In addition to Fedidb, there’s also Fediverse Observer’s statistics page: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

I can’t agree with the description “PizzaCake for men”. I read PizzaCake as well and the similarities to Penny Arcade are surface level at best. The comics about parenting are similar insofar as many comics about parenting are relaying an experience that many people can relate to, but outside of that, I would say Penny Arcade’s comedic range is far broader than PizzaCake’s. And I don’t mean that as an insult to PizzaCake; PizzaCake just tends to focus primarily on parenting and politics while Penny Arcade covers a much wider berth of topics (in addition to just having many comics be glorified shitposts carried by erudite prose).

Frankly, my biggest criticism of PizzaCake is that when they do choose to make political comics, they’re typically really unfunny. They’re just blunt statements about Republicans being stupid/evil/hypocrites/etc with no real setup or punchline. I enjoy bashing conservatives as much as the next guy, but I can’t consider PizzaCake’s political comics to be funny or insightful. They’re mostly just variations on this:

I agree with the other comments here saying the comic just might not be your cup of tea, which is totally fine.

But since you’re asking for people to share their favorites, I’ll share some of mine here. I think it’s a fun comic, but they’ve also been making comics consistently since 1998 and they can’t all be zingers. Most of my favorites tend to be on the absurd side, leaning on the characters’ respective weird idiosyncrasies or their #relatable moments with getting older and having kids.

• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/03/26/space-is-still-the-place
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/i-hope-you-like-text
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/02/side-effects-may-include
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/02/08/decrepitude
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/08/02/the-age-of-gabriel
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/11/he-who-fights-with-nerds
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/07/31/the-seventh-axis
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/12/18/i-am-not-your-father
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/06/behold
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/25/retales-part-one
• https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/05/26/the-unhorse

I’ll probably edit this comment to add more later cause I know I’m forgetting some bangers.

There’s only 1 Caesar

Not necessarily. I originally thought the phrase “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” from the Bible referred to Julius Caesar, but apparently it refers to Tiberius.

Though in modern times “Caesar” almost ubiquitously is referencing Julius

As long as it’s not slathered in honey, it’s probably pretty tasty. I’ve had steak with a drizzle of sweet glaze before and the flavors can complement one another nicely

This, and standardizing what “this Thursday” and “next Thursday” mean. These terms have become functionally useless (to me) because of how they’re used differently by different people. Whenever someone uses these terms to try to intimate a particular date to me, I just ask for the exact calendar date rather than the day of the week to avoid ambiguity.

Yes, I’m an American. Are you speaking from personal experience, or going off of what you see online? Because the horror stories you see online are not representative of the whole of society. The scary and outlandish stories make headlines and get shared around by people. Nobody shares links to videos or writes articles about “Father goes to park with kids, everybody is chill and nobody panics”.

Don’t buy too much into all the ragebait on the internet. I take my kid to the park all the time and no one has ever so much as looked at me sideways. And no other fathers solo-parenting their kids at the park have ever been accosted during the many, many hours I’ve spent there.

Yes, some idiots foolishly assume man+kid=danger, but this is not a typical reaction at all. People who react negatively and make a scene are an extreme minority.

Watching Dragon Ball reruns is legitimately hard for me some days since Toriyama’s passing. His death hit me harder than any other I can recall. The global outpouring of grief and camaraderie was a sight to behold. It was comforting to know so many other people loved him and his work and were mourning together.

I remember I was driving when the news about MJ’s sudden death broke over the radio. I was on my way to grab some lunch before meeting up with some friends to see a movie. I think we were gonna see the “Transformers” sequel.

I pulled into a fast food joint and they had the news on TV. I felt bad cause Farah Fawcett died the same day but her death was entirely relegated to the little news ticker at the bottom of the screen.

The scientist is a hipster who uses the 2155-equivalent of a flip phone. Through a lifetime of grit and determination, he’s extended his attention span to 6 entire seconds (the global average is 4) so he could complete the time machine and save the world (by asking someone else to do it)

its not. Its mediocre and needs time travel to work.

This mentality misses the point, IMO. Even if the Harry Potter books were written in such a way that made even the staunchest critic go, “Wow, these books rival the works of of J.R.R. Tolkien and Shakespeare,” that should have zero bearing on whether or not any given individual makes the decision to boycott an author’s work on idealistic grounds.

I like plenty of art that could be classified as schlock; not everything we enjoy has to be masterpiece theatre. I’ve boycotted all HP content ever since Rowling became a professional asshole, but I won’t pretend I didn’t enjoy the books and the films as a teenager.

Here’s a hard pill to swallow: shitty people can make good art. We can condemn bad people unequivocally without simultaneously needing their art to be bad. Michael Jackson was my favorite musician for many years, but hearing his music in 2026 always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But I won’t pretend that it wasn’t my jam and I certainly won’t suggest that the music was mediocre.

Edit: And although it goes without saying: this decision is always up to the individual. I have trans friends who don’t concern themselves with Rowlings’ sociopolitical views and continue to enjoy HP content. I don’t begrudge them for that; we all have different, if arbitrary, boundaries.

You could also go with Blue’s Clues, cause they can hop not just into books, but also pictures, paintings, and each others’ dreams/reveries.

I think “attribution” might be more apropos than “advertising” when it comes to an artist’s signature. Of course the presence of an artist’s signature will advertise their authorship, but the signature’s purpose isn’t inherently trying to drive you to a website/patreon/whatever; it’s letting you know who put in the effort to make the art.

We can acknowledge the myriad of trying circumstances that pervade modern life without resorting to thought-terminating cliches like, “There are starving kids in Africa” or “If you lived hundreds of years ago you might have died of a terrible disease”

Yeah, things could be worse. Of course it could be worse. But it could be a lot better, too. And a lot of people are justifiably unhappy about it.

I love Peanuts as much as the next guy, but I dunno if “animal standing on two legs” is a unique enough trait to say Garfield was stealing anything from Snoopy’s design. Mickey Mouse had already been walking around on two legs for decades at that point

I think Macklemore did us all a disservice by telling people $50 for a t-shirt means you’re getting swindled. $50 for a nice locally produced merino wool t-shirt is a bargain.

I imagine Macklemore’s point was that most people buying $50 shirts aren’t buying locally-produced clothes from a mom-and-pop shop; they’re buying overpriced, mass-produced shirts at department stores. I haven’t been to Kohl’s in a while, but I bet if I go to the men’s section at the one up the road from here, there will be an area with basic graphic t-shirts (mostly company logos like Coke) that are nearly $50.

Now that I’m on the topic, my most overpriced shirt is a Goo Goo Dolls shirt I picked up at a concert a few years ago. I really like the color of the shirt, but the cheap lettering on the front started coming off after a single wash. Very disappointing because it was a $45 shirt.

Sounds like your beef is less with actual “social justice” and more with bad actors co-opting the movement for their frivolous, performative virtue signalling

As someone who has never read the Constantine comics, I enjoyed the movie with Keanu Reeves. I haven’t re-watched it in years though, so I wonder if it holds up.

I got a face mask with this design on it at the start of covid. One day I was walking out of a shop and a guy wearing a jacket with the same design walked past me. We both did the “Spider-Man pointing” meme