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[Bobby Isosceles]

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

I KNOE RITE


but it's more fun to bitch and moan

[Mr Trout]

I was thinking the same thing. For someone who appears keep tabs on everything all the time (albeit through an antiquated ticker-tape) Cartilage Head sure let Beef get off easy...

[R2DTrousers]

There's no reason why we, together, can't make this the arc it could have been - Beef, Ray, and Teodor's Adventures Down The Karma Chute (Being An Account of Knuckleheads Saying Stuff As If From Old Days Funny Achewood).

Writing words and drawing pictures isn't so hard. Who's with me?

[Bimmicus]

Let's just.... remember the good times

[Mr Trout]

[jaydub]

You mean fanfic?  I hear there are medications for that these days.  Look into it.

[jaydub]

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

I think he's disappointed with himself (a depressive with a free suicide card he doesn't play?) and assumes that CH will be as disappointed with Beef as he was with Ray.  Here he is, getting back into bed with Molly, weighing her down instead of letting her get back to walking the aisles at Target.

[ananke]

"Good! Bad? Ketel One?" is how I will now respond to things that confuse me.

[Dangermoose]

Also, what the hell dying man did Beef abandon?

Wasn't he offered a choice of helping out Ray and Teodor or getting in bed with Molly?  And he chose the latter.  As far as he knows his guys are not okay.  I mean, that's what I saw happening there.

[dejavroom]

How does he get information about Ray and Teodor?

[Arachno-capitalist]

Wasn't he offered a choice of helping out Ray and Teodor or getting in bed with Molly?  And he chose the latter.  As far as he knows his guys are not okay.  I mean, that's what I saw happening there.

No. This was a reference  to the CH strip ending where Ray gets a note saying that Ray is a coward who would abandon a dying man. Ray failed the test and now so did Beef, because he abandoned himself. Beef is now also a coward who abandon a dying man.

[Toaster]

Beef was dying. Beef chose not to die. So he abandoned a dying man.

But where does the alleged cowardice come in? Here's where. In death, Beef was resigning himself to the way of things, affirming that he is but a small part of the great machine. His time had come. In choosing not to die, he effectively communicated that he is important, and that what he wants matters, and everything else be damned. I think this is awesome, but some people think that you're supposed to do what you're told. And I guess Beef is one of those people. He chose to live, even though he thought dying was the right thing to do. Our boy has mad bozack, is what I am saying. Even if he doesn't appreciate it, himself.

[atalkingdog]

I like how Doc Andretti saved us the trouble of having to be introduced to a lawyer character.
He already knows all about the Settlement offer.  yay.

I was kind of looking forward to another after-life road trip.

the main gag seems to be Beef dropping the pamphlet just before reading the part about escaping the Lash of Thanatos.  the pamphlet then lobotomizes Ray and nearly kills teodor.  then Beef escapes being reincarnated as an unfortunate being anyways.

[Doc]

I was kind of downed by this too, Beef's line just doesn't make sense in context to me, if Toaster's assessment is correct (and it seems like the best explanation) then it just seems a really forced way to reuse that line.

The Ray and Teodore thing I mind less, especially since T's detailed explanation of how they got out seems to be a nod to it being a cop out. Also kettle one IV!

[dejavroom]

somewhere, in the achewood fanflow, it all makes sense, with the contextualization provided by 15 more strips we didn't get to see...