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Penny Arcade - Comic - Skirmish, Part One
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Skirmish, Part One
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Mike and Jerry don't read the forums. Technically Mike has posted here a handful of times, but it's been years now and it looks like those posts are deleted.
<edit: apparently I had his user ID wrong.>
I thought it was funny in combination with the "we have to make them ourselves" line.
Someone in another thread pointed out that as Mike hand painted these, if he posts them in the comic at least SOMEONE will see them.
poor mini fig collectors.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Except you don't have to paint Legos after putting the model together.
Unless FFG got him to paint the minis they've been using in all the promo shots since the game was announced last year, he didn't. It looks like he just drew over them in whatever software he uses to make them look more cartoony. Either way I doubt Mike or Jerry own that image though it could have an open license since I've seen it all over the place in various blogs and online retailers.
I could also be completely wrong, but I don't think I am.
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Huh. I only care because this screws with the idea of a meta joke embedded in the comic. Can you provide a link to one of those promo shots?
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/1/30/a-window-to-the-star-wars-galaxy/
The poses are definitely similar. Hard to say if it's an actual altered image in the comic though. I would expect that someone of Mike's talent would easily be able to make likenesses of them freehand.
-Tycho Brahe
2nd photo is the same minis rearranged: https://www.waylandgames.co.uk/star-wars-legion/46097-star-wars-legion-core-set
1st & 3rd image, 3rd being the exact image used: https://www.tabletopempires.com.au/Star-Wars-Legion-Miniatures-Game-Core-Set
Header image on this blog post from August 2017: http://www.dicetowernews.com/fantasy-flight-games-announces-star-wars-legion-a-miniatures-game/46563
And here's that same image taken by a phone camera from an announcement seminar:
Really just do a google image search for 'Star Wars Legion empire' and it comes up quite a bit, the image from the blog post being the very first image to show up in the results. The most telling parts are the exact shape and positioning of the rocks on Vader's base and the fact that Vader's base rim is a very slightly different shade of brown that the stormtrooper's.
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I'd rather he used his own minis simply because I'd like to see them.
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