Achewood
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Serializer, 2002, 2nd-ever post
🕑 Added 2024-02-22 20:52:09 +0000 UTCThis is going back, back, back so far that the type is pixelated and their muzzles are, for some unknown reason, now rendering as blotchy color, as though they were slowly derezzing out of our universe entirely. (This was apparently before I knew about archiving the original high-res files in some way that could be searched for.)
The 9/11 attacks were a fresh memory, there was a lot of Gordon's Handle-Style Discount Vodka going on, and Achewood's nascent voices were still blurring and bursting beneath the microscope lens. I was becoming interested in drawing chairs, an elusive and mystic element of the craft which would come to taunt and frustrate me for decades, often at the expense of the written content itself.
Comments
A. C.
this so so good
J Hardy Carroll
I usually kept a handle of Gordon's and another handle of something even more wretched on the top shelf behind the breadmaker for those times when I might run out of what I liked to drink.
Chris Onstad
Beef had the aviators starting around junior high, so this predates that. The glasses Ray had that were aviator-style were actually Vuarnet ski sunglasses with the leather side-panels, and came just a few years after this. They often appear when the boys are skating.
Guilherme Töws
This is just past the aviator glasses era, I assume.
Alexander Rediger
Hahahahaha
E Corcoran
small times
E Corcoran
I tried and I couldn't do it
Travis Pulley
This test in school asked why some dude in A Separate Peace jumped off the tree branch into the water, and I was like "it's the most obvious, safe, and practical way to get down from there", and I got it wrong because the correct answer is he wanted to symbolically wash away the pain of hurting his friend.
Chris Onstad
I lost count, not a strong student
Chris Onstad
Can’t unsee
Nicholas Williams
Ray looks like he's sitting on a giant tongue.
W. C.
I relate to Ray. My childhood is also lime green in my memories.
2scrogz
Even back in 2002, Ray was dabbling in this world.
Jay Williams
I like that Ray has worn the same style of glasses for so long. There’s a constancy to that dude’s style…
Stavro
Wow, a new to me Achewood from Learner's Permit days. Incredible
Anthony Correale
been trying to teach literature to the unwilling all day, this let me cry
b.zap
I think the squirrel represents lots of cocaine abuse
Omurice
I really like the sartorial choice Cornelius has made in this strip, especially since I dress exactly like him at my advanced age.
Fartlord90210
That is Symbolism!!!!
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
Imagine young Ray and young Beef co-reading the Chronicles of Narnia.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
I see it. Did they have 3 oval slots in back, middle one longer than the other two?
Chris Onstad
I really wanted that orange one to be like the plastic ones from third grade
Chris Onstad
I mean, he's not wrong
Chris Onstad
if you like jpeg compression, you're going to love the rest of the serializer archive
Ismini Roller
Perfectly nice chairs IMHO
Lisa Taylor
"we have to assume the worst" about *the young chipmunk's letter* is why RB is forever my guy
sp
i actually like jpeg compression muzzle ray, it reads as a five oclock shadow
