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Author Topic: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip  (Read 4746 times)

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July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« on: July 30, 2007, 06:54:54 am »
Nooo

Meh.

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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 07:15:32 am »
This strip just caused me to think about dead like me.
I feel the real punchline here is 'yes, I agree' we've been here so many times even Phillipe knows how it's going to go down.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2007, 07:23:35 am »
Onstad has gone from PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE to rotten.com.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2007, 08:18:39 am »
maybe the worst achewood ever
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2007, 08:34:09 am »
MR ONSTADT NEEDS TO GET HIS FACTS STRAIGHT FIRST A SPACE TOILET WOULD BE BURNED UP ON ATMOSPHERIC REENTRY IT WOULDNT STILL BE IN THAT SHAPE WHEN IT LANDED SECOND SPACE TOILETS ARE VERY TINY AND YOU CANT FIT A WHOLE KID IN ONE OF THOSE DONT ASK ME HOW I KNOW I JUST KNOW LOL THIRD IT WOULD BE SADDER IF IT FELL ON SOMEONE IMPORTANT LIKE HEATH LEDGER AND THEY HAD TO STOP MAKING THE NEW BATMAN MOVIE BECAUSE OF IT I KNOW AWFUL RIGHT?!??!?


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I have GOT to start getting to bed on time.  Writing like that scared the bajeezus out of me.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2007, 02:21:34 pm »
Quote from: Noah on July 30, 2007, 08:18:39 am
maybe the worst achewood ever

Awp!
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2007, 03:03:17 pm »
I like this strip, for three reasons:

-Phillipe's accepting responsibility in that very mature, put-upon way that little kids have when they take on a burden of some sort.
-Awp!
-The intensely gross imagery in the fourth and sixth panels
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2007, 03:14:39 pm »
Yes.  The "awp!" is excellent.  I really enjoy Lie Bot.  I don't know why, I just do.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2007, 03:18:46 pm »
I like the tenacity of P. continuing to ask.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2007, 03:19:13 pm »
Quote from: Noah on July 30, 2007, 08:18:39 am
maybe the worst achewood ever

I think you meant:

Worst. Achewood. Ever.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2007, 04:36:11 pm »
I have to agree with those who think "Awp!" makes the strip. Otherwise, eh, take it or leave it. The imagery is impressively gross, though.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2007, 07:20:23 pm »
I like it. I like how Philippe confirms that all the previous Saddest Thing strips were in-continuity instead of one-off gags.

As for the grossness, I don't think it's that bad. I mean, this is the same Onstad that brought us Cartilige Head, Ray ripping the guy's face off in The GOF, and of course, "Now you know what it means to have death inside you", which I think were grosser than this. Or maybe my imagination just isn't as vivid as some people.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2007, 08:09:41 pm »
This is developing into the Achewood equivalent of the old Hee-Haw gag where they ask Grandpa what's for supper.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2007, 09:16:32 pm »
Eh, cartilage head and face-ripping may be grosser, but this is more gratuitously gross.  The former were poetic and surreal in their grossness, but this just layers it on without accomplishing anything.  In his heart, Onstad knows the saddest thing will always be a retarded man cradling a broken egg and crying.  He can't beat that one for poignancy, so he throws in gore, hoping if he just grosses us out enough then we won't notice what's lacking.  Basically this strip is the Titus Andronicus of saddest thing strips.
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Re: July 30, 2007 New Saddest Thing Strip
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2007, 10:22:21 pm »
Thumbs down from me. Tired gag, traumatize the five-year old, Onstad's toddler rage. I can't complain, though, because it's free entertainment that is normally spot-on funny.
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