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Title: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 02, 2006, 12:38:08 PM

(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060802.jpg)

Twisp & Catsby ftw.

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: The Black Stallion on August 02, 2006, 01:15:29 PM

Penny-Arcade has nice art, that's about it.

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: heavy liquid on August 02, 2006, 01:23:56 PM

Have those characters been in any other strips?  I do like it a lot.  They're appealing and I like how it's monochromatic. 

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 02, 2006, 01:52:13 PM

Yeah its just a pain to find them on PAs Website.

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: TakingBackSunday on August 02, 2006, 02:09:42 PM

Quote from: MrAngryFace on August 02, 2006, 01:52:13 PM

Yeah its just a pain to find them on PAs Website.

I believe the first time they mentioned Twisp and Catchby was in the strip where they were poking at Kevin Smith and Jersey Girl.  Smith had said the film wasn't for critics, so Tycho and Gabe made a panel about a cat talking about cheese or something, and said that the strip wasn't for their critics.  It was quite funny.

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 02, 2006, 03:23:52 PM

Nah twisp was holding a dumbell made of ham and catsby says how much does that weigh? and twisp replies Ham!

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: The Shadow on August 02, 2006, 05:28:08 PM

Is the string tied to his pee-do? :(

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: smiles-and-cries on August 02, 2006, 05:39:14 PM

reading that gave me a headache, what the fuck does it say? What the fuck does it say?
Pass mi di weed, are you familiar with the trees? green screen of dreams... my mind away savor the void... Maah Wii Wannah

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: Vagabond on August 02, 2006, 05:40:56 PM

I understand all the words...

but the funny is in another castle, Mario.

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: Vizzys on August 02, 2006, 06:14:12 PM

Twisp & Catsby   >:(
Cardboard Tube Samurai  ;D

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/03/03

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: theetrin on August 02, 2006, 06:25:17 PM

I actually find Twisp and Catsby far far funnier than regular PA.

But wait, I had always assumed (obviously) that the cat was Catsby. Is it a typo in this comic, or is the cat really Twisp?

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: Mondain on August 02, 2006, 10:33:43 PM

Gabe and Tycho were a lot blunter in their first few years towards games and various industry and web people, it was funny

but now their creators are apparently creatively bankrupt

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: Shuri on August 02, 2006, 10:58:33 PM

They had a spinoff earlier back in the days called The Bench featuring one of them with a squirrel. It went on for about 50 issues or so then went away just like that

Quote from: Mondain on August 02, 2006, 10:33:43 PM

Gabe and Tycho were a lot blunter in their first few years towards games and various industry and web people, it was funny

but now their creators are apparently creatively bankrupt

Well they do tons of comission work for various game companies (like Ubisoft) and mags; they can't really shit on them all the time but they are still pretty critical.

Title: Re: If Penny Arcade ever does a spin-off strip, I hope its this.
Post by: Mondain on August 02, 2006, 11:05:18 PM

yeah that's true, at one point they got an offer to publish one of their comics every month in OPM, so maybe they began to be a little more mature at that point

I recognize that they're still blunt and critical, however it feels a lot faker

but what's funny in these comics with weird drawings having puns that very little people can understand, they're just alienating their readership by doing this aren't they?