One Man, and a Crate of Puppets

Penny Arcade is a webcomic written by Jerry Holkins (aka Tycho Brahe) and illustrated by Mike Krahulik (aka John Gabriel). It focuses mainly on video games, the video game industry, and gamer sub-culture. The webcomics are accompanied by a blog.

In July 2008, a special series of Penny Arcade comics co-created with Fallout 3 lead designer Emil Pagliarulo was launched at the official Fallout 3 website. It follows the life of the sole inhabitant of Vault 77 and his crate of puppets and is updated every Wednesday. The first strip also shows Vault 43 and Vault 69.

Story
In the beginning of the comic, the protagonist discovered that he was the only living person in Vault 77, accompanied only by a crate of puppets, as part of the Vault Experiment. During the first months, the Vault 77 Dweller went through the initial panic and depression caused by being locked alone in a Vault. He didn't actually open the puppet crate until one year, three months and twelve days after the lock-up. After apparently developing a multiple personality disorder (his second personality being in the form of a "talking" Vault Boy puppet), he opened the vault to find himself confronted by a 747 sized radscorpion, to which he quickly closed the vault.

After taking some time "to sleep on it," the Vault 77 Dweller was successful in leaving the Vault, riding a giant ant he named Mr. Pinch. In regards to the outside world, he was rather positive, noting while it was hot for December he wasn't really a snow person. He has run into a mysterious Ghoul that has only one arm and wears a vault suit without a seen number.

He is later seen captured by two Raiders and warning them not to mess with his puppet as he is crazy and has "killed before". One of the two raiders contemplates wither to make him a slave or if he should serve as food, the second remarks that he is pretty hungry. He killed the first Raider, Bob, and tracked the second one to the raider's base where for the first time he called the nickname The Puppet Man. . In the end Vault 77 was labeled as a bad idea but as the carnage Vault Dweller 77 is left behind it is not known what has happened to the man or the blood stained puppet who both disappeared with a smile on their faces.

Characters

 * Puppet Man
 * Vault Boy puppet
 * Other puppets: The King, Grandma, Reverend Hound
 * A giant radscorpion
 * Mr. Pinch, a giant ant
 * An unnamed ghoul
 * Raiders (or Slavers), including Bob.