He also mentioned a lot of the reason he dreamed of being in the newspapers was because it would help his dad understand how successful he was, because that is what being successfully looked like for a Cartoonist pre-2000.
OUAT, the deluxe edition of City of Heroes came packed with a PvP mini-comic. Would they even put him on a short list for such a bonus these days?
I don't even think PENNY ARCADE could pull that now, outside of it's relationship with Dungeons and Dragons or via pull from PAX.
....I mean, their relationship with video game companies has gotten their character into a Telltale game, multiple D&D games and books, whatever the hell that weird hero clicker game is I see advertised sometimes and they had their own series of RPGs. They still have giga-massive pull beyond any other webcomic creator's dreams. They get to do whatever the fuck they want and delegate all the actual work to their empire of employees all for making 3 comics a week. I can't even imagine what it's like to have that kind of power and freedom.
The nice thing about ending a story on a happy ending is you don't see what happens when it's not happily ever after.
Honestly, future Miranda should be a straight-up theft of the Park and Rec joke about Jerry’s wife Gail in the future. Gail and their daughters didn’t age a day.
Gonna say I was kinda prepping for it as soon as I saw the first Scratch panel.
He's older than Francis and somehow looks like he's 20 in this.
It's no longer a regular, but I still check in from time to time. Much like Chainsawsuit or Penny Arcade.
Expand to 4-koma (four panel manga), and that becomes truckloads of better works.
When something stands out to you as unique, it can be easy for a writer to put a spotlight on it.
Same for a long while. I'm not entirely sure what compelled me to (other than quarantine boredom perhaps), but I just caught up on it after not regularly reading since around the 2013 LARP saga. Catching up on 7 years of missed comics took a disappointingly short time, on account of all missed updates. And also highlighted how frequently Kurtz tries to take the comic in a more story-oriented tangent only for it to go nowhere and never be mentioned again.
It's that second one that really bothers me, and it's exacerbated by the first.
I mean in the sense that the relationship lasted to the point that they are married now. I mean the previous timeline comic literally only mentioned them as a couple during one short story arc that was essentially just a lot of "huh? wha? old people sex?" jokes and then they left it be.
