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Penny Arcade in the New York Times

Posted by Zonk on from the they're-just-doing-it-because-we-interviewed-them dept.

Just a few weeks after our interview with Penny Arcade, the Washingtonians have landed in a feature article on the NYT Technology page (registration required). They even mostly get what the strip is about. From the article: "The strips usually feature the authors' alter egos, Gabriel and Tycho, who exist in a slightly surreal world where obsolete electronic components are drunk, vulgarity and cartoon violence run rampant, vegan damned souls roam and debates about whether the newest video game is awesome or overblown become a matter of life or death."

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  1. Re:Child's Play... by jnik · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is a hole in the article....

    Reading carefully, the second to last paragraph seems to be the lead-in to a list of other community-building activities. Then the last paragraph says they aren't "Samaritans," which wouldn't be anything like the impression one would get from the article as it stands.

    I suspect an editor got chop-happy.

    I'm amused by quotes from Scott McCloud and Infinium labs, though.

  2. Scott McCloud by Tofino · · Score: 1, Interesting
    1. How did Scott McCloud weasel his way into this article? And how sad is it that he's still "best-known" for Zot!, which was around in the late 80s and early 90s?

    2. Zero mention of Child's Play. Well-researched.