Archived Discussion Webcomic / PennyArcade

This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.

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Roland: Hm. This description seems kinda unfond of the comic- especially the art description...

BT The P: It's something of a matter of pride for Gabe that a lot of people mistake his utterly rock-solid inking for Adobe Illustrator.

Sci Vo: I wish I had more experience at making these kinds of distinctions, so that it would be easier; but I feel fairly confident saying that The Merch was brutally satirized, not just parodied, with the whole dismembering kids and raping their dads thing. Or I don't know, maybe it was just The Parody meets Dead Baby Comedy? Now I'm second-guessing myself...

Turcano: It's a difference of degree, really.

Space Ace: I'd rather see a kinda unfond description than the cyber-fellatio that regularly results from fans talking about it.

• Shrikesnest: Come on, now. Every other group of fans, especially Buffy and Avatar, gets to go down on their favorite series on the work page. As long as it doesn't get too out of hand I say there's no problem with a little positive framing of a work on its own page.

Pester: That was kind of a big edit, and it took me a few times to get it right, but the entry as it was didn't even touch on the whole Penny Arcade as a Phenomenon thing, which Foglio's LJ entry pretty much got to a T. Feel free to shorten, abbreviate, or elaborate on that more in the main text.

open_sketch : The idea that money split Megatokyo seems erroneous. They broke apart more due to first reason than the second; Rodney and Fred had RADICALLY different ideas as to what constituted their ideal webcomic, something they early on.

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• Defictionalization - The strip coined the word "bullshot", which is widely used today.

It neither coined it (Movies and such pre-dating the comic to at least 1983) nor is it "widely used today" as a simple google search turned up 2 results on the first page, 1 of them being the PA comic and the 2nd being an article on the PA comic itself, not using the word in context or any such thing at all. If someone has a better insight into this being actually a defictionalization, though, then please by all means put it back and tell us all about it!

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Macaco: The writing and artist..ing duties are not split between evenly them. They both share the duty of writing it as is evidenced in the podcasts and PATV 4th Panel videos. Then Mike draws it himself. Jerry does write the news posts but that is not necessarily a part of the comic.

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Jonn: Moving my "Straw Man Has A Point" contribution, below, off the page before it devolves into natter, which piracy debates tend to do.

• It is remarkably difficult to win an argument against someone who cannot even comprehend the idea that they could be wrong. Also, the entire point of the strip is that the straw man doesn't have a valid point, just circular logic.

And now I see someone removed the trope entirely, thanks. Now all we need to do is wait for someone who doesn't get the point to add it again.