Blue Sparks

I’ve been a big fan of Penny Arcade for a long time, heck the name of my blog comes from one of their comics! They’ve always got some good things going on over there. I don’t any of their books, but I do buy their apparel once in a while. Actually, when Mike and Jerry started their whole Dr Raven Darktalon Blood story line ( A Whimsical God, and this ) I approached them about making a fake website for the “movie” which was in production. They were pretty cool about it, but sadly other things got in the way and all I ever finished was a “Coming Soon” page.

When the PA guys decided to start putting out their own video game I was pretty excited. Mike’s artwork is always good, and Jerry’s prose is just phenomenal. I was looking forward to getting it as soon as it came out! I didn’t actually get it as soon as it came out, I waited for it to come to the PS3… but when the second episode came out ( launched at the same time with XBOX and PC ) I did get that one right away! I swear I did!

For the last couple years I had been patiently waiting for the announcement of Episode 3. I wanted to see the game to its full conclusion. To my dismay the game was announced as cancelled a few months ago (at PAX East I believe). I was quite disappointed with the news, but the reasons were evident… The game cost too much, didn’t bring in enough revenue, and the studio they were working with was doing some other things now.

If you happened to be disappointed like I was, you can rejoice again! I just checked the newsposts on the PA site and noticed something while going back to the previous day (I do this since sometimes miss posts they make on non-comic days). Jerry is putting the rest of the series up in written form! To tell you the truth I’d rather read it than play it anyway. As I said earlier, I love the way Jerry writes. I really think he should pen a novel, if he hasn’t already, I would buy it in a moment!