[Webcomic] PVP Discussion
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I deleted it from my bookmarks.
Nothing Scott did--I just realized that when I open all my webcomic bookmarks at once, I end up closing the PVP one without bothering to make the extra click to read the comic.
Nothing Scott did--I just realized that when I open all my webcomic bookmarks at once, I end up closing the PVP one without bothering to make the extra click to read the comic.
Wait...Skull has a niece so...trolls DO have genders? God Dammit Skull, do you have gender or don't you?!
Scott wrote that strip for a younger fan. I really wouldn't read into any implications of it.
figmentPez
Staff member
Maybe trolls have no sex, but take on human gender roles when it suits them.
Or maybe it's just a cute comic for a fan, like Ashburner said, and that gave Kurtz even less reason to care about continuity than usual.
Here's the story behind the comic, from the start of Scott's page::
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Got a really heartwarming email from PvP reader, and world's best Dad, Kelley Greene. He wrote:
"My daughter, now nine, loves Skull the Troll. so much so that her imaginary friend for years has been Princess the Troll, Skull’s niece. today we where walking through the local park and she stopped at the bridge that Princess lives under to visit. She stomped on the bridge and waited. she stomped again and while she wasn't looking I stomped back. She turned to me and said that wasn’t Princess and that her Troll friend must be very busy lately because she hadn’t seen her in a while. You know that look you get from your kids when they are trying to be “grown up” it was so sad."
I sent Kelley on a little recon mission to get some more details. I wanted to draw Princess in today's comic, but I was worried to draw someone Beth wouldn't recognize. Last night, bedtime stories went both ways.
"Princess looks like Skull only smaller, pink and with a bow on her head. she wanted to point out that the bow turns into a snake to eat people that are mean to her. Beth was a little confused at my sudden interest in Princess but she was tired so i didn't get to many questions."
So there you have it. Princess the Troll, Skull's niece. Small and pink with a magic bow around her ears. Treat her sweetly, my friends. You don't want to mess with her.
Thank you Kelley and Beth for your really touching inspiration.
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I was bored enough at the office to have a look at PvP comic again...
And then I clicked 'previous comic' a few times and OMG SILHOUETTES, Silhouettes everywhere, in all the places wrong or not right, no escape, no way to get them out of my head...
/Cthulhu-mode
>>>
Got a really heartwarming email from PvP reader, and world's best Dad, Kelley Greene. He wrote:
"My daughter, now nine, loves Skull the Troll. so much so that her imaginary friend for years has been Princess the Troll, Skull’s niece. today we where walking through the local park and she stopped at the bridge that Princess lives under to visit. She stomped on the bridge and waited. she stomped again and while she wasn't looking I stomped back. She turned to me and said that wasn’t Princess and that her Troll friend must be very busy lately because she hadn’t seen her in a while. You know that look you get from your kids when they are trying to be “grown up” it was so sad."
I sent Kelley on a little recon mission to get some more details. I wanted to draw Princess in today's comic, but I was worried to draw someone Beth wouldn't recognize. Last night, bedtime stories went both ways.
"Princess looks like Skull only smaller, pink and with a bow on her head. she wanted to point out that the bow turns into a snake to eat people that are mean to her. Beth was a little confused at my sudden interest in Princess but she was tired so i didn't get to many questions."
So there you have it. Princess the Troll, Skull's niece. Small and pink with a magic bow around her ears. Treat her sweetly, my friends. You don't want to mess with her.
Thank you Kelley and Beth for your really touching inspiration.
>>>
I was bored enough at the office to have a look at PvP comic again...
And then I clicked 'previous comic' a few times and OMG SILHOUETTES, Silhouettes everywhere, in all the places wrong or not right, no escape, no way to get them out of my head...
/Cthulhu-mode
North_Ranger
Staff member
I have a problem.
I really want to like Table Titans. I really do. But the skinny Sheldon Cooper-wannabe character just irritates the living hell out of me. I get it, he's supposed to be the archetypal minmaxer, the guy who doesn't give two bits about the game as long as he keeps winning and proving himself right... but that's it. Even unlikeable characters ought to have some redeeming qualities; this guy doesn't have any, to the point where I wonder why the hell do the other characters even hang around with him.
I really want to like Table Titans. I really do. But the skinny Sheldon Cooper-wannabe character just irritates the living hell out of me. I get it, he's supposed to be the archetypal minmaxer, the guy who doesn't give two bits about the game as long as he keeps winning and proving himself right... but that's it. Even unlikeable characters ought to have some redeeming qualities; this guy doesn't have any, to the point where I wonder why the hell do the other characters even hang around with him.
Damn straight. My other problem with the guy is that he's not funny as a character in the least. Val and Not-Cole, they can make me laugh sometimes. Alan on the other hand is just and ass-hole and not that funny. In order for a mean character to be a regularl character be in satire, they should be as hilarious as they are mean. This is why characters such as Cartman and Strong Bad continue to have focus in media.
Dude, who don't got that vibe? Tension so thick you can cut it with a knife.
Jeph Jacques was mentioned a page or two ago, on how he kept updating even though he had stabbed his hand. Well, he apparently threw out his back this weekend, to the point where he can't walk. QC is still updating thanks to guest strips and C&P strips - actually, today's was pretty damn funny (dialogue courtesy of Yelling Bird).
I stabbed a nail through my finger and still managed to make a filler strip for Alfie. I'm a pro, guys.
Where's my parade
Where's my parade
HEYI stabbed a nail through my finger and still managed to make a filler strip for Alfie. I'm a pro, guys.
Where's my parade
BUMBLE
BUMBLE
WE LOVE BUMBLE
BUT I RAN OUT OF MONEY FOR A PARADE FLOAT
SO I WROTE THIS CHEER
I AM BAD AT ENTHUSIASM
SO MY CHEER IS PROSE
HEY
HEY
BUMBLE
I've been dead all along.
Hey, don't taint my bro-fist with your frown painter-man.
I think that's true.
Don't tempt me, Gusto
Humor, drama, adventure? What style? Slice of life? Fantasy? Observational?
Zappit
Staff member
See, there's where I have a problem. I could give you any number of fantastic ideas, but I'd want to write it. And your style would fit a few of those ideas...
I'm fine with that sort of thing if it's got a definite beginning and definite end, but not so much if it's gonna be a an ongoing 15 year legacy thing.
He's a street magician, with a coffee snobbery problem. She's the heiress to a multimillion dollar international shipping company. They're united in a battle for the fate of the world when she learns her father has sold his soul to a demon, and he and his True Believer friend witness the father transform into a beast and destroy a crate full of high quality coffee beans.
Can they stop her father? Can she save her father? WILL HE EVER FIND THAT PERFECT CUP?
PAWN
He wakes up on a beach at the bottom of a sheer cliff. There's blood on his face and he has no memory of who he is or where he is. He looks out at the dark, choppy water and walks the beach, oddly calm. Then he kicks it. A kind of satchel that mounts to a belt. Opening it he finds an ID with what he somehow knows to be his picture, an electronic map and small gun. The words on the ID read "Gavin- PAWN"
He looks at the map and is over taken by the urge to go to the single blip he sees flashing on it but he's trapped on this beach how -
Turning he finds a stair case, steep and foreboding.
It was not there before.
I have a whole plot for this shit.
He wakes up on a beach at the bottom of a sheer cliff. There's blood on his face and he has no memory of who he is or where he is. He looks out at the dark, choppy water and walks the beach, oddly calm. Then he kicks it. A kind of satchel that mounts to a belt. Opening it he finds an ID with what he somehow knows to be his picture, an electronic map and small gun. The words on the ID read "Gavin- PAWN"
He looks at the map and is over taken by the urge to go to the single blip he sees flashing on it but he's trapped on this beach how -
Turning he finds a stair case, steep and foreboding.
It was not there before.
I have a whole plot for this shit.