I think people tend to think that PA is on the decline because their archive is insanely deep. People tend to remember their 100 favorites and then criticize PA when they don't consistently bring the funny. I've looked through their archive enough times to know that they were always a mix of insanely-escoteric-computer-game-industry-, scatophile-, linguaphile-, casual-gamer-, and sado- humor. So only a few people are likely to find
every comic hilarious.
That being said, Mike Krahulik (Gabe) is one of the very few webcomic authors whose artwork consistently evolves (and improves) over time. Reminds you of someone
else, doesn't it? Although some of my other favorites
have rarely shown a jot of change in artwork, and are still excellent. I would like to take this opportunity to announce "Moiche's Law of Webcomics": "All excellent webcomics have art that develops until it reaches an optimal level of stylization."
Re: favorite PA, I have so many favorites, but I had to pick one
right now it would be this
one.
--Moiche
P.S. Don't mean to troll, but I suspect that webcomic artists prefer posting links to strips in their (revenue generating) archives, rather than posting (copyright breaching) copies of their strips to tribute threads in others site's forums. Just a suspicion, since I am not a webcomic artist (or a troll).
