Penny Arcade - Comic - Top Of The Morn

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edited October 2015 in The Penny Arcade Hub
imagePenny Arcade - Comic - Top Of The Morn

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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  • LittlestarsLittlestars Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    Gabe! You forgot to draw a bubble for "then dip them in ranch" in the first panel!

    I'm not sure what context this comic is supposed to be in, if the naysayer is connected to a game or movie or somesuch. I'd be pleased if someone could enlighten me.

    I can connect to this comic on a life experience level though, which does amuse me. I am not a parent but was charged with the task of babysitting for a long period of time, which has led me to decide to not ever intentionally have kids. Feeding the kid was the hardest thing, because what he would and would not eat varied from hour to hour. A super delicious mega awesome burger that I prepare isn't edible, but nonfood from McD's is. Popsicles are great! But only light blue ones of a specific brand. Vanilla? Gross. Unless it's vanilla pudding, then it's delicious.

    What the fuck is wrong with you? When I was a kid, when someone asked me what I wanted to eat, I said "food." If it was edible, I'd eat it. Even if it wasn't edible. I'd eat a dead and flat animal carcass off the road that's been sitting next to a piece of tire for a week or so, and when I'd finish I'd start eating the tire. People who would feed me had to push the food toward me with a stick, lest I eat their hand. What the hell do you mean, you won't eat pancakes with blueberries in it? They're blueberries, they're tastier and healthier than the pancakes. Pancakes are bread. You hate bread. Fuck it, just snort some sugar and play a game or something.

    If I do ever accidentally get stuck with a child, it's eating nothing but nutrient space paste. It won't know that there is anything else that you can eat.

    ...if it isn't immediately apparent, I've been holding onto that for a long time. It's nice to get it off my chest.

    /rage

    Lovely comic as always.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    Littlestars, it's a Destiny Taken King comic. Because that came out on Tuesday.

  • LittlestarsLittlestars Registered User regular
    Much appreciated, thank you very much.

  • GDT1985GDT1985 Registered User regular
    Cut her some slack Eris Morn has been through some stuff...apparently.

  • BrushwoodMuttBrushwoodMutt Registered User regular
    Okay this new style is really cool but also it feels different with the shapes, proportions, and more prominent line weight. Both this and the style of the last comic are both good. It'll just be interesting to see how Gabe's art continues to change or whether this is the start of a new style of comic. ^ ^

  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    I like that they used Cade-Maltron 9000 to defuse the plot necessary but over the top nature of Eris Morn.

    What is this I don't even.
  • MaigaardMaigaard Registered User regular
    THESE FRIES ARE LIKE FINGERTIPS ON THE SURFACE OF MY MIIIND

  • RavelleRavelle Registered User regular
    Gabe! You forgot to draw a bubble for "then dip them in ranch" in the first panel!

    I'm not sure what context this comic is supposed to be in, if the naysayer is connected to a game or movie or somesuch. I'd be pleased if someone could enlighten me.

    I can connect to this comic on a life experience level though, which does amuse me. I am not a parent but was charged with the task of babysitting for a long period of time, which has led me to decide to not ever intentionally have kids. Feeding the kid was the hardest thing, because what he would and would not eat varied from hour to hour. A super delicious mega awesome burger that I prepare isn't edible, but nonfood from McD's is. Popsicles are great! But only light blue ones of a specific brand. Vanilla? Gross. Unless it's vanilla pudding, then it's delicious.

    What the fuck is wrong with you? When I was a kid, when someone asked me what I wanted to eat, I said "food." If it was edible, I'd eat it. Even if it wasn't edible. I'd eat a dead and flat animal carcass off the road that's been sitting next to a piece of tire for a week or so, and when I'd finish I'd start eating the tire. People who would feed me had to push the food toward me with a stick, lest I eat their hand. What the hell do you mean, you won't eat pancakes with blueberries in it? They're blueberries, they're tastier and healthier than the pancakes. Pancakes are bread. You hate bread. Fuck it, just snort some sugar and play a game or something.

    If I do ever accidentally get stuck with a child, it's eating nothing but nutrient space paste. It won't know that there is anything else that you can eat.

    ...if it isn't immediately apparent, I've been holding onto that for a long time. It's nice to get it off my chest.

    /rage

    Lovely comic as always.

    Destiny is full of over dramatic and over the top space dialogue, that's what it's specifically referring too.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Is Gabe's friend melting there? What's going on?

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Gabe turned into Phoenix Wright there in the last panel!

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  • LittlestarsLittlestars Registered User regular
    Looks like the text bubble is fixed on the comic page and the forum thread title manually fixed, but the thread still has the old jpeg.
    Ravelle wrote: »
    Destiny is full of over dramatic and over the top space dialogue, that's what it's specifically referring too.
    Thank you for that insight. I've resisted Destiny for a long time but if I'm missing culture cues it's time for me to at least look at some let's plays.

  • ziddersroofurryziddersroofurry Registered User regular
    Gabe's expressions in this are amazing.

  • RatherDashing89RatherDashing89 Registered User regular
    They drew him pretty weird in this comic, but Morn definitely is a chatterbox.
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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited September 2015
    Is anybody else seeing some barely-discernible text around the waist of Gabe's friend in the first panel? I can't make out what it says but it looks almost like there was supposed to be a dialogue bubble down there that didn't make it into the final comic and the text never got removed.

    Edit: Upon peering at it a little more I think it says something about "dip them" (I presume them is the nuggets). Now I am sad because this seems like it could have been pretty funny. And also because I now want chicken nuggets.

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  • Kick_04Kick_04 Registered User regular
    The comic on the mainsite has an extra text bubble in that says "Then dip them in Ranch."

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Fantastic. Humanity's darkest possible futures will be marked by ranch as the only available condiment.

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    They drew him pretty weird in this comic, but Morn definitely is a chatterbox.
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    Not to mention quite the ladies' man.

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  • neptune432neptune432 Registered User regular
    The art style feels slightly different. Maybe it's just the way they drew Gabe. In any case, it looks nice. The facial expressions have really gotten better too. I mean, Gabe's been good at drawing for a while, but this was pretty nice.

  • CEOIIICEOIII Registered User regular
    I hope we get a mission in Destiny, somewhere down the line, where we can fix Eris. I always feel bad for her every time I see her: failed her mission, watched her friends die, survived for years on the moon, now she's like that. I want to help the woman.

  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    Why is that dude melting? Or shrinking?

    My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
  • YoungFreyYoungFrey Registered User regular
    Kagera wrote: »
    Why is that dude melting? Or shrinking?

    That is Eris Morn, she is being overly dramatic.

  • His ShadowHis Shadow Registered User regular
    Ha Ha Ha.

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    CEOIII wrote: »
    I hope we get a mission in Destiny, somewhere down the line, where we can fix Eris. I always feel bad for her every time I see her: failed her mission, watched her friends die, survived for years on the moon, now she's like that. I want to help the woman.
    The Last City needs better mental health services as part of its veteran's benefits.

  • Zoku GojiraZoku Gojira Monster IslandRegistered User regular
    Commander Shepard would be proud of the sense of urgency Gabe is displaying here, in humanity's darkest hour.

    "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
  • occamslaseroccamslaser Registered User new member
    this made me giggle

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Commander Shepard would be proud of the sense of urgency Gabe is displaying here, in humanity's darkest hour.

    I have important model ships to buy. Then I'm going to feed my fish and go to bunk with this week's issue of Fornax.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Not sure if it matters, but the OP of this thread is completely fucked now. There's no comic image, and the link just goes to the current comic.

  • LittlestarsLittlestars Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    Not sure if it matters, but the OP of this thread is completely fucked now. There's no comic image, and the link just goes to the current comic.
    Check out any thread in this forum. The read full story link always goes to the current comic.
    My guess is that the original jpeg for the comic was deleted, being replaced by a corrected version on the main page.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    Not sure if it matters, but the OP of this thread is completely fucked now. There's no comic image, and the link just goes to the current comic.
    Check out any thread in this forum. The read full story link always goes to the current comic.
    Counterpoint: nope.

    Even in the many cases where it does, I'd still argue that's an error.

  • LittlestarsLittlestars Registered User regular
    edited October 2015
    forty wrote: »
    Even in the many cases where it does, I'd still argue that's an error.
    Would you argue for the sake of arguing or because it matters? I don't think it matters, but if I'm wrong and it does matter then I'd speculate that in the few times it doesn't go to the current newspost, it required manual editing because of an actual error, like what happened in this thread. If only there were a forum All-Father, All-Seer and All-Knower who could just lay out how the whole thing works.
    There is, I'm just afraid to invoke his name, even if I had a good reason and this doesn't seem like a good reason.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I'll take Bugs That Don't Matter Enough To Fix for ten Alex

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    Even in the many cases where it does, I'd still argue that's an error.
    Would you argue for the sake of arguing or because it matters?
    Both. I never said anything about the degree to which it mattered. Basically something that would go on the backlog, but just with a low priority.

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