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Things grow steadily darker as we begin our descentd into Todd's European family tree. I would expand more upon it, but I am busily building out the Achewood Holiday Shop, which is set to launch in the next few days!

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Song Club with John Krane

I'm a simple man, I see a notification that says "Meeting Jorg-Dieter" and I drop everything else and click it.

jordan b.

I have so many questions but I don't know if I want them answered.

Lonesome Cowpoke

Even the pervert is weirded out that Todd won't come in

Ian Stewart

Jorg-Dieter's character design gave me a straight cackle before I even read any of the dialogue

Rob Dalton

i smell SAM ALTMAN all over this motherfucker

Colin Sueyres

::muttered:: feints within feints within feints

Lisa Taylor

My questions all relate to Jorg-Dieter's Pants Situation.

Achewood

I think they're more like a really diapery breech

Achewood

Sounds like somebody's onto Todd's ploy...

Bruce Wright

Well, shit, that escalated quickly.

Achewood

You give me too much credit. I think people are tired of thinking about AI so I didn't go that direction.

Achewood

I was concerned people would scan all the way to the end upon seeing this strange figure at the bottom of their field of vision, but what can you do

Achewood

Squirrels perseverate all the time...especially those in Todd's lineage

Kriegsaffe No. 9

The German urge to destroy the earth (he said quarter-germanically)

Achewood

I mean, who wouldn't get excited to meet a new Jorg-Dieter, in this thing we call life

Oppido

Does all life on Earth hinge on Ray being... too dumb to persuade?

Achewood

ah, thanks. I should really reread the strips sometime.

Jay Y

Perhaps he and Ray will hit it off with the latter's preference for thongs

Josh Egbert

This has a whiff of Shrovis-Bishopthorpe by way of David Fincher

Jay Y

Don't know if Jorg-Deiter dressing like it's the 18th century makes it more or less threatening

Achewood

It was unavoidable, I'd already committed to making this character German before I assigned him this perversion. I know it's cliche. :(

Achewood

But Ray's mustache doesn't smell any more...small victories

Bungus Bronbo

I'm not usually one to advocate for hard drug usage but I feel it's my duty as a species to encourage Todd's relapse so I'm more comfortable looking at him. In this small way, I'm much like the villagers that attacked Frankenstein's monster.

b.zap

Just knowing Todd is its own form of incrimination

Achewood

And that's just his underwear

Achewood

Find out...Next week! Stay tuned, drink your Ovaltine, and remember: John Wayne loves you.

Shawn Ritchie

man i do not care for Long Todd at all

Josh Egbert

Just saying, if this ends up with Roast Beef being shot off a building cause Ray is super bored, I'll be really pleased

Achewood

Todd -also- lacked a nurturing parental model.

Achewood

Well, if anything is sure in this universe, Todd will probably enter Retox before too long.

Achewood

Such a scenario would be much more likely to happen on accident.

Achewood

Now I want to draw Ray with silk ribbons at either hip-side of his thong

Asherdan

I like to think Jorg-Dieter's little boots have steel heel and toe caps so that they clack-clack-clack in the appropriately ominous manner as he stalks through the halls.

Josh Egbert

Well he have a heretofore unknown relation in play. History does like to repeat.

Achewood

Across the mirror-gloss geometry of marble plundered from the palaces of the subcontinent.

Anthony Thompson

You can’t make someone German and NOT assign a perversion; not even God can pull that off

Achewood

I don't know. I just don't trust their scholarship.

Achewood

Even if it's just ironing their jeans and eating salami for breakfast

Anthony Thompson

Jorg-Dieters don’t want to meet Jorg-Dieters, it’s a whole thing

Jay Y

Long Todd is basically a cryptid that we're seeing too much of. The brain cannot.

Achewood

"A cryptid is a creature whose existence is suggested but not scientifically proven, often known only through folklore and eyewitness accounts." For those, like me, who were wondering. My personal cryptid is whoever keeps putting "keto" books in my Little Free Library.

jordan b.

that ... wasn't a question I had. My fault.

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

Immediate thought is of Nice Pete what with the killing and such, but something tells me that Jorg-Dieter is much less simple and honest and kind and might be more of a foil to our country boy serial killer. Jorg-Dieter would have at least one Schmiss. Ray might be in over his head but that will work in Todd's favor, so we shall see what may be done.

Achewood

Well now I just want to find a way to use "A schwing...and a schmiss!" Perhaps they will play baseball in the foyer later.

Nicholas Williams

Todd better not be secretly in on this "extinguish all life" plan. God DAMMIT that would make me so mad at him.

Oppido

I sent in my sixty box tops and can't wait for my Whizzo-Keen Secret Decoder Ring.

kdusjjdhxksj

There are some things that the universe simply produces too many of, so humans try to find little places to put them

Achewood

We know very little about Long Sober Todd. Except that he's probably looking forward to being Short Skizzled Todd again very soon.

Achewood

Listen closely children! A...equals...1!

Achewood

Maybe the people at the recycling center will enjoy these books about having scrambled eggs with turkey for breakfast

kdusjjdhxksj

A mid-comic captcha where you have to type the last sentence of the preceding panel to gain access to the next panel. We can innovate new hells. We can get worse.

Ian Stewart

Agent of Jorg-Dieter spotted

Achewood

This this had been possible during the early days of webcomics, it would have been hailed as the innovation that would define the medium in the modern day

Zen Window

i sincerely hope ray's "overseas stuff" is the darkest euphemism i have to encounter today

Tom P

Todd's knowledge means he will face the Hobbes' Choice of Hell or the dead and barren earth, should his cousin succeed. His drug addictions are now wholly understandable. However, he may wish to email Blister to see if he can pass it up the chain. Unless God's in on this one too.

Achewood

Three: he finds Jorg-Dieter's grandfather's tin box of Pervitin.

Tom P

is this Todd's Golden Tabloid? The world wonders.

Conor Nelson

Lookin like maybe that moustache has some Hecho en Mexico energy

Achewood

Could’ve gone that way, and I want to spoil this, but won’t

GruntyGinMan

Please write 500 words on the subject of being cruised on by Todds European Family

Derek Adams

Let's see if Ray learned from Pat's attempt to trade on his perceived usefulness

rickward

“Wheels within wheels within wheels” —somebody from Dune, probably

Jason S

Seriously, Long Tall Todd was bad enough but cousin Jorg in his little buttonfront breeches is obscene. It needs to get dressed. Please. I don't like what you're doing here. I don't feel like I have a lot of outs.

Achewood

Yes, let's remember that just because Jorg-Dieter wants to destroy all life on earth does not mean he has extremely normal bedroom habits

Achewood

Let's zoom in and see if Jorg-Dieter is wearing Zenni-brand discount glasses

severecorvid

The codpieced german polymath squirrel, possessed of sufficient Weltschmerz to enact the Omni-Extinction, will probably be receptive to Ray’s bullshit influence. I can’t justify why, it just makes sense to me.

Achewood

Or if Ray is repeating it, very likely from Dukes of Hazzard.

Achewood

If people are this disgusted by the elongated squirrels in elaborate historical underwear, then I must be doing something right *dammit*

Achewood

Ray is going to influence Jorg-Dieter in a way that nobody, so far, has seen coming

Shawn Clark

These Long Squirrels are doing me wrong.

Achewood

Sounds like I shouldn't invest in Jorg-Dieter bodysuits for the xmas shop

Shawn Clark

Perhaps becoming das langes Eichhörnchen is just what’s needed to spread the true Yuletide horror to my friends and family.

Achewood

I think just adding big silk bows at every point of bodily articulation will go a long way toward this.

Achewood

I think Todd is more used to what Jesse "Chili P" Pinkman was selling

Datura

I guess Phillipe really is an exorcist cf. New Achewood 135

Henri

Will we finally discover what the -rad- mind truly thinks about ancestry? Adolescent righteous chaos vs. atavistic terminal chaos.

Henri

After seeing the discomfort at long Todd being long, the author decided to make Jorg-Dieter longer.

cody

Todd’s whole family is played by Doug Jones.

The Good Poster

Perhaps Ray's attempts to replace his mustache cause the Spicy Grampa character to even more closely resemble Albert Einstein. At last he can complete his lunch order through Ray, and the great man's gentle humor and love of humanity might sway the tall squirrels against omnicide.

Achewood

Thank you for reminding me what atavistic means. I got hella atavistic this morning when I epigenetically wanted refried beans and tortillas for breakfast.

Achewood

Interesting that people are seeing his breeches as steel-plated. I suppose the buttons look a bit like rivets. A chastity diaper?

Achewood

I tremble for a future where readers can offshoot their own version of a storyline with the flutter of a few fingertips. I mean, this version is gentle and responsible, but mostly people are just going to have the characters drive to their personal houses for icky penetrative sex.

Henri

My day-to-day English is problematic, so I resort to Wikipedia terminology