Read Penny Arcade, video game referencing webcomics

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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Read Penny Arcade, video game referencing webcomics

1. The Inheritance

   I have way, way more than this done, but it seemed like a super funny situation and who knows; I'd love to see him go for it. Let's see him put his best foot forward on such a rich narrativo. I would definitely like to read a couple strips about that, maybe on some Cave of Tits type action, but then I would have to

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2. Blue Skies

   I shared some stuff over on BlueSky that I thought readers here might also enjoy. I don't blame anyone for not installing or monitoring a new social media site. So no need to go anywhere, just sit back and relax as I bring the social media to you!

3. The Inheritance

   New Comic: The Inheritance

4. Road To Impressed

   I am utterly dominated by Road to Empress. Absolutely, one hundred percent its servant. The fact that it's $8.49 is completely nuts. I got that much value out of it a long time ago. Plus, when I'm Empress, eight fifty won't mean shit.  Eight fifties will fall at once, all around me, like the golden leaves of the

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5. Road To Impressed

   New Comic: Road To Impressed

6. Clarkesworld

   I started being fed a ton of ads for Greenland 2: Migration, which sounds like it would be a special presentation by Nat Geo, but I hadn't seen the first one and also I didn't know there had been a first one. It seems like that would be the end of this story; there's lots of things I don't know, and this was just

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7. Clarkesworld

   New Comic: Clarkesworld

8. Fallout Boy

   The presumption I used to have was that nostalgia was my elders' version of the drugs I was doing. For them, it was absolutely deleterious nonsense and they should be sheepish about it. Now that I am myself an Elder, I see that nostalgia was a crutch for these weaklings - the weaklings who fashioned brick by brick the hideous world we must endure. By comparison, my own nostalgia is

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9. Fallout Boy

   New Comic: Fallout Boy

10. Cool New Shit On Store!!!

    A dark harvest has come - one which our fully armed and operational Penny Arcade Store is prepared to manage.  Potentvalues.  Fuckin, y'know...  get ready: 

11. Through A Scanner Darkly

    There was a boss that made him quit Metroid Prime 4, but he rallied later simply so the official record would not record him having been defeated by it. He ultimately found success, but it eroded what was left of his affection for the game. There's a lot of post-mortem content out there about the game's difficult birth, but the early

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12. Through A Scanner Darkly

    New Comic: Through A Scanner Darkly

13. Absolute Penny Arcade, Part Four

    I hope you mofos didn't have any expectations going into the final Absolute strip, because we're gonna subvert all that shit. Scripts? Flipped. You simply aren't ready - flat-footed, naive - unless you thought it was gonna be another silly dumb one. Those people are still locked in. The others, ravaged by our potent psychological

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14. Absolute Penny Arcade, Part Four

    New Comic: Absolute Penny Arcade, Part Four

15. Absolute Penny Arcade: Part Three

    Okay, so, when we were writing this one - which we thought was surely the last of its ilk - we were texting about these "Goons" in the first panel and came up with a way to make it even more stupid. Dumber than ever! And it was already pretty Goddamn dumb.

16. Absolute Penny Arcade: Part Three

    New Comic: Absolute Penny Arcade: Part Three

17. Absolute Penny Arcade: Part Two

    Gabe's been buying comics through Comixology and reading them on his fancy pants color Kindle thing, and I started messing with it because now I want to catch up on shit, but he's essentially grabbing digital versions of trades and I am looking for a buffet. The Comixology subscription thing felt like a pain in the ass to use; I tried the trial and shut it down the next day. Because most of

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18. Absolute Penny Arcade: Part Two

    New Comic: Absolute Penny Arcade: Part Two

19. Absolute Penny Arcade: Part One

    Thank Christ - our Twitch Mod turned So Much More™ reminded me that there is such a thing as a Newspost, which is a good thing, because I have been absolutely enveloped by another realm. I'll get to that in a second. But my eldest is home from college and sad for a reason I cannot fully discern, my youngest is navigating a social realm only fully known to sixteen year old girls, my

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20. Absolute Penny Arcade: Part One

    New Comic: Absolute Penny Arcade: Part One