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Wouldn't mind the delay, only every time I load the page, the first word I see is "patience." Your cultists are mocking me.
Posted by Hayley at June 20, 2008 12:54 AM
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Hah, so that's what the "might be a week, might be a month" signifies! Well, it's for Spike, we'll endure. :D
Posted by norm at June 20, 2008 11:22 AM
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Funny, all I can think right now is "Escape From New York".
But that would just be silly.
Posted by The Lemurian at June 20, 2008 12:15 PM
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A bit off topic, but I wonder what Spike & fans think of Time Magazine naming Penny Arcade as the best site of 2008 ...
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1809858_1809954_1811341,00.html
Posted by Kitty at June 21, 2008 09:01 AM
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Considering they gave props to PVP, one of the lamest webcomics ever (which is saying something, it's a field dominated by mediocrity), I can't say I give those Time dudes much credence. Penny Arcade is okay, occasionally funny with a surplus of "X-Box controllers are big" type jokes. PA is sort of an institution that will always get recognized out of proportion to what it's actually doing, just because it was doing it earlier than most. What Spike is doing is pretty much completely new and amazingly well executed, so if people want to rehash the greatest hits webcomics, their loss I guess. They just kinda seem to me like the equivalent of the guy who still listens to Nirvana and won't check out The Silver Jews or Q and Not U.
Hey, I live in Flagstaff which is about where Templar is supposed to be set ( I think?) geographically. We have a huge Navajo population, are an hour from the grand canyon, etc. I like it here but I'm now wishing we had diesel and Soviet 17. I do know a couple who are a big sarcastic white woman and a big Black Buddhist dude who does security. That's a start?
Posted by Dave at June 21, 2008 10:02 AM
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Although Time did make mention of two other webcomics i disliked, those weren't the ones up in the running. While Templar does give new and amusing/intriguing ideas, it's one of many. I read both PA and Templar, and PA, while occasionally repetitive, still offers humor regularly, and doesn't require a backstory or patience.
Comics like Templar offer a good storyline, but it's similar to reading a good book one page at a time, with occasional breaks for the author (which is understandable). Unless you read the whole thing from start to end after it's already completed it can lose the intrigue and immersion, which isn't something that the one-liner webcomics suffer from.
There are other websites which I was a bit disappointed didn't make it on the list, yet the magazine is being written by biased individuals who have to pick 50 from millions of sites, as well as considering their target audiences, graphic content, and whether the sites, like this one, are still designated as 'works in progress'. Taking these things into account, PA is far from the worst choice they could have made. I'm just glad that Gaia hasn't pushed to #1.
Posted by JT at June 21, 2008 02:58 PM
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JT, I understand what you mean. It's not that I'm saying PA is bad, it's more like it's just such an easy, hacky pick. It's like hyping the Harry Potter novels in the lit section or whatever. Even as far as stand alone comics with punchlines, while there are worse choices, there are also better ones; xkcd and cat and girl come to mind. I understand some people consider the humor in those dry or abstract at times, but to someone like me who isn't a gamer or anything like that, geek culture references might as well be too. It's difficult to make a straight comparison anyway, and I suppose I should be glad it wasn't Questionable Content; hell, at least PA has jokes.
Posted by Dave at June 21, 2008 04:03 PM
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I still say that New York killed you. It was just nice enough to send out a replacement.
Grand Central is secretly a clone factory!
Posted by Ghede at June 21, 2008 09:14 PM
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