Finding the Funny – Penny-Arcade

For those of you who don’t know what Penny-Arcade is, you’re missing out.  Penny-Arcade is a gaming related comic, touching on topics from Ubisoft’s new (and some would say idiotic) DRM, to Dungeons and Dragons, to social commentary to Star Wars.  They publish comics three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, along with a blog which relates to the comic.  Unfortunately, as is the case with XKCD, sometimes I am just oblivious to the joke.  Fortunately, however, they are not in the same physics and science humor section.

The comic’s creators are represented by characters withing the comic, Jerry Holkins (“Tycho”, and the written genius) and by Mike Krahulik (“Gabe” and the artistic genius).  While I never met either of them, I do know someone who knows someone who said they know them, so I feel like we’ve met.  While I do enjoy their comic, they have really earned my respect through their Child’s Play charity.  According to wikiepedia they’ve raised over 6 MILLION dollars in cash and gifts for children hospital’s.  That’s amazing.

So, on top of being gut-busting hilarious at times, they are also damned serious about helping kids.  What isn’t there to love?