0015 - Beautiful Dreams
Added 2023-08-11 17:00:08 +0000 UTCWhen 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.
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"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
2024-02-13 08:12:05 +0000 UTCOutstanding
trashdo
2024-02-03 22:19:14 +0000 UTCAnother home run
Joe
2023-08-18 05:49:06 +0000 UTCSomehow this strip feels like we never left
Nathan
2023-08-14 04:41:07 +0000 UTC"One-man Mexican standoff". You're still great.
Matthew Hutton
2023-08-13 15:17:37 +0000 UTCIt 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
2023-08-12 19:48:24 +0000 UTCThe nose is the same width as the Chochacho medallion... how did I never see it before
Oppido
2023-08-12 19:35:50 +0000 UTCThe readers care about the dude when the dude does not care about the dude.
Oppido
2023-08-12 16:22:24 +0000 UTCTruly astounding.
Max Crowe
2023-08-12 15:02:07 +0000 UTC"Sometimes love is feeling like you trapped an innocent person"
Chris Martin
2023-08-12 12:41:47 +0000 UTCsomething deep in my subconscious mind really clicks with that panel
msirok
2023-08-12 06:25:54 +0000 UTCLittle in a comparative sense, if not literal!
Kriegsaffe No. 9
2023-08-12 03:58:19 +0000 UTCYes we do but I thought he was the middle cat
Nurndelwyn the Profuse
2023-08-12 02:49:17 +0000 UTCOof. Best of the New Ache so far
Ben Cooper
2023-08-12 00:25:56 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying the ongoing experiments with nonstandard character design. Looking forward to seeing Showbiz as a Eustace Tilley dandy or something.
Oppido
2023-08-12 00:17:44 +0000 UTCRoast 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
2023-08-11 23:23:16 +0000 UTCI miss Pat
souvlaki Alabama
2023-08-11 21:26:09 +0000 UTCRoastbogdanoff
Sedric And Charlie
2023-08-11 20:10:47 +0000 UTCI 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
2023-08-11 20:09:58 +0000 UTCman they gave RB hair what the hell man
GruntyGinMan
2023-08-11 19:51:27 +0000 UTCExcellent
A. C.
2023-08-11 19:50:55 +0000 UTCHitting your stride man.
Nikhil Brocchini
2023-08-11 19:40:50 +0000 UTCright on brother
Chris Onstad
2023-08-11 19:26:00 +0000 UTCI 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
2023-08-11 19:22:46 +0000 UTCAh yes, thank you for the clarification. I am about as much a hat lady as you are a math guy.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2023-08-11 19:22:06 +0000 UTCI indeed learned this about you long ago. It is Nice how I can know this about you yet we have never met.
Vijnananath
2023-08-11 19:21:11 +0000 UTCI 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
2023-08-11 19:17:22 +0000 UTCMy favorite part of this is that Roast Beef had to literally die to become lucky enough to meet Molly.
Miles McMahon
2023-08-11 19:12:16 +0000 UTCI went to hunt this strip down and am no closer to answers: https://achewood.com/2007/10/02/title.html
Brandon Rahhal
2023-08-11 18:37:06 +0000 UTCDeftly framed to keep us guessing as to what the deal with Molly is in 2023, thank you sir.
AJ
2023-08-11 18:17:47 +0000 UTCRB admonishing himself for the content of his anxiety dreams is so real.
Liz
2023-08-11 17:38:23 +0000 UTCWe love the little cat Roast Beef
Kriegsaffe No. 9
2023-08-11 17:38:03 +0000 UTCEvery time I see Ray going forward I'm going to see that damned frowny face looking back at me.
Brian Sutton
2023-08-11 17:37:21 +0000 UTCLet 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
2023-08-11 17:27:58 +0000 UTCSigma 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
2023-08-11 17:25:10 +0000 UTCThis strip is as good as anything has ever been.
Rory Cleveland
2023-08-11 17:23:22 +0000 UTCRay'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)
2023-08-11 17:23:04 +0000 UTCVanity Ears is my new emo band
b.zap
2023-08-11 17:19:39 +0000 UTCAffecting, though also the image I'll be showing when my barber asks what I want.
Daniel Burt
2023-08-11 17:16:49 +0000 UTCThe subconscious is everyone's greatest traitor
Matthew Harris
2023-08-11 17:08:35 +0000 UTCAlso all the cosmetic surgery in the world won’t make you love yourself, start there even if you’re from Circumstances
Bungus Bronbo
2023-08-11 17:07:21 +0000 UTCYOU MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL IN A DREAM YOU BETTER WAKE UP AND APOLOGIZE
Bungus Bronbo
2023-08-11 17:06:35 +0000 UTC"no more being asked to leave" lol!
KIMCHICAT
2023-08-11 17:06:03 +0000 UTC"one-man Mexican standoff" is a banger
Adam Moses
2023-08-11 17:04:49 +0000 UTCThis comic is *fine*
Christian LeBlanc
2023-08-11 17:03:05 +0000 UTC
