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News: More Penny Arcade Stuffs

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:22:57 -0700

Tycho: There was new Penny Arcade Television last week, but some stuff came up, and I forgot to link it. So here it is: VG Fack Checkerz, from our people at Mega64. There is also new Precipice available. I had written it ahead of time, but I was so out of sorts that the thought of navigating our update scheme and putting that shit in there put me into a coma from which I've only just recovered. (CW)TB

News: The Trenches

gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:20:39 -0700

Gabe: Obviously the biggest announcement of PAX this year was Duke Nukem Forever. There was another announcement though that you might have missed. During our very first Q&A of the show we took the stage with Scott Kurtz to announce a brand new comic strip called the Trenches. This will be a thrice weekly webcomic that will appear on its own site. It is written by Tycho, myself and Scott. The bulk of the art duties will be handled by Scott with a little help from me. I have to say that collaborating with Scott on the character designs and the ...

Comic: The Wager

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Comic: The Wager

News: The Wager

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tycho: Frequently during panels at the Penny Arcade Expo our own Gabriel will receive compliments on his work. This is as it should be; the visual leap between the first strips and today's thrice-weekly offering is so absolute as to bring the true authorship of the earlier comics into question. You may click here for a harrowing, educational juxtaposition. Anytime there is a PAX, the Discrete Joy Events (or "DJEs") become crystallized into a single, spherical glorb - and the process of fully remembering the event takes weeks. It's the reverse of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, where during the normal prosecution of ...

Comic: The Lucifex

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Comic: The Lucifex

News: The Lucifex

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tycho: You might recall that during the last PAX on the west coast, I had to leave because (much to my great surprise) a human being was trying to emerge from my wife. I've have used the "nation" metaphor for PAX on multiple occasions, and it's a comparison with value - like Brigadoon, it is a fleeting kingdom. Born during the event proper, she is its princess - and all of PAX her shining court. Here is the strip we made during Saturday's "Create-A-Strip" panel, with our Signing Rules that you may have heard from our own mouths. Like all our ...

Comic: Mouth Rituals Exposed

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Comic: Mouth Rituals Exposed

News: Mouth Rituals Exposed

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tycho: It's pretty incredible where young people draw the line between which which things are impossible and things which are made possible by inexplicable magicks. People living in a space station, right now over our heads, clearly that's not true. But a tiny flying person at the helm of some tooth based economy is a thing quickly absorbed. Our conversation about magic and mystery had a sub-conversation about other kinds of magic: specifically, Epic Citadel. I don't know that I've ever been so flummoxed by a piece of technology in my life. I was impressed by id's RAGE demo, obviously - but it ...

Comic: The Ultimatum

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Comic: The Ultimatum

News: The Ultimatum

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Tycho: We kept thinking about the Xbox Live price hike as the week went on, trying to divine its purpose, and came up with a big ol' goose egg. And a comic, I guess. And I ordered a big stack of cut-rate 12 month cards. But other than that, no. Well, get more money, I guess. That part is relatively straightforward. I think the strip more or less communicates the guts of it. The friends list represents an organism that you have tended over X years, nearly eight in my case, and has a value independent of the expenditure the way ...