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Put Brew in Lyle's hand...
« on: September 14, 2003, 01:52:01 pm »
Put a new car in Onstad's driveway.

Sorry, maybe I'm just being overly cynical.
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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2003, 02:29:10 am »
It's still not as bad as that grotesque movie ad that throws the whole page out of whack.
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« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2003, 04:08:50 am »
Maybe Onstad is just too lazy to come up with new shirt designs or to put together a new book.

I'm sure someone on here has enough free time to figure out if there's a book's worth of new material available to collect yet.
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« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2003, 04:10:34 am »
Maybe they'll try to sell a Variety Hour collection.

WooHoo!
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« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2003, 07:15:07 am »
Or maybe he just needs money.
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Re: Put Brew in Lyle's hand...
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2003, 01:00:01 pm »
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Put a new car in Onstad's driveway.


I think you are drastically underestimating the cost of a car.

And re: the movie ad, it only throws the page out of whack if you are scrolling down.  What are you looking at, 640x480?  Seriously, guys.  Those of us who mistakenly subscribed to Serializer have seen the future of pay-to-read Achewood, and it is not pretty.  Don't harsh on him for solicitation as long as the comic is free.
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« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2003, 02:19:25 pm »
Duuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh, what are we talking about here??
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« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2003, 02:46:53 pm »
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Maybe Onstad is just too lazy to come up with new shirt designs or to put together a new book.

I'm sure someone on here has enough free time to figure out if there's a book's worth of new material available to collect yet.

Well Volume 1 covered creation–Jun '02 and volume 2 covered Jun–Dec

So even factoring in missed strips and the 3/week era the range of Jan–Sep should still be enough material for a V2-size book.

The books seem to sell very well, especially the personalized ones, and I don't remember anybody complaining about V2 being a good chunk slimmer than V1 so I don't see any reason for him to hold off too long on V3.
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« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2003, 02:48:28 pm »
He might sell more books if he included more original material in them - maybe some more recipes, or a few Serializer strips or something.
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« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2003, 02:53:44 pm »
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Duuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh, what are we talking about here??


The PayPal button just under the strip on the main page. It's been there since Thursday or so.
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« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2003, 03:08:44 pm »
Well, his meal ticket wife is leaving him, so I guess he'll have to pay the rent and expenses on his own.

That liquor don't pay for itself!
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« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2003, 03:10:57 pm »
And it's funny - I saw this thread before I saw the new ad for donations (previously it had just asked you to join the "Friends of Achewood") and thought that the message "Put Brew in Lyle's Hand... Put a New Car in Onstad's driveway" meant that Onstad would somehow become wealthy just by writing more strips with Lyle in them.

Like: "Feature Lyle and that's just Solid Gold, baby!"
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« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2003, 03:17:06 pm »
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Like: "Feature Lyle and that's just Solid Gold, baby!"

Well, let's face it -- Lyle strips tend to get incredibly good reactions. I'm surprised he hasn't started Lyle-based merchandising yet; it probably would be gold.
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« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2003, 03:31:56 pm »
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Like: "Feature Lyle and that's just Solid Gold, baby!"


That is true actually. I could go a Lyle T-shirt. Especially if it was one of the early ones with maybe him in bed ill with a spliff. Would transmit my personality perfectly.
But, alas, I was only noting Onstad's change of tone on the paypal request, and though it was somewhat tacky.
I mean it may just be me, but I'd be more prone to give the guy money if he just said - "I'm broke, and I'm going to have give up on Achewood if I don't pay the bills, so give me some cash".
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« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2003, 03:34:19 pm »
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Well, his meal ticket wife is leaving him...


I don't know your source on that, but it would explain a great deal.


I have no source - I was just speculating.
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