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            <title>Children Of The Corn</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>Ronia got back from Brand New Day with a lot of questions about Jean Grey, and it seemed like I might have to make a Powerpoint deck or something to paper over the fact that I failed as a father - as a man. There's a lot of comic shit I haven't told her, I guess. There's a lot of it out there! I chose the path of curation; we did not come to rest on any of this quotidian mutant fare When those assholes at Marvel finally get around to Ryan North' and Erica Henderson's run on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Ronia will know <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/20/the-areas-of-our-expertise">Goddamn near everything</a>. The only comfort I have otherwise is that Gabriel <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/08/14/">failed in this task</a> also. Worse probably! Way worse I bet, when you really think about it altogether.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Children Of The Corn</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Brokon</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>Among fighting game developers, one stands out as more damp and weird than the others. Their carapace is more mottled, their palps somehow more pedi than the rest. <a href="https://www.arcsystemworks.com/">Arc System Works</a>! We've been fans of their fermented, piquant takes on the genre for a while and were delighted to see they'd managed to enter the 3D era without giving up the incredible silhouettes of their 2D heritage. Gabriel thought he might <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/12/15/things-part-two">sip the summerwine</a> one last time with Marvel Tokon, as he had in the days of his exultant youth, but he says that he washed out <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/08/12/">during the <em>tutorial</em></a>. I don't have the game, so I don't know what that would even look like, but the tutorial for <a href="https://2xko.riotgames.com/en-us/">2XKO</a> was perverse enough that I might be able to guess. It was like Operant Conditioning, like I was gonna have to falsify some number of lights at some point or murder a public figure. I didn't even dislike it, necessarily! But it <em>did</em> feel like I was being psychologically terraformed by a force alien to our Earth.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Brokon</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Passionate Intensity</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>I think Gabe has wanted to <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/08/07/">draw Asmongold</a> for awhile, and generally these days the thing that keeps him from doing it is that he doesn't want to draw attention to the target. Except the target in this case is one of the biggest streamers on planet Earth. He can't actually be obscured; the strip is about his most recent fourteen day ban, but having been banned as often as he is, this is just part of the business model. The video he made in response to the ban will probably have three million views by the end of the day. You get kicked out of one place, and somebody else is always there to monetize your riposte. YouTube, generally - Streamer Switzerland.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>One Incarnation Is Plenty</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>The first panel of <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/08/07/">this strip</a> has a joke so dumb it arrested my consciousness. I had to crank the key and turn it over several times to get it started again. Gabe bounced off Beast of Reincarnation at light speed, but it did inspire several minutes of reflection on the supernatural. Or, the natural I guess. It's about a concept that I was warned away from as a child, along with Yoga and Transcendental Meditation. I led a somewhat cloistered young existence, where the only drug on offer was Marital Coitus. But it&hellip; I mean, it takes a while to set that shit up.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>One Incarnation Is Plenty</title>
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            <description>New Comic: One Incarnation Is Plenty</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Bespoke Speech</title>
            <link>https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/08/05/bespoke-speech</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Big Walk fucks. Even the <em><a href="https://www.polygon.com/big-walk-review/">reviews</a></em> of the game are good! It occurs to me that this might be ambiguous phrasing. What I mean is that the reviews <em>themselves</em> are of a high quality. They can't wait to tell people about it! They had so much weird fun that they have been transformed into repeater stations - they're shedding spores. They've reached the fruiting phase! That's how good it is.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Bespoke Speech</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Hostile Radishes</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>Morak and I are on the same page where the Supergirl movie is concerned, which is that it is pretty good and we can't wait to see the children of Krypton together again, but that as entertainment it genuinely can't get out of its own way. The clearest example of this was a last minute series of A/B tests where they previewed two different cuts of the film, and in the end the studio went with its cut <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/07/05/there-were-two-rival-supergirl-cuts-at-dc-and-both-sound-equally-bad/">over the director's own</a>. If you make things, though - and maybe even if you don't - there's simply confusion in the piece and a schizoid edit that indicates nobody's vision is on display. Also, there's <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/08/03/">a lotta rocks</a>.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Hostile Radishes</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Jimothy Chalamet</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>Raccoons in my neighborhood, <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/07/31/">save one</a>, are <em>not</em> spherical. They are big though, off that Seattle trash. They're fat as fuck off Brie rinds and <em>jam&oacute;n ib&eacute;rico</em> trimmings. Some of these bad boys can deliver near-cryptid thrills. When I was driving home one night, I saw one that didn't even read as a raccoon visually - my mind told me that it was most likely a toddler that had escaped from some kind of toddler&hellip; prison. That's what it gave me! Not helpful.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Jimothy Chalamet</title>
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            <description>New Comic: Jimothy Chalamet</description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Cyberbullies</title>
            <link>https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/07/29/cyberbullies</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>It's <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1v999ad/anthropic_destroyed_millions_of_print_books_to/">almost exactly</a> what it says <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/07/29/">on the tin</a>.&nbsp; Now Sam Altman just said that they were close to inventing <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@moreperfectunion/video/7667664611084078350">a genie</a> that could grant any wish, and that&hellip; I mean, that's padded cell type shit. Frankly, it's an SEC intervention at the very minimum. You can't say shit like this - I would say "period," but you absolutely can't say shit like this on the run up to an IPO. But they can say whatever they want, take whatever they want, and do whatever they want. That's the demoralization operation, well underway. It has a shelf-life, though. They can only loan each other money for so long. Then, they'll socialize the losses through nationalization.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>A Wolv In Creep's Clothing</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>The fan-favorite, canonically 5'3" mutant called Wolverine has been next in line for The Insomniac Treatment for a while, having been announced in September of '21, a year I will admit to not remembering entirely. As it approaches, we've been buffeted by new video clips of Wolverine's clothing being <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/07/27/">deliciously flensed</a> just this side of mutant homoerotica, and a picture of his face that makes him look like an <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/videogames/comments/1v3plxd/new_look_at_insomniacs_wolverine/">escapee from Roblox</a>.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>A Wolv In Creep's Clothing</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title> Acquisitions Inc. Auction for Child's Play!</title>
            <link>https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/07/24/acquisitions-inc-auction-for-child-s-play</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>If you are a fan of Acquisitions Inc. and or helping sick kids, <a href="https://tiltify.com/child-s-play/auctions/acqinc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have I got an auction for you</a>!&nbsp;Over the years we have played D&amp;D on stage with some very cool people and we have done so while wearing some incredibly crazy costumes. Now that we have moved into the world of Daggerheart we&rsquo;ve created new versions of our characters and some of these old costumes can be retired to greener pastures. The best part is that those greener pastures can be your pastures!</p>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>The Leto Protocol</title>
            <link>https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/07/24/the-leto-protocol</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Gorbiriel Of The Moonstone Reaches genuinely enjoys the new Masters of the Universe movie. He enjoys <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/06/02/au-naturel">ronically</a>! He did a <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/06/08/gabe-s-masters-of-the-universe-review">review</a> for the site and shit. He even has nice things to say about <a href="https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/07/24/">Jared Leto</a>! I prefer <em>my</em> Letos encrusted with sandtrout and ushering Humanity along The Golden Path but, you know, to each his own.</p>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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