Imagine the Watchmen starring Popeye, Dilbert, Charlie Brown and Nancy among others. It wraps up the situation of print comics in a nice satiric knot.
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I thought the Dagwood panels were brilliant, and I'm sure I'm missing part of it because I don't know the Watchmen.
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I've liked PvP in the past. And the Ombudsman one-off was pretty well done. But the whole PvP-Penny Arcade-PC Gamer kerfaffle made two things all too clear to me:
1. Scott Kurtz is quite capable of being an astonishingly irresponsible jerk, and
2. PvP has attracted a not-insignificant number of fans who think it and its author can do no wrong- which is often about the point where it's good to start looking for exit doors.
Combined with what seems like an increasing focus on "hey, look what I can draw!" at the expense of being enjoyable to read on a daily basis and a continued inability to keep up with even ever-laxer deadlines, I've been feeling less and less loyalty to the strip.
Okay, I'm going to go stop raining on other people's parades now...
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I actually find that for every fanboy who thinks Kurtz can do no wrong is a bizarre anti-fanboy who continues to read but takes every opportunity to trashtalk it. (Both are equally annoying).
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Nope! (There was nothing inherently crazy about your post, and even if there was I wouldn't judge based on one post in one thread on a non-PVP forum)
Also, it occurs to me that you might see a lopsided view of things if you were looking solely at the new PvP forum that you have to pay to use as part of the Fanclub (or whatever that deal is). I suspect the people there are, by definition, people who really like PvP.
I sometimes hang out at halforum.com, which is where a large contingent of disgruntled PvP readers went when Kurtz and Co. closed down the old halfpixel forums. I might be getting a similarly lopsided view by going there, since most people there were genuinely angry with him when he took away their old forum.
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It was less about talking PvP and more about maintaining the community (PvP isn't actually that hot a topic there). These days I only go there when I want low quality threads and to not have to worry about offending anyone. (Or rather, if I offend someone it's not as big a deal because the overall maturity of the forum is lower)
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quote:Originally posted by Raymond Arnold: I actually find that for every fanboy who thinks Kurtz can do no wrong is a bizarre anti-fanboy who continues to read but takes every opportunity to trashtalk it. (Both are equally annoying).
I don't read PvP but I have watched, with interest, as Kurtz has been a hotheaded dope who acts stupid and works against his own best interest.
Kurtz' own personal drama is vastly more entertaining than his strip soooo
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