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« on: May 24, 2005, 07:17:58 pm »
hi everyone,

I'm buying one of those framed signed prints, i thought about getting Todays strip, but i have doubts, I definitely want a strip where Beef stars but i can't decide which one, so i'm looking for suggestions. I know there's some true beef gold out there, like this one or this one
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2005, 07:28:21 pm »
Welcome to the board. Feel free to stick around; we don't bite, mostly. Avoi feeding Bobby and Jough, though.

Anyway, what kind of Beef are you looking for? Sad Beef, Beef and Molly, dead Beef? I think he's a hard character to isolate any one "best" strip of.

That said, two come to mind: Beef ascending to Heaven, which I think is visually attractive enough to make a very nice print even out of strip context, and any number of strips from the Hacking Yahoo storyline, like Beef delivering pizza and, of course, Furious Beef.
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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2005, 08:05:14 pm »
Hey, that is a terrific choice of avatar.
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« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2005, 08:16:26 pm »
I second Furious Beef.
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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2005, 08:32:33 pm »
I'm partial to the T-Shirt strips, particularly this one.  Also, Beef Split On Green.
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« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2005, 08:36:31 pm »
I don't know what you people are talking about.  This is the best of Beef.  It not only perfectly sums up Beef's neuroses but it's also a good one-off.
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« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2005, 08:37:42 pm »
For some reason I just assume "Furious Beef" involved Molly, Chinese food, and ding-dong and didn't bother clicking. But now I see that's it actually Roast Beef beings furious.

I think Furious Ding-Dong is a better strip but would be odd to have framed.
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« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2005, 08:38:34 pm »
thanks for the warm welcome.

I guess one of the main requirements would be for the strip to as much as possible stand alone, while beef asending to heaven is a great strip and a nice piece of art it doesn't make much sense out of context. Also i guess i would like there to be some form of joke in the strip so if a person who had never read Achewood would be able to laugh at it.  

I was thinking about Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N. which is classic or Dream Wedding.
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« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2005, 08:52:10 pm »
The sad part is that so many of my favorite strips are lousy candidates for framing. One of my favorites ever is Bed Time but it's mostly just black.
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« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2005, 09:14:10 pm »
Oh, what was I even talking about? Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N. wins. Buy it, frame it, love it.
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« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2005, 02:25:11 am »
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Oh, what was I even talking about? Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N. wins. Buy it, frame it, love it.


this was the first one I thought of.

 po-TAY-toes
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« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2005, 01:53:02 pm »
Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N. clearly wins here - I was actually going to get that one myself, provided I could persuade Onstad to write "Say it po-TAY-toes" on the margin.  That would truly be the tops.

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« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2005, 12:14:37 pm »
i throw my support whole-heartedly behind Furious Beef (not that i can verify that i've got the right one here, achewood.com is so broken today)
if it's the one with the origami model and the amazing last frame, then i'm right.
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« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2005, 01:16:24 pm »
If the archives weren't showing only December 31st, 1969, I would humbly suggest my favourite, in which Beef talks about how he doesn't sleep due to dreams of "giant apocalyptic machinery just mowing us all down".

I think that might actually have been the strip that made me like Achewood.
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« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2005, 02:21:07 pm »
Achewood seems to be having php problems, but I always liked the one where Beef goes slightly nuts trying to imagine all the feminine products Molly will ask him to buy for her.

"Knowing Smile" is a great product name.
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