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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2006, 03:44:48 pm »
Chris Onstad is getting really good at drawing facial hair on cats.  Like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are alike.

I hope he finished this cartoon, leaned back in his custom-painted Aeron chair, and, with a smug sense of accomplishment, chuckled softly to himself.  Then he'd glance at the dog and say "Your master is very good at drawing facial hair on cats.  Let's see what I can do with a dog."  At that, he'd spring from his seat and playfully chase the dog from his studio, ultra-fine Sharpie in hand.

Because that is how I would behave if I drew such good mustaches and beards on cartoon cowboy cats.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #31 on: March 08, 2006, 04:10:47 pm »
"Mommy, what's a tickpimp?"
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #32 on: March 08, 2006, 04:35:05 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on March 08, 2006, 03:26:02 pm
What happens if there is more than one cat standing after the end of three days?

This Kid is up to some good hypothesizin'
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #33 on: March 08, 2006, 04:41:49 pm »
yessss
paul is right
paul is right

they will lay it all on the line, and win

they will win on some technicality that only Beef knows.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #34 on: March 08, 2006, 04:59:00 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on March 08, 2006, 04:41:49 pm
yessss
paul is right
paul is right

they will lay it all on the line, and win

they will win on some technicality that only Beef knows.

I'm suddenly reminded of the Tick Annual where Chainsaw Vigilante is fighting Barry Hubris (aka the other Tick). Just as the fight is starting wrap up the superhero police burst in and stop them because there can never be a clear winner in any hero vs. hero or villain vs. villain fight. I can only imagine that Ray vs. Beef would need some similar deux ex machina but I kind of hope not.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #35 on: March 08, 2006, 05:39:43 pm »
Quote from: Doc on March 08, 2006, 02:30:51 pm
My only real complaint is that we never found out which one had the limp.

Unless Onstad is going to pull a new character out of his hat (Oh noes! It's Rico "No Knees" Sinpatella!), I think it refers to the guy Beef ran over with the motorcycle before the GOF started.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #36 on: March 08, 2006, 05:49:12 pm »
The Man With the Blood on His Hands, indeed.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #37 on: March 08, 2006, 05:55:20 pm »
Quote from: carlosdelvaca on March 08, 2006, 05:49:12 pm
The Man With the Blood on His Hands, indeed.

Of course, that's his dad's nickname. "The Man With Cowboy Sauce On His Hands" isn't quite as appropriate, taken out of context.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #38 on: March 08, 2006, 06:09:38 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on March 08, 2006, 03:26:02 pm
I can't believe y'all ain't lovin' this strip.

I'm with you, my doggie.  I can't believe all these fuckin' naysayers-- always naysaying!  This strip is a goddamn classic of the genre and an explosive climax.  It is delightful.  It is a "FUCK YEAH!" moment in the making.  It makes me happy, and it makes me look forward to more.

GODDAMN GENIUS.  Where is this Christ Onster, so that I may blow him?
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #39 on: March 08, 2006, 06:20:23 pm »
Quote from: revdj on March 08, 2006, 02:54:48 pm
"decimated" means reduced by 10%.

So it is a very bad thing if the field has only been decimated.  It means 90% are still standing.

I am a pedant, yes.

Could be serial decimations. That would reduce the field to an infinitely fine few by seqeuntial tenths.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #40 on: March 08, 2006, 06:25:24 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on March 08, 2006, 06:20:23 pm
Could be serial decimations. That would reduce the field to an infinitely fine few by seqeuntial tenths.

I broke down and registered just so I could increment you for that remark.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #41 on: March 08, 2006, 06:37:21 pm »
I wish the belt buckles had been bigger.
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #42 on: March 08, 2006, 07:29:44 pm »
Quote from: trouserbat on March 08, 2006, 02:15:26 pm
Requiem for a Dream pupil scene

I feel like this strip was Onstad's salute to looney toons. This puts him in an elite class of culture innovators who reference pop culture (Twain, Led Zepp, Tarantino).

But I can't express how happy I would have been had he pulled a Requiemesque fugue. All pointilist shading, all muscles bulging, bones breaking gracefully through skin as the demon in Ray's genes becomes the demon in his jeans (or thong or whatever). I know he fugues...
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #43 on: March 08, 2006, 07:36:35 pm »
Quote from: Xngurevar on March 08, 2006, 06:25:24 pm
I broke down and registered just so I could increment you for that remark.

Whoa!  What's with the bradypus tridactylus there?  What happened to that rule where I get to approve all the n00b's avatars!
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Re: March 8, 2006 - Cowboy sauce.
« Reply #44 on: March 08, 2006, 08:36:48 pm »
I might have to take back everything I said about Requiem.

Achewood is good because everything in it is stylized. Onstad brings Strunk's concise English sensibilities to humor and art. Aronofsky, on the other hand, couldn't portray an equilateral triangle without a tactile subtext.

I think that this strip shirked on detail a bit, but would it be appropriate for Achewood to be as rich as a scene from Requiem? Or would it even be logistically plausible?
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