Comic Countdown to Penny Arcade game

Posted by Jonathan McNamara at 1:14 AM May 15, 2008

To help drum up even more anticipation for their highly anticipated game On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One, Penny Arcade's Mike "Gabe" Krahulik and Jerry "Tycho" Holkins have begun releasing pages from their comic prequel to the game.

According to Gabe's entry on the Penny Arcade Web site, this comic will be the first of four illustrating one of Gabe and Tycho's adventures as the the Startling Developments Detective Agency prior to the events in the game.

With only seven days remaining till the game's launch, you shouldn't have to wait long for the next page.

Precipice of Darkness features a 1920s style world with steam punk technology taking form most notably in the sometimes-mascot Fruit Fucker character from the comic.

Judging from the teasers, it would appear that sense of humor that has made Penny Arcade an unstoppable Web comic force is intact in the game. One trailer beings with a narrator crooning "In a world where guys are doing stuff and things are crazy, two other guys must do some things." See below:

Episode One will be released for PC platforms including Mac and Linux and Xbox Live in just six days.

Need more Penny Arcade? Check out the latest trailer for Precipice of Darkness.