A Penny Arcade strip you like and why

[Dave Perkins]

i like the noses

[Pogo]

Anyone have Dave Perkins' email? He's been hacked.

[Dave Perkins]

help i cant control myself from having an opinion about the noses

[Fishbreath]

Then again, I was also one of those weirdos who said that books weren't open to serious interpretation if the author said one reading was correct and others were not. That's not directly related, but it does mean that my views on Art are typically discarded without consideration by people in the know ;)

Derail: the people in the know generally make their living coming up with new interpretations of old literature, so they have a vested interest in working within a framework that lets them ignore any pesky thing the author happens to say. :P

Back on topic: the noses are pretty bad. Wasn't there a strip a week or two ago where all the noses weren't closed, colored shapes? I guess Gabe tried it again and decided he still could give it a pass.

[Armando Penblade]

i like the noses alot

Dave,

Have you, by chance, recently tried to fuck any bears? Does the idea of bear-fucking sound surprisingly normal to you now, compared to how it might have sounded six, twelve, or eighteen months ago? Have you had your partner dress as a bear, make bear noises, or ingest parts of your body in the manner of a bear?

These are standard questions I have for everyone I interact with. You aren't being singled out in any way.

[Dave Perkins]

i wish that bears had these noses

[Funkula]

Please state your opinion of this image:

[WarrenM]

i like the noses

[RepoMan]

I like the "403 Forbidden" text.

[Teiman]

thats not a nose, noses are somewhat near the center of a face, and that thing/hole is on the left side of her face


theres a point in some artist life that you can draw anything and it will just look good. but you must not abuse that. I think gabe abused this power here

[Dave Perkins]

i like nose abuse

[Teiman]

postdata:

this comic has fantastic composition and art

[BleedTheFreak]

How hard is a fucking nose to draw? Just draw a side ways fucking U and call it done. It's just a single black fucking line! Goddamn.

[Dave Perkins]

here i drew a nose

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[Omniscia]

c

Got your nose.

[Funkula]

Dammit. That was a picture of some bears. The fat, gay kind of bears. But they were just standing around, you couldn't even see their lower bodies. But you could see their noses, and I guess that's what Imageshack took offense to.

[SlyFrog]

I'm not in any way an artist. Terrible at it, actually. But it seems to me the bigger problem is the fact that the nose is colored darker than the rest of the face. That's what makes it look like a hole.

Generally, don't things that stick out get lighter shading, because they see more light (and therefore, things that are in crevices, etc., get darker shading, because they're, well, shadowed)? Isn't that a basic rule of art/composition?

[Armando Penblade]

"Listen man. You just don't, like, understand his art, okay? Just like, back off, man. It's just an opinion, man."

--An internet bearfucker

[Timsfker]

A 4th panel video was just uploaded for the strip "Southern Exposure": http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode...sure-4th-panel

I laughed pretty hard towards the end when Gabe came up with the punchline of the comic (which is a great comic). Good stuff.

[Timsfker]

I liked this one, and as someone who works in an office which contains other males I can certainly relate at times.

[Tin Wisdom]

PA's Kickstarter campaign is amusing reading whether you intend to pledge or not. The pledge reward descriptions are worth reading: "$15 or more: Gabe will think about you during sex, and a certificate of appreciation will be mailed to you."

[Joe O'Malley]

here i drew a nose

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That looks like a boobie.

cc

[Omniscia]

[Gordon Cameron]

Roman nose:

L

[TurinTur]

I liked this one, and as someone who works in an office which contains other males I can certainly relate at times.

In one hand this is just one more of their long line of crap jokes. In the other hand the delivery is great.

Not this. Not now. /single tear

[Joe O'Malley]

I've been reading The Trenches, which they collaborate with Scott Kurtz to produce. I like reading all the anonymous anecdotes, but have been noticing that they all seem to be written by the same person. same sort of writing style, same way to describe and allude to things..very uniform. It reminds me of the style of the Ding! Cartoons after Kurtz took over direct control of them.

Anyone else notice this? Is he re-writing everything, or just re-telling stories that he's heard through the years?

[RichVR]

Not a comic. But impressive work.

[Dave Perkins]

Cue jackass complaining about the septum.

[Jonathan Crane]

Cue jackass complaining about the septum.

Aww, I was going to complain about the red noses!

[Dave Perkins]

Then you, sir, I warrant, are a jackass, and may proceed forthwith, sir!