[PA Comic] Friday, May 11, 2012 - The Warrior Spirit

Geth

The Warrior Spirit
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/05/11

WUA

Arby's is disgusting.

ArbitraryDescriptor

Does your Arby's also lack a "clean the blood off the deli slicer after it cuts you" policy?

Dark Raven X

Why are G&T not G&T?

Kamar

Arby's can be forgiven any number of sins simply for being a fast food place that serves me (admittedly mediocre) cheese sticks.

Jam Warrior

I googled your American 'Arby's.'

Are they aware that their logo is a penis? Because it totally is.

Delzhand

Dark Raven X wrote: »

Why are G&T not G&T?

Yeah, this more "realistic" style is usually reserved for depictions of real people. Weird.

Monkey Ball Warrior

Jam Warrior wrote: »

I googled your American 'Arby's.'

Are they aware that their logo is a penis? Because it totally is.

We were not aware of that, dude.

Also Arby's makes meat sandwiches. The meat seems to be more meat-based than the meat at Taco Bell or McDonalds. I mean, what exactly are you expecting?

Tube

We had a forum user go on an anti advertising screed to Khoo a few months ago. If they'd put it in a comic, people would have complained that it was unrealistic.

Kagera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjB6r-HDDI0

Just leave dis right here

KalTorak

Lewie P's Stepdad wrote: »

We had a forum user go on an anti advertising screed to Khoo a few months ago. If they'd put it in a comic, people would have complained that it was unrealistic.

Is there a link to this? It sounds... entertaining.

godmode

Kamar wrote: »

Arby's can be forgiven any number of sins simply for being a fast food place that serves me (admittedly mediocre) cheese sticks.

Sonic too!

Personally, I've had nothing but good (delicious) experiences with Arby's. Love them curly fries, and their market fresh sammiches ain't bad.

jackal

I think they've actually played up the phallic nature of their logo in commercials. I think there was one with a guy lounging on a bed, then a woman appeared at the door with a tray of arby's food and the arby's dick appears over his head with a bing sound effect.

Arby's food is decent enough as fast food goes. Their "market fresh sandwiches" are even on the high end of what you can expect for fast food quality.

Edit: Lexapro sounds like an ink jet printer.

Maz-

jackal wrote: »

Edit: Lexapro sounds like an ink jet printer.

I first read that as "laxative" and thought "wow, that guy is awfully casual about taking one".

Jasconius

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King Riptor

You guys are repressed. The arby's logo is a cowboy dick.

Hat. I meant hat.

Griswold

You beat me to it, @Kagera.

Bit of a lazy joke, but hey, not every strip can be a spectral mindworm.

Gyral

ArbitraryDescriptor wrote: »

Does your Arby's also lack a "clean the blood off the deli slicer after it cuts you" policy?

Nope but ours has a "Only clean the fryer when regional management is coming around" policy.

TychoCelchuuu

Am I crazy for seeing an Ork skull design sort of thing on one of the posters? Is that why the comic is called "The Warrior Spirit?" Because I can't figure out the title otherwise.

Tleilaxu

Maz- wrote: »

jackal wrote: »

Edit: Lexapro sounds like an ink jet printer.

I first read that as "laxative" and thought "wow, that guy is awfully casual about taking one".

Washing down a laxative with Starbucks? Are you nuts?!

Also, no discussion of product placement involving Starbucks is complete without zefrank.

testsubject23

Wait, who the hell are those guys and why are they doing such a tired joke? Have G&T been kidnapped!?

Ivar

Looks like this is a reference to something that might become clear in the news post.

Aurich

I thought the Arby's namedrop at the end might be a reference to the relentless need-a-reuben-now Arby's ad that was playing on PATV a month or so ago.

Inquisitor

Without the newspost this is somewhat of a guess but: I think the comic is basically making fun of some people for not liking advertisements in drawsomething while being walking advertisements themselves? Or something? I don't play drawsomething, last I heard Zynga bought the people who made it for a large sum of money (for some reason, it is not as through drawsomething is a particularly impressive game from a design standpoint) and that the userbase had started to tank. I hadn't heard anything about ads in particular though. I'm not entirely sure on the 'draw ads' part of the comic, I'm sure the newspost will clarify.

I tend not to be a big fan of the 'make fun of someone for not sharing our opinion' PA comics so, pretty meh about this comic. It's a bit of a one note joke.

Edit: News post up. Apparently some people don't like having to draw words that are associated with known brands. And some people say that's why the playerbase is tanking. My guess is that it's more that there isn't much game to draw something and people have seen what there is to see.

Fyndir

I thought I'd heard something about them selling words?

Like, you buy advertising space and X number of users will be given your product / brand / word as their thing to draw?

I dunno, I don't remember the details.

testsubject23

Well, the news post does add some context, but doesn't make it any funnier. It's one of their rare misses, IMO.

Henroid

Dark Raven X wrote: »

Why are G&T not G&T?

One pair draws comics on the internet, and the other pair is a forum I post on.

Kagera wrote: »

*Wayne's World*

Just leave dis right here

Easily one of the best moments in a movie. :^:

Zoku Gojira

jackal wrote: »

Arby's food is decent enough as fast food goes. Their "market fresh sandwiches" are even on the high end of what you can expect for fast food quality.

Shame that Arby's somehow managed to pack in more fat and calories into those market fresh sammiches than you'll find in a Bic Mac. That's just unhealthy-fast-food sorcery right there.

Edit: "Do not open after dusk" is easily the best warning I've seen scrawled on a door since "Don't open, dead inside." Just the fact that they used "after dusk" instead of "after dark" or "at night" is awesome.

EvilBadman

Gabe and Tycho sold out to the Man so well that they didn't even have to be in their own strip anymore. Damn you, Khoooooooo.

jackal

Zoku Gojira wrote: »

jackal wrote: »

Arby's food is decent enough as fast food goes. Their "market fresh sandwiches" are even on the high end of what you can expect for fast food quality.

Shame that Arby's somehow managed to pack in more fat and calories into those market fresh sammiches than you'll find in a Bic Mac. That's just unhealthy-fast-food sorcery right there.

Edit: "Do not open after dusk" is easily the best warning I've seen scrawled on a door since "Don't open, dead inside." Just the fact that they used "after dusk" instead of "after dark" or "at night" is awesome.

To be fair it has a lot more meat (and food in general) than a big mac.

edit: They're (generally) 50% bigger and if you normalize fat and calories they aren't as bad as big macs (but just barely). Honestly any 12 ounce sandwich is going to be pretty bad for you.

Meiz

I dub thee Walton and Homer

Corehealer

Meiz wrote: »

I dub thee Walton and Homer

I smell a sitcom!

The ADventures of Walton and Homer.