>Gabe now has a massive overbite with buckteeth that extend out past his lower jaw and down to his chin
>Likes the name "Star Elk."
>Doesn't like China Mievile.
Fuck you, Jerry.
>>78888727
Mike did with art what Terry Goodkind did with novels.
It's like he started actively developing drawing skill in reverse or something.
>>78888727
none of the faces in the first 2 panels match the emotion or intent of the dialogue? that new ghost artist should be fired immediately
>>78890224
The problem is that he felt he was stagnating, so he decided to mix up his style. Unfortunately, rather than being an improvement, he just did a lateral slide into a different style that he was worse at drawing, and then continued to develop that awful style.
He's one of the few webcomic artists that should have STOPPED trying to improve.
>>78890224
>>78891263
>implying Mike draws this anymore
Ghost artists. They can afford it.
Man, this comic looks disgusting. The guy should hire a real artist if he ever wants to be successful.
>>78888727
Haha this is so fucking ugly
>>78891349
>successful
He literally has enough money to buy you and your family and hunt them for sport.
>>78888727
>that Annarchy
Kill me, please
>>78891321
>Ghost artists. They can afford it.
You can meme this as hard as you want. It's never going to be true.
>>78892226
So what you're saying is that bald and pig are just unable to write a joke or draw worth a shit any more.
>>78892260
running out of good material when working in a creative field isn't the slightest bit uncommon
really, the rare thing is when it doesn't happen
>>78888727
At least the art isn't stagnating.
>>78888727
Do they still share?
>>78888727
>You will be elated to hear I have formed a band.
Why does she talk like an alien trying to impersonate human behavior?
>>78888727
>uncle you will be elated to hear i have formed a band
>that face
Ann, what happened to you
in your opinion, what was Penny Arcade's best year? I'm going to say 2007, before Gabe started taking medication and PAX replaced E3 as the mainstream gamer convention.
>>78892226
Jim Davis draws every single Garfield strip.
>>78893719
>before Gabe started taking medication
Suffering creates the best art, this is a fact
>>78893719
Art-wise, I kinda liked things in the 2010-2011 range. The style had gone forward in detail but hadn't yet tumbled into a ravine.
>>78894652
Yeah, I think I like the art from that era better too, but the subject matter started becoming unrelatable for me.
>>78888727
Christ, are the characters just going to get progressively more hideous as the strip goes on?
Can anyone predict what they'll eventually look like?
>>78892979
It really doesn't help that they've reached the "introspective middle-aged" point in their lives. They could stand to be a bit more self-mocking and aware.
>>78894796
I'm in my early 30s and I can relate to that particular strip. Maybe my reflexes are starting to go, but I feel like I just can't keep up in online games anymore.
>>78888727
jesus christ, if you hate the stuff so much stop going to their fucking website.
>>78894984
Don't get me wrong, it's a funny strip. It's just a sign of the changing times.
>>78895030
calm down Gabe
>>78894984
Play Nuclear Throne for a few hundred hours. That shit is like boot camp for reflexes.
>>78895030
I've been checking Penny Arcade 3 days a week for more than a decade. It's a habit I can't easily break.
Why does Penny Arcade still need to exist?
>>78895439
why is adam sandler still making movies
>>78894984
i feel ya played halo reach about 4 months ago and manage to get head shot about 6 times from some dude riding shotgun in a warthog with a sniper rifle
>>78895439
To see them become everything they hate.
>>78897320
insufficiently reverent, and does not perform the proper obeisances
>>78888727
JESUS CHRIST WHAT HAPPENED TO ANNARCHY
>>78899237
She got older it seems
>>78894984
>32, married, full time job, comedy group on weekends, never any time for vidya anymore
>finally buy Halo 5 to relive glory college days with friends
>get massacred in every fucking game for weeks straight
>every time I play I can hear my wife thinking "he's ignoring me so he can get his ass kicked in this game by teenagers"
god help me when I have kids.
>>78888727
>>78899819
wh-what
>>78899745
Yeah, then you can get your ass kicked by them.
>>78900651
>my own kids keep beating me in HoloHalo
>"ha ha, good game, son"
>the VR headset hides the tears
>>78889922
>>Doesn't like China Mievile.
must be because mieville is a writer who uses big/obscure words to an actual purpose instead of just to prop up his flaccid ego
fuck tycho, seriously. writing is the one thing he's supposed to be good at and he's actually terrible at it.
every "experimental" project theyve done has been terrible unreadable trash, all style and incoherent pretension without any substance
with gabe I think it's arguable. yeah I think his art has taken a downturn, but I can understand people who still want to defend it. and I think even the most ardent hater of his can admit that at one point he was at least moderately talented.
but with tycho, its not just that he overestimates his talent with the written word, it's that he's actually legitimately bad at writing by any metric you choose to use. he's not good at conveying information, he's not good at forming rhetorical arguments, he's not good at putting together a nice sounding sentence. he's just genuinely bad.
>>78901933
>>>Doesn't like China Mievile.
Dude, don't waste your time. We already established that he doesn't like Miéville, any other proof that he's a moron is redundant.
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/1225
>>78904584
man i miss the old site layout
>>78904584
>The first comment on this picture is from 2007
FUG
Just murder me, it's been 9 cocking years.
>>78904687
You are a lying faggot; if this was 2016 I'd have a family, a job, and a college degree.
It is definitely 2008 and I have a future.
I can't even stand to look at this comic now
Doesnt look like there's a way to e-mail them for constructive criticism.
The art change doesnt seem to be adressed in the forums
>>78893246
She sounds like an alien trying to impersonate Annarchy.
"Uncle, why have you not aged in ten years?"
>>78906623
Goddamnit, it is 2016 and I have a family, a job, and a college degree. Where did my drinking and fucking around until 2am on a weekday go?
>>78900929
I'm basically living this right now. I've got four nieces (8, 10, 10, and 25) and two nephews (12 and 19) and aside from the 8 year old Sarah they all kick my ass at games I'm supposed to be good at. Fighting games, shooting games, racing games, all this shit. I feel like my hands just don't do what I tell them to, or like the signal doesn't get from my eyes to my brain to my hands fast enough. I used to be good at this stuff, I swear.
The worst part is that my only comfort is that the only game they can't beat me at is Smash Bros.
Yeah. I'm the best at fucking Smash Bros, of all the games I could be good at after all these years. Just fucking kill me.
What in the unholy FUCK happened to his niece
God damn
>>78911752
Maybe he's trying not to draw Annarchy sexy because he's still mad about the rule34 people drew of her
>>78888727
>didn't start reading PA until late
>tfw by the time I finished there backlog the decline was probably already starting.
The fuck is this? His teeth are coming out horizontally, then bending down at a 90 degree angle
>>78911786
Hey, the internet doesn't make the rules, just the porn.
>>78895487
Because he's bored?
>>78911959
From the looks of him he looks more like he's been cursed to make a movie a year.
>>78895487
Ancient gypsie curse
>>78897525
People got way too fucking buttblasted about Roger Ebert saying games were not art.
He was an old man, he hadn't played anything since fucking Pac Man, he didn't have any idea that games have evolved since then. When he heard kids talking about 'games are art' he pictured Pac Man, a quarter sucking pop culture corporate product. People pointed him towards more modern games and he wrote a second article talking about how he had no idea that things actually changed and there were stories and shit now (although his opinion stayed the same because he's a crotchety old man and old men do not change their minds ever, no matter how much evidence you throw at them).
>>78900536
Their noses are brown.
>>78888727
I haven't looked at Penny Arcade in years
The Tumblr noses confuse me.
>>78894828
John K. Deformities.
>>78894652
>>78894796
>2010-2011 range
No. Late 2008 saw the introduction of wavy teeth. Which was the beginning of the end.
Pic related is from December 26th, 2008. The last strip in which either Tycho or Gabe have their teeth drawn as a straight line.
>>78914950
Everything went to hell pretty shortly thereafter.
>>78914975
idk, this one is kinda funny if you get rid of the first and last panel
>>78888727
Does anyone know the story of tumblr nose?
People's noses would only change colour if they were sick, why is it an always thing with art?
>>78899819
so uhhh, what's this?
>>78915102
different sections of the face ARE different colors
"tumblr nose" is a very stylized version of it however, and often looks really bad because they just make it 2 flat colors with a hard border and/or make it an extreme color shift instead of one that still looks like a normal skintone
>>78915102
The mouth is blue, the nose is red, and the forehead is yellow, but the color is usually so muted you'd never notice.
They're making it look like all their characters have the Groucho Marx glasses nose
>>78911894
And his nose is BROWN. This isn't even Tumblr nose.
How do people even consider tumblr nose to look GOOD anyway?
>>78895487
Because the LCD audience keeps watching them
>>78914257
>People got way too fucking buttblasted about Roger Ebert saying games were not art.
Coincidentally, I don't consider reviewing movies to be a real job, so it all evens out
>Elated
what the fuck is Tycho reading that he thinks that this is how people talk?
>>78915248
Well, it looks like shit. People just shouldn't do it. I don't care if it has any basis in real life
>>78915704
I do like that when Ebert got death threats nobody cared. Slabeesian gets death threats and everyone loses their shit.
I guess it's because one of them ignored the threats and the other made a huge song and dance about how they were being oppressed.
>>78915643
>How do people even consider tumblr nose to look GOOD anyway?
I really don't know.
I can only guess those losers do it because they see others do it.
Individual expression is not exactly the forte of these types, and they find comfort in imitating each other in every way be it thought, art or story style.
I think it looks fucking ridiculous and thought red noses were for the sick or reindeer.
>>78915748
When you're around people that are a little more well-read than the lyrics in their Jay-Z album and rejoice over that fact, you'll see some decent word choices.
Gathering what I can, it looks like she's younger, a nerd, and respectful towards her uncle, so she seems likely to whip out a five dollar word or two.
>>78888727
just like real life
>>78915748
You should read his blogposts, they're almost unintelligible because he's too busy sucking his own 'intellectual'-dick to actually communicate like a person.
>>78911445
>the undead horde led by Jim advanced on the mall 10 years ago
>>78915955
the joke here is as much of an ass as Ebert was about games I respected him because he knew his job as a reviewer was basically being paid to give his opinion and he wasn't crazy or anything. He'd give movies bad reviews and get death threats daily that was just part of his life.
Sarkeesian is a literal con woman, she turned the death threats into money. The joke here is the angrier you get about her the more she wins.
>>78916526
Ebert was also a phenomenal writer. The dude made a write-up about a rice cooker compelling.
>>78916552
that also yes, Ebert was an excellent writer and no doubt spent many years honing his craft. I got bored one day and looked up his writeup on the original Iron Man flick.
he managed to make "this was a fun action movie but I'm left with a lot of questions about how the technology works. Either way worth a matinee viewing, give it a shot" pretty compelling.
>>78916589
Ebert didn't seem like he was completely up his own ass
Which is why it's curious he said games can't be art. I mean games these days employ actual (sometimes) classically trained artists. One of the last places where someone who's a technically proficient artist is valued for their talents when modern art is populated by hacks, marketers and the insane.
>>78916620
I think it was just a generational thing. I saw a comment on one of his articles where someone mentioned that people didn't think movies were sophisticated or able enough to be art at first either, and he straight claimed that wasn't true. Baffling. I remembered thinking he should know better.
>>78892260
both of them are on psychiatric medication, and have been for years, go hit the archive everything starts drying out just before they start making jokes about it.
>>78915955
She knew from the start that she could milk all those victim bucks to get to the top.
>>78888727
Jeez this art is absolutely hideous, disgusting!I remember when cartoon gabe used to be cute.
>>78917380
Ugh. I used to read PA pretty religiously and to see what it's like now kinda makes me ill
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>>78916483
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>>78917703
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>>78917707
4th part is here: >>78893246
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>>78917725
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>>78917735
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>>78917751
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>>78917770
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>>78917780
>Gallahad is never heard from again
>>78899819
sauce it up
>>78912700
You're not far off, his films are being made due to contract. Back when he was still selling hits, some big companies signed on to do a shitton of movies he'd write and star in.
It's why Jack and Jill got made.
>>78916620
>Ebert didn't seem like he was completely up his own ass
That was always Siskel's department. He was always the more high-brow, snobbish one while Ebert was the one usually able to go "hell it's a popcorn movie, I like it for what it is."
>>78914257
>He was an old man, he hadn't played anything since fucking Pac Man, he didn't have any idea that games have evolved since then.
Then the old sack of shit should have kept his fucking mouth shut. Fuck him and you, you bandwagging hopping little sychophant. Why is he some sacred cow now, like he was a fucking genius or gave something to the world?
Reminder that he also frequently gave films bad reviews because he disliked them for being too violent or whatever bullshit. See: Kickass. He was the pre-tumblr equivalent of an SJW. I hope he's burning in hell right now.
>>78918304
Hi, /v/
>>78918304
Kickass was a flaming pile of ass, man.
>>78916589
>Ebert was an excellent writer
Makes you wonder why he never made movies. Surely it would be a breeze for him to make blockbuster movies, seeing as how he considers himself the ultimate final word on what a good movie is
>>78917725
>can't spell p'taq
>implying that leth has any bat
>>78919639
the ability to discern quality and the ability to produce quality are two very different skills anon
>>78915955
>when Ebert got death threats nobody cared.
He's a movie critic. It would be like getting upset over a lawyer getting threatened. And most people agree with Shakespeare on them.
Shame no one ever followed through on the threats
>>78919667
So he talks the talk but cannot walk the walk.
Typical critic.
>>78919720
aaaand cue the food analogies
>>78918304
>I hope he's burning in hell right now.
Me too, Anon.
Me too.
>>78919734
Whatever are you blathering on about?
Im only saying that those who can, do.
Those who can't, shit on those who can.
>>78888727
where is the lewd? Oh right, daytime /co/mblr
>>78918334
So what? You give it a bad review where you talk about what made it bad. You don't give it the worst review you can because you don't like the idea of a girl killing people on-screen. What a disgusting failure of a critic. Why is he celebrated as a deity?
>>78911894
I think he's becoming one of these
>>78916321
shut the fuck up, tycho
>>78912700
I'm never going to be able to watch Happy Gilmore again because I just hate this man now.
>>78914257
>he hadn't played anything since fucking Pac Man
Yes he had. Here are the articles in question. Since I'm guessing no one here has read them.
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/video-games-can-never-be-art
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/okay-kids-play-on-my-lawn
And he's right. He should have kept his fucking mouth shut.
>>78920192
>you don't like the idea of a girl killing people on-screen
After reading the review, he seems more at a loss to explain the film's cavalier attitude toward human life while using young children as emotionless, morally vacant, instruments of death.Gunslinger Girl did it better anyway.
>>78914950
I miss this style. it's still the Penny Arcade style for me, the current one feels foreign
>>78919720
You are pretty stupid. That is like saying sport reporters and scouts should just do the sport themselves, because they know so much about it. A good critic is better than a bad movie maker, but they are a complettly different things that only interact with each other.
>>78901933
Hey, I liked Automata
>>78920790
Automata also had very little dialogue.
>>78918304
wow, a critic had opinions about good and bad uses of violence, which he pretty consistently held for his entire career
>>78919639
why are you so assblasted a dead man's opinions about movies are so much more respected than yours? Did he give your favorite plebshit a thumbs down?
>>78916620
IIRC it's because in some games users have some form of agency over the story. Ebert felt any medium where a consumer could affect the outcome of a story was not truly art.
I also remember him eventually saying "sure, okay, I guess games can be art, whatever, I'm an old man, okay?"
wasnt he trying to do expressions at some point. what does gabes expression in panel 2 convey
>>78901933
I don't even think it's a matter of him being a bad writer (although he totally is). It goes beyond that, early on he adopted (mostly ironically I think) a style where he wrote as pretentiously as possible as a way of making fairly mundane statements seem funny. Overtime he's become emotionally invested in this writing style, presumably because no one told him early enough that it had short legs as a source of humor.
So he started off being shit for stylistic reason but then he stopped understanding that it was shit.
>>78912700
It seems like he mostly uses films as a way to get people to pay him and his friends to go on holidays and that the actual movie making is somthing he despises and crams into the smallest amount of time possible.
>>78916321
That doesn't explain why they converse like pod people.
When did Annarchy become teenage Starfire?
>>78917780
>Oh, a twenty. Wow. What are the chances?
>About one in twenty.
Man, I really miss when PA was funny.
>>78920577
He's also right about games never becoming art.
>>78920790
I almost specifically called that one out as the only one that wasn't absolutely irredeemable. but as >>78920806
said, it had very little dialogue.
and in any case it fell well short of actually telling a story. I would've probably genuinely enjoyed it if he had actually done a full narrative arc instead of a couple scenes.
>>78894984
I'm 27 and I've been playing better at shooters than ever before. I'm more creative and aware. As long as the shooter isn't a 2-shot-to-kill, who-sees-who-first fest, I can usually out-play any snot nosed brat with quick reflexes.
>am older now
>no money for games
>start watching lps
i'm trash and i know it
>>78920775
>A good critic is better than a bad movie maker
It's so cute how you actually seem to believe that. But then it's always taken less effort to sit on your mile wide ass and say "Shitsux" than to make an actual film.
Critics should be rounded up and gassed. Ebert should have either put up or shut up
>>78920941
Im not assblasted in the least. Is a weatherman assblasted when he says it's raining when rain falls from the sky? Of course not. Thus Im not "assblasted" when I say Ebert might talk the talk yet more than likely couldn't walk the walk.
Why don't you go and suck your messiah's dead micropenis
>>78901933
I think it's funny that the best Automata story was the one they had nothing to do with.
>>78916321
You mean a bunch of self important shit heads who are desperate to sound intellectual that they have a thesaurus open in a separate tab at all times.
>>78925941
>>78926049
Do you extend your loathing of critics and criticism to social commentary at large, or is it only dead overweight beloved titans of film criticism you despise?
>>78930103
Ill go with the former
>>78930103
well you see if you criticize something then that means they're being made aware of their faults. and if that's the case they have to WORK to improve them. and we can't have that.
