Month: January 2004

Stickler and Hat-Trick review Gabe and Tycho’s Penny Arcade

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Stickler and Hat-trick, in association with Comixpedia present…

Stickler and Hat-trick at the Keyboard

This week, they review PENNY ARCADE, created by Gabe and Tycho!

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Stickler: Welcome to a new year of At the Keyboard!
Hat-Trick: This week we're taking a look at one of the biggest and most successful webcomics out there, Penny Arcade, created by Tycho and Gabe, which updates on M-W-F schedule.
S: Well, let's just get this out of the way. PA is a great webcomic. When we were asked by Mr. Editor who lives under our couch to review Penny Arcade, I was a little nervous…
HT: We volunteered, dumbass. Thanks! Continue Reading →

Damonkey Business by Damonk

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Games of Wit, Battles of Rhetoric, and the Art of ‘You Suck’

Hey you – yeah you with the nose.

You suck.

No, wait. Wait. Let me try that again.

You suck, like your momma on my d*** last night.

No, no, wait. Still not quite right.

You suck, like your momma on my d*** while your gf was giving her a tongue dive.

There.

Now I feel I have successfully refuted your position on Austin’s stance on the Sense-Datum Theory.

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Gaming Webcomics and the People Who Love Them

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The mere mention of video games often evokes images of a solitary white ball bouncing between two vertically moving white paddles, with that distinctive Pong sound. Maybe it evokes images of a large gorilla hurling barrels at unsuspecting Italian men instead. No matter what you think of when you think video games, it is undeniable that games as a whole have affected our culture over the last 20 years. In the late 1970s, games like Pong revolutionized arcades, and in the 1980s, Nintendo revolutionized our living rooms with Super Mario Bros. Our generation grew up with names like Atari, Nintendo and Sega. The culture of video games has boomed in the past 5 years with the recent console wars between Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. With the increase of video game fans came an increase in people writing and drawing about their favorite video hobby: enter Gaming Webcomics, a genre that is not so easily classified. What are Gaming Webcomics, what are they all about, and where are they going? Continue Reading →

Dave and Damonk: An interview with the creator of Bob and George by Damonk

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David Anez has been messing with pixels before messing with pixels became cool. His landmark Sprite-based comic, Bob and George, actually wasn’t even supposed to BE a comic about a hero and cast of characters awfully similar to a certain Capcom game. It inadvertently became one of the first Sprite webcomics on the web, and certainly the first one to really pioneer and spark the masses of Sprite comics out there now. Almost four years after this “accidental” genesis, Anez tells us about how it all started, and why his webcomic is exactly what it is. Continue Reading →

Full Circle on Penny Arcade’s Child Play Fundraiser

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The columnist who wrote a column bashing video games as “training killers” received word about the Penny Arcade Child’s Play toy-a-thon and fundraiser for Seattle Children’s Hospital. The Child’s Play drive was partially inspired as a way to disprove the stereotype perpetuated by his column. Now he writes a column expressing his gratitude and acknowledges that he is reading a book on gaming upon which he may comment in a later column. Aaah, our lazy mainstream media. Write first, research later… Continue Reading →

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