Yeah, I wasn't praising Penny Arcade and knocking CAD in my post, if it came off that way. I was putting forth exactly what Unkillable Cat said.
I've read the entire CAD archive. I started reading it in 2003, I stopped reading it about a year ago. I kept reading due to the sporadic chance of an update that might actually be funny. Once I realized how stupid that was, I deleted it from my favorites and never looked back.
People have tried to get me in to Penny Arcade countless times, it never works. I just don't care.
There's no denying Penny Arcade has something CAD doesn't, though- a condescending, sometimes pseudo-intellectual air. Maybe that last part is just from the blog posts, though. Now that I think about it, most of the time the comic itself is even dumber than CAD.
Cliffs Notes: I think what Brother None thinks.
Maybe I've just grown beyond gaming comics in general. VGCats no longer seems very funny either. Though to be honest, some of my lack of enthusiasm may have to do with VGC's (lack of an) update schedule.
I got in to Gone with the Blastwave very early on (when its fan base was in the low double digits, at comic #4). He updated just as infrequently back then, and I don't think he's going to bother with it much longer. Probably going to start a new comic. He's had about ten ideas on the backburner for two or three years now.
