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Several weeks back we asked you to tell us your favorite Penny Arcade comics. We're sure you're startled to hear that this is how we selected the first few episodes of Penny for Your Thoughts. Well... surprise!

Now we're specifically asking for your input on which comics you'd like Mike & Jerry to discuss, lament, and celebrate. Please comment below and throw your suggestions our way!

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Dave Brown

I really want to hear the story behind this as it's stuck with me for ten years now: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/06/23/redolent-with-spices

Anonymous

This Is To Say Nothing Of The Hamburglar https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/09/10 I was in high school, and I had this printed and tacked on my wall for years.

Anonymous

The entire "Nightlight" side story. I never fully felt like I understood everything that was going on but it really captured my imagination. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/story/nightlight

Anonymous

The entire paint the line

Anonymous

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/13/professor-layton-and-the-perpetual-torment "I haff tvelve metchsteek"

Anonymous

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/07/07/the-bad-boys-of-punctuation

Core Flux

I've always liked the one about the Force Unleashed body gripping. We saw the comic before a friend and I played through the game, which made the aerial romances that much better. Sometimes we'd let the tender moment linger and let them have a waltz before then inevitably letting them meet chasm or wall. Two bodies in space https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/01

Anonymous

"Then where did I get this Kool-Aid?" https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/07/21/cultural-references-r-us "Killing me won't bring her back." -something I say way more than really make sense https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/04/really-more-of-a-loose-guideline

Anonymous

This one is a huge in-joke in my house- I’ve always just loved it: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/05

moses

The stories around the Eyrewood have been wonderful. Celebration and thoughts requested :) https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/09/06

Anonymous

Why, Indeed https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/09/17

Anonymous

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/05/26/the-unhorse

Ignacio Segura Montero

Anything involving hot ostrich action! Whether it's the one where Gabe and Tycho are inceptioning each other, the one where they actually do the joke of the ostrich porn site (long necks! deep holes!). I'm sure there are more than just those two, but my brain can't access them right now.

Ignacio Segura Montero

Oh, also the Tycho's Wife Porn Clone one!! https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/01/21

Ignacio Segura Montero

And heck, why not!! https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/18

Ignacio Segura Montero

BTW, I love these threads!! I could go through the responses for hours.

Anonymous

Please talk about the “Free Association Theatre” comics! https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/02/06/free-association-theatre-part-one https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/02/09/free-association-theatre-part-two https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/02/11/free-association-theatre-part-three I think about that final panel with big bird a lot and I need to hear just anything about these ones. Did they write this in a fugue state?! Do they even know they made these ones?!

Zack Rhodes

https://www.penny-arcade.com/presents/page/on-the-rain-slick-precipice-of-darkness-page-1 https://www.penny-arcade.com/presents/page/on-the-rain-slick-precipice-of-darkness-page-2 https://www.penny-arcade.com/presents/page/on-the-rain-slick-precipice-of-darkness-page-3 https://www.penny-arcade.com/presents/page/on-the-rain-slick-precipice-of-darkness-page-4

Anonymous

Would love to hear about Cardboard Tube Samurai. I miss that guy...

Anonymous

I really just want to know what the conversation was that led to this being a glorious six panel strip with no text: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/26

Anonymous

I'd love to hear their take now on the pseudo-predictions of The Consultant https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/08/26/the-consultant after all the things that have happened in gaming with loot boxes/gacha, mmo being a mechanic instead of a genre, warcraft-inspired stuff, etc.

Anonymous

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/07/10/pounds-per-square-inch https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/10/23 https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/03/16

Jon B.

I'd love to hear about the "I require frozen treats" comic.

Anonymous

I spent a long time tracking down this Fire Emblem one: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/02/20

Anonymous

And honestly, anything from your run of Shark-Week-adjacent comics, including https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/12/23/the-maestro

Kate

Approximate (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/08/05) completely challenged my assumption that Gabe and Tycho don't actually like each other that much, as well as my understanding that Mike and Jerry don't like hugging.

Jonathan Bates

I spent entirely too much time (or not enough?) play "comp-stomp" games. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/02/16/one-mans-heaven

kevin g carey

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/10/13 . I'd also love to hear more about the Jack Thompson saga

Jonathan Bates

And I don't even remember what this was about: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/11/24/maybe-theyre-hiding

Michael

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/06/08/what-the-eff I have this one printed and framed. I always wondered, why is Div there? Why is it the early morning? I know a lot of people love ones with a lot of text, but this one is my favourite. (Does the "u" in favourite give away my Canadianness).

capydat

carrot cake soup <3

PurimPopoie

I love "Gripping!" because whenever I don't have the money to go where I would like to, I also go to the kitchen.

Brian

Seconding the Jack Thompson saga. That's a podcast all its own.

Anonymous

The New Kid https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/10/29/the-new-kid

Anonymous

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/09/20/undisclosed-propensities-part-6 This whole epic saga really

Brian

I have https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/12/26 on my wall. I'd enjoy a look back at this one (and how naive we were about how bad it could all get). I'd consider a series on each of your original IPs (Dust, Lookouts, Nightlight, etc). I know you optioned one or more. I'd be curious about that process. I'd also be interested in a list of strips that took on a second life outside of the PA ecosystem. America McGee's Strawberry Shortcake comes to mind.

andrew

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/i-hope-you-like-text My favorite of all time. (Edit: aaaaand the first episode was about this.)

Stephen Wells

I have concerns about https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/18/savannah-heat

Anonymous

claw shrimp! https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/06/19

Matt

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/07 Almost 18 years later, my friends and I still call each other Hebrew iguanas if we get frustrated with each other in a game.

Anonymous

Thulsa Broom is hanging on my work office wall. It makes me smile every time I look at it because in our house, we are notorious for not wanting to get to the fucking broom dungeon without any brooms. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/14/thulsa-broom

Spenser Hewett

My dad introduced me to penny arcade with the comic "Really more of a loose guide line", and to this day its one of my favorites. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/04/really-more-of-a-loose-guideline

Joe

The Broodax Imperiate (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/05/04) The Tender Human Trachea (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/08/01) Two Bodies In Space (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/01) A Timely Communique (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/01/04) Twisp & Catsby In: The Land Of Upp (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/02) The Ecology Of The Suburban Thug (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/04/the-ecology-of-the-suburban-thug)

Anonymous

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/01/28 - This is so spot-on to weekly arguments two of my co-workers would get into...co-worker 1 would get after co-worker 2 because co-worker 2 would never say "bless you" when co-worker 1 would sneeze... https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/24 - "X...means...ten. you slack-jawed junkslut"...love this one. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/07/12 - the depth of inquiry Tycho goes to determine the answer to Gabe's security question, and the absolute simplicity of Gabe's answer when he finally remembers.

Stephen Wells

I would also like to suggest a "lottery round" in which you press the Random Strip button and must try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote whatever strip you land on.

Nick

Couple of theme suggestions.... *Gabe’s allergies.* Bees: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/06/20/anthophilia VR: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2018/03/02/output Dentistry: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2018/06/15 *Evolution of Gabe’s art since he refocused on it in 2015 resolution* 2015 example: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/12/30/early-onset-coot-disease 2017 example: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/06/14/hard-mode 2021 example: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2021/03/17/speedwagon

Kees Trippelvitz

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/11/12/ It's Gabe's face that sells this comic.

Anonymous

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2019/03/27/wastoid1 Wastoid

Anonymous

I love the Night Light series! It seems like the perfect intersection of meta parenting anxiety and fantasy world building.

Qorkle

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/08/21/the-omniway A favorite of me and my wife's.

El Rando

This is so clever and so dumb at the same time https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/10/25/third-base

John Kirkup

Shot Caller, Brawler