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Penny Arcade - Comic - Wheel Saint Page 4
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Wheel Saint Page 4
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Compare that to Automata, which I think is their best pitch and biggest success, and we already had a fully formed scenario, a load of characterization for a couple characters, and a well defined world full of anti-robot racism and just so much more than we have here in Wheel Saint. With Wheel Saint, they have given us 4 pages that contain no plot and are struggling to even convey a general concept of what is going on. It's ironic, because it seems like Mike and Jerry are struggling to verbalize it just as much as Sam was on page 2.
They clearly have a story they want to tell here. But so far we have 4 pages and very little substance. All 4 pages could easily be condensed into a single page and nothing would be lost.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
"To save these lost souls, you gotta run 'em down. Just run right over 'em in the street. Get 'em all stuffed and tangled up in the suspension, that's where the salvation is."
Personally, I think one of the main things that helps Japan work well as a country is just... the idea that it should. That we're all in this together, no matter how individual we are or aren't. When there are big disasters like COVID or an earthquake, we work together to fix things - most action is bottom-up, not coming from leaders.
We're not as economically equal as we used to be, but it's still a lot more equal than most developed countries - certain groups of people, e.g. the rich, don't get to leave the rest of us and live in a parallel world. So everyone kinda cares about everything else, because even rich people go to 7-11, use the trains, and send their kids to public school. Working low-paid jobs in my original country was maddening - we always knew we were being exploited and looked down on. But in Japan, while it does suck to be poorer than the average, there isn't this feeling that you're scum because you make minimum wage. And that sounds tiny but is actually magical.
Anyway, it's nice to see Jerry enjoyed himself.
Unless you're someone who is LGBTQIA+.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/world/asia/japan-same-sex-marriage.html
Granted, things are changing but it's not quite 'magical' for everyone.
As far as the comic goes I like the art. I just don't get what cars have to do with religious allegory.
But that's just my best guess based on context clues. They haven't actually told us much of anything. We've gotten a lot of neat artwork and very little story substance.
Not related to what I said. I said that the effects of economic equality and a lack of internalization of class prejudice are more magical than one would expect, not that Japan is magical.
But there's homophobia almost everywhere, sadly. Though I can understand it can be hard to see that if you're from America, the EU, or one of those other countries that doesn't such have bigotry, probably because of the Christian influence and the inherent goodness of white people.
There is the occasional habit of freelance comic (and other) artists to combine two action clichés into one either for comedy or "twice the awesomeness". In this case it is basically fighting preacherman combined with Speed Racer (or Fast and the Furious for westerners). The last time I remember this from PA is Paint the Line that basically combines action sports comic with cold war movie.