Meh.

I'm a gamer, but not a dedicated or hard-core one, and maybe that puts me outside of Penny Arcade's target readership. Even so, I don't see what all the fuss is about.

Yes, the strip often revolves around whatever hardware/software was just released/delayed/cancelled, so it's perforce topical and therefore dated. I don't mind that. A lot of the strips involve games that I've never played, or don't even recognize. That's fine, too.

No, the reason I say "meh" is that the remaining strips just aren't that funny.

I will say that the artwork is good, certainly much better than the average webcomic, and it's interesting to watch it evolve and improve over time. But in a webcomic, art is secondary to the story and/or humor, and to me, PA is only occasionally worth reading.