"I ... can't imagine it stealing any of our thunder," said Penny Arcade co-founder Mike "Gabe" Krahulik to Edge, starting a very long joke about thunder. "We have a ridiculous amount of thunder and honestly if they were to steal some of it we probably wouldn't even notice."

To emphasize his point, Gabe offered an anecdote: "Just yesterday we accidentally left some of our thunder in our pants and then they went into the washing machine and the thunder got ruined. It wasn't a big deal to us, though, because we have plenty more thunder."

Leaving meteorological speak behind, the webcomic-philanthropy-expo duo found room for both PAX and E3 world of games. "E3 has always been and looks like it will continue to be about the industry. PAX is about the community around games as much as it's about the games themselves," commented Krahulik.

Mike Gallagher, president of the E3-organizing ESA, agreed. "E3 has never been a consumer show. We're not competing with PAX or Comic-Con," he said.