I’ve been meaning to wax evangelistic about Achewood for some time now. It is, by an urban kilometre, my favourite webcomic, and probably in my top 10 of favourite anything. Drawn and wrote by a feller named Chris Onstad, it concerns the life and times of a group of cats, stuffed toys, robots and an otter in a fictional Californian suburb.
There’s far more depth to the characters and the storylines than in most webcomics (so much so that Time magazine named Achewood their number one graphic novel of 2007). The writing throughout is livelier than a sack of eels at a ska concert, being a weird mix of white boy hip-hop, tortured poetics and old school English gentleman, and the plots are twisted genius. Witness: Ray Sells His Soul/Ray + Beef Road Trip, The Great Outdoor Fight and, most recently, Roast Beef’s greeting card business.
A+, and so on.
Would it not be wax evangelistical? On another note my understanding was eels are more a part of the drum and bass crowd.
They used to be but they feel the whole scene is getting a little stagnant. Currently, they’re somewhat intrigued by trancecore. Unfortunately some bastard shoved em in a sack and dumped em at a ska concert, so they can’t do much about it.
Merciless Caderry aside achewood is my new time passing chortle for when I should be studying. Two inadvisable thumbs up.