I don't get it

to be fair, look at how they decided to make the logo.

What did he mean by this?
Is this a edit? Like what's the joke?

Webcomics were quick and easy entertainment in the early to mid 2000s and there were TONS of them. Comics like PE, the ones that found their footing, are still going because of how important they once were and still are to their fans.

I don't get it

pig man thinks it would be cool to have some kind of lord of the flies scenario where kids fight for the fate of the world but it sounds like he just wants to fuck 13 year olds

WHY IS HE SO BALD

I get it, and I don't get how (You) couldn't get it.

fr no cap

because he gets hard at the thought of it

So you call them The Elder Scrolls instead of Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim?

Who even reads Penny Arcade enough for it to still be going on? Its like the Modern Simpsons where apparently theres just a legion of bots who read this slop and never discuss it. Besides PAX and Tycho being in Poker Night what impact has this dogshit strip even had? Even CTRL ALT DEL has Loss and the value of ironic humor attached to it, this shit on the other hand is dry as fuck.

tumblr noses gone

At least that's an improvement

I don't call it 7 I call it Final Fantasy.

do you call splinter cell "tom clancy" ?

The entire title is cancer

splinter cell

you mean "stealth action refined"?

complains about simple-minded retards using the easier words of the title

fucking gets the other part wrong, himself

lmao

Clair Obscura is a retarded fucking name, i genuinely thought everyone was freaking out about a nancy drew type game before realizing clair obscura and expedition 33 were the same thing

Sounds similar to tactical espionage action

he means what if this game but high school

AYOOOOOO

I look back at the kerfuffle over someone saying they were raped to sleep by dickwolves and PA's sudden disavowal of it as the exact moment that we entered These Trying Times.

Penny Arcade was a good forum to discuss video games in the 2000s. That was a long ass time ago, though, I wasn't aware this comic was still going. Stopped reading when they lost their edge and caved to complaints about the dickwolves.

I think this joke would make much more sense if he used the power of cartoons to show us what would be so funny about Expedition 13 in the third panel. But what the fuck do I know!

Nah it just sounds gay and lame. Like some homosexual makeup brand.

At this point I use it like a gaming news site.

i mean, it's a nice title in the sense that you juxtapose clear-obscure for a nice contrast, but why the fuck wouldn't you call it expedition 33?
it's pretty obvious what part is the main title, even from the cover

The wild thing is that they made a whole comic follow-up saying “grow the fuck up it’s just a dumbass joke” and then immediately caved afterward and deleted all of it with apologies to those raped by wolves or whatever.

That said I still look at PA every once in awhile. It, Oglaf and Awkward Zombie are about the only comics I still have any awareness of. I’m shocked when I find out some are still going that I used to read

Expedition 33 is a decent subtitle and a horrible franchise name or main title is why they called it that. It's Final Fantasy Tactics, not War of the Lions.

American noticing there isn't a cheeseburger anywhere in the title

The same fucking reason you wouldn't call a game franchise Unknown 9.

You know it means light and dark right

calm down guys it's just an ed-

it's real

what the fuck? are they fishing for the new dickwolves discourse?

Are you sure it doesn't mean clear obscure because that makes way more sense

What even is the joke?

Your mind on Anon Babble. The joke is that jrpgs are always about plucky teenagers saving the world. You are degenerate so you immediately assume it’s about gooning to children

I'm left to assume that he means something along the lines of an expedition of teenagers being even more melodramatic and ineffective? Something about teen angst, I guess?
If only there were some way he could have shown us what was funny... like in some sort of cartoony fashion of some sort

There’s no curry either saar stay calm please

Why specifically 13 then? Squall is 17 in FF8 and Cloud is 21. Crono is 17.

The wall is real and has comedic applications.

Kids would suck or be comically-narratively competent at saving the world.

I dunno because you have to pick one? Would you not be upset if the joke was expedition 17? There is probably more humor in a group of 13 year olds who are the oldest and most mature people on the planet

Kids would suck

haha

clear
easy to perceive, understand, or interpret
obscure
not discovered or known about; uncertain

just look at the words, the influence of latin languages in english is not a coincidence

light is lumiere, darkness is obscuritè.

what makes more sense for an expedition, aka a voyage into the unknown?

PAX is their actual job now, it's replaced E3 as the gaming industry's central physical get-together

They pretty consistently get 60,000 to 70,000 paying attendees and 500 to 800 companies to turn up, four times a year (Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Melbourne), which has to be a comfortable living and they also bitch fairly regularly about how that's essentially their day job and they also make a comic sometimes

Of course there used to be a fifth event in San Antonio. They used COVID as an excuse to cancel that forever but I think they just didn't like Texas.

no u

The might of the USA

Um where is the diversity?

Ruh roh triggered the jeet

13 isn't highschool. Highschool is 15-18. Sometimes 19.

Lot of us ESL coutnries have just one secondary school you attend from age 12 or so till 18+

Peak rizz no cap fr on god facts

I don't think there's ever been a PA strip with a joke in it.

this is still their best strip

The irony that WoW (Gilneas) spawned the inspiration for the dickwolves comic, and both PA and WoW went soft over time

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motherfucker

Literally read the first sentence as "bald upright"

The brainrot has taken me

get lose

MegaTokyo is still going
Questionable Content is still going
Both haven't had their art evolve in the slightest over the last 15 years

Anon Babble and Anon Babble have had ongoing Bittersweet Candybowl threads as long as I can remember God that comic sucks

MegaTokyo is still going

I'm not sure I count that when they only update one page every three or four months.

Also that visual novel people paid money for never came out.

This is the edgy 2000s randomness I crave

What happened too the artstyle? It should've just stayed with this, now it's like a tumblr refugee got hired for it.

There's really nothing like 2000's webcomics.

Gabe probably got uppity like artists do, when 75% of webcomics tried to be 2000's Penny Arcade. A lot of them got the artstyle down pat, and I guess he thought they had to escape that black hole.

they would be allowed to have sex since they are about to die

I call bs, when their mid 2000's style basically blends into the geometric designs of most shows at the time. Like Clerks, or Dexter's Lab. But artists are vain, so yeah that could have been the catalyst for change.

Does anyone have the parody where the two are called "player 1" and "player 2" and player 1 ends up falling in love with a little girl who was playing multiplayer with him?

Penny Arcade was at the forefront of edgy videogame webcomics. I promise you, the people doing their own vidya comics with geometric shapes were aping them, not "Dexter's Lab."

Was that a Buckley comic? I know he did some with colorful humans named player.

I call it 'Tom Calancy'

I call it...
PEGGLE
2

I think it was done by some anon because he ended up getting the loli pregnant and she threatened the doctor with death if he told her parents.

I could see that happening in Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
If she miscarried

moon over june

american elf

hathor the cow goddess

Are any of these still going?

>hathor the cow goddess

don't think i recall this one. do i wanna know?

Don't forget the trans girl one where every single comic is "her" blatantly in the wrong and basically the villain.

mods really don't want me posting these huh?

The "this is me, you're beautiful" one I think is ongoing still.

Moon Over June is still going
It's about trannies now
Being Moon Over June, it has biblically accurate trannies, flabby and grey-haired, their tiny limp dicks flopping in the wind as they're pegged by their angry hairy lovers, both partners gurning as if being eviscerated

Has this phenomenon been named yet? Because if not, I want to call it the Moon Over June Ahegao.

Look up Ghastly's Ghastly Comic again a few years ago

Uncle Ghastly is now auntie Ghastly

What a waste.

Absolutely nobody wants you posting these dude
The only way this gets any worse is in five minutes when the furry spammer shows up to storytime his incredibly fucking boring 5,000 page comic again

This one is called. "Bean there done that". What do you guys think?

Heh, women!

You fuck you just summoned that faggot. Why does he always try and spam that garbage when no one wants to fucking read it?

They literally have interns doing the art, aping the artstyle

In a pathetic highlight of my Anon Babble career, I once got him to admit that he does it simply because he hates webcomic threads and doesn't want Anon Babble to have them, making him an honorary janny who does 10x the work for half the pay

I like LOL threads where we post random shitty webcomic, I find it incredibly boring when somebody just dumps some manga
Good to know at least part of my hatred comes from one spammer, that's classic Anon Babble

sex with lizard lady

He's just wants to be an honorary janny.

That's just... unbelievably sad. Can't you just report the thread for being off topic if you REALLY wanted to be a fag about it? Why put in the extra effort?

Freud would have a field day

barneyfags, this is your mindset

I legitimately forgot how awful these got.

There's a lot of them. My main board is Anon Babble. There's a guy who is furious that porn exists, like if you are in a thread and offhandedly mention Sasha Grey or something he'll show up and start spamming CP, then reporting his own posts until the thread is deleted

There's a guy who insists that you will never speak about Star Trek, and there's even a Star Trek general that runs every day to 300 posts and 200 of them are just him shrieking that Star Trek is for old people and the new black lesbian Star Trek is far superior, like it'd be lazy bait if he did it every once in a while but he's literally made tens of thousands of posts for 18+ hours a day for years

There's a guy who, I think if I were in a room with him I could outright fucking murder, who has made an entire list

you will not talk about The Simpsons

you will not talk about Family Guy

you will not talk about the Saw horror movies

you will not talk about the pundit Bill Maher

you will not talk about any movie where the main character rides a motorcycle

And he's just got infinite fucking energy to watch the board every waking hour and start spamming terrible AI images and nonsensical puns about ice cream if someone breaks his sacred laws

I don't understand why he targets lol threads instead of shit like youtube comment screencap threads or culture war threads or whatever.

Because occasionally people are communicating with each other and deriving enjoyment from lol threads

youtube.com/watch?v=kGlF4eBR_z8&list=PLQuZzCxg4TNOM9n7RpLPPBSDX7EINOsyu
Never forget

ugly maxxing

it's autism/aspergers

I once got him to admit that he does it simply because he hates webcomic threads and doesn't want Anon Babble to have them

LOL threads are Anon Babble culture though and have been a thing since time immemorial
the mind of schizos truly is something "normal" people like us cannot comprehend, honestly though i feel as if these threads from 10+ years ago had way worse shit dumped into it on the regular

Haven't played the game. What happens if the number goes down then you have a birthday the next day that puts you at that number? Is it a one time thing you can skip or it stays in effect the whole year?

Everyone older than the age dies I think, so 32 means anyone at least 33 will die

How did Anon Babble of all places end up infested with so many shrieking retards? I've tried to discuss shows there occasionally and it never works because all the threads are full of chimpanzees flinging shit at each other.

What's it been? Like 15 years of that obnoxious pac-man hairstyle on Gabe's head? I still can't look at it and take it seriously.

He said he did that to "evolve" as an artist except it still fucking looks shitty and exactly the same 15 years later. Evolve some more god damn it.

Kikewood influence. Also why manchildren raised on games made after 2012 ruined Anon Babble.

It's Anon Babble, everybody's got autism. Hell, I've got fucking autism because I'm more concerned about and angrier at this shit than I should be.
The crazy part is that these people are MORE rigid than bots. These days bots actually do sort of engage you, ChatGPT's Chinese Room trick has gotten really good to the point where at a glance or two you could 95% believe that's a genuine thinking feeling retard on the internet you're talking to
The ritual spam guys are LESS than that, all they can communicate is their next fucking canned response, in spite of the fact that they're flesh and blood typing this shit out

Like the fucking gay guy on Anon Babble who succeeded for some time to make it impossible to talk about literally any RPG with a character creator (including Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate and Mass Effect simultaneously) because we're going to talk about how sexy men are and how everyone who's sexually attracted to women is a tranny pedophile instead. Anon Babble ended up rangebanning Uruguay to get rid of him. Yes, he was from the U R Gay country. Yes, there's 10 million people in that country and he singlehandedly managed to get them all barred from Anon Babble, I feel sorta bad about that because there's probably five others here that were okay dudes

It was never about "growing as an artist." It was about disassociating with their past edgier comics.

That doesn't answer the question. Do they die the moment it's painted, or do they die continuously as they have their birthdays throughout the year?

there's someone on Anon Babble like this who said he has aspergers

The paintress activates the spell at a specified time and everyone older than what is painted dies. She does this once a year, and paints a lower number each year

She sounds like a bitch

It's just you could do something that you actually enjoy like jack off to something, watch something, read something, play a vidya, or fuck even engage in a thread you actually like. And they choose to do, all of this embarrassing shit for hours upon hours a day, every day? That's basically hell. Actual honest to god hell.

Wait was he the guy who always posted his generic bara characters and cried about str8s? Is that why I haven't seen him in 6 months? And they had to rangeban an entire country to get rid of him ell oh ell.

How has ban evasion not been dealt with yet? Surely there's an actual way to deal with schizos who have dedicated their life to ruining the website?

Questionable Content

Haven’t read that in forever. Last I saw the main characters have basically left the series and everyone remaining is a gaggle of racially diverse lesbians. He never truly recovered after stabbing himself in the hand out of impotent rage, did he?

We talking about farquaad or is there another gay spammer?

I like it if you finish with the in the paint part.

I watched that series as a kid. Knowing everything else about him, I don't know how to feel about this.

You run an anonymous imageboard. Anonymity is the whole point of the entire thing. There are spammers who you wanna perma-ban. Since there are no accounts on the imageboard, the only data you have on him is an IP and some cookies
How do you permaban him?

I'm gonna take this opportunity to ask, because I am in no way a newfag but somehow this singular bit of Anon Babble lore always eluded me

Who the fuck is ACfag? Is it Armored Core, Assassin's Creed, Animal Crossing? Just from context and having met all of the similar shit-smearing cretins I can guess what his deal is but I really don't know what specific game is his singular target of wrath.

Armored Core. If you ever see someone throwing a total spergfit in a thread about how even the slightest bit of story makes something a moviegame, that's ACfag. He actually likes armored core; the whole deal was that he'd go into things like Metroid or Bayonetta threads and start calling them moviegames because they have cutscenes, while proudly proclaiming how Armored Core is the peak of vidya.

He's a guy that acts really insufferable while avatar posting using Nineball (a dude from Armored Core). Honestly I never saw him enough to get a read on him, I mean he was clearly pissed about DS killing AC but you know who isn't? He was just kind of a tool shitting up threads on games he didn't like.

B-but AC has cutscenes too...
He's making AC fans look bad doing this shit

Moon over June is the only comic that's disgusted me to the point of never reading it. And I have a really strong stomach for that sort of thing. Junji Ito, skeleton jelly, etc, no problem. It's like it was drawn specifically to disgust me in particular.

He considers them not to count because he's "willing to admit flaws in his favorite games"
Funny enough he also recently seems to have gotten banned, or at least bitchslapped by the new mods. He's stopped posting his usual images and won't even mention some of his favorite games by name.