[Webcomic] PVP Discussion
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GasBandit
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I think the dracula awareness foundation was supposed to be the punchline.
You'd rather think about getting his donated blood?I really, REALLY don't want to think about "Kurtz" and "Sexually Transmitted" in the same anything.
--Patrick
figmentPez
Staff member
Kurtz, no. Stahp. That is not how you do political humor.
North_Ranger
Staff member
It's too late. YOU CANNOT STAPH DA TASTMAHKR!!1!
I disagree. Staph would definitely stop him, and quickly, too.
North_Ranger
Staff member
Damn my typo-prone, stroke-stumped fingers...I disagree. Staph would definitely stop him, and quickly, too.
North_Ranger
Staff member
Scott, Scott, Scott... Show, don't tell. The Bone Burglar spelling out his reaction just comes off as unnatural and a cheap way for you to try and TELL THE READERS HOW THEY SHOULD FRICKIN' REACT!
I disagree, actually, in the case of today's comic. It felt more like a cleverer version of a "What a TWIST!" punchline.
I actually think the absurdity of what you're complaining about was supposed to be the punch-line. And it kinda works, except that I'm already tired of the Bone Burglar.
figmentPez
Staff member
I think it's a call-back to old timey comics. Kurtz does idolize the history of comics.
It seems like a Simpsons move.
They do it a lot in the later seasons and for me it kills the joke.
Table Titans: Man, 3 months on one fight against a low level monster.
IT IS LIKE REAL D&D!!!
IT IS LIKE REAL D&D!!!
Wait, he's actually telling the story? Wasn't the joke that he spoiled the ending before he even told the story therefore making no need to tell said story? I'm usually against Kurtz abruptly ending a story, but in this case it would make perfect sense!
"....and then at that moment I realized I would welcome LOLBat with open arms reading the current storyline!"
Bone Burglar: "Yikes that is scary, your bones are safe for now."
Maybe Kurtz is going meta?
It's not an awful mechanism, it's one that is difficult to use correctly. When you're dealing with a story that is all about perspective and the illusory nature of what we think is true, an ambiguous ending makes perfect sense. When it's just kind of tacked on, it's terrible - but that's not the mechanism, it's the inappropriate use of it. Just like unreliable narrators, villian protagonists, and irony - so many people use them badly, it's easy to think that they're bad devices. They're not, they're just difficult to use effectively and easy to use poorly.
That being said, this was total bullshit.
That being said, this was total bullshit.
I'd love to see today's strip, it just keeps repeating Monday's.