Gawker: achewood

Funny Comic Leads To Betrayal, Auction

Pareene — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:45:46 EST

Some time ago, this very website told you to read Achewood, the funniest thing on the internet. And many of you did! Little did we know it would end in tragedy, played out, as it so often is, on an electronic auction website.

A reader emails:

You know how you guys told me to check out Achewood? Well, I did and got my boyfriend totally hooked on it. For Christmas I ordered a signed strip for him. This one.

Right after I ordered it, I found out he has been sleeping with some 23-year-old whore waitress at his restaurant (he just got promoted from sous chef to head chef and it clearly went to both their heads).

I can't return it because it is signed. I don't want to give it to him anyway because he is a lying sack of shit and I want him and that skank to die.

Please help me find someone who wants this?

Thanks. Its $24 bucks.

Here is the sad auction. No bids so far, but surely our altruistic readers can change that.

And though it is perhaps callous of us to say so, there is something particularly Achewoodian about the whole "hooking up with a 23-year-old waitress after a kitchen promotion" story. Sorry!

Signed Achewood Comic [eBay]

For whatever reason, this is the line that...

abalk — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:50:35 EDT

For whatever reason, this is the line that made us laugh the hardest this week. You people are reading Achewood every day like we told you, right? Anyway, happy birthday, Philippe! [Achewood]

We'll keep saying it until you listen: You...

abalk — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:20:59 EDT

We'll keep saying it until you listen: You should be reading "Achewood" every day. Also, this would be a much better series than Harry Potter. [Achewood]

Crazy Vegan Loves Animals, 'Interview'

abalk — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:40:20 EDT

This month's collection of dispatches from Interview's developmentally-disabled readership contains a bit of advocacy for the cause of veganism. We don't want to cause any controversy amongst the smug "I don't eat animals but I have plenty of time to write angry letters to people who do" set, so we'll simply say that our advice to vegans is the same as Ray Smuckles': "Stand in front of a full-length mirror looking at your body, and then smile really nicely at your body as you say to it, I am so much smarter than you." Actually, if you replace the word "body" with "brain," that advice also applies to Interview readers. Click through for the letter.