A Penny Arcade strip you like and why

ArmandoPenblade · 2012-08-01T11:16:49.000Z

I think the faces are only bad insofar as the taller character looks extremely stoned. There might be a reason for that, though?

RichVR · 2012-08-01T14:15:50.000Z

Might have something to do with having Papaver somniferum growing out of her head?

ArmandoPenblade · 2012-08-01T14:24:22.000Z

I’ll admit, nothing in my schooling or life had yet prepared me to identify opium plants so easily, Rich :)

Pogo · 2012-08-01T14:45:13.000Z

The strong point of that picture is definitely the coloring, not the figures.

Funkula · 2012-08-31T11:32:06.000Z

I love it when they talk about sport.

ArmandoPenblade · 2012-08-31T13:03:34.000Z

On that note, and I am positive it’s been in this thread already:

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Legit, that phrasing from the first panel is how I mockingly talk about sports to people who insist on hitting me up about its intricate details after several attempts to politely explain that I don’t have any idea what they’re talking about on even the most basic level to understand what they’re telling me.

Funkula · 2012-09-01T00:39:13.000Z

Yes. I think the most brilliant thing there is the guy named Joseph Sports.

RichVR · 2012-11-01T12:55:39.000Z

Credit where credit is due:

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Funkula · 2012-11-01T13:30:32.000Z

I really like Tycho and Div’s costumes.

Funkula · 2012-11-04T23:08:22.000Z

I like that one guy’s nose, because I am imagining certain people getting hopping mad about it, and that’s funnier than the strip (which is pretty much the old Ninja Gaiden strip rehashed). Also in the first panel he reminds me of Opus the Penguin.

MattKeil · 2012-11-05T12:46:16.000Z

It may be a rehash, but it’s also very accurate.

Dave_Perkins · 2012-11-05T12:48:42.000Z

What.

WarrenM · 2012-11-05T13:03:50.000Z

I normally don’t care but now I’m noticing it … WHY are the noses such a strong color?

MattKeil · 2012-11-05T13:18:50.000Z

Because John Kricfalusi.

Funkula · 2012-11-05T15:57:56.000Z

I thought it was a Kurtz thing.

MattKeil · 2012-11-06T10:42:10.000Z

They are Kricfalusi noses. Kurtz also takes influence from him, as do vast numbers of cartoonists. Perhaps proximity to Kurtz is causing Gabe to be more open to incorporating John K elements into his work, but the noses are unquestionably John K in origin.

TurinTur · 2012-11-16T04:39:58.000Z

The last ones were kind of weak, this one had is nice

The Manifold

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Title is suggestive is a funny way, the “fuck harness” goes to dark places in one’s mind, and it kind of makes sense that the most physical activity of a pair of married nerds like them (both the real ones and fictional Gabe/Tycho) is sex, so of course they would wear the fuelband in intercourse. It would be lost points otherwise!
And it respects continuity, it’s not the first time they mention that, somehow, Tycho is a sex machine.

Dave_Perkins · 2012-11-16T04:58:40.000Z

I like “getting belted into”, like he needs a pit crew to get him ready.

Teiman · 2012-11-16T05:53:55.000Z

I will be terrible wen gaming turn mainstream and marketers discover our only weakness: Higuer score than our friends.

TurinTur · 2012-11-30T00:45:48.000Z

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I was expecting the punchline… and weirdly, got a touching moment. Nice.