&gt; open book The book is now open. &gt; read book Entitled The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade, it details the history of a comic strip called Penny Arcade. The comic appears to catalog the lives of two young men who are utterly steeped in popular culture. Each chapter gathers into a coherent beam of savory trivia, strange facts, formerly mysterious origins, biographical information, interviews, inaugural conventions, an unlikely charity, and comic strips. You get the sense that some of the content may be apocryphal—for example, the part where they eat a whole wolf basically comes out of nowhere. Also, if one of them really did become “King of the Britons,” you’re sure you would have heard about it somewhere else. &gt; close book You close the book and place it back on the shelf. Maybe next time.

The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition

Comics & Graphic Novels

Holkins, Jerry

Krahulik, Mike

Graphic Novels

Del Rey

FROM UNTOLD STYGIAN DEPTHS, IT RISES Gaze, if you dare, in benumbed awe upon its unfathomably cyclopean dimensions of obsidian impossibility. Cower before its undulating, multitendriled tales of unutterable horror. Receive into trembling hands that which the nameless ancients foretold in dread whispers that echo still across the black and terrible chasm whence forgotten time disgorges its haunted secrets, etc. Behold—the sixth tome of the Penny Arcade cycle! Peer within and find • 2005’s full-color Penny Arcade strips in their behemoth entirety! • The soul-chilling ramblings of its warped, only partially human creators! • And more, which no coherent mind could fathom nor human tongue repeat!

Penny Arcade 6: The Halls Below

Manga

Random House Worlds

“WHO DARES DISTURB THE CRYPT OF THE IMMORTAL SPACE BITCHES?” The answer may very well be here—along with blatant abuse of Nerf weapons, highly questionable pizza toppings, murderous exploding penguins, shopping-mall zombie mayhem, the ponderous ponderings of Twisp and Catsby, and the libidinous juice machine that shall remain nameless (at least on the book cover)—in the seventh Penny Arcade collection. Inside you’ll find • Every full-color Penny Arcade strip from 2006—along with all-new, supposedly insightful commentary from the genial creators! • Sixteen pages of brand-spanking-new bonus material that’s not to be missed! • The Sorcelator! • And more, from the New York Times bestselling alteregos of those gaming-obsessed, pop-culture hellions Gabe and Tycho!

Be Good, Little Puppy: A Penny Arcade Book

Get your geek on! Penny Arcade, the comic strip for gamers, by gamers is now available in comic shops and bookstores everywhere. Not familiar with Penny Arcade? What? It's only the most popular comic strip on the web. It's the funniest, most twisted comic that ever lampooned gamer culture, and takes shots at everything from Star Wars to Steve Jobs. Experience the joy of being a hardcore gamer as expressed in vignettes of random vulgarity and mindless violence! Get online and direct your browser to penny-arcade.com, check out the latest strips, then, to read Penny Arcade from the very beginning, get the first collection, Attack of the Bacon Robots, which includes strips, sketches, and creator commentary not available anywhere else!

Attack of the Bacon Robots (Penny Arcade, Vol. 1)

Computers & Technology

Graphics & Design

Dark Horse

Verily, the heroes of Penny Arcade return in the second volume of valiant chivalric deeds of brave heroism, heroic gallantry and gallant bravery! Forsooth! Sir Gabe and Sir Tycho return in Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings! Collecting all the Penny Arcade strips posted online from 2001 and 2002, Volume 2 includes creator commentary, a sketchbook section and an introduction from somebody sort of famous! If you haven't heard of Penny Arcade, the most poplular online comic ever, it might not be too late to salvage whatever reputation you have and get in on the fun all the cool people have been having. We won't tell anyone.

Penny Arcade Volume 2: Epic Legends Of The Magic Sword Kings

Science Fiction & Fantasy

So it was written, so it shall be. The coming foretold, sealed into the hands of fate by the lips of the prophets from another time. The mystery is revealed and the great plan will now come to its fruition! Its number shall be three. From the far horizons, across the deepest reaches of the ethereal gulf, the thunderous echo of its name shall be heard! PENNY ARCADE! Penny Arcade, the most powerful webcomic in the universe, returns! The third volume of this cultural and supernatural phenomenon, The Warsun Prophecies, brings you every Penny Arcade strip published online in 2002 A.D., encased with the dark secrets of the mad prophets known as Gabe and Tycho. Behold! It has been foretold!

Penny Arcade Volume 3: The Warsun Prophecies

Dark Horse Books

OHMYGODDIDYOUSEETHAT?!? So, anyway, I'm sure you stopped by to find out what kinds of Penny Arcade goodness we will be lavishing upon you with this latest collection. Oh, and you came for the cinnamon almond biscotti, of course. But mostly you came because you can't get enough of the smash-hit web-comic Penny Arcade. Well, my friend, do we have the goods for you! All the Penny Arcade web-comics published online in 2003, a smorgasbord of commentary courtesy of Gabe and Tycho, and more bonus material than you can shake a pigeon at! Huh? Oh, sorry, did I say "pigeon?" I meant to say "stick." Sorry, but that bird is still really creeping me out. You can tell it's totally planning something. Can't you see it watching us, with its eyes!?! Man, birds are weird...

Penny Arcade Volume 4: Birds Are Weird

Games & Strategy Guides

Penny Arcade

<ul><li>We understand there are a variety of child-rearing techniques, but exposing them to wizardism, or leaving them with phylacteries, lycanthropes, and nosferatu don't seem like sound tactics. Is there a Bureau for Paranormal Children Services? They need a call about now. And tell them this collection includes every Penny Arcade strip from 2007, handcrafted creator commentary from Jerry Holkins (Tycho Brahe), mystical cover process from Mike Krahulik, and a foreward by Cliff Bleszinski.</li></ul>

Penny Arcade Volume 8: Magical Kids in Danger

Comic Strips

Oni Press

<ul><li>Jonathan Gabriel: Supreme Lycar of the secretive, xenophobic, and insular Wildfur clan. Tycho Brahe: the "fresh meat" in an elite, Top Secret werewolf-killing squad known only as "The Werewolf Killers." But there is a thirst beyond thirst — a thirstening Jonathan Gabriel knows only too well. Tycho feels it, too; to be drunk on moonlight, entwined in the super hairy arms of some kind of man/wolf type dude. PASSION'S HOWL, or whatever. Listen! This is just solicit copy. Everything inside is Penny Arcade comics. Specifically, all the Penny Arcade comics from 2009.</li></ul>

Penny Arcade Volume 9: Passion's Howl

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