Randall Munroe has a lot of respect for Penny Arcade, and I just don’t get it. Any time I try to get into the comic, it’s just not funny or insightful. The only Penny Arcade strip I liked was the one about the big xbox remotes. That was funny!
I haven’t read many Penny Arcade strips, because I don’t have fun when I try to do that. So Lemmy, please help Me. Post your favourite Penny Arcade strips and explain what you like about the comic.
I agree with the other comments here saying the comic just might not be your cup of tea, which is totally fine.
But since you’re asking for people to share their favorites, I’ll share some of mine here. I think it’s a fun comic, but they’ve also been making comics consistently since 1998 and they can’t all be zingers. Most of my favorites tend to be on the absurd side, leaning on the characters’ respective weird idiosyncrasies or their #relatable moments with getting older and having kids.
I’ll probably edit this comment to add more later cause I know I’m forgetting some bangers.
Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about!
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Well, I like some of these.
I think I’m starting to understand. This is PizzaCake for men, right?
I can’t agree with the description “PizzaCake for men”. I read PizzaCake as well and the similarities to Penny Arcade are surface level at best. The comics about parenting are similar insofar as many comics about parenting are relaying an experience that many people can relate to, but outside of that, I would say Penny Arcade’s comedic range is far broader than PizzaCake’s. And I don’t mean that as an insult to PizzaCake; PizzaCake just tends to focus primarily on parenting and politics while Penny Arcade will covers a much wider berth of topics (in addition to just having many comics be glorified shitposts carried by erudite prose).
Frankly, my biggest criticism of PizzaCake is that when they do choose to make political comics, they’re typically really unfunny. They’re just blunt statements about Republicans being stupid/evil/hypocrites/etc with no real setup or punchline. I enjoy bashing conservatives as much as the next guy, but I can’t consider PizzaCake’s political comics to be funny or insightful. They’re mostly just variations on this: