Penny Arcade - Comic - Zapology

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Zapology

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

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dennis

I love that Tycho just shows up to correct Gabe's prose, then vanishes again.

Tofystedeth

dennis wrote: »

I love that Tycho just shows up to correct Gabe's prose, then vanishes again.

Tycho saw a place where the prose was insufficiently florid and said "No, this will not do. "

Edit: fixed quote for reference accuracy.

Dirty

It's so weird that Gabe & Tycho are doing the classic "frozen in time" thing where they never seem to age, despite time clearly marching on in the things they reference, while the kid just keeps growing and growing. Never aging is a staple of comic strips, but it usually applies to the whole cast.

Knuckle Dragger

Dirty wrote: »

It's so weird that Gabe & Tycho are doing the classic "frozen in time" thing where they never seem to age, despite time clearly marching on in the things they reference, while the kid just keeps growing and growing. Never aging is a staple of comic strips, but it usually applies to the whole cast.

I'm waiting for the day when the kids look at them and say, "Hey, Dad, do you remember when we were younger than you?

dennis

Dirty wrote: »

It's so weird that Gabe & Tycho are doing the classic "frozen in time" thing where they never seem to age, despite time clearly marching on in the things they reference, while the kid just keeps growing and growing. Never aging is a staple of comic strips, but it usually applies to the whole cast.

Have you seen Jerry? He IS frozen in time.


2006


2019

The only two ways to date a Jerry picture are by a) the glasses and b) if it was before or after they recast Mike with Dick Sargent.





(Also, this is the first time I've ever noticed that Dick Sargent is kind of a porn star name.)

DemonStacey

First off wow Mike looks so much better with that bit of extra weight. I had forgotten.

Also, in a comic form like this a person in the age range of "adult" doesn't really need to have anything change to age them.

At any point you can just say they are whatever adult age they are, look at the drawing and say "yea that makes sense."

dennis

DemonStacey wrote: »

Also, in a comic form like this a person in the age range of "adult" doesn't really need to have anything change to age them.

At any point you can just say they are whatever adult age they are, look at the drawing and say "yea that makes sense."

How wrong you are. There are a great many subtle ways to show they've aged.

Phoenix-D

That's going for elderly not just older.

zeromh

The whole age comparison is made weirder by the fact that Mike's current drawing style makes Gabe and Tycho look *younger* than they did a few years ago.

Dirty

G&T are energy vampires, feeding off the youth of their children to grow younger.

MaximumSquid

I feel like this could be a Seinfeld episode if for some reason they rebooted it and one of the characters had a long lost son that wanted to get into gaming

Brutask

It's been a long road. There was quite the curse.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2018/09/17

Tofystedeth

Gabe's tech curse goes waaay back. At least to 2008 if you're only counting negative energy fields and not just bad decisions.