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STRIP-ROAST: "Shrovis-Bishopthorpe," 4/2/2008 (Patreon)

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2024-12-25 18:00:07
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2026-09
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This strip was part of a series where Cornelius, who is not well-suited to modern technology, purchases a British-made laptop that contains a very dangerous surprise. Link to original strip.

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Stavro

merry chochachomas!

John

I'm just a humble reader, but it makes me kinda sad to see you beat your old stuff up like this. I had a great time rereading this arc, warts and all. :)

Achewood

Philippe is in the garage, standing on a new manual for a rotary sander. Merry Chochachomas!

Achewood

I appreciate your take on this. I consider it all in good fun and in keeping with what I feel is the spirit of Achewood (one branch of which is no sacred cows), but I’m touched to read that Achewood bagging on itself isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Thank you for your honesty John!

Achewood

I still enjoy most of the old work too, including and maybe especially this arc. It’s interesting to me what I see in it now that enough time has passed to fundamentally change certain aspects of my worldview. I’m very proud that I still consider most old Achewood good, and the stuff I don’t, I consider important parts of sounding out the shape of it is and isn’t.

Jake McIntyre

I do appreciate that in Panel 1 - despite your concerns that the weight of the S-B is not adequately conveyed - there is a slight motion line by T's left hand indicating some strain. As for Connery - he certainly wouldn't want to be confused for an English icon, but he would be even more offended by the notion that a Scot couldn't be the final word in British manhood.

Achewood

Huzzah to the Connery observation! Very well put, McIntyre.

blair

I'd think a strip with Mr. Bear that isn't overwritten has to be considered underwritten.

Achewood

Verily and indeed. You’d think he was Dickens, paid by the word to fill the air til the rank of manure and lanced boils was forced out.

Bill

I see no contradiction in Teodor's assessment of the weight of the box, and his actual weightlifting capacity; it just means that Teodor has overestimated the weight because it feels so heavy to him, and of course he assumes he could lift at least fifty pounds.

Achewood

I nearly spit out my drink laughing at the idea of Téodor claiming he could lift fifty pounds. Fifty pounds of masturbating, maybe!!

Matt Mitchell

Cornelius speaks “purpler” the more excited he gets!

Joshua M

A fun trivia game to play with family at the Christmas dinner table as the plates are cleared: Name the other Achewood strip where 7 & 7s are referenced.

Achewood

Who can name it first people

C C

Well man, it's a sleepy Christmas night, lights are off, just the glow of my laptop ln the room, its very quiet. I realize that I have, in fact, spent a not insignificant amount of time thinking about the smell of Sean Connery's neck at a wedding. *Christmas 2024

Achewood

It probably smelled pretty good until the dancing and oysters

Nicholas Williams

This storyline cemented my belief that all British-made products are machined with absolute gumption and weigh 1,000,000 pounds (or 71,428 "stone"). I have a Vox amplifier that literally once fell off a boardwalk. It was undamaged, but I hurt my back retrieving it from the dunes.

Sedric and Charlie

the Shrovis-Bishopthorpe arc has always been a favourite of mine. Mr. Teal's a great lad

Achewood

True story: Joe strummer’s Les Paul was hollowed out and retrofitted with grapeshot ballast.

Achewood

[gentle flute music is heard over a babbling brook]

Tom Morris

Overwriting was very much in vogue in 00s comedy, though, was it not? Either way, I've always liked this arc.

Achewood

We were all just learning how to deal with the infinite real estate

John

Thanks for your kind reply and sorry for the slow response. I probably was projecting a bit but I know the tendency to pick the scabs on your own art a little too much and glad to hear you have a lighter heart about it than I do. :) It's been a pleasure to see these comics again after all these years.

Achewood

Lighter these days indeed. Thank you for the kind words!

Douglas Wykstra

I don't see any contradiction between the laptop and the referencing of Sean Connery. Cornelius correctly identifies the computer as "British," an appellation which includes Scotland along with England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Achewood

It is just as you say; perhaps I had gotten ahead of myself in assuming I’d established that the laptop came specifically from a computermonger’s bench in the fields which unfurl from York. Or, as is entirely more likely, I had the lay of the land wrong in my vodka-sodden sponge.

RaleighTSakers

Well really all the stuff about Sean Connery, him being a Scot and not English, and very much caring about the difference seems perfectly in character to have gone over teodors head, also in character that he would not at all have any idea what a saddlery smells like while having very specific ideas about sean Connery's neck at a wedding and basing all those ideas on wrong and unchallenged assumptions