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Author Topic: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won  (Read 10289 times)

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3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« on: March 03, 2006, 08:31:43 am »
Link to strip.

The bleakness of the snack tent is not lost on Ray. Is the brandy so vile that he can only bring himself to consume it by the sporkful?
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2006, 08:33:08 am »
Quote from: Ben-San on March 03, 2006, 08:31:43 am
Link to strip.

The bleakness of the snack tent is not lost on Ray. Is the brandy so vile that he can only bring himself to consume it by the sporkful?

The brandy is an scalable modular vertically integrated b2b cots alcohol delivery solution that is customer reactive, goals driven, service oriented and progresses on a go-forward paradigm in Onstad's commodity vision space to maximize marketshare and ROI while minimizing TCO and sigma DIOS MIO

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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2006, 08:46:54 am »
Whoa, it IS ok to sleep? (I am a broken record about sleep! yayy)
I hope no one springs an attack on Ray while he's vulnerable. I guess Roast Beef has his back. And after this strip, that's made more depressing.
I'm so torn! I want both of them to win. I'm such a girl, even about the GOF.
Maybe because it's quarter to four a.m. If I sleep on this, I will know the right thing for Ray to do.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2006, 08:56:37 am »
Why would you buy a turkey and some whiskey and then shoot yourself BEFORE consuming them?
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2006, 08:59:45 am »
Quote from: evan on March 03, 2006, 08:56:37 am
Why would you buy a turkey and some whiskey and then shoot yourself BEFORE consuming them?

Because you've only got a spork.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2006, 09:44:19 am »
Quote from: evan on March 03, 2006, 08:56:37 am
Why would you buy a turkey and some whiskey and then shoot yourself BEFORE consuming them?

Step 1: stare bleakly at table with depressing "celebratory" turkey, brandy, and plastic spork.
Step 2: Realize that your life has fallen so far that this constitutes celebration, brandy-sporking included.
Step 3: Self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2006, 11:44:06 am »
I suspect that Roast Beef really is that much of a dogg. Last strip he saw Ray channel one of his adolescence heroes, and he has been grooming Ray to conquer pretty well all through the GOF. They may come out of this even stronger buds, if that was non-homosexually possible. The question is, will Beef roll over for him, or will it be an actual fight?
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2006, 11:50:58 am »
I think it's time for the Son of Rodney's inevitable fall, and it comes from getting drunk. Natch. How in hell is he gonna fight on day 3 with a hangover?
I'd love it if Beef came into the tent and kicked Ray's ass while he's in this state.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2006, 12:04:02 pm »
how are you not realizing what is going on here?
ray is going to sleep through the last day of the fight.
that is how he will survive, and end this arc without having to kill 2000 or so more people.

because he is ray, he might also be rewarded as if he had killed a large portion of them.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2006, 12:22:22 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on March 03, 2006, 12:04:02 pm
how are you not realizing what is going on here?
ray is going to sleep through the last day of the fight.
that is how he will survive, and end this arc without having to kill 2000 or so more people.

because he is ray, he might also be rewarded as if he had killed a large portion of them.

I think you are right.  Ray will sleep through day 3 awaking just in time for his big final confrontation with Beef.  We've seen what Ray can do on the acres anyway.  It's time to see what Beef is made of.  How well will his intimate knowledge of the game serve him?  At this point I don't know.  Before I thought Beef was destined to be the winner, but now I feel it could go either way (fuckin' Onstad writing a Classic).  But it would be pretty classic Ray to make a promise to Beef (if only in his mind) and then totally let him down leaving him to fend for himself on day 3.

I love the GOF.  I bought 2 shirts.

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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2006, 01:06:57 pm »
Wow. What a beautiful mix of humour and character development. Which is I guess the trademark of the GOF strips. For some reason, Ray's sad-drunkenness gets me every time. Best alt-text, too.

I think this arc is getting Onstad to be more adventurous (read: violent) with his artwork. I don't think a couple of months ago we would've seen a retired band teacher with his blood splattered all over the wall. This is by no means a bad thing.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2006, 01:14:33 pm »
Ray and Beef both die on the third day of the GOF. Whether they both arrive at the same destination after death is anybody's guess. I can easily picture them at a dive bar in Hell the next night getting all philosophical about cigars and Asian cuisine, except that Heaven seems to be Beef's more usual destination.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2006, 01:44:00 pm »
So this is going to end like one of Ray's dates.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2006, 02:18:20 pm »
Ray was drinking the brandy by the sporkful because he wanted to control and limit his intake.  As usual he wasn't able to control his baser urges.
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Re: 3 March 2006 - In Christ Our Fight Is Won
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2006, 02:22:12 pm »
MONDAY.  Reenactment of the fight scene from They Live.  Carried out over the next six weeks.  Approxamately 675 panels.

Beef will win.

No wait, I think Ray will win.

No...
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