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The Fall of The Trenches
IcyFuses
Deprived Artist i check the forum oftenRegistered User regular
Deprived Artist i check the forum oftenRegistered User regular
I’m pretty sure everyone is aware that the Trenches comic has died for a while already. What remained was a husk of a former collaboration between Penny Arcade and PvP. The website would stay up for the next several years when it ended, which was the time when I started reading it.(i know im late to the party)
Every now and then I would return to the website and start reading through the tales section. I went to trenchescomic.com today. Server didn’t respond. So, this officially commemorates the death of the abandoned website. This could possibly be a bug within the site or the website payments being cancelled, though I wouldn’t get my hopes too high. You can check it out yourself.
Every now and then I would return to the website and start reading through the tales section. I went to trenchescomic.com today. Server didn’t respond. So, this officially commemorates the death of the abandoned website. This could possibly be a bug within the site or the website payments being cancelled, though I wouldn’t get my hopes too high. You can check it out yourself.
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Well, given that she wound up in the middle of one of the largest scandals in Western animation, it's not surprising that she went to ground given everything.
What was that?
Yeah, I never paid attention to this comic but I am curious to hear more details about this.
It came out (when everything came out about the whole fucked up situation) that she was one of John K's victims. We had discussed it in the Western Animation thread when everything came out.
The good news is that despite the horrible situation, she went on to become an animation director, and was one of the primary directors of the Animaniacs reboot. I know feelings are mixed about that show, but the animation there is sharp and creative.
Regardless sucks that she had to go through that, but good for her that she seems to have a good career going.
I went back recently and watched some of the Scott and Kris show, PAtv, Blams, Strip Search, etc from that era.
I'd say like 2008-2015 were some big years for PA and a lot of good work was coming out of the environment they were fostering there.
Kinda sad it's no longer the case, but I also imagine it's still fun, there's just not a full time film crew there documenting it.
"HEE WUZ DED!" Just slayed me when I first heard it.
probably just there for cosmetics. could be imprinted within the website.
It's only there on the forum bar.
It's more likely they just forgot it exists because they aren't checking the forum bar.
that sounds more like a reasonable statement
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And that's the thing - it was uncomfortable enough when the anecdotes were "I never see my family because I'm always at work." Now, after everything came out at ABK? You can't and shouldn't make light about "a woman was so severely sexually assaulted and harassed that she committed suicide." It's gone from "ha ha sob" to "get your torches and pitchforks here, folks."
I don't think there were stories in The Trenches about sexual assault and suicide? Mostly just anecdotes about weird projects and crazy managers.
There's a ton of people working in game dev, there's many stories to tell. Some horrible, some funny, some inspiring, some mundane AF. Compare it to a appreciating a travel anecdote from someone visiting Thailand, a story about something weird a local Thai businessman made and being terrified by the gut wrenching stories about human trafficking. Even with the latter there, you can still have those other stories as well.
At this point I'm pretty sure most folks don't know or care what "PAX" stands for, and that con is barely associated with Penny Arcade these days anyways
This website and forum and even the webcomic itself are all essentially an appendix at this point, let alone the Trenches or the other side comics
Kurtz was growing his own brand and the art duties went to a rotation of artists, and they eventually went on to other projects and I guess things ended. Considering the desire to get back to basics, I can guess that it wasn’t worth keeping the Trenches going with yet another artist when the goal was fewer projects. There’s been no official word as to why Trenches was discontinued, but there’s a decent guess.
Or, if you need a dramatic implosion: it was shut down after an artist was caught eating a live baby on camera.
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I don't think I have been on the main PA page in a decade.
I still check out the comic, but I just come here for the forum... maybe if PA featured more of that sexy manbeast Kris "manimal" Straub I would be more diligent about visiting the front page.
I just want more Broodhollow..... but I would also take more Blams
It doesn't help that at some point they changed the main page to be barely readable on desktops.
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And then later the guy in question posted his own tale and was basically something like "Yeah, that guy was me, also the game system was D&D so of fucking course we had to be overly anal about getting it perfect or the players would be pissed".
I hold a fondness for the comic to this day, and own (as far as I know) all of the book collections they've released. Maybe it wasn't profitable or the time/effort versus RoI wasn't working out but I did like having that collection and series of tales told alongside them.
Robert Khoo created them a media empire, and it turned out they super didn't want to run a media empire. That's totally valid! But Khoo left and G&T didn't seem to have much of a plan for the system shutdown. Which is super on-brand for PA minus Khoo, unfortunately
As far as my interaction with the front page, I have a hard time distinguishing between Jerry's nicknames for Mike/virtual characters/actual people I am not familiar with, so it makes some things harder to parse than they should be, especially with regards to their streams.
I can't keep up with livestreams, although I always like Kiko, Dabe, Ryan Hartman, Laura (from Work) and Josh. I think they should update https://www.penny-arcade.com/about and https://www.twitch.tv/pennyarcade/about to also have some information about the other people who do shows or make stuff for PA.
My exact reaction
No, see Dabe is Dabe and Gabe is Gorb, Jim, Gabriel, uncle Jim, uncle Gabe... uhh
Serious answer, though :
Dabe has been with PA for like 8 years as their main graphic designer. If there's a graphic element on something from PA, it's probably from him (pins, T-shirts, websites, decals, banners etc). He also streams a bunch on the Twitch
Their 30th anniversary is in 4 years.
And all those people live in that one apartment?
Hope they got rid of Jim's skeleton at least.