Will Strip For Games

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."

Comments

Re:I hate PA.

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

They sold out? How's that? By wanting to make money?

The horrible people wanted to make money doing their jobs? How TERRIBLE!

Don't think too much about it

[AvantLegion]

"Sold out" is one of those things people say when they don't have any intelligent criticism to offer.

Re:Don't think too much about it

[Meagermanx]

It's also what they say about a band when people like them.
Or what they say about a band when they make different kinds of music, even though you'd think making the same kind of music over and over would be 'selling out'.

It's serving it's purpose.

[gmezero]

It's a promotional piece designed to drive traffic to their new comics portal.

Re:8-bit theater

[fwitness]

Read the bottom of the page. It's a work of parody, fully lawful in the U.S. That's why you can have Saturday Night Live product/commercial spoofs. It's a crack in the law that allows us to continue our normal lives without fear of being sued if we say "Pepsi" in a sentence.