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Best. Penny Arcade. Strip. Ever.

The_pantless_hero
29-08-2007, 20:37
Even better than Claw Shrimp and that shit was hard to top.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/08/29
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/20070829.jpg


Simultaneous combination of a controversial show and perfect innuendo, and then applied gaming scenario.
Khadgar
29-08-2007, 20:57
I've never found PA particularly funny, clearly not much has changed.
Fassigen
29-08-2007, 21:00
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031203h.gif

This is the best Penny Arcade strip.
The_pantless_hero
29-08-2007, 21:03
I've never found PA particularly funny, clearly not much has changed.
Because you need two things to find it funny
1) Some knowledge of gaming
2) A sense of humor
Deus Malum
29-08-2007, 21:04
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031203h.gif

This is the best Penny Arcade strip.

Meh, CAD is better. VG Cats would be better if Scott Ramsoomair would update more than once per aeon.
Dundee-Fienn
29-08-2007, 21:05
2) A sense of humor

Strange thing humour. It's subjective dontcha know
The_pantless_hero
29-08-2007, 21:06
CAD would be funnier if it wasn't a continuous story. Continuous stories arn't that funny because there can be no decisive punch lines. VGCats is good, except not only does he update very rarely, he has no damn schedule. He just throws shit on his site when he feels like it.
Khadgar
29-08-2007, 21:10
Because you need two things to find it funny
1) Some knowledge of gaming
2) A sense of humor

I read their famously pedantic news post to see if the joke was perhaps contained therein. It sorta was explained there, but it's still not funny.

VG cats is vastly better.

For that matter so is A Modest Destiny (http://www.squidi.net/comic/index.php).

I'm not much for the crappy gag a day comics anyway.

Errant Story (http://www.errantstory.com/)
Gods of Arrkelaan (http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Gods_of_ArrKelaan/index.php?p=246378)
Dominic Deegan (http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2002-05-21)
Three Panel Soul (http://www.threepanelsoul.com/) A good gag comic!
The_pantless_hero
29-08-2007, 21:15
Three Panel Soul (http://www.threepanelsoul.com/) A good gag comic!
That was bad and they should feel bad.
It might be funny as a stand up routine, but other than that...
The art is good but the writing makes me want to stab myself in an eye.


http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-08-04
Oh look, the funniest one I've seen and they had to steal a Penny Arcade joke to pull it off.
Khadgar
29-08-2007, 21:23
That was bad and they should feel bad.
It might be funny as a stand up routine, but other than that...
The art is good but the writing makes me want to stab myself in an eye.


http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-08-04
Oh look, the funniest one I've seen and they had to steal a Penny Arcade joke to pull it off.

A PA joke? Dear god that joke's been around since before PA existed.
The_pantless_hero
29-08-2007, 21:29
A PA joke? Dear god that joke's been around since before PA existed.
That is rather unlikely, but I will go along with you. Even then, Penny Arcade made it a major joke and they used Penny Arcade's application of it.

And still, the writing is simple and the humor extremely dry. It might be deliverable in a stand up fashion, but trying to force it into a 3 panel strip without proper joke set up ad delivery just makes it worse. How you can say that is funnier than Penny Arcade is beyond me. Even if you don't know that much about games, Penny Arcade's stuff for the past several years has pretty much set itself up.
Londim
29-08-2007, 21:44
Sinfest (http://www.sinfest.net)

I find this will suit most Generalites. Hilarious I believe
Wilgrove
29-08-2007, 21:51
Cyanide and Happiness always pwns!

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1002/
The Lone Alliance
29-08-2007, 23:05
Meh... PA is overrated in my opinion.

So it's a gaming comic, I can name 500 more.
South Lorenya
29-08-2007, 23:06
Sorry, PA just isn't funny.
Deus Malum
29-08-2007, 23:32
My favorite PA Comic. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10)

And am I the only person here who still likes PVP?
Khadgar
29-08-2007, 23:48
My favorite PA Comic. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10)

And am I the only person here who still likes PVP?

I used to like PVP, but Scott got way too pretentious.
Verdigroth
30-08-2007, 06:42
you are all wrong the best PA is:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/03/06

mostly cause it has nothing to do with their normal humor. I just like the idea of two cops liking fast food that much.