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February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« on: February 28, 2007, 03:08:58 am »
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02282007

I understand Roast Beef actually wrote this out himself in Visio and submitted it to Onstad for posting.  Phillipe's was drawn on a 3X5 card in crayon.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2007, 03:14:35 am »
Very very nice.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 03:14:51 am »
This is the 2nd online comic that I've read in the past 3 minutes to mention Judge Judy. Coincidence? I certainly hope so.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2007, 03:18:07 am »
Do you think he'll really offer us one of those with our names in it?  I'd actually consider getting one of those, it looks as if it would make a good wall-hang.  Then again, do I really need to be reminded about that damn gross oil in the peanut butter every day I'm depressed?
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2007, 03:37:46 am »
Can I can this strip?
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2007, 04:39:53 am »
I have a theory on the proliferation of Judge Judy lately, actually, because now that you've mentioned it, she HAS been kinda heavy in the zeitgeist lately...

I think that when it hit the news that the judge in the Anna Nicole case was bein' all nutty because he's been gunning for a teevee judge show for years, everyone's point of comparison to his potential show was Judge Judy.

And so she's floatin' around in the collective subconscious in relation to Crazy Accent Judge.

That's my theory, anyway.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2007, 05:39:55 am »
The idea that you can order this with your own or someone else's name in Beef's place is vastly depressing. Like, more depressing than the strip itself, which is an achievement.

Can I get Philippe's instead?
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2007, 06:21:35 am »
I made icons.



If I had that font it would probably be quicker to make them from scratch.  But I don't. 

I'd better go eat some peanut butter.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2007, 06:32:50 am »
Why is reading the internet easier than reading books for depressed people?  It's clearly true, but why? 
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2007, 07:01:43 am »
Oh god the non-linear storytelling Scott McCloud orgasms.

This is splendid good. Somehow he's placed everything just right so the eye stops, or trails off, at the perfect spots for maximum frustration and despair.

Sometimes Onstad's work reminds me of Chris Ware, but a Chris Ware I prefer to the real Chris Ware. Insular, claustrophobic and given to nonlinear panels and old-school fontage (the Onstadian black-box "Soon." or "Later." is a straight Ware rip, I think), yet with a somewhat less rawly documentary focus on dysfunction. I think my issue with Ware is that he seems to actively avoid engaging with, or giving a damn about his own characters (though this is based solely on Jimmy Corrigan, so maybe I can be corrected). To me, making that artistic choice is like choosing to write a novel without dialogue. It's legitimate, but why?

Anyway, today's comic is like Ware, but with a sense of recognition and a Judge Judy joke.




Now, somebody else drop the name of a well-known comics creator with a degree of crossover success. Do it for no reason.

Art Spiegelman! No, you, I said you.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2007, 08:12:09 am »
See, I was gonna say that it was reminiscent of some of Groening's early "Life is Hell" work but... I didn't have any concrete examples to refer to and, hence, I was gonna lay quiet on the subject.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2007, 08:29:05 am »
I'll back you up on that.  In fact, I think the working title for "Life in Hell" was "A Series of Depressing Yet Humorous Flowcharts."
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2007, 08:58:50 am »
That was my first thought upon reading the strip.  As far as examples go, the two specific ones that come to mind at present are the one in Love is Hell following the different paths a relationship can take and the one plotting the evolution of music from primordial lava noises to vulgar sea shanties to hip-hop and so forth.  If I had any of the books with me I would go look these up, but sadly they are all 2,000 miles away at my parents' house.

Does Philippe's flowchart actually lighten the mood of the strip, or is it really just there to make Beef's chart more depressing by comparison?  I'm tempted to order one of the personalized charts for myself, but I really just don't feel like it right now.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2007, 12:17:37 pm »
Quote from: Alternate on February 28, 2007, 06:32:50 am
Why is reading the internet easier than reading books for depressed people?  It's clearly true, but why? 

Maybe the light from the screen acts like an anti-depression lamp.
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Re: February 28, 2007 - Am I craving chinese food because I'm dying?
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2007, 04:27:04 pm »
This comic was rather manic-depressive.
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