[Focus]

http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TS-12181.mp3

Here, some people discuss achewood. I'm not sure who most of these people are, besides scott kurtz. i know as a community, most of us are into achewood, but this is a good point to bring up. in the podcast, they liken it to seinfeld, but only in the sense it "isn't about anything."

I just got to the point to where they talk about Cartilagehead arc. A man said, "The only people who would like that are art students."

Personally, this podcast. Is, well:

JAMES: and tell them I want to cut them open and piss into them all (the podcast guys).

Anyways, here is the link to the other PODCASTERS: http://www.digitalstrips.com/2007/03/livecast-ep02-achewood.html

I can't say much for the other strips.

Anyways, I'm still going at the podcast, so, I'll have more to add to the discussion later.
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[Kappuru]

I'm an art student, so perhaps he's right.
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[Toups]

[Toups]

Also this podcast is fucking terrible.
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[Toups]

God you fucking moron philippe doesn't get possessed by billy joel he gets possessed by billy idol.
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[Focus]

[Toups]

All you have to do is read the strips made by the people on this podcast to realize that they're all talentless, braindead hacks who lack the ability to "get" all but the most blunt, obvious jokes, and their hatred for achewood stems from this lack of sensitivity.
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[scratchmonkey]

This reminds me of dhex IMing me a few weeks back with:

"How do horrible comics like PvP get so popular?"

There is no real answer to that guys.

Also, so if an art student likes it, it can't be good? Don't art students like Van Gogh? Is he now horrible and pretentious and we should all be buying Thomas Kinkade?

[Toups]

[scratchmonkey]

Nah. I mean, I know these guys probably hate stuff like Dinosaur Comics as well and anytime the best of their strips has a running "gag" where if somebody reference something effiminate, a character "quips" 'Gaaaaaaayy...', well. Well. Should we be so surprised?

[haze]

i like achewood but the fans annoy me sometimes.

[scratchmonkey]

I pretty much religiously avoid any Achewood-related fan stuff for precisely this reason. It's handy to remember that for anything you like, that there are thousands of people you consider stupid who like it and for anything you hate, there's probably at least a couple people you would respect who like it.

Taste is not an agenda, etc. etc.

[extrabastardformula]

[Tokyo Rude]

[jdoe]

You know, the podcast didn't start off that bad. At least one of the guys was trying to actively figure out why he couldn't get into the comic.

But then Scott Kurtz comes on and refuses to listen to anyone who doesn't completely agree with him. What a self-impressed douche. That woman who joins in halfway through was just as obnoxious, but in a comical way.

[Tokyo Rude]

I'm really trying to understand all these "It is difficult to understand" comments.

!!

Scott Kurtz just came on! Who is Chris Ware? Achewood is really THAT hard to understand? What? Actually Onstad isn't saying anything about the site. THE SHIT KURTZ?? YOU JUST SAID IT WAS RANDOM, THEN SAID YOU DIDN'T SAY IT WAS RANDOM?

Wait this shit is hard to get?

[Focus]

Chris Ware is a comic artist who has a different way of going about narratives. I think they're just comparing Onstad to Ware because of the "hipster uppity-ness" and what have you. Also, maybe for slight similarities in their layout, but I'm not so sure. Ware gets much more complex than simple panels.
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[Tokyo Rude]

These guys find Achewood hard to read? Man, read a god damn Philosophy book. Choose one.

Holy Lord this woman they brought on is a moron.

[falsedan]

The guy chairing the podcast is OK!

Kurtz: "You know we like you, right? You don't have to pretend to be cool."
guy: "Hahaha, fuck you!"
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[Red_venom]

[dhex]

i've studied this cartoon in detail over the course of the past few days and i cannot penetrate its meaning. what does it mean? is it a cry for silence? an end to laughter? a yearning to see mirth laid bare as an unessential distraction from the tragedy of the human condition?

as a point of comparison.

as an added note it seems to me that to liken anything good about any human achievement - no matter how small - to seinfeld is to mimic the sound of the human soul being degraded past the point of measure.

[evnvnv]

i like the way that they use words to mean things that the words they use do not mean.

can we officially remove the word 'random' from the english language? people use it so randomly!!!

[Ashura]

I applaud you guys for not just google image searching "Scott Kurtz" (with quotes) and quoting Toups' post with the first image that popped up.

Where does the Cartilagehead arc start, by the way?

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[Tokyo Rude]

No is going to find that joke funny Brendan.

[Lestrade]

What the hell is Achewood?
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[smartblue]

I have had ctlaltdel bookmarked for a long time now and I still haven't clicked on it.
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[Tokyo Rude]

So guys is there any god damn webcomic about video games that at least tries for penny-arcade level humor?

[dhex]

that last one with korea turning into an erection is so subtle as to be impenetrable. i only just got the pants joke now.

[Gin]

Well these guys sound like losers. The type who never even drank in college and organized LANs instead of going to parties. People who never tried anything.

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[Aaron]

[Baron Patsy]

I used to hate Achewood and didn't understand why it was funny. Then I started reading it from the beginning. I've gotten quite busy lately so I had to stop reading, but I really enjoyed what I read. I really don't understand what there is not to get, there. If you actually put in a little bit of effort, you get a lot more out of it.

[haze]

not that I've ever "followed" it (more like read a few strips when very bored) I kind of get this suspicion that Kurtz has the ability to make PVP pretty funny, if only he were more ballsy and willing to be offensive. instead it's like he's pandering so it looks more like an "authentic" comic strip. Penny Arcade is sometimes LOL sometimes GROAN, but PVP is just a steady average of "amused smile" and nothing more. feels mediocre.

those other Gaming strips linked: uh... about the same writing level as VGcats. without the good drawings.


i like the cactus character he so wacky