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Penny Arcade is a contender for Best Webcomic of the Decade
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The front page of the PA site is a hell of a megaphone.
out of date post is out of date?
#FreeScheck#FreeSKFM
Yeah, whoops
It's funny because yours was out of date, then mine's was in telling you it was and blargh blargh blargh inverse world
#FreeScheck#FreeSKFM
I...don't...know....
OH NO
WE HAVE TO STOP
WE'RE DESTROYING THE
FOREVER
OF
FABRIC
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we got booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
TIME SHIP!!! NO TIME!
Sweet
fake edit: Also, I just looked at a few strips of LICD and dear God is that terrible.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
So much so you said it twice?
Also, I enjoy you fake editing a post you're probably going to real edit
Don't forget its consistent and professional update schedule.
Which at least gives it a leg up on VGCats
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Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Actually gives it a leg up on a lot of comics. Mike and Jerry have talked about being consistent with an update schedule and I'll admit I've dropped comics I liked in the past because they just stopped updating at any kind of regularity.
And almost every other webcomic. VGCats is just special because he will release a preview for his Halloween comic 2 weeks late then tell everyone he's giving up on it because he can't make the deadline on Christmas eve.
Steam - Talon Valdez : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk
The PA episode where they talked about how they want to withdraw their name from childs play and just have it be something they support was all class. I can't think of any other web comic person who wouldn't use that as some kind of soap box for pushing bullshit.
Yes it is. Good enough to win a Hugo in fact.
For me it's a toss up between 'Girl Genius' and 'PBF'.
Posts like these make it easier to not vote for PBF and be glad that Achewood isn't on there.
No kidding.
"Oh, raising a hojillion dollars for sick kids by funneling our fans money into something other than our own pockets? We can't take credit for that."
I know Gabe and Tycho explicitly want to keep the link between PA and Child's Play weak due to the comic's content, but I think that CP easily puts PA at the #1 spot for the decade.
The best webcomics of the decade are imo
PA
PBF
SuperMega Comics (yes, it's one of the best. No you havn't heard of it, and you probably won't like it)
xkcd
SMBC
In no particular order, I like them differently on different days.
- "Proving once again the deadliest animal of all ... is the Zoo Keeper" - Philip J Fry
Best webcomic of the decade? Really, voters? Really?
edit: I would be very happy if Super Mega won and the non-webcomic world saw the article and decided to check it out to see what webcomics were all about.
That or Oglaf.
And good on the Post for not putting Buckley on the list.
PBF may have stopped updating but it made me break out laughing more times than i can count so I think it deserves to win best webcomic. PA has a pretty sweet convention and very good boards but I can't recall the strip itself ever causing me to laugh.
Edit: the above comic is indeed pretty terrible but the writer is surely just making it ironically. I need to believe this.
Sinfest has that too.
Man, this poll was way too hard. I picked Sinfest because it is what got me into the internets in the first place and the artwork is very good. (And I feel really sad because it turns out they got about 1% of the vote)
But that's just personal. PA is honestly the best webcomic right now. Even ignoring the things that are not the comic like the commentaries, the influence, the fora, PAX, Child's Play and all that it is still a very solid comic which gives a consistent enjoyment. It's basically good things combined with good things. The art is maybe outdone by few other comics, as is the humour, but not a single comic I know combines the two like this. Xkcd is funny but it's stickmen, full-page comics updated every month usually lack the fun (spending a week drawing and you couldn't even come up with a good joke??).
If "best" means "best peformer overall" then Penny Arcade is the best webcomic ever.
(Also, LICD is horrible shit and I really hate my friends for liking it.)
#FreeScheck#FreeSKFM
See that face in the last panel
That's pure, unfiltered smug
Not to mention when they got kicked out of a con he went around crying like a silly goose to every board he could find (the LICD guys).
SMBC is almost as bad as PBF. Stupid, tasteless, disgusting "jokes".
What I like about comics like PA and XKCD is that, even if it's not brilliantly funny, it's 95% likely to be something I haven't seen a hundred times before.
Also, I'm sad that The Abominable Charles Christopher didn't make the list. It's kind of obscure, I guess, but both the art and writing are some of the best on the webs.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Right. It's just that he's a terrifically unfunny arrogant ass.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Wait the main characters name is Rayne Summers? Wow thats, wow.