1. Jake DaMonqui says:

   03/21/2008 at 1:09 pm

   Wow.

   I’d already been planning on getting that as a Christmas present for a few people this year, but I was on the fence as to how many.

   This cover tells me to buy it for everyone.
2. Bartholomew Fair says:

   03/21/2008 at 1:15 pm

   Am I missing something or is the word “Food” not on the cover?
3. Chip Zdarsky says:

   03/21/2008 at 1:17 pm

   BEAUTIFUL.
4. maija says:

   03/21/2008 at 2:08 pm

   That is fantastic.
5. Shabby says:

   03/21/2008 at 10:47 pm

   The only “Food” allowed in this fight is Safeway turkey and brandy.
6. Billy says:

   03/21/2008 at 10:59 pm

   I’m gonna dip my balls in it!
7. craig says:

   03/22/2008 at 10:23 am

   This will go on the shelf next to Steinbeck and Hemmingway.
   This is fine American literature.
   This is the story about masculinity that Cormac McCarthy wishes he could write.
8. kenyot says:

   03/22/2008 at 2:10 pm

   This book cover has wicked sack.
9. Nestor says:

   03/22/2008 at 2:48 pm

   That is the real Cory Doctorow btw. He loves to troll.
10. Steve Taylor says:

    03/22/2008 at 3:48 pm

    Am I missing something again?
    The cover is beautiful.
    But after heading over to the website for the Achewood comic,…well,…it doesn’t seem to relate at all.
    The cover promises much more than that comic delivers.
    OR,…are there two different things and I’ve stumbled on the wrong one.
11. Perfect Ron Sipes says:

    03/22/2008 at 4:09 pm

    I would imagine that it includes Achewood’s “Great Outdoor Fight” story arc, which starts here:

    http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01252006
12. Cormac McCarthy says:

    03/22/2008 at 9:45 pm

    I wish I could write that.
13. Steve Taylor says:

    03/23/2008 at 12:13 am

    Ah,….well. I see I have missed out and now will have the fun of catching up.
    Thanks for the link.
14. Envelope Martinez says:

    03/23/2008 at 2:05 am

    Steve Taylor, you are laughably naive. HA HA HA!
15. Trouble Man says:

    03/23/2008 at 3:16 am

    This book will cure of many things at once.
16. Born from a Volvo says:

    03/23/2008 at 4:59 am

    Especially cancer.
17. Carter says:

    03/23/2008 at 5:32 pm

    Not the Jeeps, Ray.
18. Steve Taylor says:

    03/23/2008 at 6:42 pm

    Hey, “Envelope”,
    It’s true, I am fairly unaware of the indie comics world and web comics in general and that is why I’m so glad that I’ve stumbled on this blog. I keep learning more and more and discovering new things. A whole new world in many ways.
19. Thomas Edison says:

    03/23/2008 at 11:10 pm

    Ramses Luther Smuckles may have been the “me” of handing a dude his ass, but Chris Onstad is the Nikola Tesla of comic writing.
20. Hemingway says:

    03/24/2008 at 8:23 am

    It will go between two books of mine. Steinbeck will not touch it. He is a pussy.
21. Humbaba says:

    03/24/2008 at 9:58 am

    The motto of the GOF should be “3 days… 3 acres… 3000 cats”
22. Von Bismuth says:

    03/24/2008 at 12:54 pm

    Will there be a Tenmen musical selection involved? That would be worth getting my jaw ripped off.
23. Von Bismuth says:

    03/24/2008 at 12:54 pm

    Will there be a Tenmen musical selection involved? That would be worth getting my jaw ripped off.
24. tk001 says:

    03/24/2008 at 6:51 pm

    Can’t wait…this book will scratch my itchy batwings.
25. ingelbert humperdink says:

    03/24/2008 at 9:40 pm

    dare i say, these intelligent and thought-provoking reviews of the above book cover art work, reflect the intelligence level of readers of said book cover?
26. Opel says:

    03/24/2008 at 11:33 pm

    If the men on the the cover duked it out, the one with fringe on his pants would win. Hands down.
27. George Lazenby says:

    03/24/2008 at 11:46 pm

    I love it when someone like ingledink humperbert makes a snide, superior remark which questions another person’s intelligence, and the remark contains capitalization errors and extraneous commas.

    Yeah, you need to be commenting on the intelligence of others.
28. Glummbo says:

    03/25/2008 at 4:30 am

    I just find it heartwarming that so far (almost) every response has been positive and that it’s so refreshing to discover blog-post comments where no one has a user name with “lol” in it.
29. Elliot says:

    03/25/2008 at 9:34 am

    A pop-up version would be nice. then my GI-Joe action figures could play too.
30. Elliot says:

    03/25/2008 at 9:34 am

    A pop-up version would be nice. then my GI-Joe action figures could play too.
31. Gummo Marx says:

    03/25/2008 at 9:02 pm

    As i am currently reading “The Mark on the Door”, Mr Onstad’s homage to the rockin’, masculine, classic Hardy Boys covers looks like just the thing.

    ….but it is substantially lacking in actual Achewood silhouettes.
32. Bryan says:

    03/26/2008 at 12:57 pm

    I had a dream last year that I wrote a doctoral thesis on the history of The Great Outdoor Fight. I spoke to all these guys who won it but they looked like regular people. I have no idea what I could have possibly been getting my PhD in if that was the topic. When I woke up, I was bummed.
33. Steinhauser says:

    03/26/2008 at 2:04 pm

    The two men on the cover are obviously facing each other.

    The question is…WHICH ONE is facing us?

    I say it’s the one on the left.
34. Lizard says:

    03/26/2008 at 6:49 pm

    No way. Look at the shape of the thighs (mmmmm). Brutus Killzone is plainly the man facing us, on our right. He will eat the cowboy and his tasty fringed trousers.
35. Rigel A. says:

    03/27/2008 at 2:30 am

    That’s not a cowboy, It’s five cats in a man suit!
36. Crafty says:

    03/27/2008 at 1:04 pm

    The story arc really starts here, http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01112006 , which has little to do with the fight directly, but does give new fans a bit more on the main characters. And how they have no business getting involved in something like this. . . or do they?
37. Lizard says:

    03/27/2008 at 9:17 pm

    Brutus Killzone will make Cowboy Sauce with the Cowboy I tell you.
38. Jimerson says:

    03/28/2008 at 12:02 am

    If you look at the first strip in the GOF series, the truth behind which man is facing in which direction will reveal itself.
39. My name has LOL in it. says:

    03/28/2008 at 4:55 am

    Wow.
    That cover does well to capture the spirit of achewood.
    It is classy and timeless, and not at all sissified.
    Also, I will finally be able to introduce my friends to achewood without dragging them through that most monstrous series of tubes.
40. Pirate Bill says:

    03/28/2008 at 7:30 am

    Yar!
41. VsRobot says:

    03/30/2008 at 4:45 am

    So. Dang. Pretty.
42. My name also has LOL in it says:

    03/30/2008 at 5:11 pm

    When I get a large fireplace and mantle, this book will be in the center of the mantle.

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