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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: arlucasinc on February 03, 2005, 01:45:51 pm
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I must admit to being slightly confused by this one.
What's up with the royal garb? Is Onstad still high? What is Ultra Peanut going to say about this?
Perhaps that's it, the end of this two day storyline and we won't even see her again for two years.
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Fee-reep is going all Edgar Allen Poe on that toy's ass.
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Perhaps that's it, the end of this two day storyline and we won't even see her again for two years.
oh, but i'm down. She is bad for FreeReep. He deserves so much better. (I wish I were five, and a cartoon.)
Anyone else think the drawing style in the last few frames is a bit sketchy?
Also, I wish I cold read tab, and play guitar. I'm gonna make my roomate play that when she gets home.
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I will admit to being a little confused by today's strip. However, as a former guitar player I love "B?" and "G-ish". Also "Reverently, like a King burying his son" is highly evocative. I know how that sounds, don't you?
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I will admit to being a little confused by today's strip. However, as a former guitar player I love "B?" and "G-ish".
I did like G-ish.
It did leave me overly confused, but hell, I don't always feel a need to totally understand them.
Or what's going on at all for that matter!
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For those curious
http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/king.mid
(I'm in class, so I haven't listened to it yet)
The last bar is a little dicey, there's five notes in it in 4/4 :)
Edit:
I just listened to it, and it really does sound like something you would play while a king was burying his baby son. I wasn't expecting it to sound like anything.
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I must admit to being slightly confused by this one.
What's up with the royal garb? Is Onstad still high? What is Ultra Peanut going to say about this?
Perhaps that's it, the end of this two day storyline and we won't even see her again for two years.
It all makes sense as part of an anthology.
The music is very apropos though. I would pay for an Achewood songbook.
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For those curious
http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/king.mid
(I'm in class, so I haven't listened to it yet)
The last bar is a little dicey, there's five notes in it in 4/4 :)
Edit:
I just listened to it, and it really does sound like something you would play while a king was burying his baby son. I wasn't expecting it to sound like anything.
Nice!
Chris, do you write music too? Are you a guitar player? Is there anything you can't do?
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Yes, when you buy the book it'll be funny. You really can't laugh until you've spent money. There's a rule about this.
I did enjoy breaking out my guitar first thing in the morning and playing a soundtrack to a cartoon, though. It was so delightful that I had to make myself some chocolate milk because I felt like I was five again.
I also was going to make an mp3 of the music as I interpreted it (that's the problem with tab - no time measure in the notes) but that midi is lovely (although I think the tempo is too fast and not "king burying his son" enough).
Anyway, I think the last panels are what Teodore is thinking his music sounds like, and not what Philippe is actually doing in reality, but the two match up themeatically.
This is one of the best strips in a long time, people.
DON'T BE INGRATES
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DON'T BE INGRATES
I think my brain is about to explode.
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DON'T BE INGRATES
I think my brain is about to explode.
Yes, seriously. What parallel universe have we entered that I'm snarky and Jough is telling us not to be ingrates?
DO YOU HAVE A GOATEE AND A DUELING SCAR JOUGH
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Gad I wish MORE comic strippers were [ex-?] graphic designers. This layout is SO well done. Many Kudos, Mr. Onstad.
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Gad I wish MORE comic strippers were [ex-?] graphic designers. This layout is SO well done. Many Kudos, Mr. Onstad.
The many-small-panels format allows for room for things like the musical notation: a leitmotif that spans multiple panels yet still allows sequential storytelling to happen.
I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.
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I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.
Ditto.
I got the Calvin and Hobbes Sundays book for christmas, and Watterson talks a lot about how he liked getting to use more experimental layouts to tell the stories, or excerpts thereof, and I've always liked how it crops up in Achewood. And the evolution over a few strips of the stoned many panels to this.
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I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.
Ditto.
I got the Calvin and Hobbes Sundays book for christmas, and Watterson talks a lot about how he liked getting to use more experimental layouts to tell the stories, or excerpts thereof, and I've always liked how it crops up in Achewood. And the evolution over a few strips of the stoned many panels to this.
Scott McCloud talks about a similar thing in Reinventing Comics. One of the reasons he believes the intArweb is a great place to publish comics is because there are no spacial restrictions or pages that need to be turned, if that is the artist's wish. On the serailzer pages, there is this comic called Fetus X, which is a perfect example of this.
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I admire the graphic design while not being all that impressed with the joke. Ah, well. Life goes on, and I can always appreciate the strip as a graphic artifact.
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<Bangs head against wall.>
Just for the record, none of you people have any right to bitch when I don't like a strip that YOU think is great.
Fuck you.
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Man, Jough, don't go player-hatin' on account of Bobby. I'm sure Onstad will show up and call him an amusing geometry-based diminutive soon.
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<Bangs head against wall.>
Just for the record, none of you people have any right to bitch when I don't like a strip that YOU think is great.
Fuck you.
I never said I didn't like it. I said it confused me. For many years I paid large sums of money to purchase chemical and botanical substances to acheive a similar state of confusion.
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I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.
Ditto.
I got the Calvin and Hobbes Sundays book for christmas, and Watterson talks a lot about how he liked getting to use more experimental layouts to tell the stories, or excerpts thereof, and I've always liked how it crops up in Achewood. And the evolution over a few strips of the stoned many panels to this.
Scott McCloud talks about a similar thing in Reinventing Comics. One of the reasons he believes the intArweb is a great place to publish comics is because there are no spacial restrictions or pages that need to be turned, if that is the artist's wish. On the serailzer pages, there is this comic called Fetus X, which is a perfect example of this.
Yes, but Scott McCloud is also a delerious loony.
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<Bangs head against wall.>
Just for the record, none of you people have any right to bitch when I don't like a strip that YOU think is great.
Fuck you.
But you're The Jough. You complain. We mock your complaining. IT IS THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS.
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Creativity is like a rubber ball. No matter how bouncy it is there are some surfaces on which it will fall flat.
Today, I am one of those surfaces.
But toothpastefordinner today is awesome. So you win some and lose some.
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Thank you for making that midi of the tablature. After listening I edited the strip to fix errors in the notation. It should play in 4/4 and not be "ragged" in the last measure, as it is well documented that medieval kings had no way of imagining ragtime music, depressed or not, and besides, ragtime is no music to play at such a somber event.
I think the reason some of you feel that today's "joke" didn't hit with you is because I didn't write a "joke." It's some sassy Click Talk, some guitar music, and a weird pre-transition. We went through like a month of jokeless strips when Philippe got kidnapped, people, and we all grew a little.
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Thank you for making that midi of the tablature. After listening I edited the strip to fix errors in the notation. It should play in 4/4 and not be "ragged" in the last measure, as it is well documented that medieval kings had no way of imagining ragtime music, depressed or not, and besides, ragtime is no music to play at such a somber event.
I think the reason some of you feel that today's "joke" didn't hit with you is because I didn't write a "joke." It's some sassy Click Talk, some guitar music, and a weird pre-transition. We went through like a month of jokeless strips when Philippe got kidnapped, people, and we all grew a little.
Achewood songbook. When are we gonna see it? How much will it cost? I AM BEING A CONSUMER HERE.
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But you're The Jough. You complain. We mock your complaining. IT IS THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS.
You're right. Everything's fine. I'm sure I can get these all little pieces of brain back inside my skull if I keep trying.
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i thought those were the lyrics to the song.
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Allow me to clarify: I didn't enjoy the strip as anything other than a graphic-design artifact. It wasn't just not funny, it was kind of nonsensical and definitely not of the caliber of other serious or more-serious strips. Jesus, man, we're not all troglodytes.
WHAT'S THE JOKE I DON'T GET IT WHY ARE THE DOGS TALKING
That said, I will probably like tomorrow's. That's the joy of a daily strip; there's always new content to distract you, and with a strip of Achewood's quality, it'll probably be good.
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I still want to know how this (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=08122002) goes.
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Well, I'm a fan, but I'm also drinking at 3 pm.
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Well, I'm a fan, but I'm also drinking at 3 pm.
do you think it is rad to have alcoholism bozack
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why does teodor have a capo on his guitar if he's playing that tab?
also: rickenbackers are awesome. i bet teodor likes the jam.
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I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.
Ditto.
I got the Calvin and Hobbes Sundays book for christmas, and Watterson talks a lot about how he liked getting to use more experimental layouts to tell the stories, or excerpts thereof, and I've always liked how it crops up in Achewood. And the evolution over a few strips of the stoned many panels to this.
Scott McCloud talks about a similar thing in Reinventing Comics. One of the reasons he believes the intArweb is a great place to publish comics is because there are no spacial restrictions or pages that need to be turned, if that is the artist's wish. On the serailzer pages, there is this comic called Fetus X, which is a perfect example of this.
Yes, but Scott McCloud is also a delerious loony.
delirous loony or not, the man knows comics inside and out and is very eloquent in his explanations of his ideas.
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The last bar is a little dicey, there's five notes in it in 4/4 :)
Heh, Onstad fixed it.
Also, hurray for Achewoodians in Vacationland, where life is the way it should be.
That is all.
[ Franz. ]
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I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.
Ditto.
I got the Calvin and Hobbes Sundays book for christmas, and Watterson talks a lot about how he liked getting to use more experimental layouts to tell the stories, or excerpts thereof, and I've always liked how it crops up in Achewood. And the evolution over a few strips of the stoned many panels to this.
Scott McCloud talks about a similar thing in Reinventing Comics. One of the reasons he believes the intArweb is a great place to publish comics is because there are no spacial restrictions or pages that need to be turned, if that is the artist's wish. On the serailzer pages, there is this comic called Fetus X, which is a perfect example of this.
Yes, but Scott McCloud is also a delerious loony.
delirous loony or not, the man knows comics inside and out and is very eloquent in his explanations of his ideas.
Penny Arcade said it best with: I Can't Stop Talking!!! (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-06-22&res=h)
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Penny Arcade said it best with: I Can't Stop Talking!!! (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-06-22&res=h)[/quote]
heh. nice. oh those penny-arcaders.
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why does teodor have a capo on his guitar if he's playing that tab?
also: rickenbackers are awesome. i bet teodor likes the jam.
because when you play with a capo, you can still make standard open chords, and so when you tab it you can write "Am", "F", "C", etc and still play it up around the, say 6th or 7th fret and still write the tabs out as if you were playing with no capo at all.
(I know! techically it's a different key, but the chord STRUCTURES are the same.)
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why does teodor have a capo on his guitar if he's playing that tab?
also: rickenbackers are awesome. i bet teodor likes the jam.
because he can't sing it in the original key. DUH.
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I still want to know how this (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=08122002) goes.
http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/yourfault.mid
Also, I fixed the error in the other one. You may now bury your princes ragtime free.
http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/king.mid
SCREW YOU JAMES R. EUROPE
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I still want to know how this (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=08122002) goes.
http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/yourfault.mid
Man, that doesn't sound like it says "Your fault" at ALL!
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I still want to know how this (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=08122002) goes.
http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/yourfault.mid
Awesome. Thank you. I really had always wondered about that, not having any musical inclination.
Also, I fixed the error in the other one. You may now bury your princes ragtime free.
http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/king.mid
Click Ro bot has lost at the SNES role-playing game of Being Click Rob ot.
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Well, I'm a fan, but I'm also drinking at 3 pm.
Note to Bozack:
Do not go down this road (http://achewood.plagiarist.com/viewtopic.php?p=17257#17257). It is a lonely and a frightening road, and it does not lead to happy places.