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Penny Arcade, Volume 1: Attack of the Bacon Robots

by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik

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Publisher Comments:

Get your geek on!

Penny Arcade, the comic strip for gamers, by gamers is now available in comic shops and bookstores everywhere. Not familiar with Penny Arcade? What? It's only the most popular comic strip on the web. It's the funniest, most twisted comic that ever lampooned gamer culture, and takes shots at everything from Star Wars to Steve Jobs. Experience the joy of being a hardcore gamer as expressed in vignettes of random vulgarity and mindless violence! Get online and direct your browser to penny-arcade.com, check out the latest strips, then, to read Penny Arcade from the very beginning, get the first collection, Attack of the Bacon Robots, which includes strips, sketches, and creator commentary not available anywhere else!

Review:

"Penny Arcade is an immensely popular Web comic and, in book form, a perfect example of why Web comics are, well, on the Web. The seven-year-old comic strip revolves around gaming, science fiction and computer humor. The two protagonists, Tycho and Gabe (also the code names for the creators), obsess over video games, new technology and the minutiae of their lives and fantasies. Displaying not a trace of self-consciousness or self-deprecation, the strip's premise is that the creators are the funniest guys in the room. Nearly every joke is told with a wink to the audience and swift elbow in the ribs. The drawing is repetitive, and the strips use none of the graphic effects available online. Instead, they are simple panel sequences. In book form, there are two strips per page, with commentary from the creators. along the bottom. Oddly, Holkins and Krahulik have chosen to print their comics at exactly the same resolution as online, making the actual images grainy, unfocused and simply not up to normal print standards. For a technology-obsessed strip, this is an odd mistake. The humor in Penny Arcade will definitely appeal to its core audience of webheads and gaming addicts. For the rest of us, it is all too disposable." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Review:

"There's a good deal of comedic violence...along with sexual innuendo and obscenites (some of the latter spoken by occasional bit character Jesus Christ). This is for older teen and adult geeks of all stripes." Library Journal

Review:

"If nothing else, Penny Arcade illustrates that there may be times when a well-placed non sequitur can save one's life. Extra, value-adding features include excellent creators' commentary on each strip and a sketchbook section." Booklist
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781593074449
Author:
Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
Publisher:
Dark Horse Comics
Illustrator:
Krahulik, Mike
Author:
Krahulik, Mike
Author:
Holkins, Jerry
Subject:
General
Subject:
Computer games
Subject:
Comics & Cartoons
Subject:
Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons
Subject:
Graphic Novels
Subject:
Humor-Cartoon Comics
Copyright:
2006
Series:
Penny Arcade
Series Volume:
01
Publication Date:
20060131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
Young adult
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
120
Dimensions:
9 x 7 in 1 lb
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"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "Penny Arcade is an immensely popular Web comic and, in book form, a perfect example of why Web comics are, well, on the Web. The seven-year-old comic strip revolves around gaming, science fiction and computer humor. The two protagonists, Tycho and Gabe (also the code names for the creators), obsess over video games, new technology and the minutiae of their lives and fantasies. Displaying not a trace of self-consciousness or self-deprecation, the strip's premise is that the creators are the funniest guys in the room. Nearly every joke is told with a wink to the audience and swift elbow in the ribs. The drawing is repetitive, and the strips use none of the graphic effects available online. Instead, they are simple panel sequences. In book form, there are two strips per page, with commentary from the creators. along the bottom. Oddly, Holkins and Krahulik have chosen to print their comics at exactly the same resolution as online, making the actual images grainy, unfocused and simply not up to normal print standards. For a technology-obsessed strip, this is an odd mistake. The humor in Penny Arcade will definitely appeal to its core audience of webheads and gaming addicts. For the rest of us, it is all too disposable." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Review" by , "There's a good deal of comedic violence...along with sexual innuendo and obscenites (some of the latter spoken by occasional bit character Jesus Christ). This is for older teen and adult geeks of all stripes."
"Review" by , "If nothing else, Penny Arcade illustrates that there may be times when a well-placed non sequitur can save one's life. Extra, value-adding features include excellent creators' commentary on each strip and a sketchbook section."
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