It is difficult to talk to Gabriel at the moment, as the lion's share of my conversational attempts are directed to "The Hand." His focus is on the 3DS, specifically on the game that is in the 3DS, even more specifically Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop. His relationship to that device is fraught, as I've desribed repeatedly - but it's the first time he hasn't complained about it and has found the 3D a boon. That feature is annoying when its implemented in a merely nominal way, but it's most annoying in a game that simply isn't enjoyable; a game that no amount of spatial wizardly could improve. Many such games exist.

Back in 2008 we were contacted by the Make A Wish foundation. We got to meet a young man whose wish was to spend a day with us at Penny Arcade. Nathan Burgess came out to the office and we ate pizza and played video games. He was an awesome kid and we ended up putting him in a comic strip the next day.

We have one of those.

Hello my name is Max Fairbanks and i Understand your Company deals in motorized wheelbarrow ,And can you email me with the types and Models that you have including with their prices range On them thank you
Best regards
Max Fairbanks

It is a truth universally acknowledged that muhfuckin' Orcs are a huge problem, and must die, but I can't get Brenna to warm to the idea that directing a steady stream of them through our wholly custom hellscape is the appropriate response. There isn't another route, not here; I might refer you to the name of the game itself to get a sense of its dialectic.

**UPDATE** You can now get this artwork as a print through our Kickstarter!

Freelancer - a PC game from "Digital Anvil," back when Microsoft maintained a broader first-party menagerie - was a videogame. In addition, it was also a server you could run, and host a universe for other people. I liked the first thing, and loved the second; like Neverwinter Nights, it existed in the twilight between single-player and massively multiplayer. This was, of course, long before Infinity Ward would marry immediacy and progression into the world-eater Call of Duty became - but these were meant to be a bit more pensive. Another era, really.

I admit to being a huge fan of reality tv style game shows. I love shows like So You Think You Can Dance, Hell’s Kitchen, and Master Chef. I even watch shows like Ink Master and Shear Genius. It doesn’t matter if it’s singers, chefs, fashion designers or gardeners. I love watching groups of people pushed together to compete at something they are good at. I don’t know a thing about cooking or dancing but I can’t get enough of these game shows. I’m always amazed when the challenge is something like “make a fruit tart” and one guy says “shit I’ve never made a fruit tart before” and then he proceeds to make a fucking fruit tart. I could never do that and maybe that’s why I love watching it so much. Could you pull a theme out of a hat and then write and draw a comic strip about it? Probably not, but I’m guessing you might like to watch people who can.

The only thing that keeps my workday from being an unbroken stream of Outernauts' plinks and boinks is the fact that "energy" exists. My compatriot hurts for it, and it's made a beast of him.

Our next big Kickstarter stretch goal is the Strip Search web show. This will be like Master Chef for web cartoonists. We will be sharing lots more information about the show soon but right now we are about to hit a much goofier stretch goal. Tycho will cosplay at PAX dressed as a character that you all choose. We should hit this goal pretty soon so we went ahead and put up the voting page. Just hit this page and drop in the name of a character you’d like to see Tycho cosplay. We will let this run for a bit and then narrow it down to the top ten and have a vote.

With Part Four, The Proxy comes to a close. It will Prox no more. But! Gabriel must like you, you must have forged a connection somehow, perhaps at PAX; he went deeply, profoundly H.A.M. on today's strip. I mean, I wrote the words that are on there I guess, but I've got nothing to do with this thing.

Check it out, we added a bunch of new rewards to the Kickstarter. You can check out all the details right here but there are a couple highlights in my opinion:

The Proxy continues its proxification unabated, now in its third discrete lozenge. My son is younger than the boy we have included in the strip, and so is at an earlier point in this progression; the rules are interesting to him, insofar as they are a part of an individual card's overall fascination. He knows, because his dictionary has told him - the dictionary that was once mine - that words are not merely to be collected, and arranged, but befriended:

So I just posted this in our Kickstarter comments and I figured it would also be worth posting here.

So the current storyline is indeed taken straight from my life. My son attended his very first Pokemon League night on Tuesday. I played the game very seriously a few years ago but have not touched it recently. My son went in with a deck cobbled together from some of my old cards. It was comprised mostly of pokemon he really liked but had no synergies to speak of. I helped him a bit just making sure he had enough energy and talking to him about how many of each stage in an evolution you should have. He got to the league event and ended up losing all five of his games. Some of them after only a few turns.