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Penny Arcade - Comic - Everything Old Is New Again
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Everything Old Is New Again
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Not maybe.
That's 100% what it is.
You don't know anything about making comics son.
I mean, that's fine but neither character moves in three panels. There's one panel of dialog. The backgrounds are solid colours. I feel pretty comfortable making an observation of my opinion, regardless of my lack of knowledge regarding the intricacies of comic-making.
I understand that not every comic out of a million is going to be groundbreaking but it's not an unreasonable conclusion that this one wasn't a gem.
But.. the joke works best in that environment. More dialogue and movement would oversell it.
Jew Lemon was kinda phoned in. The joke kinda meh, and only 2 panels were really drawn (top and bottom), and then the other 4 were just changes to roughly 5% of the the other panels. It was worth a chuckle but it was phoned in.
You didn't say the comic was bad though. Do that all you want. You said that the comic was lazy. It isn't lazy. Everything in it is designed to create a particular effect as efficiently as possible.
I didn't say it was lazy, either, though I implied it. My intention in saying that it was "phoned in like they didn't even care" was that the "particular effect" that everything in it was designed for was, in my opinion, lackluster and was far below the usual quality of the other comics. The joke is, I think, not great. The comic is, I think, not great and definitely below their usual quality of work. If my personal opinion of an assessment is that the comic produced is significantly below the usual quality (both in design and in joke) when I know that they could have made a (subjectively) better one, that fits my criteria for "phoning it in". Just because the comic was designed to create the effect of that joke does not mean that either the joke or the comic isn't below what I expected of it.
I'm genuinely not trying to argue this. It was an offhand comment about me not thinking they "gave 110%" on this joke. Seriously, not worth arguing about.
'Not trying to argue' doesn't mean 'keep arguing'.
That's fair. I think I should've said something more along the lines of, "I don't see why it's such an issue that I didn't like the comic."
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/01/13 and https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/06/23
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That's the thing, it's not that you didn't like the comic, anybody's seriously free to not like it, it's just that accusing them of 'phoning it in' and describing why you believe that to be the case, it's stating a lot more than just that it didn't meet your personal tastes. I'm not trying to have a go at you, we cool, I'm just trying to explain what happened.
and http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-KHKhcZn/0/1050x10000/i-KHKhcZn-1050x10000.jpg
how much this is actually reflective of Mike and Jerry themselves, idk
I don't know; maybe it's just Tycho's that feel over the top.