Fri 24 Mar 2006
Are you reading Achewood? If not, you totally should. It is a webcomic about the hard lives of animals who live in the secret underworld of a California suburb. It’s not like Gaiman, it’s not like Disney, it’s like if John Steinbeck and Joss Whedon had gotten together to write Six Degrees of Separation and it had starred cats and stuffed animals.
The current storyline is basically my favorite ever. Start here, and read forward. It is awesome.
Sometimes even I am stunned at how many times you can reference Six Degrees of Separation. C’mon, is it really that good?
Seriously, though, this current storyline is awesome.
Dude, it’s really that good. And I dare you to tell me it’s a gratuitous reference!
Yeah, I don’t really have much of an ice floe to teeter on over here on the gratuitous reference tip, the way I’m dropping Tiger Beat’s like a cat sequencer. What the hell does that mean, I ask you. Anyways, you’ve only mentioned SDOS one in the last month, and I think three times total, on your blog thingie, which I think is within acceptable limits.
In all seriousness, though, I was using it as an example more for content than for quality; SDoS is all about lives intersecting and how things happen because you know someone who knows someone, etc., etc., and the odd behaviors of people whose lives have just brushed up against the possibility of a weird fantasy being true. In that respect, I think it’s a good way to try to shed some light on Achewood.
I can think of worse things to reference. In fact, I am probably guilty of being worse. I keep thinking of the movies I always reference, and the list is not very long, but not very distinguished either:
Airplane!
Ghostbusters
Grosse Pointe Blank
Blazing Saddles
Aliens
I am pathetic, I know.
BTW, I am adding Achewood to my regular webcomic reading.
Man, there is nothing wrong with any of those movies. Seriously.