{"id":678,"date":"2026-08-27T23:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/?p=678"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:41:07","slug":"comics4gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/comics4gamer\/","title":{"rendered":"comics4Gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being perpetually skint gets exhausting so I\u2019m branching out into gaming webcomics, hoping to have the merch and conventions going by the end of next Tuesday because I think that\u2019s how it works. See you at TOTX in Home Bargains, I\u2019ll be doing a meet and greet in the seasonal aisle. Autographs extra, soz. Merch is on sale by the washing up liquid. About half three, yeah?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0930.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"920\" src=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0930-1024x920.jpeg\" alt=\"a comic strip called \u201ccomics4Gamer\u201d\n\nit contains the same guy in three panels, his pose only shifting very very slightly.\nthe first panel, they are saying \u201cgrand\u201d\nthe second, they are saying \u201ctheft\u201d\nthe third? \u201cFARTO\n\nHahahaha ahahaha haha hah *chokes* so funny\" class=\"wp-image-679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0930-1024x920.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0930-300x270.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0930-768x690.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0930-1536x1380.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0930-2048x1840.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no idea who that dude is even supposed to be. I\u2019m portly, old and have a grey beard so it\u2019s definitely not me. He just emerged from the hair and here we are. Maybe it\u2019s my gamersona?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0933.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0933-1024x622.jpeg\" alt=\"a three panel comic strip of The Calmest Gamer In The World\npanel one: \u201ccorps are clearly oushing for a future where us gamers don\u2019t actually own anything\u201d\npanel two: no words, just a dude with a flat expression\npanel three: \u201cI\u2019m not particularly concerned about the shift away from physical media towards a rental based model\u201d\n\" class=\"wp-image-682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0933-1024x622.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0933-300x182.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0933-768x466.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0933-1536x932.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_0933.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On second thoughts, perhaps a different career would suit me better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being perpetually skint gets exhausting so I\u2019m branching out into gaming webcomics, hoping to have the merch and conventions going by the end of next Tuesday because I think that\u2019s how it works. See you at TOTX in Home Bargains, I\u2019ll be doing a meet and greet in the seasonal aisle. Autographs extra, soz. Merch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,108,26],"tags":[19,136,11,138],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-rob","category-videogames","tag-comic-strip","tag-grand-theft-farto","tag-robs-art","tag-the-calmest-gamer-in-the-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}