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[PA Comic] Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - Sand, Part Two
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Here's part 1.
Steam: pazython
It just makes every genre better.
It's like the Sirracha of stories.
Pfft. This is why you aren't sheriff.
Very interesting, would like to know more. The fellas always worry that we'll be annoyed when they test out other ideas besides PA, but the stuff they come up with is always so damn good.
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Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
Because that...that would be gross.
And then there's the Trench noses. And, my pet peeve, the texture overlay. It's the cop out of the digital age, and I'd like it to stop (worst offender: big splotch on guy's cheek in Panel 4). Other than that, I could really see a graphic novel by Krahulik and Holkins for something. If they didn't average 1.5 pages a year because of reasons...
This piece is awesome, and it makes you want more so badly. I also really, really wish we could get more from Automata. That may still be my favorite stuff PA has done.
is that guy wolverine
he looks like wolverine
and the new movie comes out soon
or maybe i'm grasping at straws
or in this case sideburns
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
round these parts, we solve problems one way
killin' 'em
Good comic otherwise.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
...
No.
This is the second part in a western sci-fi story called Sand, which Mike and Jerry offered the first installment of a couple of years ago (the link was posted earlier in the thread) as one of three possible projects they were considering doing. They polled readers on which one they should pursue first. The other two were The New Kid and Queen of Bells. Sand was, I believe, the community choice, and so this is them continuing the story.
This was the second time they solicited reader input on concept projects like this; the first time around, the "prototype" strips were Lookouts, Automata and Jim Darkmagic. Automata won the vote and they did the Blood and Oil series of strips based on the concept, although obviously they've done a lot with Lookouts too.
Incorrect.
That is, indeed, Wolverine.
My bad.
Please, STAHP
they just look awful.
I am utterly unphased by the noses.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
They aren't going away, may as well get used to them.
I'm the same way. I don't notice them until they are mentioned, but once I see them I really can't focus on anything else. I look at the first SAND strip and wonder what was wrong with those noses? They look like perfectly fine noses and that just makes it worse for me.
A few well chosen colors in a coherent scheme > nonsensical overlays.
out of all the "trench nose" complaints, I think this is my favourite. Because that, that is an opinion.
and holy shit, is is it a goddamn doozy of one.
When I read it, I conjure the sound of sand blowing across wood planks, like on a porch.
Warframe: TheBaconDwarf
I hope this comic continues, and that there's a page that ends with something completely non-dramatic.
"I reckon I need to wet my whistle, first." SAND
Also, no evidenced alcohol or lush in sight, so yeahhhhhh.