penny arcade: c/d

You are completely correct and I meant webcomics.

my main issue with PA (outside of how ugly the strip looks) is how stupidly wordy the writing is. like it shouldn't take 400 words in 3 panels to get to a dumb punchline in because you want to shoehorn in all these dumb obscure references

my main issue with PA is that is sucks

grrr I hate typos

always thought these guys sucked. this story just confirms they are Prima Donnas too.

I'm not versed enough in webcomics to name examples but I'd be shocked if there were not tons and tons of more obscure, bloggish sorts of strips that feature some kind of aging/appearance change for the author analogue. Again, not to say PA's under any obligation to do that, just that it's a choice to maintain the stylized hepcat looks for their protagonists, and maybe that choice tells us something about what kind of strip it is and what they see as its role.

IIRC though the one dude signs (signed?) his unbelievably long, self-indulgent text posts as Tycho, and a variety of strips have involved in-strip Gabe as cartoonist, with Tycho dictating content to him or whatever. They're author stand-ins and that's a part of their personal brand identity etc.

Also DJP otm

not versed enough in webcomics to name examples but I'd be shocked if there were not tons and tons of more obscure, bloggish sorts of strips that feature some kind of aging/appearance change for the author analogue

James Kochalka's hair thinned out in American Elf but I don't follow a lot of webcomics either

so this is a real PA comic

https://photos.smugmug.com/Comics/Pa-comics/n-xmQS5/i-VbLTTth/0/2100x20000/i-VbLTTth-2100x20000.jpg

wtf has been happening with the character's faces, they're becoming more grotesque and aesthetically revolting over time

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WIYhqGkhZiw/R7DA8alPFUI/AAAAAAAAADY/ydBhRlqhLo4/S1600-R/oops.png

the lack of self-awareness it must take for the penny arcade guy to write "incoherent rhetorical salad bar" about something anyone else has written or said is staggering

I'm not sure how you post that particular strip and have the first question be "what's going on with the faces"

lol i was gonna say... the content was much more stupefying

oh I didn't actually read it

wise move

you could literally replace every word in there with "WAAAAH WAAAAAH WAAAH I'M A BIG FUCKING BABY" and it would have the exact same rhetorical impact

this showy smart voice of extremely online nerds "incoherent rhetorical salad bar" is so distinctive, it pervades their scene which is almost total sealed from the rest of the world, ppl like this penny arcade and that very popular music vlogger who everyone was mad at for also being a nazis are their alternate reality reddit.com intellectual giants, its so weird and bad, prob mostly teens tho

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2017/10/23/second-opinion

his little blogpost which goes with the comic.

this showy smart voice of extremely online nerds "incoherent rhetorical salad bar" is so distinctive

yes

I try not to spend a hundred percent of my time thinking about the shambling chaos that gnaws at the periphery, but it’s hard not to notice the symptoms.

Look - we’re chasing the best writers out of this industry.

lol

I mean ... I do think EA sucks, and probably would have played that Star Wars game.

i opened this thread to figure out why ppl were mad at this comic on twitter the other day, some anti trans thing? i tried lord

ok now that I know what he's mad about, I don't disagree. (Didn't EA basically poach Hennig from Naughty Dog for this game?) but why make a comic in that form at all? just the blog post would be enough

the guy who made them rich quit last year so I assume the PA corporate culture is in serious decline

people dislike them because one of the dudes is incapable of taking any criticism and doubles down instinctively

I think one of the initial things was a comic with a rape joke, which was dumb. When someone clued them in that maybe they're not set up to navigate such things, I think they doubled down with RAPE IS GREAT

I am very sorry for typing that