Sometimes a joke is just in the air: Interesting how their construction of the joke is almost entirely in different directions: Penny Arcade starting off with the inappropriately not stealthy character from The Last Of Us videogame and I Am Arg! using a similar image as its punchline.
And it’s over! I really enjoyed this show, more than I expected I would for sure. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6xC5pmmWjM?rel=0] Spoilers abound after the break:
Almost as funny as this video are the YouTube commenters who thought it was a real sportscast. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKY5fmDGVLs?rel=0] UPDATE: Same take on the NFL! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4J-RiCZ2Q&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdlHaNdSps&w=560&h=315]
One of these days I’ll write a real blog post about it, but I inherited the first family computer from when I was growing up. It’s an Apple II+ from about 1980 I think (maybe 1979) and it was one of the most defining things of my childhood (with legos maybe being a close second). I have it out in the basement, but powered down — I am not sure what to do with it.
Dicebox by Jenn Manley Lee is The Grapes of Wrath crossed with Star Wars. And I’ve read large chunks of it at two different times – it just doesn’t always serialize that well. It’s definitely a story that needs to be read in at least chapters to get sucked into it. I’ve been re-reading it from the start over at Comic Rocket which will help me from losing my place in it. I’m only about a little more than a quarter of the way through it’s almost 400 page archive.
My Dad wasn’t but this is a pretty cool blog – just in time for father’s day:
[kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1234535943/digger-omnibus width=599] The complete run of Digger in one omnibus edition. The Kickstarter has already blown through its goal and all of the current stretch goals.
Kris Straub’s Chainsawzootsuitriot is the latest comic to riff on the classic Isaac Asimov track:
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