Penny Arcade! pokes fun at the games industry and related bits and bobs. There's nothing wrong with poking fun at people. Everybody does it all the time. It doesn't make you big, but it makes people laugh, and with any luck the people being made fun of aren't so sensitive as to take it personally.
The first strip was about the rumour that Lorne accepted a lucrative cash deal from Microsoft for their exclusive rights to Munch's Oddysee, not just that the company made money from the deal (which they didn't - at least, they didn't make as much as they would have by sticking to the PS2). Yes, it's a rumour, but a lot of the time, comics and jokes leap at the opportunity to make fun of the whole situation or the rumour itself, and not whatever schmuck is stuck at the bad end of it. They're not saying it's true. They're finding the humour in the idea of it happening.
Having said that, I was a little taken back when I first saw the first two strips, but this one is so obviously just a cheap gag as others have noticed. It's nowhere near as sharp or mean as Tycho says. I love PA. My opinion of them isn't faltered at all because of this … just their decline in comedy.
Wow, what an extraordinarily badly written post. Forgive me.
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