Penny Arcade

I'm shocked as hell that Gabriel is finally playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which you (as an intellectual) will readily recall is a game from 2015. It's even more surprising that it's been the release on the Switch that finally did it, but it doesn't matter to me how he came by it too much. The main thing is that he has an opportunity to learn what we learned, and now irrevocably know: that ghosts, statistically speaking, are real pieces of shit. Desert Bus finally pulled in to Las Vegas…

Penny Arcade turned twenty one yesterday which is pretty hard to believe. It feels like just yesterday I was laying on the floor of the apartment I shared with Jerry, drawing the first comics with pencils and pens. I've been making Penny Arcade for half my life now and I still love it. I asked folks on Twitter to share their favorite strips and memories from the last 21 years. The resulting thread was a lot of fun to read and is still growing, so I figured I'd share it…

I didn't mean to taunt Gabriel by not taking his advice on The Mandalorian, but Metal King Studios just put out an official mod for their incredible skirmish campaign wargame Relicblade in Tabletop Simulator and it's the most important thing that's ever happened. I didn't end up using his credentials, I used my own, because I subscribed to it. I wouldn't have. I sorta wanted to know if it was even possible to not buy it, and I was good for several days, but it was only a dollar addition to…

Something people who like Star Wars sometimes discuss is the prevalence of Carbonite Freezing in the setting's various Expanded Universe excursions. It's undeniably one of the more rad things about Empire - and the Han that emerges from that device is decidedly more horrifying than the one we see in Jabba's palace. It's a skin-tight sarcophagus. There are a lot of things to be scared of here. But it's so novel, so experimental, that Han is simply a test of the device. The implication is…