great punchline
Met the guys at E3 back in the day, I’m glad they’re successful, they deserve everything.
Yep. I think it’s just some millenials like myself dropped off the daily checking webcomics thing after a while (probably after link aggregation sites popped off) and I started looking at them again.
Weird bashing going on in this thread. So I’ll make some counter points
While art is subjective I will argue that their modern art direction is far superior to their early years.
This art direction is far more expressive, there is so much more room to play with this “looser” feel. As an artist you probably want your art to be able to express what you feel. There is also much better color theory and each panel feels more grounded and complete.
As for “their art got really dark”. No … the scene is just dark… there is glow coming from the monitor… If you mean tonally dark I disagree because penny arcade has had tonally dark elements since the rain slick precipice of darkness (and probably even before that, idk I’ve not read their entire lexicon)
P.S. yall realize that artists tend to improve over time right?
Hater here. I think that as !/u/criss_cross said, the earlier era was better since it showed the improvements you’re pointing out, but at some point gabe really started making the heads deformed and it’s a choice that we don’t like.
Man, that comic is still going? Crazy
Pax is their con
Wow their art style has gone dark af over the years. Not a fan.
The humor is still on point but I’m not a fan of this art style. Their second gen one was the best.
I haven’t followed this comic for a long while. This style is… A choice
Agreed
