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Serializer, The Model Train (2 versions), 2002

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Peter Griffiths

ahhh i remember this one well x

Hilary Kitz

Please write tiny robot with enormous wings.

Mackenzie Guillory

I have to assume it's because Hotmail is not a common @ anymore, at all. Most people who throw a hotmail address at you are lookin' hell of outmoded in the year of our gourd twenty-fourth. EDIT: Oppido, I cannot lie and say that the way Beef says "retarded" excitedly in response to Ray grabbing him a cold one from the bar that one time still elicits a hearty one to this day. Dunno what that says about the strip, me, or society, but there's the data.

E Corcoran

You don't have to download, you can use the scroll wheel to zoom in

E Corcoran

It was a trap

Oppido

I guess the last panel MAYBE suggests that Polish women are unintelligent/unsophisticated/superficial? But I agree, nothing really jumps out at me here, certainly not as much as the various uses of "retarded" in the Achewood 1.0 run.

2scrogz

"Ray Gets Sort of Stoned" was for sure the first strip. "I am from...History!!!" sold me.

John Ashton

My first was Beef contemplating the ornate names of the 19th and early 20th century. I, myself, was driven to hysterics.

E Corcoran

In Soviet Russia, woman pay to sleep with YOU

E Corcoran

Reading this again, which is the line that hasn't aged well? Serious question. They all seem fine to me, even with today's exaggerated sensitivities

E Corcoran

https://achewood.com/2003/04/30/title.html

J Hardy Carroll

I don't know Chris. I think that the elegance of the strip shines through. roast beef saying hate them to hell is an amazingly efficient way to show that character. end even though Ukrainians have been programming in working in tech since the 80s, I look at Vlad as a Soviet throwback. I mean if you figure he came here after the wall fell he would be right in line with hanging out with women who are impressed by burner phones. complexity is not necessarily better and this strip is really really funny. Great rhythm.

P Arbuthnot Walker

I may be some kind of knuckle-dragging throwback, but I access websites on a computer and not a phone. I still have to download images from Patreon to zoom in on them properly.

Doctor Link

Memory tells me Vlad refers to “read basic email” when he’s extolling the virtues of banging lady robots to Beef. But with memory, who knows.

J.

All the local 10'x20' indoor storage units were sold out when I needed one recently, but I got a very reasonable deal on two 10'x10's. As I made to pile the last of my woman-adverse hobby junk into my units, one of the unobtainable 10'x20's stood open. It was filled, wall-to-wall, with miniature wargaming terrain on simple, counter-height tables. Among the people who walked between the tables, inspecting whatever was supposed to have been occurring, was a woman who shyly slunk behind the doorframe as I marveled at the scene.

E Corcoran

I don't have them but I must have read someone's copy of that, there's no other explanation apart from a crazed brain

A. Hamster

Do you have the book collections, by any chance? I found this one as a bonus comic in volume II.

E Corcoran

I swear I remember the basic Hotmail account line from the main strip, but ohnorobot denies it

s b

apocalyptic machinery just mowing us all down

Caleb Gerard

I vaguely remember the trivial pursuit strip, which had the reference to women hating computer programs to hell, but i think by the time i was into achewood serializer (08-09 I *think*) was already gone/i didn't know what it was and didn't care enough to find out, so i could only accept the joke as a bit of world-building. I guess at least that particular mystery is solved. :D

Kate S.

Yes. It was the phrase, “we got much crispy Stellas out by the pool Ray” https://achewood.com/2006/01/20/title.html

Cody Richmond

I showed up sometime in ‘04, and I think it was in the neighborhood of high Ray’s “these are some pots that I have” that ensured I’d be back for decades to come.

Chris Onstad

Is it possible to remember what strip/sequence got you to keep reading (asking for anthropological purposes)

Kate S.

This one predates my own introduction to Achewood (2006). Working for a startup blows. I’ll never do that again

Chris Onstad

Serializer launched October 1, 2002, one year to the day after Achewood. The Beef/Moon/Train stuff ran in like June 2002. So, the serializer/train strip came second. Furthermore, I have not explored Beef's deep feelings for trains nearly enough.