PA comic: Friday December 16, 2011 - Cryptozoology

Piggy Chimp

This comic has brightened my day and sent me off to my Christmas party with a smile on my face. Thank you Penny Arcade!

The Good Doctor Tran

I will accept this as a birthday comic two weeks early. Unless the comic in two weeks is awesome, in which case we'll exchange.

Aurich

The Good Doctor Tran wrote:

I will accept this as a birthday comic two weeks early. Unless the comic in two weeks is awesome, in which case we'll exchange.

No dice. I'm calling dibs on the one two weeks from now just in case! If you want to exchange it's going to cost you a pretty penny.

TychoCelchuuu

That_Guy wrote:

Oh boy, another comic premised on rape. It sure is topical and funny.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21321363#Comment_21321363

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21323845#Comment_21323845

Third panel in this comic is kind of extraneous, but that's okay, and it's sort of a meta-joke or something so that's good too.

NibCrom

I like the director's cut of the comic.

PikaPuff

This is an excellent plan. Have your first comic get criticized all over, so the bar is set reallllly low for the rest of your guest strips. I really like this comic. I hope our praise doesn't make you go over the line in terms of the middle panel. It's pretty close to going over the line. And using the word 'meh' almost killed the whole comic. But I will pretend it was used to purposely look terrible. Ironically.

Dark Raven X

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

That_Guy wrote:

Oh boy, another comic premised on rape. It sure is topical and funny.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21321363#Comment_21321363

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21323845#Comment_21323845

Third panel in this comic is kind of extraneous, but that's okay, and it's sort of a meta-joke or something so that's good too.

Doth protest too much.

Rehab

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

That_Guy wrote:

Oh boy, another comic premised on rape. It sure is topical and funny.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21321363#Comment_21321363

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21323845#Comment_21323845

So edible.

2 Marcus 2 Ravens

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

That_Guy wrote:

Oh boy, another comic premised on rape. It sure is topical and funny.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21321363#Comment_21321363

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21323845#Comment_21323845

Third panel in this comic is kind of extraneous, but that's okay, and it's sort of a meta-joke or something so that's good too.

That's how you do an internet burn.

jackal

Glorious.

agilemania

The three-panel version was ok, but it was really missing the payoff of the WoW/SWTOR joke. The Director's Cut nailed it.

pablo_price

: the extended version, and the paragraph revealing it

D: : humpty dumpty having nipples

PikaPuff

What. What the hell is that? They know they don't have to do three panels, right? Why don't they post that as the main comic? Because that's just more good stuff.

wonderpug

Oh man, the extended version is 100 times better. I'm with Pika, why in the world didn't they just stick with the long version?

Roger Wilco

No, no it's not rape. The egg is wearing bdsm clothes. This is just fantasy roleplaying.

And the comic was good, by the way.

Tleilaxu

The director's cut is a quality comic, hands down. I just wish it was at normal resolution, it seems squished.

Sticks

if you zoom in, it doesn't seem to lose any much resolution. at least in chrome.

TychoCelchuuu

Sticks wrote:

if you zoom in, it doesn't seem to lose any much resolution. at least in chrome.

For a second I was scared you were talking about getting a closer look at the nipples or something, then I realized you were talking about the director's cut and my life became better.

Peter Ebel

The extended edition was the shit, my sirs.

admanb

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

That_Guy wrote:

Oh boy, another comic premised on rape. It sure is topical and funny.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21321363#Comment_21321363

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21323845#Comment_21323845

Third panel in this comic is kind of extraneous, but that's okay, and it's sort of a meta-joke or something so that's good too.

Too good a burn to not get recognized.

Tleilaxu

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

Sticks wrote:

if you zoom in, it doesn't seem to lose any much resolution. at least in chrome.

For a second I was scared you were talking about getting a closer look at the nipples or something, then I realized you were talking about the director's cut and my life became better.

But just look at the resolution loss, it's ridiculous!

WARNING: this is exactly what TychoCelchuuu does not want to see.

Spoiler:

We've been robbed of 50% of precious nipple surface area. You can hardly tell if they're erect anymore, and that's just a travesty.

TychoCelchuuu

Actually that's not so bad, at that size they look like eyes.

Alfred J. Kwak

agilemania wrote:

The three-panel version was ok, but it was really missing the payoff of the WoW/SWTOR joke. The Director's Cut nailed it.

really, this version is so much better - love the SW joke

Pandabearcakes

agilemania wrote:

The three-panel version was ok, but it was really missing the payoff of the WoW/SWTOR joke. The Director's Cut nailed it.

They should have posted this version. I like it a lot.

Ashoka

Roger Wilco wrote:

No, no it's not rape. The egg is wearing bdsm clothes. This is just fantasy roleplaying.

Yeah I was going to make this point. Dumpty's got a motherfucking whip yo.

Rehab

The Fruit Fucker just craves that tasty extract.

see317

Technically, it's not Humpty Dumpty, it's Humping Dumply

just saying.

Aegeri

The three panel comic was great, but the extended version was absolutely amazing. Wonder why they didn't just go with the extended version as the main strip?

Ashoka

Aegeri wrote:

The three panel comic was great, but the extended version was absolutely amazing. Wonder why they didn't just go with the extended version as the main strip?

Because if you let one do it then they all want to do it. Next thing you know these strips are eating the last of the cookies and leaving their wet towels on the floor.

Rehab

Although I like the extended edition, sometimes shorter is better. I wouldn't say it was "Buckleyed" or anything (the last comic I would say was however, and it was only three panels long) but I like it ending with their dig at . . . well, us really. It also leaves you to imagine a terrible joke that they could have executed.

I also find it amusing that it is snarky with a capital "S" in the last panel. I don't know why, its just kind of funny.

PikaPuff wrote:

And using the word 'meh' almost killed the whole comic. But I will pretend it was used to purposely look terrible. Ironically.

Maybe I'm just weird, but "ya" bugs me more than "meh" does (which I don't actually mind too much really). I think its because I see "meh" as just being "eh" but with more emphasis; while "ya" is like a sort of half word for someone too lazy to type out "yeah" or use another word.

godmode

Agree with Langly. Comics about what you're going to do for a comic need to be exceptionally funny to be good. Middle panel was just okay. Much better than Wednesday's, however.

SabreMau

godmode wrote:

Agree with Langly. Comics about what you're going to do for a comic need to be exceptionally funny to be good.

Henroid

Tossrock wrote:

You should all be ashamed of yourselves for liking a comic that blatantly promotes crêpe culture.

I'm gonna go to the awesome post forum and I hope this is in there.

Also, what the fuck is with people going Siskel and Ebert on these guest comics? Holy shit.

DaltonCarl

haha amazing, and the middle panel is just what we all needed i think.

Hamju

To me this comic seemed too much like an advertisement for their own stuff (especially the extended version) than an actual comic. I mean, I think it would be improved if all there was was one large picture of the middle panel. I don't understand why you would even mention yourself or your own products in a guest comic. Seems lazy and kinda cheap. But it was still better than Wednesday.

Tleilaxu

SabreMau wrote:

godmode wrote:

Agree with Langly. Comics about what you're going to do for a comic need to be exceptionally funny to be good.

Spoiler:

You need to be renamed Encyclopedia PArcadia or something.

Rehab

That comic actually stands out quite a bit for me, but it is one of my absolute favorites.

Hamju

SabreMau wrote:

godmode wrote:

Agree with Langly. Comics about what you're going to do for a comic need to be exceptionally funny to be good.

Fandeathis

Wow, a good guest comic! I liked the extended version a bit less, but either way this was cool.

Knara

2 Marcus 2 Ravens wrote:

TychoCelchuuu wrote:

That_Guy wrote:

Oh boy, another comic premised on rape. It sure is topical and funny.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21321363#Comment_21321363

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/21323845#Comment_21323845

Third panel in this comic is kind of extraneous, but that's okay, and it's sort of a meta-joke or something so that's good too.

That's how you do an internet burn.

I may be late to the party, but it's never too late to recognize amazing feats of Internet skills.