Penny Arcade Remixed By Japanese Students

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.

Comments

Re:Hola!

[VenTatsu]

You know if you had said "The Wang: mightier than the sword!" you might actualy have been ontopic.

Oh, boy!

[TechnoPops]

If the guys decide to do on a strip on this, I won't have to first read Tycho's news post for once! :P

I like it.

[a whoabot]

These are a great much funny than true Penny Arcade comics. Those are far too weak to be well on Earth.

'Nuff said

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's from an actual strip.

Gabe: This month is January. (Holding up calendar.)

Tycho: ?

Gabe: Let's go skiing.

Gabe (tearing at paper): My country does not have mountains.

Tycho: Oh, no.

*rotfl*

[Anonymous Coward]

those are pretty funny, what a way to learn english and comics!

too bad the resulting copyright violation lawsuit will cripple that poor japanese school. Ha ha just kidding, Gabe and Tycho would never do that kind of thing! They'll just make fun of them in the strip or something.

Final Fantasy Remixed...

[Landaras]

Slightly related to this idea of taking original content (say Penny Arcade) and remixing it (new dialogue), is the web-comic 8-Bit Theater.

The premise is a sorta-retelling of the original Final Fantasy's story using the sprites from that game.

Disclaimer: I am not affliated with 8-Bit Theater beyond being a loyal reader who has been entertained for over 400 strips.

- Neil Wehneman

Re:Final Fantasy Remixed...

[Drakin]

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)

Re:Hola!

[saden1]

I like this strip best. I would pay to see two Japanese people act it out.

Interesting Dialog

[xenocide2]

The webpage mentions that he showed the class several examples of comics -- did he choose Pokey the Pengiun or something?

One has to wonder

[xenocide2]

Why he didn't include the classic "The Bench" strip. Its designed for it -- no bubbles, just use lines like the good old days of PA.

"... But you should really read them all."

[complete loony]

And they're all 128KB, Now that's just asking for a slashdotting ;).
Pity they seem to have so much bandwidth...

Coincidence?

[StingRay02]

I find it ironic that the "odd maternity theme" comic was originally about eating too much Japanese candy. Add in the fact that the remake has a decidedly Jerry Springer feel to it, and you've got some funky coincidences riding around out there in the ether.

Transcriptions (in case the site dies)

[andfarm]

rainbow.jpg says:

Kid: Who are you?
Offstage: Are you a pen?
Jesus figure: I am a pen.

Jesus figure: I-- am-- a-- pen!

Kid: Oh! You are a pen.
Jesus figure: That's right.
Kid: What color are you?
Jesus figure: Rainbow!!!

[no, you are Zen!]

magicdrug.jpg says:

Kid 1: Oops! Noooooooo...
Kid 2: Yours is too small!!

Kid 1: No! Yours is smaller than mine, isn't it?!
Kid 2 [holding bottle marked with skull-and-crossbones]: No, no!! mine is bigger than anyone. Because I have used this...

Kid 1: What's this? [very large, as if shouting]
Kid 2: HAHAHA It is magic drug.

[I wonder what the "oops" was. Do I want to know?]

laborpains.jpg says:

Kid 1 [lying on table]: I have labor pains
Kid 2 [standing up]: What's the mather
Kid 1: help me!!
Kid 2: Go to hell!
Kid 1: But.....

Kid 1: It's your baby [heart]

[I don't want to know. Really.]

This sounds like....

[PeeweeJD]

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.

Re:This sounds like....

[alphaseven]

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.)

Re:This sounds like....

[balthan]

Right you are, Ken!

I Am A Pen

[Gangis]

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

Re:I Am A Pen

[Ayaress]

I guess that's better than me learning Spanish in high school. The first full sentence we learned to say is "My donkey is in your bathroom."

Re:I Am A Pen

[badasscat]

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.

Oblig Animated Clerks

[da3dAlus]

[To save on costs for this production, we have outsourced our show to Korean animators.]

"Who's driving? Oh my God, BEAR is driving. How can that be?"

Re:Oblig Animated Clerks

[NonSequor]

Actually they said that the storyboard for the last part of the show got lost and so the Korean animators came up with an ending on there own. The majority of animation on American TV is done in Korea.

Penny Arcade Yaoi!

[May Kasahara]

LOL, the last strip linked in the post was hilarious (though the hints of MPreg were mildly disturbing). No offense to Gabe and Tycho, but I can see a very silly yaoi doujinshi made out of that and some of these others: youarenoisy.jpg, girlfriend.jpg, lovehotel.jpg, etc.

Re:Site down

[Rallion]

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.