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[dejavroom]

abloo abloo bloo-bloo.

I don't understand people complaining that achewood is past its prime. Onstad's lazy resolutions are just as fresh today, I think...

[Arachno-capitalist]

I am a great man, but not a good man.

[wombat]

I am hella relieved.

[JorgeFabregas]

Will Teodor get some of that settlement money?

Ray's response confuses me--the doctor is prescribing Ketel One to ease his detox, but he doesn't want the detox to be too easy? I would think he would want as much Ketel One as possible.

Beef deserted a dying man--himself? I don't think that makes much sense. If he chooses not to die, then he has saved the dying man.

[CortJstr]

Will Teodor get some of that settlement money?

Ray's response confuses me--the doctor is prescribing Ketel One to ease his detox, but he doesn't want the detox to be too easy? I would think he would want as much Ketel One as possible.

I guess T should get some of the settlement money but he won't for the sake of his character still mooching off Ray and whatnot.

I think Ray means not to ease him off too quickly or down to too low of a level. He doesn't want to end this thing up sober, just not plastered.

[Bimmicus]

This is terrible. God damn, Achewood, what the hell happened to you?

[Bimmicus]

The whole comic has taken on an air of soul-numbing sausage-grinding and yet somehow manages to try too hard at the same time. Recent arcs have been uninspired, glacially paced, and boring as all fuck. The cast have become thin caricatures of themselves. NOT FUNNY ANYMORE OR EVEN MILDLY AMUSING. Oh hell I could go on but it's like talking shit about a dying relative, it just makes me feel bad for them.

[AugustWest]

I'm not prepared to make the sort of wide ranging comments that Bimmicus is, but I was pretty disappointed by this ending.

It just feels like a huge copout to me.  After a long and interesting buildup, Onstad leaves us with two cliffhangers (Beef at the door of the karma machine, T & R trapped in the burning truck).  How are the both resolved?  In about the least interesting, most predicable way possible. 

Great setup, lousy resolution.

[Bimmicus]

I mean, every comic strip has a shelf-life – usually a brief one – but I'm just amazed how fast this turned from a treasured daily read to a steaming, artfully-arranged pile of poop.

edit: I pretty much gave up on Achewood months ago, but someone posted this one in another forum and it genuinely broke my heart a little.

[Limmo]

What August said. 

[wombat]

See, I don't have a problem with this. This seems like a traditional Achewood thing to me. We're sure they're all gonna die, and then they don't. There's no way out of the GOF alive, but then there is. Phillippe's gonna die at the super-secret ice cream store, but he doesn't. There's no way out of the karma machine, but then there is. There's still suspense, because we're never sure they're going to make it out this time, or at least I'm not. I'm always afraid that he might just be that crazy, that he might eventually do it.

Also, what someone on the assbar said:

I've read this strip for years. The characters are absolutely 100% consistently drawn and yet I still wonder what they will do when presented with hard choices. I had my fingers X'd for 3 days hoping Beef would go back to Molly.

[AugustWest]

See, I don't have a problem with this. This seems like a traditional Achewood thing to me. We're sure they're all gonna die, and then they don't. There's no way out of the GOF alive, but then there is. Phillippe's gonna die at the super-secret ice cream store, but he doesn't. There's no way out of the karma machine, but then there is. There's still suspense, because we're never sure they're going to make it out this time, or at least I'm not. I'm always afraid that he might just be that crazy, that he might eventually do it.

Yabbut in the GOF they get out by firebombing jeeps and bringing the house down.  Phillippe's gonna die, but he escapes himself and kills a deer in the process.  None of that cool stuff happens here.

Beef goes to bed.  Ray and T escaped offscreen.  No surreal twists.  No excitement.  Just over.

Also, what the hell dying man did Beef abandon?

[wombat]

I'm a girl, I guess, I don't prefer the movies with exploding jeeps.

I assumed he meant he abandoned himself, in some way?

[pmcd9]

I too was disappointed in the end of this arc.  We were built up for something that never occurred.

The GOF kept building to a definite climax.  Where was the climax here?  I don't want to get all Bimmicus up in here, but this arc had super potential wasted. 

[milhouse]

There was no 'fin'. Maybe it's not over?