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In a thrillingly on-time update (I kid; these updates are loaded long in advance), Ray continues to declare corporeal discomfort so great that he must be served by others. His long-suffering friend Roast Beef walks down the hallway in his stead, in order to discern the identity of their visitor. This is also a continuation of the story arc; but will next week be a classic, "Achewood one-off"? Either way, we'll see you here. 

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Billy K

Oh….bother?

chili sunrise

The crossover event of the summer

Michael Akey

did Pooh dig himself out of his own grave? he looks like he just massacred some river salmon.

Achewood

Does it spoil things if I come in here and talk about how I'm working with the original Shepard images, etc. -- or even reply? I had envisioned this as the "inside the fourth wall" area, but maybe comment sections are fair game.

Thomas Williams

Just occurred to me — Might not have been T, but it was a bear! And that Pooh can fit the “alive stuffed animal” category like T and Cornelius and the other originals. A conversation between Pooh and Ray coming up… I mean, it can’t possibly go any worse than what happened with Charlie Brown… right?

Achewood

There's no way to add alt text currently, but I've asked Patreon if it's possible to add. Maybe I just add it in the strip summary paragraph ... but in a hidden way, like digital lemon juice (check if this is a thing)

jason

What even is life..

Not Hector Jimenez

I know it's just a fucking drawing, but it does feel like Pooh has been put out to turn tricks out in the "Public Domain." It would be a sincere pleasure to see this little bear taken in by the Achewood gang as some kind of hospice thing.

Omurice

“Ray Smuckles! Will you kindly shake your dick and say tut tut it looks like rain?”

Ian Macleod

🎵Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, tubby little cubby all covered in grave dirt… 🎵

Clench and Cheese

Isn't it nice not having to worry about an immediate cease and desist notice from the Walt Disney Corporation? I can't wait until Steamboat Willie shows up on Pornhub.

denv_eric

Please keep Eeyore out of the Volvo of Despair.

Dan W

Do these new strips look blurry?

Achewood

But I’m very curious to hear user experiences as this is all new. What I can say is the strips I’m uploading are I think over twice as big as the ones on Achewood.com

Achewood

Dan, let's figure this out over email ok? I'd like to be able to see screenshots of what you're seeing. Chris@achewood.com. Also, once we establish contact there, I may clean up the two previous out-of-thread responses, so the discussion on this strip is tidy.

Achewood

I'll clean the thread up now, actually. LMK your platform and OS too ok please?

Sar

I work for a Website and we have found that in this age of varying levels of retina screens, the quality of an image can look radically different based on the hardware. We haven't had the resources to find whatever the special equation is that makes an image appear appropriately clear on all devices yet, though. I will say that on this 16in 2021 MacBook Pro, the un-expanded image is blurry but the enlarged one is crystal clear for me.

Nicholas Williams

Ray knows not what it is to pee. "Damn," I suppose.

Michael Akey

That is ok by me. The images are great. Tell us more.

Achewood

Thanks to you, and thanks to Dan, I have an active conversation going with Patreon to figure out how we can improve this "sitch." I notice that on my screen they are, while definitely not as crisp as the enlargement, not exactly of a resolution I would be proud to show the year 2525.

Michael Akey

Similar. New MBP here. I attributed it to my old ass eyes but lets go with a hardware issue. I like the sound of that better.

Achewood

Thank you Michael. (What's an MBP?) I suspect that whatever software setting is downsampling the original uploads (which are huge, crisp, massive, simply fabulous, a lot of people are saying they are the biggest comic image files they have ever seen, not what you are reading in the New York Times) just isn't resulting in crisp resolution. I have been chatting about this with Patreon this morning -- they are extremely responsive so I anticipate the experience improving soon. But so everybody knows, if you tap on the comic images, they enlarge beautifully.

professor husband

Charlie Brown is a human boy and Winnie the Pooh is a stuffed bear. Stuffed creatures are functionally unchanging - Phillipe is 5. Teodor is probably always gonna be Like That, etc.

Moira's Machine

I wish the last panel wasn’t so relatable.

Achewood

Oh dearie me Aaron you can officially unsee that man’s videos by watching 2.5 hours of The Best of Billy Graham (this is porno offset credits btw)

Clench and Cheese

I imagine they could eke out 150 minutes from a 90-year career. It's like the "Let's all remember Jack Soo" episode of Barney Miller where the actors sat around and talked about what a great guy Jack was, except they'd be talking about how Billy preached all about Satan and how gay people are bad.

Clench and Cheese

Me every night of my 57-year-old life. I'm going to remember this as the good old days, too.

Thomas Williams

Hmmm, yes. I think the quote Jason Draper pulled from the strip, below, sums it all up pretty well — “what even is life.”

Ben R. Williams

They look good to me except for that weird cataract-shaped thing in the middle of every panel.

Achewood

I'm seeing that too. I have put in a note to Patreon to put us on their vision plan

Alex Woods

Seems like the right thing to do

David Doghugs

Shoutouts to all my homies inquiring as to the public domain

blair

Next Week: Ray Gets a DRE

Achewood

The "shock graphic" that google automatically supplies when looking up that acronym was really nice over a turkey sandwich

Mightyclaw

Hearing Pooh in Sterling Holloway's voice.

ErikK

Does the Patreon platform allow for alt-text jokes? I miss those. 😞

Achewood

It does not. Maybe I will post it below the strip in anagram form each week. I have several brave and intelligent engineers from the greatest halls of Math and Logic working on this.

b.zap

i got my drip on like 4 times today

b.zap

i was all, drip drip dripdrip

Craim pop Jalopy

no you didnt you're just lying to impress us. cut it out with that filth

Bexx

Winnie gonna give him the low down on the pub domain

Keef

Lord but it is good to see new strips. Thanks for this, Chris.

Achewood

Yeah, that is pretty filthy. You should start a patreon to capitalize on this kind of thing.

Achewood

Good to see you again, Keef! Everybody: Keef is one of the oldest Knuckleheads possible.

Colter McCorkindale

Honestly bummed that Patreon doesn't support custom alt tag attributes.

Achewood

They just straight up don’t, and that’s ok. But I am figuring out a way that will retain the Magique of the original system.

GruntyGinMan

Winnie the Pooh! I thought Xi Jinping took you down like an Egyptian Emperor!

Achewood

Welcome to this message board Old Timer

Conor Nelson

omg a message board this is A Thing.

GruntyGinMan

At that special age when you have to stretch before getting your solid 10.

80s Guy

“I thought he was a boy?” “So did I,” said Christopher Robin. “Then you can’t call him Winnie?” “I don’t. He’s Winnie-*ther*-Pooh. Don’t you know what ‘ther’ means?” “Ah, yes,” I said; and I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get.

80s Guy

dude's always getting his drip on, can't hardly stop him

drrockso20

Pooh looks like he jumped right off the pages of the original books, also thinking about it this is actually a pretty natural crossover considering a good chunk of Achewood's main cast are also stuffed animals course now this makes me want to see everyone rendered up in the style of EH Shepard, or at least Philippe cause that would be incredibly adorable

lake

I like late-middle-aged Ray who’s maybe experiencing bodily changes. Also love how sometimes Achewood is just gross.

Matthew Hutton

I wonder if he ever prank called him back in the day.

Linus Lee

This whole situation is a dang delight. FWIW, I always thought Owl would be a fun hang. Prob has lots of stories.

Jason K

For some reason, I read Pooh in David Thewlis’s voice.

Rob Dalton

I got you Ray. Hell of tedious to piss in Morse code.

Keith Richards

Is Charlie Brown still hanging around somewhere

Achewood

There’s a short story about him in the Author’s Tier right now, I’m not even making this up

Oppido

Chuck's spirit is still restless, but it is pretty hard to tell a nine-year-old child that they are dead