penny arcade: c/d

maybe she's in a desert and we are seeing her through a shimmering heat wave

dude has put an impossible eight inch gap between her thighs.

thigh gap is a thing

what... is the context for all of this?

i fucking hate this shit

i don't even know where this cartoon is from (not from the daily comic -- i'm gonna guess from some PR material they did for a company?), but i like PA's aesthetic style. generally i'd add, 'if you can even call it that' but in a world where xkcd is the most popular web comic on the planet i'm glad that they've at least made an effort beyond just drawing all their characters as hipster stick figures.

lol how do you get "hipster" out of xckd's stick figures

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/mtv_generation.png

i guess its the hat that tipped me off

can i just say that google image search for "fedora" is hilariously weird

I wish hipsters wore Buster Keaton hats!

BLEEP BLOOP

I MEAN WHATS AFTER GENERATION Z DO WE JUST START OVER AT GENERATION A

i asked microsoft excel & they said generation aa

This is the context - somebody did an app of a bunch of 'artists poses', Mike did a drawing of one one of them and thought he might as well put it up on the site because - well basically because there is no downside to doing so, people who like his style like his style and will attempt to give him money for it, it's a pretty sweet position to be in.

no argument there

from the guys that brought you dickwolves:
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-M4NZ5Tk/0/L/i-M4NZ5Tk-X3.jpg

big Creeper penis poster

Used to love this comic back in the day, still check it from time to time out of finger-typing habit but I think it quietly fell off several years ago. Gabe is clearly still pushing himself on technique with the art, although the comics don't actually flow as well as comics, but it just is almost never funny anymore. Maybe they spread themselves too thin when they launched that other strip about the game developer office, or maybe it was doing the games, or having kids, or all the other things that get in the way. Or maybe I'm just even less up on the gamer scene so the references aren't as funny or something. Still think the best of the older strips hold up pretty damned well though.

Tales from the Trenches (the user-submitted stories of work as a games tester) >>> The Trenches.

they did another comic? i have not been following these guys

hey lol who in here remembers megatokyo

penny arcade is gradually morphing into Garfield

hahaha oh MAN megatokyo was awesome for like, the first storyline or two when it was a nerd gag strip, got terrrrrrrrrrible as it became like a serious soap and every other strip was the guy sharing his ashcan pencils or whatever, for no discernible reason.

it appears to still be ongoing which is just ...

wowww. I love that it was necessary to actually install filter buttons, so you can view only strips that are part of the story, as opposed to "Dead Piro Day," "Shirt Guy Dom," and "Guest."

Don't get me wrong though, I do sincerely dig that any of these people are still at it and trying to improve their craft and so on after 15+ years on some of these strips. Dunno how much money anybody makes off webcomics - I imagine PA does pretty well - but for some of these it has to be out of love for either the fans, the craft, the characters, or the rhythm of the hobby. Lord knows I'd never be able to stick with a regular project for that long.

tell me the story about the dickwolves, dad

fifteen years from now it's gonna be nonstop dad jokes and comments about cybering

basically more of the same

Haha I am await the days when the reins are passed on to the next generation.

Hard to believe I've been reading it for 14 years - the early selling point was some mindless violence towards User Friendly.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/03/18
Gabe is smoking weed for the first time. I admire his willingness to have the discussion but what a maroon.

"and u guys won't believe this - first i got really paranoid, and then later i was really hungry!"

he seems pretty forthright about it; what's the problem?

nothing really, just liveblogging your first toke in your thirties is a little herb-ish (pun pun pun)

WOHHH WOHHHHHHHHHH

Are the online slang dictionaries hiding a meaning from me, or have you just called the artist on Penny Arcade "a nerd, a wimp, a wuss"?

More like a cornball. Also slang for dope btw

wtf is this
http://penny-arcade.com/pinny-arcade
RULES

i'm starting to think that they have a really sharp business guy

Robert Khoo is extremely good at the job he invented for himself

an hour of this shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=jLY7DpAgNbU

true hustlin', respect

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-3W95rqn/0/950x10000/i-3W95rqn-950x10000.jpg
somehow this seems like the most penny arcade penny arcade that ever penny arcaded
like it has moved into satire unintentionally

the sitting on swings
the tortured oh-so-clever "holomouth materializes around my shaft"
faux-naivety of commercialism juxtaposed with insider commentary
chains and trees that look like they were drawn by a preschooler on a wacom tablet
"teevees and screens and controllers and what have you"

how is that... unintentional?

questionable quality of humor yes, but i think that's what they're actually going for

Do you go to the penny arcade website on purpose?

i don't even know anymore

^

now i know what nhex is looking for in a web comic