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Will Strip For Games

Posted by Zonk on from the ha-ha-ha dept.

1up has a piece today on the backbone of the gaming zeitgeist: online comics. From PA to 8-Bit Theatre, they have thoughts on all of them. From the article: "The 'real' origin of game-based comics came in May 1998, when Scott Kurtz started Player vs. Player, a strip based around the office hijinks at a video game magazine. Hosted at MPOG.com, like Polymer City Chronicles, early PvP reflects its origins as a lighthearted way to lampoon games in the context of a larger gaming-focused publication. Some of the earliest gaming webcomics were started in a similar fashion; Penny Arcade, for example, was originally conceived and submitted as a strip for Loonygames."

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  1. Misleading title by penguin_asylum · · Score: 3, Funny

    The title really had me looking forward to reading the article...

    1. Re:Misleading title by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

      I felt the same way after a friendd took me to a Bare Naked Ladies concert. Three lies in one name.

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      If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
    2. Re:Misleading title by clintp · · Score: 2, Funny

      ObSimpsons References:

      Movie, Naked Lunch -- Nelson: "I can think of two things wrong with that title"
      Store, "Stoner's Pot Palace" -- Otto: "Man, that is flagrant false advertising!"

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      Get off my lawn.
  2. Re:Don't think too much about it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    The grandparent likes VG Cats right now, but Scott Ramsoomair is making T-shirt and misc swag based on his comic, so pretty soon, he'll have sold out too (if he doesn't already fit the grandparent's definition of "sold out"), and then I expect the grandparent will start liking a sprite comic, but not 8bit or Bob and George, because they're popular and they've sold out too. No, it will be a sprite comic so obscure it'll be based on a small-release game from the 80s on the Famicom (Not the NES, lamers) and he'll think he's cool all over again because he was "there from the start".

    Fight the power! Stop reading web comics when it becomes self-supporting, if not...*SCREAM OF HORROR!!!!* p-p-p-profitable! XO /sarcasm