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[Doc]

I wouldn't be totally sure it's a set up, those two idiots would stand around chin wagging and blogging in the middle of a nuclear testing zone. Plus Roast Beef is real good at getting hurt and it removes the need for them to have a confrontation. So i think he is out for realz but it was part of the plan.
Also, given that it's a set up, what did Cody Travis and his group ever do to Beef that he would put them in the line of such fugueing?

Also props for the thread title, for a good strip it didn't have any stand out lines but this was a good choice.

[No-No]

My first post here, but two predictions:

1)Those two Limies are horrid liars.  Beef is still around.

2)  One of them has a limp?  This is a reference to a character we have met before...I'm picking No-No.  He has neck breaking skills, and Beef would like him gone, I'm sure.  I'm going to be STOKED when No-No graces the next strip.

[Apemantus]

Oh. Now it makes sense: there's no way that Roast Beef hasn't been studying strategy and patterns and paths and past interviews to just get taken out off camera. HE WANTS THE WIN FOR HIMSELF. He's going to get Ray to go all crazy fugue and then step in at the last moment. ROAST BEEF IS TEH TRUE MACHIAVEL. OMG!! etc etc.

[theinevitable]

wow.
the cat will destroy.
destroy.

[misterqueue]

Poor Beef.  How close are we to #9?  I bet he expected it all along.  Beef, you are rad.

For the record, if he did die, when he returned he would be on his 5th life according to the calculations I've done with a huge SCIENCE machine that goes PING.

You may return to your zeal.

[HonkyTonkHooker]

the limp is the dude beef ran over?

[EgoSumNoah]

the limp is the dude beef ran over?

Wow. Good thought.

I hope Beef's not out of the fight. Too soon. And the final confrontation between Beef and Ray was going to be an important one.

Hey, what if Ray's original squad were secretly Beef loyalists? What then, huh?

[Gimpson]

On a second look, I thought the fellow on theleft in panel one was being bludgeoned with a severed arm, but on a third look I see that he is not. 

Also, there is no doubt that Beef is still cold pulling the strings.  He's most likely off playing the remaining armies off one another while he goads Ray into single-handedly taking down the Honky Tonk Army.

[V-Adore]

I'd be extremely surprised if Beef is actually out; I, too, will jump on the conspiracy theory that it's all a plot to get Ray into the Death Fugue.

I, too, love the obese cat on the far right of the first panel, yelling NOOOOOOO into the heavens. Anguish! Pathos!

[lprkn]

How do you know he's yelling "nooooooo"? He could just be expressing his love for pancakes with syrup, or perhaps singing opera or something.

I think that is a perfect plot twist, and for the record, I do believe that Beef is actually out.

[hungoverdrawn]

Those two Limies

Limey.

[wombat]

Not on the sofa, August.

Yes on the sofa, August.

I have nothing to add except... the GOF would sure be a more interesting way than most to reduce the cat overpopulation problem.

[CortJstr]

They'd got it in their heads that Beef set Cody up to fight Ray. I wonder where this idea came from. Oh, wait, maybe because it's the truth. Beef has been studying on The Spanish Prisoner and other fine examples of manipulation.

[pmcd9]

Great Strip.  I'll echo that Beef ain't gone, this is more Ray manipulation.  Where is Leander and his troops?  They wouldn't let Beef fall to Cody Travis's honkytonk blowjob stormtroopers.  Oh yeah, Beef is gonna Fugue like a mother fucker.

~Paul

[jcreed]

Summarizing the possibilities:

I. Wank and Wanker thought up this plan to pretend Beef is dead, and tell Ray.
Unlikely. Beef would have to be in on it to give up his goggles, which may or may not have Properties.

II. Beef is just dead.
Possible. He has been preparing for this since his tiny baby limbs could form fists, but Achewood is not with its sense of the tragic. Sometimes you ought to win, and you just lose. Also something about Vlad's "Oh, man. Is so cool" seems to be mocking fannish rooting for either ray or beef. Sometimes you want someone to win very much, and they just lose.

III. Beef told Wank and Wanker to tell Ray this.
Possible, but an uncertain plan. You just know that Barry McBlog is going to be cor blimey but a little bird told me all over the internet in two seconds if you trust him with a secret.

IV. Beef faked his own death, letting nary a soul in on his intentions, assuming the identity of "Nobody Said It Could Be" Donovan Farley, who wears aviator glasses not goggles, (got to use the Clark Kent principle here, that the eyewear makes a man) and who once made a man tear his own tongue out, for he had done him wrong. Big D goes on to win the fight, and Ray has his own moment of "X == Y!?", except he is a bad programmer, so he probably uses single-equals or dollar-sign or some kettle-cooked potato chips or something.
Basically a sure thing.