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[Ben-San]

So Todd ended up in Hell even after he died for real? It's not too surprising with the dope-dealing and what-all, I guess; I just sort of wasn't expecting moral standards for squirrels.
Or maybe this is just Purgatory, as has been suggested. Your sins are forgiven when you find the right part of the Friendly's menu.
Or maybe Todd doesn't know what he's talking about.

[Bobby Isosceles]

So Todd ended up in Hell even after he died for real? It's not too surprising with the dope-dealing and what-all, I guess; I just sort of wasn't expecting moral standards for squirrels.
Or maybe this is just Purgatory, as has been suggested. Your sins are forgiven when you find the right part of the Friendly's menu.
Or maybe Todd doesn't know what he's talking about.

The storyline got old, so Onstad is lining up a plausible deus ex machina.

Which is good, becuase I'm just waiting for some sort of punchline which inviolves Roast Beef at gunpoint with a thought balloon of him saying:

"Man this is just like the time ray tricked me into shouting 'where's the beef' inside the slaughterhouse"

or some such.

[Gimpson]

The storyline got old, so Onstad is lining up a plausible deus ex machina.

Can you have a deus ex machina....  IN HELL???

[palm trees]

a slightly bizarre, unexpected last panel!
reminds me of some of the old ones.

[CortJstr]

If Blister can get into heaven so can Todd.

Todd in hell = MacGuffin

[AugustWest]

I'm just happy to see Todd.  

Todd's an indicator of the pervasive influence Achewood has had on me.  Now whenever I'm driving and a squirrel runs across the street in front of my vehicle, I think (or say out loud, sometimes)  "LOOK OUT, TODD!"

It's true, I really do.

[CortJstr]

I'm just happy to see Todd.

Word

[V-Adore]

Seeing Todd in a strip again is really good mojo, although all of this does raise some important cosmological questions. (Strap yourselves in, folks, this is gonna be long and rambly.)

Consider the facts at hand:

* According to Blister, basically everyone gets into Heaven as long as you "die for real" -- e.g. not-suiciden. This has been borne out by the fact that Blister got into Heaven. This raises the question of how Todd went to Hell given that he apparently died as for-real as it gets; Beef certainly suicided, and it's arguable that an overdose on Tofutti-Cuties is also suicide and thus Ray deserves to be there, but what did Todd do? Is there something he's not telling us?

* Today, Todd asserts that he will be "back on the surface in no time" via secret escape passages. This implies an element of physicality not present in what we've seen from Heaven -- also implied by the fact that people get five-o-clock shadow and such in Hell.

Is Hell more physical than Heaven? Will escaping from Hell assume revitalization, rematerialization as a spirit, or what?

[sensate]

Isn't Beef's gravy already damned?

Is that Todd's real name, or is Ray uncharacteristically mocking him for his stutter?

[V-Adore]

Is that Todd's real name, or is Ray uncharacteristically mocking him for his stutter?

I assumed that Beef was stuttering from shock, since he seemed surprised to see Todd in Hell and all.

Which reminds me, Todd's squirrel-sized Brat is the best Achewood visual that the 'stad will probably never draw.

[CortJstr]

* According to Blister, basically everyone gets into Heaven as long as you "die for real" -- e.g. not-suiciden. This has been borne out by the fact that Blister got into Heaven. This raises the question of how Todd went to Hell given that he apparently died as for-real as it gets; Beef certainly suicided, and it's arguable that an overdose on Tofutti-Cuties is also suicide and thus Ray deserves to be there, but what did Todd do? Is there something he's not telling us?

Ray's in hell because he sold his soul for his piano talent. Perhaps Todd sold his for an assload of nuts or something. I still say he's a MacGuffin.

* Today, Todd asserts that he will be "back on the surface in no time" via secret escape passages. This implies an element of physicality not present in what we've seen from Heaven -- also implied by the fact that people get five-o-clock shadow and such in Hell.

Is Hell more physical than Heaven? Will escaping from Hell assume revitalization, rematerialization as a spirit, or what?

It could be passages or some kind of spiritual loophole. I guess we'll find out tomorrow. Beef's stubble was only in his imagined future, we don't know for sure what would happen physically after 10 years in hell.

Am I thinking about this too much?

[V-Adore]

Ray's in hell because he sold his soul for his piano talent. Perhaps Todd sold his for an assload of nuts or something. I still say he's a MacGuffin.

Well, yes, but I'm just saying that there's other possible cosmological justification for Ray being in Hell. But it's an open question.

Am I thinking about this too much?

There's no such thing as thinking about this too much. I should know.

[jough]

Beef is obviously singing Todd's name to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann"

Ba ba ba, ba ba-bra-ann.

Todd todd todd, todd todd, T. Squirrel.

[andalucia]

I never really got that song, what with how it just sounds like Bobbaran.  It was always a little disconcerting for me:  a girl's name, or just some sort of terrible gibberish?  



You'll have to excuse me, I just recieved a late birthday present of a Special Boy shirt.  Someone up there likes me.  And by someone I mean my sister.  And by up there, I mean the prairies.

[CortJstr]

Wasn't the Beach Boys version a cover? Was the original hard to understand like that?