[Webcomic] PVP Discussion
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The danger of spell check.
Too close to home?
Dave
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Yeah. Looking at my dad in the intensive care unit with tubes everywhere, with his coloring off and extremities swollen. He just looks...old. I know that he's old, but this is really the first time he's looked it, ya know. He looks a lot like my grandfather did right about the time my grandfather died.
My dad is one of the strongest men I've ever met and he's just so frail. I know exactly how Brent is feeling. I've steeled myself and my feelings away and kept a mental/emotional distance from teh situation, but that comic...oi.
My dad is one of the strongest men I've ever met and he's just so frail. I know exactly how Brent is feeling. I've steeled myself and my feelings away and kept a mental/emotional distance from teh situation, but that comic...oi.
I really liked the added touch of Brent slowly reducing in age. That's the sort of thing I've felt before.
As did I. Kurtz is spinning gold again.
Agreed. And to be honest, I've grown accustomed to glasses Brent pretty quickly. I think it gives Kurtz more versatility with expressions.
Thing is, I didn't catch that until I looked a second time.
And yes, this does hit a bit too close to home.
Some good insight there. I know Kurtz waives the banner that "print comics are dead" but I wonder if it's just comics in general. I don't think any webcomic will generate book sales like Peanuts, Garfield or Calvin and Hobbes did in the past but I wonder if any of those strips started on the web today would they have 1/2 the success they did in the past. When I was in elementary school I loved the book fairs where I'd grab the newest book of Garfield, Peanuts and, I hate to admit it, Hagar the Horrible (at 8 years old I thought Hagar was the bomb.) Had I half the distractions kids have today I probably wouldn't give two flips about reading a comic strip. Internet, video games, 100 channels, iPods/iPads where you can stream any movie or song at a whim and spending days texting your friends, do kids really care about comics (paper or web)? Same with the comic book industry. Sales continue to dwindle and going online will not save the industry. Especially with movies being able to deliver any scene you can picture in a comic. Now one will argue that there are several web cartoonists making a living and I'm not discounting that. The top web cartoonists will make more money than I will working my 40 hour a week but I don't think anyone will have the success of a Watterson, Schultz or Guisewite. And before someone throws PA and their millions I would venture to believe that has more to do with their connection to the game industry than their webcomic (which I enjoy).
Today's really got me, more than the rest of the week.
I can't personally relate to the father's health worries, but the idea of trying to step out of that shadow is a rough one.
I can't personally relate to the father's health worries, but the idea of trying to step out of that shadow is a rough one.
Ah, dammit, why'd Thunt have to get involved. I respect this guy, I don't want him in a pissing match with Kurtz.
I just assumed the two of them were playing X-Box and Scott laid out the consulting gig, and Guigar said, "That sounds like a good idea."
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And that makes ALL the difference.
Is this gonna be a thing now?
I feel that Christoforo was actually a student of the Kurtz and managed to surpass the master with his antics.
Nah. I'd say it's more like Christoforo took a class in How to Be an Ass 101 by Kurtz, then took those ideas and mutated them into something entirely new.
On today's PVP: I have no mouth and I must scream.
Did he just completely forget to draw the mouth on there?
Yeah, it's there. Maybe he added it in after, but there was one when I pulled it up.
My last words will be "You should see the other guy." 