• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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    I believe that PizzaCake is Penny Arcade for women, and Penny Arcade is PizzaCake for men.

    This opinion may piss some people off, and I don’t care. The comics are of equal quality, but PizzaCake has more opinions I agree with because I, too, am a gender minority.

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      Man you’re gonna shit when you find out women have been reading PA the entire time

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        heh. i got introduced to PA by the woman who everyone was bothering me to marry my entire 20s (one of the few people to be able to learn the musical technique that bears my name, btw, which makes her one of the top performers of that instrument in the world. AND SHE RETIRED. we’ve been besties since, uh, a year or two after i graduated high school? i met her in the same band i met my wife in, her older sister and i were/are close. have done a lot of music together.) and she’s not just a brilliant musician, she plays video and board games too. And is not single, sorry dudes. she’s a hell of a catch, she just isn’t my kind of fish.

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      I don’t know why people would be pissed off, as this comment isn’t clear if being compared to Penny Arcade is supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing.

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        I would be delighted at the comparison. I don’t care if they are saying “they have the art style of early dinosaur comics” i’m still getting a qwantz.com reference i made them think of dinosaur comics holy cow i got compared to ryan north hells yeah

        that’s just me, but you follow?

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            It’s truly bad, I’m lucky they released such an intensely mid comic on the very day I chose to liken it to PizzaCake (Which is also often mid, but has got a lot better since she went more controversial)

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            The last couple comics are callbacks to characters who haven’t appeared in the comic for years, peeking in to see how they’ve changed and grown. It’s nostalgia for longtime readers and won’t make sense for anyone else.

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          Wow, the art style has changed drastically since I last read those. It’s been years and years.

          They genuinely used to look a lot more like the comic in OP, artistically.

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          This one is supposedly from the 90s, but much closer to what I remember regardless.

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          I think Penny Arcade’s one of the few comics where I think their character designs got worse, the longer they ran.

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        eeee! what are you user tagging with i am having to use my brain and i ran out of memspace years ago. remembering Capital Grail (They are One of my favourites) is getting easier for me but ooo that would be nice to have a digital postit note. sorry, hook and loop note.

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      Oh, now this is a take. The essentialism is a bit lazy, but the vibes fit, right down to the dickwolves debacle.