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"E For All" Game Expo Withers, PAX Thrives
After the continued struggles of E3 this year, it looks like another IDG-based games conference will have its own troubles. BigDownload reports that most major game manufacturers are skipping E For All, in part due to their focus on the upcoming Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) and BlizzCon (which will be televised). E for All will have major presentations by Microsoft and EA, but you'll have to go to PAX to see events and exhibits from other big publishers; for example, the playable Jumpgate Evolution demo, the Guild Wars tournament, or the Omegathon. The Seattle Times ran a story about Penny Arcade's creators and how PAX came into existence. Further competition for E For All is coming from the Tokyo Game Show, which runs in the beginning of October.
He gets criticised because his comic is complete and utter shit. It's just unfunny 'jokes', told badly. Hell, most strips don't even have any joke at all. The characters are all drawn with exactly the same expression, and none of them are interesting or funny.
They're not well made at all, most of them have four panels when two or three would suffice, and they're full of endless walls of text explaining the joke he's just told so it's even less funny. The dialogue is laughably bad.
The main character is a Mary-Sue for the author, and half of the strips revolve around his girlfriend having an abortion*. How hilarious! It might help if the main character was actually likeable, but he's a complete and utter prick and in each strip you're wondering why all the other characters don't just beat the shit out of him.
* Yes I know it's supposed to be a miscarriage, but I like to think that she had it aborted because she couldn't face the thought of raising a retarded Buckley-spawn.