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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« on: December 02, 2005, 06:35:30 pm »
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12022005

This one has a funny hairstyle, and a car, and spoken Hardy Boys fanfiction. It's good.
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2005, 06:37:32 pm »
HOT DAMN, now THIS is a comic strip.

HELL OF CONTENT

If the baby update would have changed, I might have fallen to the ground.
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2005, 06:48:02 pm »
This will not end well. Cornelius really should know better.
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2005, 06:50:24 pm »
Quote from: "carlosdelvaca"
This will not end well. Cornelius really should know better.


Kind of seems like a one-off to me.

Is Ray dressed as Someone? Or is it just a silly outfit?
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2005, 06:52:15 pm »
Not jazz music. NOT JAZZ MUSIC!!! Won't somebody please think of the children?!

How can anybody possible be satisfied with that explanation for Ray's clothes?
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2005, 06:52:48 pm »
I sincerely hope that garage is well-ventilated, or we'll be seeing more of Trouble Man and No-No.
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2005, 07:34:17 pm »
I absolutely love Ray's self-narration.  LOVE IT.

You know that later the Hardy boys invite him out to solve a crime but he just ends up getting them stoned and talking about just how good this one lady with the big caboose was he once knew.

Ray defitinitely knows how it is folks. He knows how it is!
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2005, 07:43:58 pm »
God, it is a thing of beauty.
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2005, 08:08:06 pm »
That was pretty creative for Ray, on-the-fly and all.  One supposes the car had a lot to do with inspiring him.
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2005, 08:37:12 pm »
Yes good comic strip; I am always amused by Ray's need to be liked and I always will be.

However, can someone please describe his costume to me, using words? What is on his head? Is it a wig? Visually speaking, I am confused.
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2005, 08:51:53 pm »
Haha, oh man that was pretty good. At first I all thinking Ray was going to take off and run a muck 1910 style. But instead we're treated to a little narrative by Ray.

And CortJstr I know exactly what you're saying! I though we were going to see some side of Ray that was previously unseen. Too bad...what was he supposed to be anyway? I'm seeing a civil war general with bacon on the side of his head...or mutton chops. Same thing right?
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2005, 10:41:42 pm »
To me, Ray looks like the hero of a bad '70's prime-time action show, but that may just be the residual result of watching both Master Ninja "movies" over Thanksgiving break.

Love the narrative, especially the details that reveal so clearly Ray's knowledge of the Hardy Boys books. I wonder if he and Beef bonded over the genre?
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2005, 11:48:40 pm »
When I read this strip, all I could think of was Onstad's recent obsession over detective books (see the blogs, yo!) and his historical appreciation for the Hardy Boys, his Nate Small thing, etc.  Because it didn't seem as out-of-nowhere as usual, I did not Laff.

Instead, I came here to bitch about it.

Thanks for the free comic, Chris!  Too bad you didn't entertain 100% of the consumers!
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2005, 12:01:56 am »
This is one of those occasional comics where Onstad just doesn't know where to stop. It was a strip of gold in two lines, and it would have finished well there.

I still laughed out loud when we got to Hardy Boys, though.
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12-02-05: "Sick flivver"
« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2005, 01:28:28 am »
The repetition in the art worked pretty well, it was almost like a song-structure.  Panel 2 duplicated as panel 6, panel 3 as panel 5, then, just to throw us, panels 7 and 8.

Also, thanks to Satan Ray is a multi-millionaire.  Even if he utterly destroyed the car, he could buy Cornelius a whole fleet of them.
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