I feel like over the past few years I’ve seen a hundred different comics by this author and I have never once gotten the joke.
I binged the entire archive like 15 years ago and it’s all about taking these characters who seem kind of mundane but are really tangled messes of weird issues and putting them in situations that are at once banal and absurd so they can react in ways that play off and expand on that. There’s also usually a little bit of a buildup to the gags, so just seeing single strips in a vacuum loses most of the impact.
Overall it’s a very dry sort of absurdity that sort of wallows in itself. It’s kind of like if King of the Hill was a webcomic about anthropomorphic animals and instead of the banal hell of suburban Texas it was some nonsense fever dream world that was at least a few degrees more absurd.
Thanks for allowing me to continue pretending I have a sense of humor, you’re a real one for that.
If it helps, I’m editing around a lot of the comics that have punchlines to amuse myself. I’m going for absurd.
And yeah you need to get to know the characters and sense of humour of the comic before achewood makes any sense lol
Man I miss achewood. Didn’t it come back except written by ai? What a bummer
It was written by AI? I heard it was back atleast a little bit I hadn’t heard that. Damn
I was misremembering apparently, or at least onstad distanced himself from it after some articles came out?
I googled it and found this
https://www.patreon.com/posts/82717053
Where he clarifies the AI is basically that he made a ray chatbot to replace the ray’s place section of the site, but the new comics are actually written by him. So that’s pretty cool that the comics are legit. They’re locked behind patreon so I haven’t read any but maybe I will, I loved achewood for years, it was the best webcomic by miles imo.
Though tbf it would’ve probably been preferable to just retire the advice column part instead of having a shitty LLM butcher his character. Such is life I guess
Plot twist: he’s a Trekkie
