Writerwank!
I can't believe no one's posted this yet.

It starts on Monday, as the Penny Arcade creators return from the Foolscap convention and post a fairly amusing recap of a confrontation that allegedly occurred between the guests of honor. That is, between Gabe/Tycho and Harlan Ellison, preeminent writer and (let's face it) evidently in a very different category of creative enterprise than the Penny Arcade guys.

That in itself is not wank. The wank occurs some 24 hours or so later, when the enterprising among PA's readers locate Harlan Ellison's webpage and decide to troll for fun and profit. The whole mess starts out with a guy called Andrew who claims he was actually there. (About 10 entries down the page. You have to read from bottom to top, yes, I know that's weird. I wish I could provide links to each post, but I can't.) (After those 10, continue the reading here, using the "previous" link to navigate to the next chronological page and still reading bottom to top.)

I'm not going to give you a play by play, but it's pretty funny- mostly PA fans making rude comments and Harlan fans saying either "can we talk about something else now?" or pointing out that the trolls are ignoramuses. That is, until a user called Penelope busts out with Is that your wife on the front page Harlan, or did you marry your dog? Oh no he didn't. Harlan's response (a quarter of the way down, look for the really long entry) is probably the funniest thing in the whole wankisode, featuring his weird recap of events as well as a long, threatening diatribe against Penelope. Gabe's response, after that, comes across as fairly low key (again, about a quarter of the way down).

Personally I think you could make remarks about the conduct of both sides, which is why it's so wanktastic.