What happened to Penny Arcade's art? It actually started

you answered you're own question.

They got lazier

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>>81255111
But it's not just lazier, the style's actually repulsive now.

>>81255100
Game is fucked up. Tycho looks totally fine actually.

>>81255149
Everything is wrong and that last panel looks like it was drawn by somebody mid mental breakdown trying to draw their own imagination.

The magical effects of family and antidepressants, everybody.

>>81255149
>Lazy
I don't get that.
I mean, I get ugly. That's certainly a thing. But lazy? Dude draws three different, visually distinct panels with implied depth and complementing but separate color palettes for each, and that's lazy? Come on now

>>81255100
Someone on the forums complained about the artwork being bad so decided to make look uglier to fuck with people

>>81256366
A decade ago, I could have actually believed this
But that Tycho and Gabe are long gone

I never though I'd live to see CAD become better than PA and yet here we are.

>>81256225

I can teach five classes in a day with no planning or preparation. Don't mistake experience for effort.

>>81256025
>The magical effects of family and antidepressants, everybody
Charles Schulz managed for decades to be consistent and coherent.

>>81255100
>hips
what the fuck

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>>81256225
Yeah. I can understand people complaining about how the over-exaggerated art can come off looking unappealing, but "lazy" seems like an inaccurate word. The strip's art has a lot more effort and variety put into it today than it had in the past. For comparison, here's a random strip from 2005. It's basically some talking heads with only a couple of details changing across the panels (eyes, mouth). It kinda looks like B^U faces, and copy/pasting seems to have been involved.

Also, when did PA make their strips this big? I'm pretty sure they used to be in a smaller resolution in the past.

>>81257030
They guy related to the suicide bombers who attacked the nation he is now living in should be the one embarrassed

Mike needs to get over this fucking case of tumblr nose he's gotten lately, that's for damn sure.

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>>81258563
He still does it, but it's less obnoxious than it was a few months ago.

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>>81260058
This one's from like......February.

>>81255100
I don't think they work on it anymore. Pretty much ghost written now. Look at how grotesque the art us now.

He's probably trying to experiment.

>>81260232
I've heard people throwing this theory around but I don't find it believable. Sure, the difference in the art style is noticeable when you compare older and newer strips. But this change has evolved pretty gradually over a long time, and I don't believe the artist changed at any point.
As for the idea that it's ghostwritten these days, IMO the comic's current writing doesn't seem all that different when compared to the older strips. It's just got less videogame focus now that the PA guys have grown up a bit and aren't young and hip anymore. People have kept complaining that they've been recently bringing their personal/private stuff into the comics too much (fatherhood etc), and I don't feel like a ghostwriter would do that; they'd more likely stick to the old formula of vidya gags.

>>81260478
Ever since they had kids it's been kind of shit.

Somewhere down the line they became less funny, and more annoying. I don't know how many years its been. Maybe around dick wolves. Apologizing to a bunch of cunts for making a rape joke. I lost a lot of respect.

>>81260232
More and more like Garfield every day.

The original art already sucked, very stiff and recycled poses. This just looks like a guy that's done stiff and recycled poses all his life decided to be loose and creative but is still a talentless hack.

>>81255100

They hire people to write and draw it now. They've done this since PAX became a giant affair.

Now that they delegated PAX I don't think they do anything anymore, actually.

>>81260108
why does the guys nose halve in size from one panel to the other?

>>81260805
Dickwolves was much less the strip itself than it was Mike being an asshat on twitter after the comic went up. The initial backlash was pretty minor until he apparently spent a couple weeks stirring shit up there. Similar thing happened later with some comments from him about trans people, which led to him apologizing on the site when he realized one of the folks at the PA Report was trans. I'm pretty sure Mike's complete lack of tact in these situations is what led to their current policy of not engaging criticism at all, which I believe Robert has mentioned at PAX on a couple occasions.

>>81255100
I'm sure you're talking in general. But isn't this specific page supposed to be a direct parody of another comic?

>>81255100
>Gabe's child bearing hips on the first panel

>>81258563
Maybe you need to get over the fact that white people have red noses

>>81260058
that's not what steel toes look like

>>81255149
>>81255100
They are already as edgy as they can get with writing, so they are trying to out-edge themselves with repulsive Liefeldian artstyle.

>>81260108
Holy shit. This looks like a 5 minute scribble.
I drew like that when I was tired and had a serious artblock.

And why the fuck are their noses BROWN? Did someone take a dump on them? "Tumblr nose" at least represents real discoloration of human skin on the nose (you can dislike it because it doesn't account for discoloration of ears, cheeks and lips), where it indeed is slightly redder - but it's never fucking BROWN!

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>>81255100
i like the newer designs over the original

>>81270045
The problem is that around 2012 Gabe hit his peak, and only gotten worse since.

>>81260058
>DaS3
The fucking 12th needs to get here already so I can play the damn game and stop avoiding all vidya sources.

Anyone who actively visits /v/ know the general consensus of the game at least? Is it better than DaS2? This is important.

>>81255100

He experiments a lot, I imagine he'd get bored drawing the same shit for so many years, so he tries to change it around very often.

Although it's exaggerated, I don't really mind it, what I don't like is the weird color experimentation he does, like in OP's pic.

>>81260108
>I take a couple deep breaths, and recognize the joy all around me
What a strange way to say "I'm heavily medicated."