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[Suckin_Dick]

Ah man, this is the funniest thing i've seen for a long time.  the last shot of ray with the sign is just classic.  Where did he get it?!?!? I DON'T KNOW THAT'S RAY FOR YOU HAHA!

[mudokon]

So, can we all agree that Achewood is back on track? Ray's sign at the end is what really sells it. A doo-da doo-da doo-da doo!

[evan]

I'm sure this isn't news to anyone but I just wanted to be the first to post this link:

http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2005/05/it-is-interesting-to-be-twenty-years.html

Also, what are the other two main traumas of youth?

[Noah]

man this is making me laugh a lot more than it should

my only problem is with the second snapshot. what is ray doing

is he like

waving his arm to keep his balance

has he grown a wing

is he fanning away the stink with his hand

what ?

[St_Zartan]

- free verse omitted -

He's holding the camera with one hand and pointing to himself with the other.

This is a good strip. And yeah, the sign makes it - as though the comment he made ("just like old times") he thought was so perfect that he had to preserve it in pictures, right along with the smashed turd.

[MSC]

He's holding the camera with one hand and pointing to himself with the other.

Yes, nice use of perspective there by Onstad.

[V-Adore]

I am a little nonplussed that Onstad is reusing a joke that wasn't that funny even in the blogs, but here it's a lot funnier. The cell phone snapshots make it, as does Ray's blithe belief that the cell phone snapshots are necessary. (What, Beef wasn't going to believe him otherwise?)

I hope he calls Pat. Ideally Pat would not take the call on account of being the victim of the murder act (nobody likes a critic), but listening to Pat freak out would be ideal.

[wombat]

I'm with V about the reuse of the joke - if only because I'd hate to miss the opportunity to be nonplussed, which doesn't come around every day - but I don't find it funny.  I feel left out, being clearly in the minority at this point.

[Golfhaus]

I don't really see the reuse of the joke to be that big a deal - it was handled in different ways. Not just blog vs. strip, but that Onstad dealt with it like Onstad, and Ray dealt with it like Ray. I didn't see a lot of humor in the blog post, but I geeked out totally for the strip. Ray's sense of childlike wonder with mundane things (ref: "Yeah, man! We doin' this!") will make me laugh every single time.

[editor]

His shoes (sandles?) make me laugh.  Those are ridiculous.

[AugustWest]

Meh.

[St_Zartan]

Meh.

JUST LIKE OLD TIMES!

[V-Adore]

His shoes (sandles?) make me laugh.  Those are ridiculous.

They look like shoes he might have stolen from Pat. Heck, maybe he did steal them from Pat, in which case I suspect shenanigans.

Anyway, I guess the difference for me is, as Golfhaus mentioned, the difference in handling between Onstad and Ray. In the blogs, Onstad used it as an excuse to be vaguely incoherent and pompous, which isn't particularly funny; in the strip, Ray's reaction (cell phone photos and all) makes it.

[Bozack]

The best part is that he's not talking about a specific instance where he stepped in dog shit, just that stepping in dog shit was something that happened a lot back in the OLD TIMES!
I like how, for Ray, life is continually a party.

[CortJstr]

I'm with V about the reuse of the joke - if only because I'd hate to miss the opportunity to be nonplussed, which doesn't come around every day - but I don't find it funny.  I feel left out, being clearly in the minority at this point.

Each comic thread should be a poll. The options would be:
1) Move over Liquor Cabinet Taste-Test, for you have been bested
2) Best strip since the last best strip.
3) Meh.
4) Retire already, you sad bastard.
5) The opposite of whatever Jough says.