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[CortJstr]

Oh shit!  What will happen in the Mexican Realism Copter?

(Honestly though... if the build up doesn't match the pay off, I will be so very annoyed)

It's no accident that the copter looks like a luchador mask. What powers does it have? Will it make Ray lose the rights to his own name in Mexico? Am I getting way too obscure/geeky here?

Panel one could easily have featured Pat with only slightly reworded dialog.

[side_show]

So wait... did Ray pull this copter switch? Or is he just blindly oblivious to the copter's Mexican origins?

[CortJstr]

So wait... did Ray pull this copter switch? Or is he just blindly oblivious to the copter's Mexican origins?

I'm going to say the latter. It seems like he just thinks its ugly and isn't getting the luchador thing. Also, just because it has a Mexican paint job doesn't necessarily mean it's Hecho en Mexico although given the storyline that seems probable.

[Turbo Ninja]

Why is Ray packing socks?

Ray needs to pack: Thongs, extra sunglasses, emergency necklace repair kit, "traveler" bottles of Ketel One, and his Dopp kit (the one with Ostritch extract eye serum and kelp-raisin hair (fur) conditioner.  Maybe a jacket if it's going to get chilly at night.

Don't pack socks, Ray.

[Drygioni]

So you post on the sekrit Achewood Message Board, but you don't count yourself as a real fan??

WTF? Does this mean that you're only a real fan if you have a picture of Ray tattoed on your wang?

Well, Achewood is my favourite webcomic, so I am a fan certainly, but I've only started reading it relatively recently, don't have any merchandise (yet), and am probably too young/uninformed in pop/high culture to get the most out of it.

Yeah, you got me. I suppose by 'real fans' I meant 'people who have the guts to complain about Achewood'.

[littlefallsmets]

No one has yet mentioned the disappointing lack of Airwolf? For shame.

This is Ray we're talking about. Airwolf was tucked into a dusty storage facility months ago. He would only even remember that he owns Airwolf if Airwolf were to actually come on his television. Three separate Public Storage facilities get the majority of their business by storing things Ray has forgotten he owns.

There's a guy whose only job is to sit at a desk with all the keys for all of Ray's lockers and all the codes to all the gates at the facilities and... wait... 45 hours a week, in case Ray needs something out of storage. He mostly just looks at pornography on a computer and listens to sports-talk radio in his tiny office.

Every few weeks he has to go to one of the Public Storages and watch moving guys put more stuff into storage so that they can't steal anything and then collect the keys to the new lockers... but he has never actually retrieved anything for Ray. He is paralyzed with fear for the day he'll actually have to be able to find something.

Ray doesn't remember his name but remembers thinking he was a pretty-much-solid dude.

At one point, Roast Beef offered to take over the job, what with all the ease and the down time but Ray didn't let him because "then we could never hang out!"

[V-Adore]

So a lady can never be a real fan?

This is why the wang standard is somewhat limited in today's modern world. I would personally elevate the status of "real fan" to anyone who has ever thought for more than a full second about cat wang as a result of Achewood, but that might not work (if, say, someone stumbled by chance onto the Pat's-wang strip and was repulsed for a while). It's hard to say!

[littlefallsmets]

Why is Ray packing socks?

In case... hmm... in case... how to put it?

In case there are no willing ladies and release is still required.

[arkabee]

i'm confused, did r2d2 get the ability to teleport things in the newer movies or something?

because i didn't see those.

[littlefallsmets]

i'm confused, did r2d2 get the ability to teleport things in the newer movies or something?

No, we're just dealing with a compound pop-cultural reference...

The major reference is "The Fly" where teleporting a fly and a person at the same time begets a fly-person.

The minor reference would be pointing out that the Luchador-Realism helicopter looks like a cross between R2D2 and a chicken.

Similar would be if, like, Luke was slapping around Leia and she was yelling:

"I'm your girlfriend! I'm your sister! Girlfriend... sister... I'm your girlfriend and your sister!"

This compound reference would not mean that JJ Giddes was trained by Yoda and you just missed it or anything.

It would just be a compound reference.

[FlipConstantine]

The major reference is "The Fly" where teleporting a human and a person fly at the same time begets a fly-person.

FTFY, couldn't help myself.

[V-Adore]

Similar would be if, like, Luke was slapping around Leia and she was yelling:

"I'm your girlfriend! I'm your sister! Girlfriend... sister... I'm your girlfriend and your sister!"

You're getting a tiny can for this. Pure gold.

[CortJstr]

In case... hmm... in case... how to put it?

In case there are no willing ladies and release is still required.

I was thinking he would need socks in the case that some kind of fancy dress event was happening. Ray might cut himself on sour cream lids but he knows better than to show up underdressed for a classy event. He comes real in a custom suit/tux as appropriate.

[littlefallsmets]

I was thinking he would need socks in the case that some kind of fancy dress event was happening.

Ah, but they're tube socks.

Tube socks with a tux or a suit are a total Hunts move.

Even if all you can do is buy a three-pack of cheap black dress socks from K-Mart on the way, that's still an acceptable last-second save.

Ray's definitely bringing tube socks only in case he has to call one of them "Maria" in his hotel room to the faint glow of Spectravision.

[CortJstr]

I didn't look at the picture before posting. The fact that Ray even owns tube socks is weird. Especially the stripey kind.