Year One: A Penny Arcade Retrospective

by Michael;Holkins Krahulik

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

60 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[The Rudie Librarian (Brian)]

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[Tung]

Unless you are a major geek like me, you have no idea what Penny Arcade is. If you do know what Penny Arcade is, you will have probably already read this book. Penny Arcade is one of the most-read online comics, especially for video game enthusiasts. If you play videogames or even create videogames or work in an industry related to videogames, you read Penny Arcade as a matter of course. Where ESPN is the daily stop for sports fans, Penny Arcade is the daily stop for video game enthusiasts and nerds. This book collects the online strips for their very first year, and each strip is accompanied by a commentary from the author and/or artist. Because it was their first year, the strips are rough, and the characters hadn't fully developed their personalities yet. So the quality is lower than the other collections, but by the end of that first year, you can see the quality is much improved. A must-read, obviously, for fans of the site – you non-fans don’t know what you’re missing.