Randall Munroe has a lot of respect for Penny Arcade, and I just don’t get it. Any time I try to get into the comic, it’s just not funny or insightful. The only Penny Arcade strip I liked was the one about the big xbox remotes. That was funny!
I haven’t read many Penny Arcade strips, because I don’t have fun when I try to do that. So Lemmy, please help Me. Post your favourite Penny Arcade strips and explain what you like about the comic.
Penny Arcade was one of his contemporaries in the early webcomic space. It may simply be nostalgic to him.
Personally I find Penny Arcade distasteful but it’s hard to ignore how much that IP helped grow the webcomics industry.
Not just the webcomic industry, but conventions, tabletop gaming, early game journalism, and so so many more.
Penny arcade was in the early era of the modern internet a massively cornerstone.
Like when I think of that era of the internet I think of things like total biscuit, Penny arcade, fourms, video game conventions, the rise of esports and league. So many things happening all at once.
Much of the internet today is basically just running on the rails that was created during that era. We kinda only in the last two ish years started to see a new generation of the internet really start to form and stabilize.