Penny Arcade: The Series Episode 16 - The 4th Panel: Four's Company

Willeth

That link's not broken any more.



http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/216/

Sara Lynn

"Like a Roomba."

dmautz

I, too, would enjoy wearing a jacket and drinking bourbon.

Olivaw

This is the best 4th Panel I think

durax

I would love a longer version of meetings like this.

Scott saying "PvP is going stale" when "2011 is a 'make it' or 'break it' year for PvP" has all the makings of a great reality show of its own. He's right though, when I read his strip I feel like it's the last season of a TV show.

edit: Didn't they announce that the four of them were making another comic strip anyway (that looked a lot like PvP)...

Italax

Every PATV episode needs to be a 4th panel with Scott and Kris.

Willeth

durax wrote: »

I would love a longer version of meetings like this.

Scott saying "PvP is going stale" when "2011 is a 'make it' or 'break it' year for PvP" has all the makings of a great reality show of its own. He's right though, when I read his strip I feel like it's the last season of a TV show.

edit: Didn't they announce that the four of them were making another comic strip anyway (that looked a lot like PvP)...

I started reading PvP because I like what Scott produces rather than the other way around. It's still good, but it's by far the thing I get the least value from from him.

It was interesting hearing him talk on Webcomics Weekly about new projects a few weeks ago. Dave started a new strip, Kris has got one in the works, and Scott's extolling the virtues of doing so while still sticking by PvP. I think the reason it might feel stale is that the universe is just a little too real - it's a cartoon that could only exist on the Internet but it sticks to a lot of the old newspaper cartoon tropes and doesn't deviate too far. I think making the LOLbat part of PvP proper was a great move, and I think that stuff really breathes life into it.

tl;dr - can't wait for The Trenches

durax

What I hear you saying is that PvP got better when it stopped being about the cast of PvP and focused on a new characer called lolbat. If that's the case why not end PvP and make a new strip called LolBat?

SoaL

more scott and kris!!

KalTorak

Love Scurtz and Kraub. They are the best.

Also Mike singing.

Willeth

durax wrote: »

What I hear you saying is that PvP got better when it stopped being about the cast of PvP and focused on a new characer called lolbat. If that's the case why not end PvP and make a new strip called LolBat?

Eh, no. LOLbat itself isn't the thing. It's about making the PvP universe a little more fast and loose.

I like the characters but everything is always so straight-laced.

Olivaw

I've never really liked PvP

I think it's because I've never really bought into the idea that characters of a four panel daily strip can develop into characters I care about beyond being a vehicle for jokes

I had the same problem with Starslip after a while, but it still managed to be funny on a daily basis

Artreus

Fourth panel is by far my favorite PA tvs.

I read PvP for a while but it just felt too much like a crappy sitcom after a while. I started expecting laugh tracks or something equally dumb from it.

DrZiplock

A comic about a pair of copywriters? This is something that is of direct interest to me.

Kilroy

I request, nay, demand a massive Holkins/Krahulik/Kurtz/Straub joint project.

ThreadbareSock

Kilroy wrote: »

I request, nay, demand a massive Holkins/Krahulik/Kurtz/Straub joint project.

I hope it is more DnD sessions

cause goddamn I love those

KalTorak

Kilroy wrote: »

I request, nay, demand a massive Holkins/Krahulik/Kurtz/Straub joint project.

Holkrahurtzraub

Tonkka

Kurtz mentioned something about The Trenches during the Weekly Web panel at ECCC last weekend so...

Thetheroo

Bad timing with the earthquake joke.

ThreeCubed

We'll wear jackets and drink bourbon!!!

Koshian

which comic is this for?

exist

the copywriters who want to be legitimate authors thing sounds a lot like f-chords (also done by kris) to me

and that was about a pair of friends who made music for commercials who wanted to be legitimate musicians

skettios

Koshian wrote: »

which comic is this for?

Xehalus

KalTorak

Mike's working on his force telekinesis.

101

I would like to see a 4th panel involving jackets and bourbon.

skettios

101 wrote: »

I would like to see a 4th panel involving jackets and bourbon.

yesssss
Last line of this ep really made me giggle

The_Reflection

Kurtz and Straub need to do a weekly audio podcast where they just talk about shit. I don't care what the subject is, i'll listen to it.

Willeth

The_Reflection wrote: »

Kurtz and Straub need to do a weekly audio podcast where they just talk about shit. I don't care what the subject is, i'll listen to it.

They were going to pretty recently. It was called The Morning After. Not sure what happened to it.

There's a ton of old shows available online, though.

Xehalus

If bourbon included a drunk version of Gabe, that would probably be awkward.

Tofystedeth

Haha, that reminds me of when I was in college/just out of college. When I'd hang out with friends, invariably a tennis ball, or stress ball or something would turn up and it would just get tossed around the room as we talked, with pauses to shame whoever fucked up a throw or catch.

skettios

The_Reflection wrote: »

Kurtz and Straub need to do a weekly audio podcast where they just talk about shit. I don't care what the subject is, i'll listen to it.

They stream a bunch during the week.
Unfortunately it's usually during the workday

And ya, there's also the Morning After

fightinfilipino

"so what shakes things up?"

"an earthquake."

oh man that's such poor timing

The_Reflection

skettios wrote: »

The_Reflection wrote: »

Kurtz and Straub need to do a weekly audio podcast where they just talk about shit. I don't care what the subject is, i'll listen to it.

They stream a bunch during the week.
Unfortunately it's usually during the workday

And ya, there's also the Morning After

is there a place to download this? It's not on itunes.

JustPlainPavek

I also really enjoy Kurtz's commentary (especially when he's partnered with Kris) more than I do his comic particularly — I wish they were more consistent about producing Morning After (which seems to have lapsed at this point) or Webcomics Weekly, but it's free so I'll take what I can get.

What is the latest on The Trenches after all? It seems from this video that collaborative writing between the two duos is still a relatively new thing so I hope it's not too far off. And season two of the Blams!

JustPlainPavek

The_Reflection wrote: »

skettios wrote: »

The_Reflection wrote: »

Kurtz and Straub need to do a weekly audio podcast where they just talk about shit. I don't care what the subject is, i'll listen to it.

They stream a bunch during the week.
Unfortunately it's usually during the workday

And ya, there's also the Morning After

is there a place to download this? It's not on itunes.

I don't think you can download it, but the streams are archived here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-morning-after-with-kris-and-scott

Gaslight

"Francis gets drafted."

"In to what? The army? What's the conflict there?"

"Afghanistan."

End

JustPlainPavek wrote: »

The_Reflection wrote: »

skettios wrote: »

The_Reflection wrote: »

Kurtz and Straub need to do a weekly audio podcast where they just talk about shit. I don't care what the subject is, i'll listen to it.

They stream a bunch during the week.
Unfortunately it's usually during the workday

And ya, there's also the Morning After

is there a place to download this? It's not on itunes.

I don't think you can download it, but the streams are archived here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-morning-after-with-kris-and-scott

so..., I'm pretty glad you linked this.

Catalase

PATV never seems to load properly for me. Will spend two minutes caching, play about 3 seconds, then stop to cache. Repeat ad infinitum.

Peccavi

I know this is always the first thing asked, but have you turned off HD?

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up

KalTorak wrote: »

Mike's working on his force telekinesis.

fushigi