incompetent, unable to do anything whereas Beef can achieve anything he sets his mind to. Provided, of course, that his mind isn't busy cannibalizing itself for parts (which happens maybe once every ten years). But at least he's not Pat. He's fucking NOT Pat.

J Hardy Carroll

Sigma Beef! This is especially timely as I have recently been coming to grips with the awful subreddit "TrueRateMe". Truly as a culture we have reached peak toxic physical judgment

Tim from New Hampshire

This strip is as good as anything has ever been.

Rory Cleveland

Ray's unwarranted confidence multiplier is 1.685 according to Beef's calculations. Their long friendship is what brought it down from a solid 2.

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

Vanity Ears is my new emo band

b.zap

Affecting, though also the image I'll be showing when my barber asks what I want.

Daniel Burt

The subconscious is everyone's greatest traitor

Matthew Harris

Also all the cosmetic surgery in the world won’t make you love yourself, start there even if you’re from Circumstances

Bungus Bronbo

YOU MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL IN A DREAM YOU BETTER WAKE UP AND APOLOGIZE

Bungus Bronbo

"no more being asked to leave" lol!

KIMCHICAT

"one-man Mexican standoff" is a banger

Adam Moses

This comic is *fine*

Christian LeBlanc


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