Club PA Newsletter #53 (Patreon)

Gathered throng!  It is I, your friend Jerry.  Here is your comic!

I think this has been the busiest week we've ever had here.  Between planning Acquisitions Incorporated's tenth year, to trying to figure out how to honor Penny Arcade's twentieth year, to writing the post for this morning, the strip for Monday, finishing up the theme jingle for This Old Lair, and then sitting down to get this newsletter out, that's just today!

As for the strip, I really can't recommend Yoku's Island Express enough.  If you are someone who, like me, thinks that pinball is a very important cultural artifact and should permeate all matter, this is the game for you.  It's like a Metroidvania, which is a word I don't like, but must grudgingly accept because you know everything you need to know after you hear it.  

It's a beautiful hand-painted world, and you traverse it by means of little, naturally occurring flippers everywhere - amassing unique abilities and delivering the mail.  Yes!  You are a tiny beetle who is also a mail carrier!  It's been a very long time since I felt this kind of just…  joy, just play, and it's so weird that I'm worried nobody is gonna know about it.  It's out on everything now, and it's beautiful everywhere it runs.  

The other thing I've been doing this week is planning for the first ever Club PA livestream, and it's something I'm really excited about: we've put together a great team of players from the office, and they made their characters on a podcast you can enjoy as well!  My plan is to, essentially, run a campaign that is something like a Kids In Danger movie franchise - small town, clever friends, real terror, and a new "movie" for you every quarter.  In fact, I think I'll go work on it now.

Thanks for being here, 

(CW)TB