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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Hour Is Ripe

DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
edited January 2019 in The Penny Arcade Hub

imagePenny Arcade - Comic - The Hour Is Ripe

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

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Husks is a pretty good name for what I assume are corn zombies

    Although this could also just be farming, I guess

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    clearly the correct term is Coblins

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  • Oswald777Oswald777 Registered User new member
    Maize Men

  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    Husks is pretty perfect.

    Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
  • YoungFreyYoungFrey Registered User regular
    Oswald777 wrote: »
    Maize Men

    Maizombies?

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    clearly the correct term is Coblins

    Those are lesser Husks, wherein a subtle failure of the rite raises a smaller, stunted being

  • noxumbranoxumbra Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Don't forget the much more aggressive Hobcoblins ( or Cobcoblins???)

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  • MarcinMNMarcinMN Registered User regular
    Husken Raiders

    "It's just as I've always said. We are being digested by an amoral universe."

    -Tycho Brahe
  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    MarcinMN wrote: »
    Husken Raiders

    Or Huskin Robbins for sneak-focused builds.

  • DelzhandDelzhand Agrias Fucking Oaks Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Whatever you call them, they're going to peel off your skin, tear out your hair, boil you, and eat the salted and buttered flesh off your bones.

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Do you have to throw lye on them to lower their defensive bonus?

    (Of course, throwing lye on most things would lower its defensive bonus...)

  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    The first campaign into this world should be called "The Reaping."

  • lpfan678lpfan678 Registered User new member
    Consider: "Shucklings"

  • RaltarRaltar Registered User new member
    Cornpires. The name is very satisfying to say. The sun only makes them Growwww!

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    The first campaign into this world should be called "The Reaping."

    I'm pretty sure "Dark Harvest" is in there. As well as "Evil Stalks the Land."

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    Raltar wrote: »
    Cornpires. The name is very satisfying to say. The sun only makes them Growwww!

    Capital: Cornopolis. After Polenta was razed in The Third Kernel War.

  • PapaSteveRocksPapaSteveRocks Registered User new member
    The leaders are Kernels, That's easy.

    The soldiers? Grits! Hominy? Innumerable!

  • YoungFreyYoungFrey Registered User regular
    lpfan678 wrote: »
    Consider: "Shucklings"

    "shuck" is definitely the go-to swear word for that campaign.

  • rjsuttonitrjsuttonit Registered User new member
    "hominins", inspired by hominy, which is just bastard corn.

  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    "We need more butter for the Jiffy Pop at sector C-7!"

    *watches a B-52 carpet bomb a fortified Husk position with napalm*

    *the stench of burnt popcorn permeates the area like an office break room*

    “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
    Law and Order ≠ Justice
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  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    Oswald777 wrote: »
    Maize Men
    Funnily enough a game about this (Sentient Corn) exists already:
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/284240/Maize/

  • dave1974dave1974 Registered User new member
    Cornquerers? Cornmandoes? Maizecenaries? The leader has to be Colonel Kernal.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
  • Bohemian_FunkBohemian_Funk Registered User new member
    Damn, somebody totally beat me to "Maizemen", but I agree with Tim and Tycho. Cornborn FTW

  • OverkillengineOverkillengine Registered User regular
    Their plans were set to bear a bountiful harvest...

    ...until the day they met the Dread Combine. In space, no one can hear corn be creamed.

  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    I think I still would go with Husks, in this instance.

    Now if, say some Husks rebelled, and escaped to the wilds, and discovered magical means of reproducing, as opposed to being summoned out of the ground from nothing, then those new free Husk children I would say should call themselves Cornborn.

    And if that magical means of reproducing involved, say, a giant ear of corn, where each kernel housed inside of its swollen form the devloping fetus of a Cornborn husk, you wouldn't be too out on a limb if you had that child tell an adventuring traveler that they and their siblings were born on the cob.

  • JackJack Registered User regular
    Husker Knights, of course.

  • SmokeyBearSmokeyBear Registered User new member
    Corn Stalkers.

  • Hawk oneHawk one Registered User regular
    You people are all on the wrong track with regards to why some wizard must orginally have used all their dark arts to create these thing.

    Obviously they are corncubines.

    But signatures don't really work, do they?
  • Golden YakGolden Yak Burnished Bovine The sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
    I love this. I love the world of Loam.

    "The world is tainted by the Blacksoil, the Un-earth Blight. The heroes must seek out and liberate rare deposits of Puresoil, so that True Vegetables may be grown for the beleaguered enclaves."

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  • OctoberRavenOctoberRaven Plays fighting games for the story Skyeline Hotel Apartment 4ARegistered User regular
    Kernel-Soggoth

    Currently Most Hype For: VTMB2, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Alan Wake 2 (Wake Harder)Currently Playin: Guilty Gear XX AC+R, Gat Out Of Hell
  • wickednoonewickednoone Registered User new member
    Call them "Ears".
    People of the towns can say things like, "Watch what you say...there're Ears everywhere these days".

  • darklaodarklao Registered User regular
    Cornfolk, from Culdcept
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    imo the goto for this dark summoning would be "Cereal Killers"

  • ZomagicZomagic Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    I think I still would go with Husks, in this instance.

    Now if, say some Husks rebelled, and escaped to the wilds, and discovered magical means of reproducing, as opposed to being summoned out of the ground from nothing, then those new free Husk children I would say should call themselves Cornborn.

    And if that magical means of reproducing involved, say, a giant ear of corn, where each kernel housed inside of its swollen form the devloping fetus of a Cornborn husk, you wouldn't be too out on a limb if you had that child tell an adventuring traveler that they and their siblings were born on the cob.

    ...

    ....

    .....

    Is this real life?

    PS, I would love to be your friend, how do I get in touch? XD

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  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    darklao wrote: »
    Cornfolk, from Culdcept
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    It puzzles me that the main problem I have with this image is the kernels on the arms...

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    dennis wrote: »
    darklao wrote: »
    Cornfolk, from Culdcept
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    It puzzles me that the main problem I have with this image is the kernels on the arms...

    Sometimes there's only so much disbelief we can suspend, and line seems to always land on tinier details the more outlandish the main idea is.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    I think I still would go with Husks, in this instance.

    Now if, say some Husks rebelled, and escaped to the wilds, and discovered magical means of reproducing, as opposed to being summoned out of the ground from nothing, then those new free Husk children I would say should call themselves Cornborn.

    And if that magical means of reproducing involved, say, a giant ear of corn, where each kernel housed inside of its swollen form the devloping fetus of a Cornborn husk, you wouldn't be too out on a limb if you had that child tell an adventuring traveler that they and their siblings were born on the cob.

    Their descendants would be children on the corn.

  • NatabusNatabus Registered User new member
    Cobb-Goblins.

  • NekoPanzerNekoPanzer Registered User regular
    Brings back memories of El Seed from The Tick animated series.

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