[Webcomic] PVP Discussion

So apparently he wrote on his twitter that he mistakenly had Friday's comic set to "invisible" accidentally and didn't realize it until Sunday evening.

Anyone buy that? Also he got all kinds of pissy on his twitter when a few people asked him if he was going to update on Friday or not. :facepalm: It never ends does it? Why does he react this way to people?
 
Anyone buy that? Also he got all kinds of pissy on his twitter when a few people asked him if he was going to update on Friday or not. :facepalm: It never ends does it? Why does he react this way to people?
Typically people become defensive when they've done wrong and don't want to admit it. This pattern has plagued him for years and he should just be upfront and apologize for the late strip and leave it at that. I couldn't imagine having to come up with a new strip every day for the rest of my life. I would think there would come a point where you just run out of ideas. Even with a staff a writers television series are lucky to make it past 10 seasons due to this.
 
The problem with that is, he doesn't have to have a new idea for a strip each day; since he does small arcs, he can just build one off the other. For example, each strip in this latest mediocre stretch is just a few minutes at a time, with scenes that feed into each other. So he can plot it all out in a day, then draw the strips. There's no reason he needs all of every day, and then some, for each strip. He could do three or four in a day, and use the rest of the week to plan the next.
 
So, is the girl a really tall Little Person, or just kind of short? In the first appearance, Val is shoulder high to Alan and chin high to the guy with the clip-on nose, which assuming they're of average height, indicates that she's probably slightly under 5 feet tall. Then she can't see over a bar which is hip-high to the woman behind it. Either it's a 5 foot tall bar with a ramp or a gigantic barmaid working behind it, or for some reason Val is now 3 feet tall, which would mean that Alan and Nose are also quite short. We see that Alan is about half a head taller than Francis, though that could just be perspective - they seem about equal in the first frame, but Francis is shorter (though he is hunched) in the other frames, so we know that Alan isn't particularly short. When the group is sitting at the table, Val is up to about nose-high on Alan and Nose, until Skull walks by. Then she either stands on her chair or jumps on the table, to grab Nose by the shirt, gets off the table to walk past Alan, then apparently crouches to turn back to Nose, since now her head is barely above the tabletop, seeming to have shrunk several inches between frames. Seriously, in frame 3 we see that at the tabletop (assuming that the frame bottom is at tabletop level) is below her bust, probably right around waist-high. In frame 4, only her head and shoulders are over that level.

Her repeated insistence that she is a dwarf and the proportions Kurtz is using - the stocky, squarish build - would seem to hint at being a Little Person, though obviously she's ACTUALLY going to be a Fantasy Realm Dwarf like Binwin or Gimli, SURPRISE. Given her wildly inconsistent height, it's kind of hard to tell.
 
I just don't care what she is I guess. He's talking about it on Twitter like she's about to BLOW PVP WIDE OPEN! but I'm just waiting for this arc to get funny. I know, I know, it's free, I'm an asshole, etc, etc.
 
I always hate the "It's Free" argument. It's an artistic medium, and whether you pay for it or not should have no bearing on whether you have an opinion on the subject matter.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I realize that it would not improve the quality of the joke, but I dislike the character so much that I hope that when she hits Skull with her hammer, it rebounds off his blubber and smacks her in the face, breaking her nose.
 
I always hate the "It's Free" argument. It's an artistic medium, and whether you pay for it or not should have no bearing on whether you have an opinion on the subject matter.
... not to mention the fact that he profits directly off his readership via ads, so he should put a premium on making good content that pleases his fanbase.
 
Right. It *isn't* free, because he earns a living off of it. We might not pay directly for the comic, in terms of micropayments or a subscription fee, but Kurtz is paid via merchandise and ad revenue, which his readers do provide.
 
I just don't care what she is I guess. He's talking about it on Twitter like she's about to BLOW PVP WIDE OPEN! but I'm just waiting for this arc to get funny. I know, I know, it's free, I'm an asshole, etc, etc.
That's always the way it is when he introduces something new.

When I saw another webcomic artist/writer was falling on hard times with her job and stuff with her mom, I clicked the ads like I usually don't do. I want that comic to keep going.
 
Since no one has called it yet

I foresee the standard superhero comic first meeting via combat and then friendship, and then Skull ends up with a dwarf girlfriend. Wackiness ensues.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
It is not like she is going to be actually evil.

And what happened to the surprise shown when some one actually sees Skull?
And I thought it was retconned that just about everybody can actually see Skull, it was just Max who couldn't because he was psychologically incapable of dealing with a "troll" being a real thing.
 
I always hate the "It's Free" argument. It's an artistic medium, and whether you pay for it or not should have no bearing on whether you have an opinion on the subject matter.
It's the difference between complaining and critiquing (or criticizing). One can offer a critique without feeling entitled about what they are "owed".
 
I should have been more clear, the surprise shown by the staff of PvP when some one outside their clique sees Skull...

Where there Dwarves in Ultima Online?
 

GasBandit

Staff member
I should have been more clear, the surprise shown by the staff of PvP when some one outside their clique sees Skull...

Where there Dwarves in Ultima Online?
If I remember correctly, no Ultima game actually had dwarves. Closest they had were "mountain folk" who were dwarves in everything but name, and considered the term "dwarf" to be a dire insult.

Edit - upon further googling, it seems to be a retcon.
 
Trolls, talking cats, Santa, superheroes, ogres, and hipsters are all totally plausible things that can happen in real life.

A dwarf just means that this strip is jumping the shark and going into pure fantasy.
 

Dave

Staff member
She didn't say "Die Troll!" She was speaking German. "The Troll!"

And remember what happens when Skull gets pissed? He killed the SAVAGE DUCKING FRAGON!!
 
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