Penny Arcade

Almost exactly five years ago we started a Nightlight story line called Grace. I still think this is a beautiful little story and seeing as this is the anniversary, I went looking for my old sketches.  Here's a look at some of the artwork I did leading up to making the strip.    Jerry and I have spent a lot of time thinking about the Nightlight universe and I am confident you'll see us go back to it. The basic hook is that there are monsters under the bed and these…

I couldn't make heads or tails of the Halo Infinite preview. I mean, yeah, we made a comic. And I literally do think about that kid all the time. But I'm mostly just confused by the reveal, as I think a lot of people are. The multiplayer in Guardians was the best it has ever felt, to me at least. Warzone did not stick with me and as much as I like cards I think the limited use REQ stuff represented a significant misunderstanding of Halo. But the Arena! I loved it. Halo has its own…

It’s possible that I was simply expecting too much from Halo Infinite but I was honestly shocked at the trailer they showed yesterday. Nothing about what I saw seemed especially “Next Gen” to me. In fact, there were parts that barely looked current gen. Had MS started with some sort of message letting us know that this is early footage (2016?) or that due to COVID they are not ready to show the final game. The long close up shot of your bad guy giving a monologue is what you…

The first hot arc of cat shit struck at midnight. I don't know if you've ever seen Blade Runner. It's pretty good. If you have, the hot cat shit is the glittering C-Beams and the deepest, darkest, most difficult portion under the bed to reach is the Tannhäuser Gate. The whole thing happened again at 7:30 this morning, the cat jumped up high on the bathroom door and kicked off, crafting a rank sigil in this unholy new medium. He was running fast, shitting now on an industrial…