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Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The strip features Krahulik and Holkins' cartoon alter egos, John "Gabe" Gabriel and Tycho Brahe, respectively. Their characters spend much of the time playing and commenting on computer and video games, which forms much of the basis of the humor in the strip. As mostly a topical video gaming news comic series, there is little plot or general continuity in Penny Arcade strips, and strips are typically drawn from the perspective of fictional characters within a game or movie.

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1. The PAX East Show Store Is Open!

   This year's theme park has so many twists and turns, so many nice little Touches, that it would be tricky to call each of them out.  I merely saw how Gavin had done the S in "PAX East" on a jacket and had to sit down immediately.  First I'll show off everything you can get on our Official PAX Shop, from the comfort of your own phone:

2. Here We Go Again

   Ronia is, in fact, on stage jumping around going fucking crazy in Mamma Mia, which is essentially like a jazzercize class with a lyric book. Like, on some Tae Bo shit. I would last part of one song before my lungs tried to crawl out of my mouth. Gabriel was under some

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3. Here We Go Again

   New Comic: Here We Go Again

4. The Circle Of Something Or Other

   There has been a strange uptick in interest, worship, and… pornography, I guess you would say, related to my compatriot Gabriel and I. Poker Night At The Inventory, made by our Telltale friends of long ago and resuscitated by the redolent ...

5. The Circle Of Something Or Other

   New Comic: The Circle Of Something Or Other

6. It Takes A Village

   We warned of spoilers in the Project Hail Mary trailer, but having read the book now - and living in a world where The Martian exists as a book and a film - I understand why they needed to show everything in that trailer. You can't have a situation where people call the movie "The Martian On A Spaceship." Now that I

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7. It Takes A Village

   New Comic: It Takes A Village

8. It No So Good

   Enough time has passed since the initial DLSS5 detonation for us to have passed through the initial response (bad) to a coalition of contrarians, much-smarter-than-yous, and engineers who feel slighted by proxy. Digital Foundry

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9. It No So Good

   New Comic: It No So Good

10. Lost And Found

    There's no way to contextualize how ready Gabriel was to pawn something. That was just his bank, kinda. Anytime E3 rolled around he started foraging for anything made of silver colored plastic. He would have sold me if he could! I would have sold me too, I guess. Rented, at least. But panel three of this strip is a documentary.

11. Lost And Found

    New Comic: Lost And Found

12. Streaming Some Once Upon A Galaxy

    If you like what you see, you can play it pretty much anywhere.  Next Friday I'm gonna teach Dabe how to play on some sponsored stuff - now he's wrapping up all the video walls for ...

13. Hue And Cry

    New Comic: Hue And Cry

14. Hue And Cry

    Something I forgot to mention yesterday was that our cautious lunch interrupter had purchased a Nintendo Switch 2 specifically for Pokopia. He said he was also goaded into buying it because he suspected RAM prices were gonna fuck him if he held off. Two things: one, I mean, system seller? Cozy system seller. I

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15. Fire In The Hole

    I've been trying to have a beer with Kim Swift for about five years now, and it finally happened. She suggested The Bine up in Bothell, and you should draft on that suggestion. I'm afraid I made a pun there without meaning to. But it's also real close to Zulu's, a place you might want to be anyway. Anywhoozle,

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16. 3 Reasons to Play Pokopia

    I want to make a post about how great Pokopia is but it will have to be quick because I want to get back to playing Pokopia. So here are three reasons why it’s awesome.

     

     

17. Fire In The Hole

    New Comic: Fire In The Hole

18. Unc Tier

    Because Gabriel does not share my Word Disease, depriving him of vital tools for living, the callow young were able to scourge him mostly unawares. In contrast, I'm lowkenuinely bricked up. Actually, hang on. I might have to do a couple searches.

19. Unc Tier

    New Comic: Unc Tier

20. Live in Once Upon a Galaxy!

    Let me show you them.

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