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Penny Arcade - Comic - Olfactorum
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Olfactorum
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Smells like heresy!
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Do you guys know "Shibumi"? When I was younger I read it straight and it seemed very serious spy thriller fiction. Of course, it's not believable (it's fiction!) but you can read it straight and certainly as a younger man it hits pretty hard. I enjoyed it so much I read it several times over the years.
More recently I read somewhere that you can also read it as parody, because of how hard it hammers various spy-fiction tropes. Since I was informed of that, I re-read the book deliberately trying to "see-through" the self-seriousness of it and I agree, you can perfectly interpret the book as sending up the genre and subtly pointing out the ridiculousness of it all. I don't know if it ruined the book for me or took my appreciation of it to another level.
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