I’ve read Penny Arcade regularly for about a year and gone through the back catalog about a half-dozen times. The creators have recently released an adventure On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness and it will probably be huge with the two people that like adventure games. Anyway, they’ve been promoting the game on their site for a few weeks but today I noticed the best add I’ve probably seen in a year:
If I ever write a book I want an ad of this caliber.
If you haven’t seen the creepy and hilarious garfield minus garfield you should. Someone’s meticulously removed Garfield from the eponymous comic strips resulting in a window into the tortured mind of John Arbuckle. I think would also work with Huey in Boondocks or to a lesser extent Tycho from Penny Arcade.
Behold my work’s site bans:
xkcd.com, blocked
pennyarcade.com, allowed
xkcd.com consists of crudely drawn (usually) figures making math jokes whereas Penny Arcade features a character named Fruit Fucker 2000 and an alcoholic DivX player. A year ago, there was a story arc involving the main character removing his genitals so they could rubbed against a 103-inch television. I can see why they made the decision they did.