[PA Comic] Monday, April 20, 2015 - Bass Ackwards

Dog · April 2015

[PA Comic] Monday, April 20, 2015 - Bass Ackwards

Bass Ackwards

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/04/20

Dorauko · April 2015

I wonder if this would be similar to how the drivers-Ed course would go for one of these. I mean, you have to have a special AT-AT license right?

Enlong · April 2015

*sounds of an owl trying to peck through the windows*

jz78817 · April 2015

I got a good laugh out of this one. 'cos you know this is the kind of behind-the-scenes drudgery which would happen.

HeWhoSees · April 2015

See, this is why they only used AT-STs.

Daimar · April 2015

The Imperials are invading the Eyrewood!

palidine40 · April 2015

Sir, we were going the wrong way anyway, but no you cut me off so ...

Lucascraft · April 2015

This reminds me of their Battlefield comic from a few years ago in which people were spawn camping airplanes and then immediately crashing them.

Gaslight · April 2015

Now see, this one area where the old Juggernaut has the advantage over the AT-AT. You have another driver in a whole 'nother cockpit at the other end to take over, for just such a situation as this.

(And also because the ponderous piece of junk can't turn like, barely at all.)

Rottonapple · April 2015

HeWhoSees wrote: »

See, this is why they only used AT-STs.

Nope. They used AT-ATs on Endor as well. When Luke surrendered and was delivered to Vadar, it was in a AT-AT. *fixes glasses*
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w-HFv6Ms1lw

fightinfilipino · April 2015

Rottonapple wrote: »

HeWhoSees wrote: »

See, this is why they only used AT-STs.

Nope. They used AT-ATs on Endor as well. When Luke surrendered and was delivered to Vadar, it was in a AT-AT. *fixes glasses*
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w-HFv6Ms1lw

i...never noticed that before. huh.

Iamdude · April 2015

Please tell me there is a podcast for this one.

hippofant · April 2015

HeWhoSees wrote: »

See, this is why they only used AT-STs.

I won't lie. Just looked this up on the Star Wars wiki:

As a direct result of the losses inflicted on the Empire in Endor, AT-STs were later forbidden from being deployed onto worlds composed extensively of forests or natives with primitive weaponry.[7]

Trogdor6135 · April 2015

Hilarious. The story Tycho posted along with this cracks me up too.

Donnicton · April 2015

I never understood the bipolar nature of imperial doctrine as it applied to the military. They're all swarms of disposable yet supremely agile shitships in space for the rank and file but when it comes to ground forces it suddenly becomes a comically clunky contingent of unwieldy walker bots. You'd think a galaxy so close to its technological pinnacle, you'd at least see something more like those cheating-ass spider-bots from Binary Domain just not giving a fuck about the terrain, launching itself from tree to tree raining down pure death on the Ewoks.

KoopahTroopah · April 2015

Can we speculate on this here?

Just a little tease.

-Gabe out

What does it mean? :huh: Are they doing a full comic based on a DnD campaign with their characters?

Sicaris · April 2015

Registered just to speculate wildly. This is the cast from the zombie mall series if I am not mistaken. I'm saying either a second "season" or wishlisting, a game based on it (either board or computer).

KoopahTroopah · April 2015

Yeah, you're definitely right. I completely forgot about that mini series.

Donnicton · April 2015

Sicaris wrote: »

Registered just to speculate wildly. This is the cast from the zombie mall series if I am not mistaken. I'm saying either a second "season" or wishlisting, a game based on it (either board or computer).

I would maybe probably totally buy a Penny Arcane version of Talisman.

nrcole · April 2015

ARMADEADDON!

It took me a few minutes to put it together. Couldn't figure out what was going on in the background. Then I noticed Frank, and all the blood. Finally, I made the connection with Skeleton Jim in the background.

Oh, and Gabe's holding a Cinnabon.

ziddersroofurry · April 2015

I like how the AT-AT looks kinda like a dump truck lol. I totally heard the noise when I read the last panel.

Sicaris · April 2015

Oh its the Cinnabon! I couldn't quite figure it out.

darleysam · April 2015

I'm just going to throw my wishes into the ether, that the tease is somehow for a season of Acquisitions Incorporated videos. Because I would pay handsomely for that.

Randomfool · April 2015

Personally, I'm hoping for another Penny-Arcade Game expansion.

YoungFrey · April 2015

The comic was Armadeaddon. If anybody wants to relive the magic.

Praxus1874 · April 2015

All right, so I wasn't going to say anything, but I am kind of curious if anyone else misinterpreted this comic as badly as I did at first glance.

When I first saw it, I thought the AT-AT was trying to sneak through the forest, and the *crack* sound alerted the rebels, which then caused them to get target locked by off-panel missile launchers, hence the *beep beep beep* sound. The joke of course being that AT-AT's could sneak.

After I spent more than 2 seconds looking at it, it was obvious that my first interpretation was wrong, but I kind of think that an AT-AT sneaking through the forest is funnier? Probably just me.

quazi420 · April 2015

I doubt it's Acquisitions Incorporated. AI is a WotC deal and the teaser picture shows the characters from the Armadeaddon strips.

Could be a graphic novel, or one of those "animated comics" with mostly still art, but have full voice acting. We could dream of an animated series, but i doubt Mike has the time to draw it all himself.

YoungFrey · April 2015

quazi420 wrote: »

I doubt it's Acquisitions Incorporated. AI is a WotC deal and the teaser picture shows the characters from the Armadeaddon strips.

Could be a graphic novel, or one of those "animated comics" with mostly still art, but have full voice acting. We could dream of an animated series, but i doubt Mike has the time to draw it all himself.

Mike didn't draw the Lookouts comics, so I see no reason why they couldn't do an animated show without him. Or with just minimal high level input.

quazi420 · April 2015

YoungFrey wrote: »

quazi420 wrote: »

I doubt it's Acquisitions Incorporated. AI is a WotC deal and the teaser picture shows the characters from the Armadeaddon strips.

Could be a graphic novel, or one of those "animated comics" with mostly still art, but have full voice acting. We could dream of an animated series, but i doubt Mike has the time to draw it all himself.

Mike didn't draw the Lookouts comics, so I see no reason why they couldn't do an animated show without him. Or with just minimal high level input.

Lookouts and the rest of the Eyrewood is a large sandbox though, without, so far, a main character. So yeah, let other artists go nuts.

The Armadeaddon comics have so many main characters from the strip (Gabe, Tycho, Charles, Annarchy, FF) I would hope it wouldn't be passed to someone else.

KoopahTroopah · April 2015

They could do what Egoraptor does with Studio Yatta. Mike would just draw solid lines of keyframes, Jerry would write words or they would both records words, and Mike could direct the studio to do the in between animations and colors.

Though I agree just handing the project with their main characters to someone else would be strange.

H3Knuckles · April 2015

I would hope that they get voice actors for the characters; like Tycho's appearance in Poker Night at the Inventory. I really liked that.

Tycho and Gabe are based on Jerry and Mike, but they aren't them in many important ways, and I don't feel like J&M's voices fit the characters they have created.

YoungFrey · April 2015

H3Knuckles wrote: »

I would hope that they get voice actors for the characters; like Tycho's appearance in Poker Night at the Inventory. I really liked that.

Tycho and Gabe are based on Jerry and Mike, but they aren't them in many important ways, and I don't feel like J&M's voices fit the characters they have created.

I'd totally support Cameron Lauder for Tycho.

sawells · July 2016

I still think the newspost that goes with this one is the best piece of Star Wars fanfic ever written.

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