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A Great Week for Achewood
December 31, 2008 @ 04:04 AM
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 10 Comments
I think this past week’s worth of Achewood comics by Chris Onstad (three comics worth) is a great week, on two levels. One, it is one of the strongest weeks for the strip in awhile (like most other regular strips, you’re going to have your good days and your bad – Achewood will almost always assure you one great strip a week, but this week we got THREE great strips in one week) and two, it is as good of an example of “this is what Achewood is about” that I have seen recently, for those who profess not to “get” the strip.
So check the three strips out (here, here and here) – they’re well worth a read – unless you have a problem with painfully awkward situations, of course, in which case – do not read these strips!
10 Comments
Alex Cox
December 31, 2008 at 7:37 am
Onstad is one of The Great living cartoonists.
Period.
Nick Marino
December 31, 2008 at 10:35 am
the three strips were my first Achewood reading experience. i totally didn’t get it. sorry brian!!!!
Bill Reed
December 31, 2008 at 10:50 am
I don’t get it either.
Anonymous
December 31, 2008 at 11:03 am
I would argue that those strips aren’t good introductory strips since they rely on knowing character background and personality. Still very god strips but I wouldn’t recommend them to the uninitiated.
Apodaca
December 31, 2008 at 11:55 am
These strips were really great.
Joe Rice
December 31, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Yeah, this past week was especially great.
Aaron Walther
December 31, 2008 at 1:52 pm
haha, awesome! Thanks Brian.
alex cox
December 31, 2008 at 2:00 pm
What’s to get?
The one cat is depressed, and had a rough childhood… These strips aren’t really punchline driven, but offer some great character moments.
That’s all.
joecab
December 31, 2008 at 5:45 pm
But I do have a problem with painfully awful art. Sorry, i know how everyone raves about Achewood, and there are other strips I enjoy that aren’t drawn very well, but I can’t get over it here.
Doug M.
January 1, 2009 at 12:15 am
Joecab, there is a difference between “drawn in a simplistic style and/or with relatively little detail” and “badly drawn”.
Yes, at first glance Achewood looks like something done by a talented eighth grader. Look again.
Doug M.