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Comic: Guest Lookouts, Page 3

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

New Comic : Guest Lookouts, Page 3

News: Guest Lookouts, Page 3

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

Tycho : Guest Lookouts continues, with Becky Dreistadt and Oliver Grigsby at the reins. Things are certainly looking bad for our heroes. I'm tense, even though I already know what happens! Apparently they're doing a good job. I've derived considerable enjoyment from previews of There Is Only War, the fancy name for Dawn of War II's 1.4 update. The videos linked in the previous sentence are a more interesting way to familiarize yourself with the patch notes, but watching players bang away on each other in real-time strategy games is far more interesting than you might guess. Patch may be sufficient to ...

News: Lookouts

gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:18:21 -0000

Gabe : I hope you all enjoy the Lookouts this week. I've been a huge fan of Becky's work for a long time now. In fact I have a number of her originals hanging in my house. Her paintings have been a real inspiration to me and one of the reasons I decided to try my hand at painting. Seeing her first fully painted page come in for Lookouts was a real treat. I honestly love the Lookouts. At some point down the road I'd love to clear my schedule and just knock out a big Lookouts graphic novel. That would be ...

Comic: Guest Lookouts, Page 2

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

New Comic : Guest Lookouts, Page 2

News: Guest Lookouts, Page 2

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0000

Tycho : And here you go: Page Two of Lookouts, hand-painted by Becky Dreistadt and penned by Oliver Grigsby. Works of this power and sophistication will run Friday, Monday, and Wednesday, at which point you'll be forced to endure our work once again. I'm leaving town today, but you won't notice: I'm bringing a laptop, and also my mind, and I intend to fill roughly the same proportion of your day that I did previously. Historically, I've tried to distract you during these periods with a rotating cast of interlopers, but it never seems to catalyze anything akin to leisure. I figured out sometime ...

News: The Guildfather

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:47:16 -0000

Tycho : This is something we consider quite often: how massively multiplayer online role-playing games create a vortex of social musts whose wicked gravities are almost impossible to avoid. Let's say that a person considered, even for a moment, the thoroughly ridiculous notion that they might play any online RPG other than World of Warcraft for five consecutive minutes. To say that one's responsibilities the game's key roles are non-trivial hardly contains the idea. Your presence literally makes the game possible at the highest echelons of difficulty. The only reason I was able to reach escape velocity is because I was playing ...

Comic: The Guildfather

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0000

New Comic : The Guildfather

Comic: Condraculations

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0000

New Comic : Condraculations

News: Condraculations

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0000

Tycho : Sometimes Robert will come in and ask us to name things, all kinds of things, I assume as a kind of test. Usually this is the kind of exercise that I can really get behind, but in general I would rather name a pair of ancient blades than a "retail outlet," or a "line of organic socks." He made the mistake of asking for a store name when we were not in the correct mental gear, which is to say I was in Aion, doing battle with a tribe of chipmunks so I could coax a ferret into upgrading my ...

Comic: Heresies

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0000

New Comic : Heresies