Penny Arcade

We left this one in the writing doc for a couple weeks so that by the time we did it, any sting from the spoiler content would be minimized. The strip also has a perspective on the Sting Itself! It's a robust document. The only scenario under which a movie like Mortal Kombat could be released and not immediately cast into the lake of fire, and I recognize that this is unlikely bordering on the darkly surreal, is if the globe were plunged into isolated dissolution by let's say a once…

So I've played a lot more Demeo, enough to see some annoying bugs that get fixed when we rejoin the game, but I'm still bullish on it. Incredibly so. I think the success of the game has been a huge surprise to the team, but their love for old school Dungeons & Dragons horseshit was strong enough to become real. A real thing, you can play with their friends. It's not some obsequious, labored thing - it's not trying to be literal about its inspirations. What it wants do is…

VR shit has to be pretty cool in order for Gabriel to endure its extreme effects on his body; the kids have played together more than we have. Medical sacraments prolong his capacity to withstand it, but metaphorically it's like nailing a couple thin boards over a window and it's only a matter of time before whatever is out there gets in. Or, to invert the metaphor, whatever is in there comes out. We have a comic about Demeo specifically we just wrote for Monday, but we were talking…

I had read about these mars mushrooms in a couple places, places I thought wouldn't be full of shit, but ended up being full of shit. When I told Michael about my incredible new find, lifting the lid on the little cigar box my grandfather had given me to store treasures, a few seconds from him on Google - the same Google I'd used a couple days before to ascertain consensus - revealed not only that they were rocks but that they'd been revealed as as rocks years before. I'm…