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Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight (Hardcover)

by Chris Onstad (Author)

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Hardcover: 104 pages
Publisher: Dark Horse (24 Sep 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1593079974
ISBN-13: 978-1593079970
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 20 x 1.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Since 2001, cult comic favorite Achewood has built a six-figure international following. Intelligent, hilarious, and adult (but not filthy), it's the strip you'll wish you'd discovered as an underappreciated fifteen-year-old. Dark Horse presents the hardbound edition of Achewood's The Great Outdoor Fight, the story of "Three Days, Three Acres, Three Thousand Men."

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4.0 out of 5 stars an affecting mockery of the institionalised violence we hold dear, 21 Sep 2009

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Ray Smuckles is a stuffed toy cat who lives with the other stuffed toys of writer/artist Chris Onstad's childhood on the Achewood street of the book's title. A successful music producer whose life is curiously unfulfilled, Ray discovers during a chance conversation with his mother that his long-absent father was once the champion of legendary annual fighting event The Great Outdoor Fight, and so Ray sets out with his childhood friend Roast Beef in hopes of finding his measure by beating three thousand strangers into a coma using only his bare hands. Roast Beef is more than just Ray's ride to the event, however: he's a participant in the Fight, and only one may leave the arena.
Mixing pseudo-folklore with tidbits of pop-cultural flotsam, Onstad's Great Outdoor Fight starts and ends abruptly by dint of it's nature as a reprinted story arc from an ongoing web-based strip, but while it lasts, it's funny and affecting, having it's cake and eating it by striking just the right mix of emotion and machismo to successfully mock and exploit both in the course of an over-too-soon snippet from the webcomic. The sometimes random humour may be off-putting, and the absence of alt-text for each strip is lamentable, but otherwise, this holds together well as a single storyline in a strip noted for non-sequitor humour and a rambling narrative, with text pieces that provide elaboration on the (fictional) backstory of the (fictional) titular event around which proceedings rotate, and make the print edition worth picking up even if the original strips are freely available to view online.

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