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Weird bashing going on in this thread. So I’ll make some counter points
While art is subjective I will argue that their modern art direction is far superior to their early years.
This art direction is far more expressive, there is so much more room to play with this “looser” feel. As an artist you probably want your art to be able to express what you feel. There is also much better color theory and each panel feels more grounded and complete.
As for “their art got really dark”. No … the scene is just dark… there is glow coming from the monitor… If you mean tonally dark I disagree because penny arcade has had tonally dark elements since the rain slick precipice of darkness (and probably even before that, idk I’ve not read their entire lexicon)
P.S. yall realize that artists tend to improve over time right?
Hater here. I think that as !/u/criss_cross said, the earlier era was better since it showed the improvements you're pointing out, but at some point gabe really started making the heads deformed and it's a choice that we don't like.