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Bench #1415. This one was mildly controversial as I got an email accusing me of ripping off Penny Arcade. This seemed ironic and funny to me since that was part of the point of this strip, that Bench strips make heavy use of "found art"; yet they can still be interesting valid art in their own right, just as the original Penny Arcade strip argued that computer games can be artistic. I intentionally kept the first 2 frames identical, and only neatly changed what was on the pedestal (the monitor recursively shows this very strip) and the dialog in the third frame (while keeping the same look and feel of the original's dialog). I thought this strip was meta and perhaps provocative, but I certainly expected Bench readers to be familiar with the original PA strip, and I make no pretense that I drew the art! So, is this strip brilliant insightful satire or cheap lazy ripoff? You make the call...
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