convore.json/groups/take2/penny-arcade/messages.json

[{"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307906839.8940971, "message": "Is it just me, or has Penny Arcade rather suddenly just stopped being funny?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1375251}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307933338.41383, "message": "One thing in particular that's been bugging me is Gabe's direction with the art this year.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1377030}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307933257.316889, "message": "It *has* been a while.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1377022}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307946070.2600889, "message": "It's weird, but it seems that most cartoonists have a finite amount of funny in them.  So many strips that start out funny just totally lose it (and pretty suddenly too) eventually.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1377818}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307946264.3423319, "message": "Remember the days when everyone posted around the latest Dilbert?  Yeah, not so much anymore these past few years.  Heck, you kids are too young, but I remember when *Garfield* was consistently hilarious.\n\nThere was a time when User Friendly was as revered by the internets as xkcd is today.  Right now, how many people are even aware that User Friendly *still exists*?\n\nMaybe Bill Watterson and Gary Larson had the right idea:  Quit while you're ahead.  The only cartoonist I can honestly say didn't lose it up to the point where he (pretty much) keeled over at the drawing board, was Chuck Schulz.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1377830}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307947624.375423, "message": "Speaking of Calvin and Hobbes though, I've been reading through them again now, and I don't find them as entertaining as I used to back in the day.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1377962}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307954594.3551781, "message": "I think that cartoons (any humour, actually) is often tied quite intimately to the time period when it was published.  \"Timeless\" humour is rare.  (I can think of few things as \"quintessentially 80s\" as the Hitchhiker's Guide.)\n\nThat said, I have a full Watterson archive and I still don't find the impact diminished.  Maybe I'm just getting old\u2026", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1378417}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307955784.3921609, "message": "I think it's too soon to \"call it\" on Penny Arcade, they're definitely having a bad streak with the comic, but on the other hand their brand has definitely evolved beyond it. \n\nIt's a tough sell unless you're really invested in the PA culture (which I am, to an extent) but the PATV episodes they put out each week are great. PAX is obviously massive, and heck, they're making *movies* now:\n\nhttp://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/167459-paramount-plans-the-new-kid", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1378532}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307956049.698437, "message": "Also, however bad the last run has been, today's third panel is *excellent*.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1378550}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307957532.3608501, "message": "OK, agreed.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1378640}, {"user_id": 36043, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307977713.8373871, "message": "@Mr_V Speaking of Watterson, whatever happened to him? Did he just down his tools and call it a day with Calvin and Hobbes?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1381064}, {"user_id": 35617, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307979675.0360219, "message": "Speaking of Calvin & Hobbes, this makes me sad each time I see it:\n\nhttp://davidguy.brinkster.net/goaste/stuff/calvin/calvinretouchdistressed.jpg", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1381300}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307985860.7712109, "message": "Mars is amaaaaazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX-zSBU4bCs", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1382308}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39120, "date_created": 1307989012.124459, "message": "@Iori In a nutshell, yes.  Same with Larson.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1382788}]