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Penny Arcade - Comic - For The Birds
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Penny Arcade - Comic - For The Birds
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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It is kinda strange that the adults are frozen in time like your typical animated sitcom family, but the kids are aging mostly in real time? Not sure of any other comic/cartoon where time works like this.
There was a period of Mike's refining his art where Gabe (the father) was getting younger looking while his kids aged. There are some comics where Gabe (the father) looks more like a big brother than a dad.
It's great that the other characters evolve while they stay the same.
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...because we know he has a thing for giraffes
Ahem.
Not feeling old enough yet? That post was like five years ago.
I mean... she's imaginary. Given the continuity of the strip, where Gabe and Tycho are both married (separately) with children, unmarried and live together, unmarried and live in separate houses, or where Jerry and Mike also exist and have the same children... it's hard to really make much of that.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2015/06/24/nightlight
This one? 7 years ago ugh
I can think of at least two comics where time works differently for characters:
Peanuts - Sally Brown went from being born to being of school age while the rest of the crew didn't age.
Mafalda - Guile went from being born to speaking and walking normally while the rest of the crew aged one year.
Also a horse in the episode where Bart uses voodoo to help couples conceive
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure the real life inspiration for how she looked.
I'm more shook by the ages of their kids, who I can remember being born. Especially Gabe.
Good examples. I didn't know Sally wasn't one of the original Peanuts gang. I had never heard of Mafalda before this comment.
Though this did make me think of a similar example on the show Rugrats. They introduce a little brother for Tommy, but the other babies don't seem to age at all over the course of the pregnancy and birth. I know we're only talking months, but we're talking about babies, where a few months can be a huge difference.
Not just Sally. Lucy, Linus, Rerun, and Schroeder all debuted as infants.
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This makes it especially amusing that Linus and Charlie Brown are in the same classroom, implying they are in the same grade. Either Linus is a child prodigy or Charlie Brown got held back.
Wanna feel old? If the cast aged in real time, Rerun would be 50 years old right now.
Fun thing I learned today: only the last 2 years of PvP are viewable for free anymore. So as much as I'd like to link that comic, I can't.
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