Zappit
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Sorry, man. I thought it would be obvious they were fake.
[Webcomic] CAD over?
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When it comes to Kurtz mouthing off, assume nothing.
Zappit
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That's just...really sad. There's virtually no difference between a Kurtz meltdown and a satirical take on it.
I actually thought he was satirizing himself, some of those were pretty funny.
And there's a lot of bad blood between Buckley and Kurtz, especially when Buckley blew up the Rapscallions guild on Dark Iron.
If you can't make fun of the person that brought us all together and then kicked us to the curb in the worst way possible, who can you make fun of?
Zappit
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Kicked us to the curb TWICE. He also blew up on a couple of my old Bomb Shelter brothers with no provocation some years back, so he's spread that bad blood around pretty liberally.
North_Ranger
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I'm not saying he shouldn't be made fun of. My problem was that one couldn't easily tell if this was fake or not. Like Zapp himself said, it's difficult to parody a Tastemaker meltdown when the man's known for sticking feet in his mouth.
Heck, speaking of that, can anyone find doomdragon6 's comics that tell the tale of Halfpixel Bombing and the Rise of Halforums?
North_Ranger
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Never mind, I found them... although the first three are rather tiny for some reason.
A brief history on the origins of Halforums:
A brief history on the origins of Halforums:
I am so confused. But I from what was explained, there's bad blood between one webcomic creator and another, and they constantly one up each other like grade school children playing kickball at recess? Is that about right?
Pretty much. Not all web-comic artists gain the mentality of elementary school children, but enough of them are.
Zappit
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Not about right. Exactly right.
After he took that CAD charity money and bought himself a tablet, showed his dick to people underage, sent cease and desist orders to people for doing fanart (while simultaneously ripping off professional artists) and has continually shown himself to be ignorant and racist?
It doesn't matter, as little of a fan of Kurtz I am, Buckley deserves every bit of shitting he gets.
Zappit
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Yep. For a few years, he had a me too attitude. Penny Arcade starts a charity? He does too, and keeps money. Kurtz gets a server on WoW? Buckley does, too, then kills it and keeps the money his fans paid into it, all the while banning them from his forums if they brought it up. Kurtz gets a cartoon series for the web? Look who else did, and it's much worse. Penny Arcade starts its own gaming con? Bucko tried and failed to copy it.
That's not even getting into the time he had nude pics running around the net.
I thought they were real too, and that Steve Kuntz was trying to satirize himself.
Thats because you don't need an engine for this gravy train. all you need to do is stick wheels on it and drive it into the sea.
So who wants to bet which web celebrity pisses off their fan base next? I'm guessiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin the Power House guys. Maybe they pull some Cerebus into their toons.
GasBandit
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I think the big deal is, it's not that he ended his main comic's story, it's that he ended it so badly. I mean, despite what he says, it really feels like 2 strips ago he decided "you know what I don't wanna draw this any more, how can I end this as quickly as possible?" and did that. It would have been better to finish out his time travel arc, and end with a corny ensemble-on-couch shot or something, the end. This "AND THEN HE DIED THE END" is just lazy writing.
Actually what I was trying to say earlier.
Agreed... it's a crappy copout. The guy had been drawing this for what... ten years? He could have toughed out a few more weeks and given some proper closure.
I honestly do not think it would have been any better if it had been extended. I'd rather CAD go out (or "transition") with a weird, abrupt ending than an attempt by Buckley to write something clever and classy that "did justice to the characters." There was no justice that could have been done here.
GasBandit
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Actually, until this ill-conceived time travel arc, CAD was actually getting a lot better than it had been previously. Then this happened.
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