Welcome to Fallout’s Legendary Vault 77

I’ve been a fan of Penny Arcade for a long time.

I think, maybe, the first time I was introduced to the site was when they did a strip about Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge, a game we were working on that got cancelled. (Man… still hurts to say it all these years later. Really wanted that game to happen.)

Anyway, when we were working on Fallout 3 I pitched the idea of reaching out to Tycho and Gabe about doing a comic set in the Fallout universe. But unlike some of the other ones they had done around games to that point, we didn’t want to give them any particular requirements. We didn’t want them to create something that was overtly promotional. Mostly, we wanted to see what would happen if Penny Arcade did Fallout. I remember Tycho being pleasantly surprised at that notion.

The results – which we first published in the summer of 2008 – were pretty hilarious. Their concept was both simple and brilliant: We’re gonna tell the story of one of the famous experimental Vaults from the Fallout universe – the now-legendary Vault 77 – in the Penny Arcade style. It went as well as I could have hoped. I still have a signed poster (see image below) hanging prominently in my office over my desk, and a framed print of the first strip on a shelf as well.

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We event went on to immortalize the puppet during PAX as one of the prizes folks could win, which resulted in some fairly memorable moments, including this video from the Omegathon finals.

Seven years is a long time in this business, and I figured there were people who are now Fallout fans that never saw the comics back then. Read them for the first time, or enjoy them again. They fit just as well with Fallout 4 today as they did when we first published them back in the Fallout 3 days.

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