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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FBG
New Comic: FBG -
Kätzen Knights
The cat knight collecting gatcha game "Kätzen Knights" from yesterday's comic is not a real video game. I am sorry.
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I Get Mail, Vol. 2
Hey Jerry!
Yo.
I just wanted to say thank you for talking up Sunderfolk. My girlfriend is not into video games AT ALL, but she likes boardgames. She was willing to give Sunderfolk a shot and has fallen completely in love with it, to the point that she asks me if we can play when I get home. I love that I can share something I have always enjoyed with her now. I hope
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Super Wizard Kart Rules!
If you watched my Super Wizard Kart game from yesterday and you’d like to try running it yourself at home, I’ve collected all my rules into a PDF file you can download right here.
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Energoidz
A new gacha has its teeth in Gorbiriel - or perhaps its claws, canonically - and he is as powerless to resist it as a level one Kätzenlandsknecht.
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Energoidz
New Comic: Energoidz -
Super Wizard Kart!
I was asked to run a game of Acquisitions Incorporated and decided to dust off some ideas I had after running Wizard Kart for the C Team about a million years ago. While Wizard Kart was a sort of goofy way to play D&D, its sequel Super Wizard Kart is a fully self-contained board game. The players did not even need to bring their character sheets to the session. I’d like to thank my
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Materia Girl
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Materia Girl
New Comic: Materia Girl -
Sticky Fingaz
I realized now that I should have put the name of the game in the strip title, maybe. If you got super cranked up looking at the power board in the comic, and you were like "surely they aren't doing a Tetris-inspired block puzzle to manage their ship, just like I saw in that dream I had. A dream I've held so close" well I got real
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Sticky Fingaz
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Lookouts turn 16!
Today marks the 16 year anniversary of the very first Lookouts comic strip. Created during the original “Pitch Week” in which we present to you the reader three new comic ideas presented as a single page pitch. This particular week saw us pitch the ideas for Lookouts,
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Speaking Frankly
The reek - the stench - of dreaded continuity can be whiffed from nearly a mile away, like a distended whale carcass reaching critical mass. It took more than twenty years, but finally conditions in the retail space aligned with an ancient character's… well, let's not say predilections, They are now more in line with his lived
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Speaking Frankly
New Comic: Speaking Frankly -
Scavengers
I had put up a preview of the first panel, and Best Buy stalwarts swooped in from their blue and gold aerie to let me know that Best Buy doesn't have jungle plants growing inside - nor does it have a gouge taken out of the roof, where warm Summer rains might dance and drip down the gnawed-out scaffolds and steel bones of the retail
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Scavengers
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Perched Upon The Real
As part of a demo for the newest version of the Unreal Engine, CD Projekt RED showed off some Witcher 4 shit that is, just… I mean, look at it.
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Perched Upon The Real
New Comic: Perched Upon The Real -
27 years of drawing Penny Arcade
I posted a few photos from my huge binder of original Penny Arcade art over on my Bluesky account and it turned into a fun thread where I ended up redrawing some of that old artwork in my current style. For those of you consuming media of the social variety I’ll post it
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Emotional Creature
Gabe doesn't even watch trailers, so some attempt to lure him with grainy cell phone shots ain't gon' work. I watch trailers all the time just to find something I missed! We are up to our asses in information, and I usually feel like I'm seeing the parts of it that I need to see, but then I find out there's some kind of