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0100b — Never Before Seen Airwolf Panels, etc
🕑 Added 2024-12-13 20:00:08 +0000 UTCThere was zero clipboard content generated by strip 0100 so I picked a random date and, happily, there was a strip for that day, which I could mine instead.
It was very satisfying to mindlessly type “05042006” and have it be not just any strip, but the strip where Ray has Airwolf, and accidentally launches a missile at Philippe. Please — sit back, and enjoy.
What were you doing on May 4, 2006? I had a one-year old and little plastic Ben Franklin glasses.
Comments
Andrew Siegler
I was working in a bar/barbq restaurant tin Red Hook Brooklyn and introducing my coworkers to Achewood with this very strip (and rewinding to how we got to that point)
drrockso20
I would have been towards the end of my Sophomore year of High School, so probably still grappling with existential dread induced depression caused by my dumb teenager brain being overly worried about the Large Hadron Collider potentially blowing up the world or even the universe so you can see why I emphasize with Roast Beef so much...
Chris Onstad
Yeah …but the early Internet was rough. Lots of motorcycle accident websites and badly-lit nudes
Tom PM
You merely adopted...
Chris Onstad
Damn. Sorry, dude. Internet didn’t get me til 19…but it was still just trench coat fedora needs and the Peter pan guy, so at least I had a chance
Charles Richter
The gag: beautiful
Tom PM
I'm sorry to report Chris that I did. Age 12 or so we got broadband. And it was all downhill from there. I used to be able to read books. Books!
Reto Pulver
The borderline style
Chris Onstad
Imagine if we’d gotten the internet at ten, instead of a ratty 1981 copy of playboy
Chris Onstad
I’m glad the gag came through!
Chris Onstad
So, was she avoidant or anxious attachment style?
Charles Richter
reimagining Yello's original music video so that all the chk-ch-kaas and bom-boms are illustrated by clips from Airwolf cut together in staccato 80s video art style
Tom PM
My maw believed video games would rot my brains so I didn't get it that year. Next year however she relented and, well, yes, looking back on it 15 years later she was right.
Reto Pulver
Psychoanalyzing a very turbulent relationship with a goth prepper girl in real time. Learned good learnings.
Chris Onstad
Yeah the font isn't great when you want to communicate the word Bed, I noticed that but went ahead anyway because, small joke
Chris Onstad
Please name the heartbreaking off brand version you got instead.
Chris Onstad
That’s the old chapstick font; the original just said that (I think Philippe was eating this at the transfer station)
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
One Chutzpah lip balm please. For Hanukkah! May 4 2006 was while my second marriage was still pretty okay. It was that guy who introduced me to Achewood in the first place. Alas for him, I was too awesome and we've been split since 2009.
Jenn
Curious why 2 out of 3 lipsticks are flat-tipped, are they actually lip balm
Uncle Elephant
Oh wait, it doesn't say An Enticing Bid? Either way, there's a version of the book that's a sexy romp and a version that is really boring
Tom PM
That would be 5 days before my 10th birthday. Probably hoping I'd get the Nintendo DS, although I don't think I did.
Chris Onstad
If you do it right you get to pass out more than once
Spyguitar
Can't drink all day if you don't get started early
Chris Onstad
Okay okay but Rick Dorado is going to write it and it’s gonna be more like a three-pager
Joshua M
Does this mean we're not gonna get An Enticing Bed then
Stavro
As my friend used to say: "The only thing better than day-drinking is day-drinking... Think about it"
Chris Onstad
Whether or not this is true, it is beautiful
Chris Onstad
Remember when it was Beer Morning
Stavro
In May 2006 I would have been in college, so probably "not studying for exams"
Bill
Airwolfe ran for six episodes on BBC1 in 1986. It was a "high-budget" show, despite only ever using four shots of the model Airwolfe in flight, because of the "shocking extravagance" incurred by cracking open a can of actual filmstock (as opposed to just videotaping everything). When the model helicopter catastrophically burst into flames due to - what else? - dodgy electrical work, the writers decided to end the series with the entire principal cast meeting a fiery end to what was ultimately a futile struggle. Fans of the show cling to this downer ending as proof that the show was superior to the American counterpart, despite the rest of the show being camp nonsense.
Chris Dubie
And one day we will die/ and our ashes will fly/ from the Aerowolfe Over the Sea
Dan W
Aereowolfe.
Chris Onstad
(Just came into my head as a British thing)
Chris Onstad
Cheddar On Sundays
Chris Onstad
I didn’t realize until now that it’s a phrase that’s portable in the abstract, nice
Chris Onstad
Ok ok fine I’ll write it
Daniel Burt
Really? Incredible to think just this one strip of Achewood offcuts has completely salvaged my car crash of a marriage.
Chris Dubie
Ye Olde Airwolfe
Chris Onstad
🎶do you re-mem-bah🎶
Chris Onstad
Big ups for the extra “e,” making it British
Anthony Thompson
“What if the only book in this helicopter was about planes” is a real banger to drop in couples therapy. Probably get to go home early.
Chris Dubie
Airwolfe is a hilarious helicopter to hear about, that is absolutely true.
Matt Mitchell
punani
Matt Mitchell
As am I
Daniel Burt
Looking forward to seeing if the phrase "Airwolf is a hilarious helicopter to hear about." can potentially diffuse other situations when my wife is disappointed by my choices.
Shawn Warren
morbidly curious about "a terrifying fire"
