Penny Arcade - Comic - Littler

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Littler

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

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armatur3

This comic gave me such a Berkeley Breathed vibe. I'm really enjoying watching the growth and metamorphosis of your style, man.

JonK

Beautiful art, but the letters are awful; they really distracted me from the joke which was excellent

Locke6854

Does Kara have that half shaved head hairstyle?

Speeth

Wow, they put a lot of effort into carving that chair--one imagines Noah is not its sole occupant. That, or they're REALLY convinced...

zeromh

It must be interesting being Mike or Jerry's kid. One day, someone will want to know how those kids behaved when they were young, and that person will be able to simply *look it up online.*

briguy

Haha.
I'm looking forward to what they come up when Little Gabe hits the teenage years.

Chiselphane

Agree, the lettering is distracting. Almost like italics, are they whispering the whole time? Big points for the 100% accurate parent-sitting-in-child-seat pose Gabe's got going on though. You can tell a lot about the personality of your kid's teacher if he/she has you sit in one of those and then either A: sits in one themselves, putting them on your level or B: remains in their own personal adult chair, so that they can, you know, kind of look down on you.

The letters thing hits home though, they call them 'Think Sheets' in our kids school and it can be difficult to know the 'right' thing to do about them. They're usually not for outright bad behavior but more like "Your daughter was talking during class" We're always like "...and?" I mean of course she should learn the rules and follow them, but unless she's trying to collect souls again (yes this happened and yes I was amused but yes I told her to stop) maybe it can just be a school thing?

Delzhand

Chiselphane wrote: »

...unless she's trying to collect souls again (yes this happened and yes I was amused but yes I told her to stop) maybe it can just be a school thing?

Bearer of the curse, seek souls. Larger, more powerful souls.

SolaceInRage

Might want to look into home schooling, or a specialty school where it's not unusual to be the child of an influential celebrity with a wildly successful charity and growing media empire. No matter how normal you try to raise them in that situation, there are things they just aren't going to identify with regular public school kids about, and aspects of his life like the exposure from growing up as an honest to god comic star adored by hordes of fans the regular kids wouldn't get as well.

fightinfilipino

Delzhand wrote: »

Chiselphane wrote: »

...unless she's trying to collect souls again (yes this happened and yes I was amused but yes I told her to stop) maybe it can just be a school thing?

Bearer of the curse, seek souls. Larger, more powerful souls.

this is why i plan to send my future offspring to school with soul gems at the ready. teach them to reduce waste and be able to charge their own enchantments.

Talyn Rahl

Haha oh man I'm trying to type this with tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. One of my favourite PA in recent memory. EVERY aspect of this comic is 100% on point.

Great joke, killer punchline and the artwork/layout are both beautiful.

A++, neither Gabe nor Tycho need to sit in the Hitler chair .

OmegaDez

Is the woman in the back supposed to be Kara?
Why are the wives changing desings all the time, but the guys always remain the same?

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TFXRaven

I really like this "borderless" style. Keep it up!

Bobble

Lovin' what appears to be a vault 111 sweatshirt.

Golden Yak

OmegaDez wrote: »

Is the woman in the back supposed to be Kara?
Why are the wives changing desings all the time, but the guys always remain the same?

We don't see the wives that often, though the guys have certainly changed in style over the years. If you're talking about their outfits, it could be because Gabe and Tycho are made up cartoon people but the wives are based on real life people with evolving tastes in outfits, hairstyles, etc.

darkmayo

OmegaDez wrote: »

Is the woman in the back supposed to be Kara?
Why are the wives changing desings all the time, but the guys always remain the same?

Because just Gabe and Tycho are like Goku and Vegeta , they don't change hair styles (GT doesn't count) meanwhile Kara and Brenna are like Bulma and Chi Chi, they are allowed to have different hairstyles, glasses, battle armor, complete control over the lives of their husbands.

mare_imbrium

I love so much that they only had one adult-sized chair for visitors and so Gabe had to sit in a tiny chair.

WordLust

mare_imbrium wrote: »

I love so much that they only had one adult-sized chair for visitors and so Gabe had to sit in a tiny chair.

Maybe that's what they told him, but the truth is that only adults can sit in adult chairs. ;-)

NotoriusBEN

At least Gabe's kid has goals for the future...

ironhead

NotoriusBEN wrote: »

At least Gabe's kid has goals for the future...

Agreed. It's good for kids to dream big. You don't want to them to grow up to be just any old genocidal tyrant. You should encourage them to be the genocidal tyrant.

WordLust

Maybe he'll even have his own internet law one day.

Rius

Gabe in the little kid's chair is awesome. I love how when Mike needs to fill background, you see the Merch more often than not.

MichaelLC

WordLust wrote: »

Maybe he'll even have his own internet law one day.

Then he should get the Aku chair.

Morninglord

That is a glorious background. I love how the conversation unfolds across one large panel but still feels like a three panel punchline.
And the little ones chair.

MacMcCrack

love the borders/ backgound on this one. I had to re-read the second panel, but its probably just because I don't have kids.

Talyn Rahl

OMG I just noticed the Hitlet chair is in the background and it's a carved wooden chair with a Swastika on XD.

This comic gets funnier the more I look at it.

awsomesaucekirby

Love the Vault 111 sweatshirt Kara's wearing. Don't think anyone brought it up.

belligerent

So, after picking up my kid at daycare last night to be told he had to sit in the "thinking chair" because he choked one of the other kids, this comic really does hit close to home.

fucking funny, though.

rembrandtqeinstein

So is that hitler chair going to available in the penny arcade store?.....I'm asking for a friend

ziddersroofurry

I'm so glad I don't have to go through the horrors of public school and bs like 'zero tolerance' and 'better choices' chairs.

Fiendishrabbit

Sadly the Hitler chair would never work in a real school. The kids would be competing in stupidity to sit in the "cool chair".

Commander Zoom

Yeah, that was my thought. Along with "so you made a chair to encourage those tendencies?"