We hate to drop spoilers on you guys, but we've gotta impart one important piece of information from
Uncharted 2 before the above comic will make any sense: Nathan Drake is a straight up
genocidal maniac. Now, this fact is never
really explored by the game -- fortunately, Tycho and Gabe managed to expose his manslaughtering habits in last week's
Webcomic Wrapup winner, "
Ambiguitas." Remember, kids: Henchmen have families, too.
Second and third place went to 2P Start's "
Scariest Boo Costume" and Virtual Shackles' "
Groundhog Day in Hell," respectively. Got a strip you'd like to see in tomorrow's wrapup? Just drop a link in the comments, or
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{ Oct 31st 2009 at 2:00AM } 
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 2:07AM
*peers out, looking for Spyder.*
This one deserved to win. It was well-written, funny, and to the point.
SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Oct 31st 2009 2:08AM
Mr. "I have 1749 comments and 0 social life"
*looks at own comment count*
*sighs*
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 2:10AM
I've been here longer. My profile no starts with a '1'.
That means it's better. I think.
SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Oct 31st 2009 2:13AM
Achievement Unlocked: King of Nothing
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 2:14AM
That's okay. I don't care about my Gamerscore or Trophy count anyway.
finnith @ Oct 31st 2009 3:16AM
I've been a member a like 7 or 8 months more than you and you have more than three times the comments. Nice.
Sly @ Oct 31st 2009 3:30AM
i have over 5500. khan has over 10000.
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 3:35AM
Wow.
I may be a Sith Lord, but even I bow before the Master of Joystiq Commentary.
Slaziman (PSN ID: Slaziman) @ Oct 31st 2009 4:00AM
Wow, Mr Khan is insane.
MRLN (The Comment God) @ Oct 31st 2009 7:47AM
I have 300. :D
...
[crawls back into hole and sits in fetal position]
Hydrophobicfish (PSN: HydrophobicFish) @ Oct 31st 2009 10:20AM
So, anybody feel like actually talking about the comic(s)... or at the very least, video games, mayhaps?
vidGuy @ Oct 31st 2009 10:51AM
@ Nah. Let's continue to stroke our massive e-egos.
Some of you guys have me on post count (4581) but I wonder who is the oldest? I've been here since late 2005.
Omega2k3 @ Oct 31st 2009 10:59AM
lol, vidguy
I joined a single day earlier than you.
Sly @ Oct 31st 2009 11:00AM
i've been here since mid-2006, but my first account stopped working for some reason. i didn't comment much back then anyways. if i ever did, it was only on PSP fanboy.
vidGuy @ Oct 31st 2009 11:05AM
Damnit, beat already! Haha, that's cool though. There's so many young-uns that it's hard to remember who has been around since then.
Remember when we had to confirm every comment through email? So much slicker now.
Huey2k2 @ Oct 31st 2009 1:51PM
According to my profile page I have been here since December 21st 2005...
Woo?
Omega2k3 @ Oct 31st 2009 2:03PM
Yeah, and we had to comment uphill both ways. These kids and their new-fangled 'reply' buttons. Why, back in my day, we manually replied to each other by comment numbers! It was always, "@17 - You suck balls" or, "Hey, 23, your opinion is invalid because xbox is hueg."
*sigh*
Those were the days...
BananaBoat @ Oct 31st 2009 2:22PM
When I got here, we still had to mail our comments to Joystiq. Boy how times have changed.
bongoes Sector 2814 @ Oct 31st 2009 2:49PM
Apr 7th, 2009 with only 586 comments. I feel so young.
SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Oct 31st 2009 2:07AM
Inaccurate.
His shirt is not three-quarters-tucked.
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 2:13AM
How can you tell? His back is turned!
Also, see how the comments alternate? That's a recipe for win, that is.
SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Oct 31st 2009 2:17AM
You're starting to creep me out, and I doubt the readers want to deal with it.
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 2:20AM
Then let's stop replying to each others posts. My Inbox is tired.
Anti-Villian @ Oct 31st 2009 2:25AM
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omega2k3 @ Oct 31st 2009 2:52AM
Anyone else think that Spyder and Bradtwart need to just elope and get on with their lives?
SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Oct 31st 2009 2:58AM
You're certainly looking for an easy up-vote.
Does the color blue turn you on?
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 2:58AM
Actually, I was thinking of killing someone...
Whoops, guess I know who.
Saihna @ Oct 31st 2009 3:18AM
They're perfect for each other. :P
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 3:36AM
If you'd looked at posting histories, Spyder and I actually DON'T like each other...
Saihna @ Oct 31st 2009 4:19AM
Yeah, i'm just kidding. :P
Omega2k3 @ Oct 31st 2009 5:01AM
Do not want.
I actually would like for you guys to chill out with the spam, though. Spyder has over a thousand posts since this time last year, and Bradwart has 1,750. I'm guessing a lot of that is comment spam, like the wall of text above.
Mr Khan @ Oct 31st 2009 1:44PM
Around half of my comments were made in the past year
:/
bongoes Sector 2814 @ Oct 31st 2009 2:52PM
Really Khan? How is that possible, you have like a billion comments.
manyquestions @ Oct 31st 2009 3:28PM
A billion and one, get it right!
finnith @ Oct 31st 2009 3:19AM
I bet you sick bastards never mourned the death of the thousands of stormtroopers that perished during the destruction of the two Death Stars either.
Darth Bradwart, Dark Lord of the Sith @ Oct 31st 2009 3:22AM
Wrong Darth. I'm from a different era.
HighFiveJesus @ Oct 31st 2009 1:44PM
No you're not.
Lance Icarus @ Oct 31st 2009 4:45AM
It's comics like this that remind people how good Penny Arcade can be. It's amazing how much they can tell without dialog, just a little written word.
Here's the +1 Comics submission for the week:
http://www.plusonecomics.com/toomuchprotein.html
Enjoy!
DubiousCow @ Oct 31st 2009 5:52AM
I'm assuming you're the artist of this comic so I'll just be nice.
Can you please stop making comics? They're pretty fucking terrible.
MRLN (The Comment God) @ Oct 31st 2009 7:50AM
Sorry, that isn't...
anything. It's got no punchline, no setup for a punchline, nothing even related to humor.
Kn1ves @ Oct 31st 2009 5:31AM
ehh
MRLN (The Comment God) @ Oct 31st 2009 7:50AM
Brilliance: http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=828
finnith @ Oct 31st 2009 1:55PM
What kind of fancy restaurant serves punch? Still funny though.
alienmastermind @ Oct 31st 2009 8:38AM
Nice!
Well, Dipswitch had comics this week, only one was really about video games.
http://www.dipswitchcomics.com/136
Enjoy, and congrats to the reigning champs!
:)
AM
Me @ Oct 31st 2009 9:07AM
"Nathan Drake is a straight up genocidal maniac. Now, this fact is never really explored by the game..."
It is obvious that society is in decline, paranoia and sick-mindedness is today's top values and are spread like a disease through every possible medium -including comics.
This paranoia has become an essential element of our definition of "entertainment" -and "art" too.
Your minds have been so much corrupted, that you cannot have much fun without the existence of heavily sick elements in movies, games, comics etc.
So today you're no better than the crowd at Colosseum at Ancient Rome where the high -class society was going there regularly, dressed to fashion, to be "entertained" with the people that were thrown to the lions.
So have fun with your sick "genocidal maniac" heroes they create for you.
Only if *your* country (whichever it is) and if *your* families were beaten by such "heroes" for real, would you wake up and realize that sickness.
For now, you are just a single unit of the mass. With no values and capabilities to distinguish them and filter what you get from society you will remain just a part of that mass. And some might want you be like that, you make them feel safe!
Street Justice @ Oct 31st 2009 9:22AM
Weren't you the guy trolling the Jennifer Strange post yesterday? Your priorities are fed up.
I find you disgusting.
Street Justice @ Oct 31st 2009 9:47AM
F'ed up i mean.
And wow, someone forgot their coffee.
And to sleep.
And their happy pills.
And yeah, you're probably still a virgin.
Seriously - it's a joke.
Sly @ Oct 31st 2009 11:10AM
dude, calm down. it's just a game. if i killed a real guy in real life, i would feel horrible, even if the guy would have killed me if i didn't kill him. but i can massacre thousands in uncharted without a second thought.
Sam @ Oct 31st 2009 8:54PM
@Sly:
Are you sure you would do *anything" in a "game"? How about involving in such a game persons you know and love?
Think about it.
If not, then this is the proof that the theory "it's just a game" is totally wrong. You have missed something (not just you).
In fact, everything we do, whether *we* consider it "a game" or not, has real consequences (to us and everything related).
Our brain in such "games" get used to accept the wrong messages and ideas without thinking and gets trained in a constant basis with the wrong lessons. We constantly learn, we can’t help it.
The fact that we are usually not aware of this damage, is because it happens slowly.
It is like the famous experiment with the frog, where if you put a frog in a hot water he will jump out immediately. But if you put the frog first and start heating the water slowly, he will never jump - until he dies from the extremely hot (boiling) water!
Markusdragon @ Oct 31st 2009 11:18PM
I feel I must correct you on one point; the Colosseum of Ancient Rome was not an entertainment for the upper classes, but for the masses, with the elite individuals of the time paying for free entertainment for the population in order to curry political favour and to pacify the masses.
The assumption that these violent elements within media suggests that society is in decline is to ignore hundreds of years of how western english-language culture has developed. The Bible, passion plays, Chaucer, Shakespeare, colonialism, Opera, romanticism, war poetry, hollywood, each interweaving violence and hatred and love and sex and war and bloodshed with language and ideas; themes which have remained within our blood since the earliest proto-beasts left the primordial ooze, and which will remain with us until the stars burn out.
The fact is, human nature is violent and visceral, and to try and purge such elements from our culture would be a folly and entirely impossible. Better that it be confined to simulated entertainments than for it to enter our everyday lives.