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Penny Arcade - Comic - Evolution
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Evolution
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I'm not saying the borders should be sketchy. The black to white changeover is what I was referring to.
Tucking him in, reading him a bedtime story. Going in for a kiss. But it is forbidden.
He sang to him once when he was sick.
Agreed, though it's from a bit further along.
People gripe about Mike changing the art style, but he did it a LOT in a very short time back in the early days as well.
Discord:robotman5#0541
I'm sure they have nearly the same feeling
I like his art though. And the First 15s. And all the shit.
You can earn some bonus points for complaining about 'satanic influence'.
Mikes repeated the statement that he doesn't in any way blame the person who makes the games, he blames Sony for letting them onto a console before they are a "complete package" in his eyes. That's not to justify it, just to round out the image you're giving.
It's also a recurrent theme that Mike knows that he's a weirdo and things that are important to him are just as bullshit as the things he thinks are bullshit even though other people like them. See also:
I think it's possible he sometimes engages in hyperbole. X)
I try to keep the perspective that if it wasn't for his personality quirks (and god knows we each have our own unique ones), a lot of the humor that makes PA the comic that it is wouldn't be there. Gabe isn't just a wacky character made up from scratch. First 15 and DLC are just a peek behind the curtain.
Was the "if Duke Nukem ever comes out" comic just a copy, or trace, of an original panel rather than a redraw? Because that really did look perfect.
For reference, this is the Duke Nukem comic.
You can see in the last panel how Mike's style has continued to, ah, change.
I dunno. Being creative is so confusing, Mostly I just wish I had the energy and focus to do ANYthing creative. My health ain't what it used to be and it makes it so it's rare I draw or write at all.
It's just you, because nobody else was out there counting fingers.
Serious answer: it's just the toilet boil showing between his ring and pinky fingers.
I'm going to just skip over the change from 5 to 4 to 5 digits.
I count 5 fingers (the normal number), but there is definitely color between the pinky and ring fingers, so I think it's just an art goof.
Huh. I had to go back to the original comic and zoom it to believe your image. For whatever reason, my brain is filling in that space with toilet boil color, when seen at normal scale. Probably the same with Mike.
Does this one go with Snake Pass and Snipperclips as "some of the best games on the system that don't get to considered 'real games'"? I mean, not that I'm complaining that they're priced lower than "real games"...
I used the Club PA high-res version. I really only use it for these "look at that weird detail" conversations.
I'm not really in the games dev industry, so what I'm saying may be completely off-base. But I am a programmer, so at least there's that. I'd say even if it's a "reskin", they probably wrote the code from scratch (different platforms, and all). It being a reskin might actually make that worse, since you have to have your code match that original's timing near-perfectly rather than just have it do its own thing. So you got your man-hours in that.
Plus they had to get it working and tested on PC and a bunch of consoles. And I think they have to pay licensing fees to get on the consoles. If it has the polish of a new game, I can see $26 being a very fair price. It's not like the people developing it now got all the money from the version you paid for when you were five.