What was the appeal of Achewood?
Don't get me wrong, I love it
I just couldn't tell you why
achewood is GOAT
I have no idea why either
I don't know either. It wasn't quite coherent, but it wasn't randumb either.
It's like drinking with your three best friends and talking about philosophy. Nobody really remember what's happening, but there is some line of thought.
You're all retarded
Achewood is GOAT because, unlike tumblr and your childhood, Achewood shows modern relationships between men. Not in a 'nostalgic for lumberjacks' way, but in a way that says 'here are dudes, and they're hanging out being dudes doing dude things'.
Achewood is the manliest webcomic out there (oxymoron) because it's not trying to push an agenda, impress anybody, or really be anything. It shows how men talk to each other.
Achewood is the anti-tumblr.
>>78631139
>you're all retarded
And the author is most probably autistic or heavily dyslectic, because I have no idea what any of the characters are saying in most speech bubbles.
The comics are completely incoherent, so I can't even tell if it's good or not.
![comic[1].php_date=04032003.gif](https://i.imgur.com/rOR17Qt.gif "comic[1].php_date=04032003.gif")
It's just well-written. The characters have distinct and likable personalities that are amusing to see in interaction. I'm not going to pretend I always comprehend the dialogue, but when I do, it's often extremely hilarious.
>>78631302
>incoherent
Then you have no grip on slang whatsoever. It's mostly pretty obvious if you think about how he's twisting language for five seconds.
>>78631302
>dyslectic
is this b8
>>78631302
english isn't even my first language and i can understand most strips fine
>>78631139
Jesus fucking christ, really? We seriously can't even have an Achewood thread without some retard storming in to poke everyone with his hate boner for tumblr?
Fuck you /co/. Fuck you.
If you put me on the spot, I would have to say a lot of the appeal comes from the juxtaposition of intellectualism, crudeness, and a vast reservoir of both out-of-date and in-date slang. But it's mostly just good writing in general.
You know what? It really is damned hard to explain why I like Achewood. I never realized that.
If I had to muster up an answer, it's because it's just so unbelievably well written in terms of dialogue, and that has helped to give the characters a level of depth that you rarely if ever see in comics. 50 years of Spider-Man, 75 years of Batman, and I don't think they've had 1/20th as many good lines of dialogue as Ray or Roast Beef. And I would honestly and truthfully put GOF up there as one of the greatest story arcs in all of comics history, probably in the top 30.
The way the characters talk is fascinating. It doesn't seem to connect with a lot of people though, as a few people in here have mentioned. Plus near the end he was starting to layer on the character talk way too hard. I've loved Achewood since 2004 and in that aborted Ray in Rehab arc, some of the talk between Cornelius and Roast Beef is totally incomprehensible to me, so I get it if someone says the dialogue makes no sense to them.
But yeah, when he doesn't layer on the verbal quirks to the point where it kills whatever it's trying to say, the voices the characters speak in are incredible. I want to link a couple of the blog posts he kept in the voices of the characters just to illustrate how much I like Onstad's writing:
http://rbeef.blogspot.com/2005/01/korean-bbq-lunch.html
http://raysmuckles.blogspot.com/2005/07/rock-star-died-at-27.html
http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2011/12/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html
>>78630845
You love it because it was the cool thing to love at the time. It's actually just shit.
>>78635747
achewood could have 24/7 generals and a homestuck tier fandom and i'd still love it every bit as i do now
faggot
Didnt the author stop updating?
>>78631139
What is this? A comic for ants?
>>78632959
The Great Outdoor Fight is without a doubt, one of the greatest story arcs of all time. It just feels real, like this was an actual event he put his characters into.
That's a good way of thinking about it. I love how you could take a quote, and know who said it 9/10 times without seeing them.
>>78634018
>Those blogposts
My sides. I don't remember why I hadn't read those before.
>>78635964
He's done a few new ones in the last few weeks.
