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Penny Arcade Remixed By Japanese Students

Posted by simoniker on from the mash-it-up dept.

Thanks to Yukihime.com for its feature showing cartoons from popular games-related webcomic Penny Arcade 'remixed' by Japanese high school students. The poster explains that he "...made a short class on American comics [in a Japanese school] with artwork and examples of popular comic books and comic strips. Then came the exciting part: making your own American-style comic!" Highlights from the 100 cartoons using Penny Arcade art with newly devised text include surreal heavenly messages, some crazed growth serum talk, and odd maternity-related humor.

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  1. Re:Final Fantasy Remixed... by Drakin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, and the same thing is sorta being done with Mega Man with bob and george (with a great deal of odd/unusual interludes between the events in games)

  2. This sounds like.... by PeeweeJD · · Score: 3, Informative

    This sound like the Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, only in reverse and not funny. and no crazy people falling into puddles of fluid. and of course, no Vic Romano and Kenny Blankenship.

    1. Re:This sounds like.... by alphaseven · · Score: 2, Informative

      By the way, Vic Romano is actually internationally acclaimed actor/director Takeshi Kitano (Fireworks, Battle Royale, Johnny Mneumonic, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and lots of others.)

  3. I Am A Pen by Gangis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every so often, one will hear the phrase "I am a pen." especially when dealing with younger Japanese. From what I understand, it's the first thing the English teachers teach the students. Even though the sentence itself is nonsencial and silly, it has a very clear structure and helps students to understand the very basic grammar.

    I hope this explains the obscure joke in the heaven strip. :P

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    1. Re:I Am A Pen by badasscat · · Score: 2, Informative

      Every so often, one will hear the phrase "I am a pen." especially when dealing with younger Japanese. From what I understand, it's the first thing the English teachers teach the students. Even though the sentence itself is nonsencial and silly, it has a very clear structure and helps students to understand the very basic grammar.

      I hope this explains the obscure joke in the heaven strip. :P

      Well no, because that sentence would actually be "this is a pen", not "I am a pen". The Japanese may be silly in many ways, but they're not complete idiots. Apparently this sentence is silly enough that it's still made fun of by students there (I'd bet the comic strip is an intentional stab at humor, not a mistake... though obviously Japanese humor doesn't translate directly to English).

      The first thing I learned in Japanese was "this is a book" (kore wa hon desu) and for a long time I'd just walk around saying that for no reason, like kids do. At some point I'm sure I said "I am a book" (watashi wa hon desu) just as a joke, knowing what it meant and just thinking it sounded funny - I think this is the same sort of thing.

  4. Site down by Stack_13 · · Score: 1, Informative
    Yep, the server has been Slashdotted:
    Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
    1. Re:Site down by Rallion · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually, it seems to be the combined might of /. and Penny Arcade itself that took it down, it stayed up for quite a while after it was originally posted. Truly, it is a mighty collaboration.