Penny-Arcade

It started small, a funny little comment poking fun and giving opinions on games with a particular brand of humor. Now Penny-Arcade it a huge force that not only comments on games, but creates games of its own. Penny-Arcade, while usually centering on Tycho and Gabe, two gamers who have defined the protagonists for game humor based webcomics, the strip has added other characters when needed and has even had all sorts of one strip character, usually guys working at some game studio who did something note worthy that week so Penny-Arcade decides that the best way to lampoon the situation will be by portraying people that actually have something to do with the story. Penny-Arcade is very much a topical comic, most of the time their subject matter includes new games, they usually end up either popularizing or creating a shared joke about said game, or gaming industry news. They also frequently “borrow” popular video game characters to put them in comical circumstances, again usually a one shot deal. Reasonably recently they have started doing multi-strip story arcs that sometimes have nothing to do with anything else going on in the comic, they’re just like a random break from the standard formula and I think it really keeps things interesting. These multi-strip stories are usually video game based, or very much video game like in nature. These strips tend to be about some sort of struggle or adventure and are usually very well done, the writing is superb, especially for a web comic.