So today’s Penny Arcade strip was so good that I very nearly ran it all by itself. I know not everyone appreciates these guys, but I couldn’t help but L (very much OL) at this take on First Class.
…Remember that it’s a film I liked, but damn were the “first class” characters silly as shit.
And while that wouldn’t typically be enough, it was worth simultaneously catching you up on a story that’s a few days old and thinly detailed, but still kinda cool. Turns out that one of PA’s side-strip ideas has been picked up by Paramount and paired with screenwriter Gary Whitta (Book of Eli). It’s a space-faring tale about a boy changing intergalactic schools, and it’s set to become a CG animated family film. It’s called The New Kid, and it’s a very simple, very evocative single strip. It’s not the kind of thing that you would usually expect to be licensed outright, but that speaks to the ability of the guys behind PA to evoke a lot with a little. Their comic is also popular as fuck, so there’s that.
What I do enjoy about Jerry and Mike though, is that while their comic is usually amusing and occasionally funny, from time to time the writing and art will collide in such a perfect way as to strike a wonderful chord in one’s imagination. Most of their side projects are like this, and the half a dozen non-PA strips they’ve teased or tinkered with over the years usually capitalize on this gift. They rarely get into much detail or truly pull out anything amazing from these new worlds, but they have a unique talent at succinctly hinting at the infinite possibilities of a concept. Clearly it’s worked.
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Hindsight lol
“Yellboy” is Banshee. He’s been around since before the Penny Arcade boys were glimmers in their fathers’ penises. He’s been around so long he has comic book spawn. Fucking read a book, boys.
Yeah shame on them. Clearly they called him Yellboy because they didn’t know his name. What a bunch of illiterate losers.
indeed. That one was brilliant 🙂
I was really hoping the internet had gotten over their “it’s not cool to like Penny Arcade” thing
Yellboy was an Interpol agent and NYPD officer, he was Moira McTaggart’s love interest and eventully headed a school of new mutants himself – not an obscure character in the X pantheon.
(And his “sonic scream” is actually one the BETTER mutations: it’s his equivalent of a bat’s sonar – using it to move around is no more ridiculous than, say, turning into fucking diamonds or manipulating the weather. I’d like to know how chromosomes doing [i]that[/i] is less idiotic.)
Lord knows there were *plenty* dumb things to make fun of FIRST CLASS. PA just took a cheap shot without working for it.
Ennis did it first!
When I was a kid, my sisters always talked about Stretch Guy and Rock Man and Flame Boy.
Wait, you guys are serious?
The one new mutant with a really cool superpower was Darwin, and (SPOILER ALERT!) he died after two scenes without really getting to show it off. I would have loved to see how he fit in to the final battle. And seriously? There are two non-white characters and one of them is the first to die? Right after the other one joins up with the bad guys?
I enjoyed the movie a lot, but man…
Wait, it was uncool to like Penny Arcade? By what vampire-loving glitter-covered Ke$ha singing tweens standards? When was it unpopular to like things that are pants-crappingly funny? What Dane Cook worshiping douchebag declared Penny Arcade “off limits” to popular kids and can we find and savagely beat them?
No, because they were accused of using the F slur once too often, which bothered some folk.
Jew?
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