Missing / Broken Comic Reports

Älphämönkëy · May 2008

This is the best place to file reports of broken or missing comics. This thread replaces the old missing comics thread.

When including a report, please include as many of the following details as possible:

A link to the comic (eg. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/26/)
A link to the source correct image (eg. http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080526.jpg)
What is wrong? (eg. broken image, has image but no page)

Thanks guys!

Älphämönkëy · May 2008

If you are looking for the example of an awesome comic report, take a look at this post by Smasher.

Smasher wrote: »

Almost all of the problems with earlier comics can be fixed by simply having the comic page link to, say, http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/1999/19990113h.jpg (note the h; l also works) instead of http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/1999/19990113.jpg.

2000/9/1 doesn't work right; the default image looks like it should be 20000901l.jpg, but that comic refers readers to the high quality one which is at 20000901h.gif instead of jpg. I guess the answer is to just display both of them on that page.

The image for 2001/1/22 is at 20010123h.jpg

The image for the second comic on 2001/01/26 is at 20010128h.gif

The image for 2001/1/29 is at 20010130h.jpg

On 2001/4/25 the images switch to the 20010425h.gif format. Most of the comics from now until some undetermined point (that being 2003 or later) have this format, and thus aren't referred to correctly by the comic index (even after adding the h). These can be fixed by either converting the images themselves to the DATEh.jpg format, or changing the default format for that range to DATEh.gif.

There are some exceptions that work with the DATEh.jpg format (but not .gif). These are: 2001/5/4, 2001/5/14-15 and 2001/5/16-17, 2001/6/15, 2001/12/10, 2002/6/17, and 2002/9/23 (though it doesn't have a page in the index, see below).

2001/11/14 has the DATEh.gif format, but it has separate high and low quality images so those should both be displayed. 2002/1/4 refers to 20020104h.gif and 2002 0106h.gif

The index skips over 2002/7/19 despite there being a comic for it. Same for 2002/8/21, 2002/8/23,
2002/9/11, and 2002/9/23 (jpg instead of gif)

I think 2002/12/11 might have the wrong title, as it's the same as the next comic and it seems more appropriate for that one.

20021227h.gif and 20021228h.gif are the same comic, but the latter should be the comic for the top three awards.

That should cover most of the issues pre-2003. I'll work on the rest later.

Thanks Smasher!

Slicer · May 2008

The comic for 04/09/2007 seems to appear multiple times in the archive list:

And if I go to one of those links to the comic (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/4/9/), it loads the comic 6 times.

BernardBernoulli · May 2008

I guess I should re-post this considering it's a new thread and the fix hasn't worked for it

That Terrible Grip
The comic itself I think should be here, but it's not
So, I think the image is missing

Sorry if I shouldn't have re-reported it

Älphämönkëy · May 2008

Slicer wrote: »

The comic for 04/09/2007 seems to appear multiple times in the archive list:

And if I go to one of those links to the comic (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/4/9/), it loads the comic 6 times.

Trippy.

Fixed.

Thanks for the report Slicer!

Älphämönkëy · May 2008

BernardBernoulli wrote: »

I guess I should re-post this considering it's a new thread and the fix hasn't worked for it

That Terrible Grip
The comic itself I think should be here, but it's not
So, I think the image is missing

Sorry if I shouldn't have re-reported it

I actually don't have an image for this one, I'll find the original and re-upload it.

And please do re-post things if you see that they are still broken.

Thanks BernardBernoulli!

EDIT: Uploaded and fixed.

BernardBernoulli · May 2008

Thanks!

devotfeige · June 2008

I tried looking at the URL to find the image for this one, but I'm lacking in the awesome department and can't seem to locate it.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/28/

No image appears.

Same dealie here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/1/9/

BernardBernoulli · June 2008

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/8/8/ has the same image as the previous comic, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/8/6/

It seems just the wrong comic's here, it's the same as this one

So, the 8/8 comic is the same as the 8/6, even though it shouldn't be

Starcross · June 2008

For some reason there are 2 comics on this page: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/2/9/

Älphämönkëy · June 2008

Älphämönkëy · June 2008

Starcross wrote: »

For some reason there are 2 comics on this page: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/2/9/

We have a couple of issues that have two comics. We will be reviewing them to make sure that they are all legit.

Thanks!

-Alpha

Älphämönkëy · June 2008

BernardBernoulli wrote: »

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/8/8/ has the same image as the previous comic, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/8/6/

It seems just the wrong comic's here, it's the same as this one

So, the 8/8 comic is the same as the 8/6, even though it shouldn't be

Got it. Let me find what should go there, and I'll post here when it is resolved.

devotfeige wrote: »

I tried looking at the URL to find the image for this one, but I'm lacking in the awesome department and can't seem to locate it.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/28/

No image appears.

Same dealie here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/1/9/

Hm. Odd. I'll see if I can't remake it from the originals.

Smasher · June 2008

alphamonkey wrote:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/2/7/ =WTF? Google?

The right image is l instead of h. That is rather wtf though.

gtrmp · June 2008

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/11/28/ - Double comic.

Both comics link to this news post: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/11/28/, but the second comic's news post should be this one: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/11/30/

ASimPerson · June 2008

These two comics are skipped over while seeking through the archives:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020211h.gif
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020213h.gif

Willeth · June 2008

I noticed this morning that the second DRDTB comic is missing. I can't grab the comics here and I didn't have time to before work, but it's on my screen at home so I'll make this post all proper like when I get back.

Willeth · June 2008

Here we are.

The 'next' link at http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/4/ leads to http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/6/, when it should link to http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/5/ as far as I can guess. This page does not exist.

It should have the image http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20050505h.jpg or http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20050505l.jpg on it, though.

cloudeagle · June 2008

While trying to find the original Fruit Fucker comic to traumatize my girlfriend with, I discovered it's missing.

The run date is Feb. 11, 2002. The comic itself doesn't seem to be anywhere on the net that I could find through Google searching.

Feb 13, 2002 appears to be missing too.

ASimPerson · June 2008

I think I kinda beat you to the punch there

Willeth · June 2008

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/9/18/ has an error in the title. It seems like the second TM should be superscript, but it's broken for me. Xubuntu, Firefox.

EDIT: Broken on XP Firefox too.

Willeth · June 2008

Double comic.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/14/

This was a single, only yesterday!

Älphämönkëy · June 2008

Willeth wrote: »

Double comic.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/14/

This was a single, only yesterday!

How sure are you that it duplicated itself?

Willeth · June 2008

alphamonkey wrote: »

Willeth wrote: »

Double comic.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/14/

This was a single, only yesterday!

How sure are you that it duplicated itself?

Well, there's two of them.

EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean. Not 100%. I think I was browsing through on my Eee and only scrolling down enough to get to the 'next' button. That, coupled with the chunk of real estate that Pennypacker takes up, means I probably wouldn't have seen it if it was doubled yesterday.

EDIT 2: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/10/21/ has two comics, also.

Meiz · June 2008

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/9/6/

Title: RPS

Edit: Should link to : http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2000/20000906h.jpg

BernardBernoulli · June 2008

What Goes Around is just missing

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/18/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080118.jpg

Willeth · June 2008

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/1/9/ isn't displaying, should link to http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040109h.GIF

meat-boy · August 2008

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/2/7/ is displaying a goggle logo. I can't find the comic.

DeShadowC · August 2008

meat-boy wrote: »

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/2/7/ is displaying a goggle logo. I can't find the comic.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2001/20010207.gif is the comic instead of http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2001/20010207h.gif which is what is being shown.

jaketeen87 · August 2008

BernardBernoulli wrote: »

What Goes Around is just missing

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/18/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080118.jpg

Not to whine or anything, but this one's still not working

. You load the page, and everything looks right, but there's not strip, then you go to the image location & it just has the url in the corner on a blank white page o_O, so, yeah, just so you know.

netcrusher88 · August 2008

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/4/

Firefox says this:

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

I can't seem to figure out how to construct a proper image URL either - or it's missing.

EDIT: never mind, found it: http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031004h.gif

x20080829 · August 2008

No posts since June 9 from alphamonkey, which is worrying, but I'll try posting the problems here anyway.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/2/11/ works, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/02/11 doesn't
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/2/13/ works, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/02/13 doesn't
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2004/04/16/ works, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/04/16 doesn't, http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040416h.jpg does

Satan. · August 2008

EDIT: Seriously, we can't delete posts here?

Älphämönkëy · August 2008

x20080829 wrote: »

No posts since June 9 from alphamonkey, which is worrying, but I'll try posting the problems here anyway.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/2/11/ works, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/02/11 doesn't
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/2/13/ works, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/02/13 doesn't
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2004/04/16/ works, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/04/16 doesn't, http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040416h.jpg does

I'm still lurking the thread, but I got tasked to something else briefly. The great thing about the thread is that if I can fix things as I have time. I'll see what I can do about fixing those.

Älphämönkëy · August 2008

Willeth wrote: »

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/9/18/ has an error in the title. It seems like the second TM should be superscript, but it's broken for me. Xubuntu, Firefox.

EDIT: Broken on XP Firefox too.

Fixed.

x20080829 · August 2008

You are still around! Fantastic. It's amazing how generous you guys are with all us non-paying users.

Jay-Dawg · September 2008

The image for Cold Calling comes up empty.
It looks like it points here:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080324.jpg

I also tried 20080324l.jpg
and 20080324h.jpg
and 20080324l.gif
and 20080324h.gif

They all show up blank if navigated to directly, but what's weird is I don't get a File Not Found error... just a blank image. And the browser seems to know what the image's pixel dimensions are supposed to be.

I'm using IE6 if it matters.

Smasher · September 2008

Jay-Dawg wrote: »

The image for Cold Calling comes up empty.
It looks like it points here:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080324.jpg

I also tried 20080324l.jpg
and 20080324h.jpg
and 20080324l.gif
and 20080324h.gif

They all show up blank if navigated to directly, but what's weird is I don't get a File Not Found error... just a blank image. And the browser seems to know what the image's pixel dimensions are supposed to be.

I'm using IE6 if it matters.

Not sure if it's just been fixed in the meantime, but it shows up in Firefox 3.

ASimPerson · September 2008

ASimPerson · September 2008

These comics are missing:

http://penny-arcade.com/images/1999/19991231h.jpg
http://penny-arcade.com/images/2000/20000117h.jpg
http://penny-arcade.com/images/2000/20001025h.jpg

ASimPerson · September 2008

This comic is missing, but it was never technically in the archive in the first place:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/6/9/

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