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[jough]

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10052005

Wow, that's a whole lot of nothin' frames there.

So which one of you are going to register the domain?

[Doc]

Why is Molly saying 'Beef! Wait!' and then she's not there for the rest of the strip, and for that matter how can she see there's no return address when she's standing looking down at the front?

Actually on rereading this one isn't so bad, I do like Molly's apparent fear of the letter with no return address.

Also thread should have been titled 'RAY!'

[char *]

how can she see there's no return address when she's standing looking down at the front?

Sometimes They print the return address on the front. Upper left corner.

[southworth813]

Wow, that's a whole lot of nothin' frames there.

Yes, I agree. Every panel should be packed to the borders with text from now on. Come on, Onstad. Stop setting up pacing, establishing a mood, and making the payoff that much better for having waited for it! I demand a punchline in every panel, and a bare minimum of 75 panels in each strip!

Do it you wife-beating hack. Write and draw this comic the way I want you to draw it. Stop being a comic genius and listen to me.

[misterqueue]

Greeeeat.. now someone here is going out right now to start appologies4men.com I just know it.

[V-Adore]

I think this is another case of a strip where the actual strip isn't that funny, but several of the concepts contained within are hilarious:
1) Ray being so totally chickenshit that he can't face-to-face apologize to his best childhood friend, who lives in his pool house, and instead sends this particular letter; and
2) The concept of apologies4men.com and a general "male-apology-over-the-Internet" industry. Bonus points for the concept of Ray using the worst (and likely cheapest) one.

So, yeah. I'm laughing, but for weird reasons.

[Null]

I agree that it's all in the details.  Molly's refusal to pick up the envelope, coupled with her apparent terror that Beef is actually going to touch it.   Beef's expressions.   The utter cheapness of the message.  

And I like the "Hi" welcome mat, though I wonder why it's not in Beef's favorite font.  Unless Beef is still in Ray's guesthouse, which makes the mail all the stranger.

I liked it.  
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[Turbo Ninja]

Ray obviously found apologies4men.com after what he would consider an exhaustive Google search.  Apologies4men.com had "the highest qualaty [sic] service for the sensitive man on the go" in the search result description.  That's what Ray thinks of himself, so that's the one he went with.

[Paisley]

I like the "Hi" welcome mat, though I wonder why it's not in Beef's favorite font.  

Because either a) Molly bought it for him (having gotten tired of tracking Ray's garden substrate du jour into the pool house),  or b) they're at her apartment.

[cellardoor]

Heh, El Gloppo. I know of a similar place, where all the spaniards flock.
I'm going to call it El Gloppo from now on.

[robot_god]

It seems like Ray delivered the letter.

Unless I'm wrong and mailmen knock on the door where you live. =p

[V-Adore]

It seems like Ray delivered the letter.

Unless I'm wrong and mailmen knock on the door where you live. =p

That just makes it better. He's willing to hand-deliver an Internet-generated apology letter but is not willing to actually stick around and say "dude, sorry about this whole stupid Jaime the Science Friend thing?" Classic.

[Choop]

Hey, it has a stamp. If it's postmarked, it's been through the USPS; if not, apologies4men.com has an envelope printing template as well.

I'm sure Beef's been camping out at Molly's since Jaime came crashing to a halt.

Why do flip-flops annoy me? Why did I know that Molly is a flip-flop-wearer? Because Molly annoys me, and Onstad can read my thoughts?


where's the aluminum foil?

[CortJstr]

It seems like Ray delivered the letter.

Unless I'm wrong and mailmen knock on the door where you live. =p

That just makes it better. He's willing to hand-deliver an Internet-generated apology letter but is not willing to actually stick around and say "dude, sorry about this whole stupid Jaime the Science Friend thing?" Classic.

Not wanting to be present for the actual apology is what makes it "4men." What with us having problems sharing and all.

My SO wears flip-flops to work. It boggles the very mind.

[Null]

Ray must have delivered it.  Actually, he probably had it mailed to Beef's room, realised Beef was hiding at Molly's, took it out of the mailbox and hand delivered it.

He's probably hiding in nearby bushes even now.