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Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Three

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Three

News: Blood And Oil, Part Three

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tycho: I've got more blood for you, and also more oil, in the ongoing series we're calling Blood And Oil - here's part three. This is a guest work; we did not draw or write this. I'm not entirely certain we could. Weird features like Dragon Quest IX's "Canvass Mode" or The World Ends With You's "Truly Crazy Button Selling Thingamajig" are well suited to Japan, where mass transit is a thing that exists, though I'd imagine that you could do pretty well in Europe also. In the United States, the best scenario for passive trades is probably at conventions, during ...

News: P To The A To The T And Also V

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:20:36 -0700

Tycho: The new Episode of PATV went up on Friday, but I forgot to link it, because my mind body connection had been severed. It is good, and funny, and good! Please to enjoy. Also, strip's up as well. It's fucking incredible. (CW)TB

Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Two

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Two

News: Blood And Oil, Part Two

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tycho: It may be wise if, going forward, you think of the ongoing Blood & Oil series as something which needs to slow roast; the strip will be here, but the RSS feed will be your best friend regarding updates to the site. Once again: Blood & Oil is an Automata story written by Gary Whitta and powerfully realized by Ben Caldwell. It's in five parts, running all this week and into next Monday. Buckle up. My psyche is always so abraded by the social onslaught of a convention - I'm not entirely certain we're built to see this many faces in ...

Comic: Blood And Oil, Part One

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Comic: Blood And Oil, Part One

News: Blood And Oil, Part One

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tycho: Today marks the debut of a guest Automata "event," drawn by the incomparable Ben Caldwell and "Book of Eli" scribe Gary Whitta. We don't have any right to talent like this, and giving the site over to them for a week or so will probably get you accustomed to work of genuine quality, at which point they will usurp us and we will have to get new jobs. So, maybe not our best plan ever. I guess we'll see. Dragon Quest IX and my Nintendo DSi entertainment system are now fused, representing a single, dedicated entertainment apparatus. Anything not absolutely ...

Comic: The S Word

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Comic: The S Word

News: The S Word

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tycho: The room scenario described in the strip is brutally mega-real. My response was to haul out the big guns. Actually, it's my policy to leverage the big guns exclusively. I had a few little guns for awhile, and I sent them back. "Won't be needing these," I said. Heading south. A few items: - Should you be one of those attending the San Diego Comic Con this year (a group which must include a statistically significant portion of the readership) please stop by our boof, which is located conveniently at shanty number "1237" in the strange and temporary society of ...

News: Planting A Flag

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:12:05 -0700

Tycho: Gabriel specializes in names like "Mantis Eaglehawk," that is to say, names that puncture the carefully calibrated drama of their setting. He has retained Dudefella lo these many years, long enough for me to substitute "Du'defaella" in my mind whenever I see it, with its notes of an elven upbringing grimmed with the dust of prophecy. He's got plans for Cataclysm, name-wise - big plans. And if those plans fall through, there are plans within plans. I'm waiting for him to take the serious name ironically, because honestly I don't care why. I'm still playing Transformers, still, which must put ...