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[bonaparte]

the creepiest part is how planned out this seems to be.  the door opens mysteriously right on time and the guy's car is waiting just outside the first window ray can dive out of.  i mean he put some thought into this.

[AugustWest]

which leads one to believe that it's all planned and Ray is just tonight's audience...

Is this really the end of this storyline?  Will Ray take the Model T?  Is CH really dead?  Did CH and RB set this whole thing up?  And where is Liebot?

Tune in tomorrow (or Thursday) for answers to these and other pressing Ache-questions.  Or not.

[cellardoor]

As HP Lovecraft said, "concerning all things mysterious, never explain".
This is one of Achewood's sweetest mysteries.
Tomorrow: Phillipe gets pushed in the tumble dryer by Lyle. Hey-o!

[filas]

i'm glad yous doods felt that way too.  

Ray is just tonight's audience

that's a really good way to put it.  maybe to get to that next level of creepiness CH sets up an audience of one.  
on the other hand, it could be an unfortunate accident and CH took it too far or performed the trick one too many times.  but def CH was still performing at the end.

[misterqueue]

Absolutely lovely ending.  Was Ray a captive audience for a suicide or are we just seeing more macabre theatre of the mind?  And either way, would it matter?

This series made me all tingly.. you know.. down there.

[MattFish]

I'm gonna believe this is all just one worst thing after another and feel at least somewhat sorry for CH here.

I think when I saw the SNAP I emitted a Philippe-like "Nooo!"

[Bobby Isosceles]

I think you sychophants overlook the fact that this entire arc was probably motivated by Onstad looking up 'scream' in Google's Image Search. Within the first ten results are:



and



This entire arc is merely an excuse to make as many poses that replicate these two images as possible.

Conclusion:

[arlucasinc]

Third row, second panel. WOW!!!! The face! Those hands! Wow.

[arkabee]

this arc was lot's of slooooooow and steady buildup, like the good love making.

and then, poot.

it's done.

boo to that.

you take a day off to finish a story arc about a pair of talking shoe brothers, but you rush the end of your singular macabre masterpiece?

[Doc]

This was truly the Grand Finale, CH's final performance for an audience or one, he was the perfect host down to the very last detail.
The thing is this doesn't feel like a once off, but obviously CH couldn't do this properly and do it more than once, and CH does things properly.
Maybe it was all planned, Ray knew how this was going to go and that's why this whole thing seemed so infamous when Beef first mentioned.

[Null]

I don't think CH *can* die.  

This storyline is just below the Secret Ice Cream Shop for creepy disturbingness.

Also, I bet Philippe is thrilled to have a hurricane named after him.

[JordanB]

The door immediately clicking back open
when CH bites the dust reminded me
of that convention of so many fantasy plotlines:
"Hurray! The person who set the spell is dead,
so the spell's effects are sudenly negated!"
This happens in science fiction, too;
the mothership is blown up, so suddenly
all the r.o.b.o.t.s shut down, etc.

P. S. Ray running in the fourth row, first panel
is one of my new favorite images. He definitely
looks the way a man of gravity does when
trying to hoof it out of a dangerous situation.

[V-Adore]

I'm not sure which theory I like better: that this is a normal part of the performance and CH isn't dead, or that this is CH's elaborately planned suicide. I could see either, I think, but with all the preplanning I'm definitely not inclined to call it a coincidence.

Bobby, I think you may have just JUMPED TEH SHARK.

[sensate]

Awesome. I love CH's pupils at the 'snap' moment, but they're kind of in opposition to his mouth--the pupils say "lights out," but the mouth says "oh, f*ck, what did I do?" Can't have both, can we?

Then again, going back <a href="http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09132005">here[/url], he made the same expression during the, uh, manipulation.

Also, the door in row 3, panel 3. Why is there a knob/lump/??? on the edge? And what's the bump on the other side? Is it the body of someone opening the door, and the knob/lump is the hand?

And in the Ray-running-away panel the door doesn't look like the same one from the inside of the room. And it opens from the wrong side.

And did Ray turn a flip in the air going out of the window to land on his butt like that? Interesting variation on a cat, that Ray.

[robot_roll_call]

I am fully amazed at how this made me sad. Why am I sad for Cartilage Head? Why!?