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canon? in a comic? pssh, that's crazy talk.
[Webcomic] PVP Discussion
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It is like Sid, the rabbit puppet on Craig Ferguson.
"People always say to me, '$%@*!!! a talking rabbit!!!'"
If anyone heard what Scratch was saying that would be the likely reply.
"People always say to me, '$%@*!!! a talking rabbit!!!'"
If anyone heard what Scratch was saying that would be the likely reply.
^this is why I dislike scratch. He is just Scott's version of Stewie: voice, mannerisms, and all. Only difference is one's a cat.
I noticed... I just didn't laugh.
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Wasabi Poptart
Still. Not. Funny.
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Philosopher B.
Speaking as a relatively new, excited GoT fan who's watched the show and read the first book ... not me.
Let's be generous and assume HALF of the people who read PVP watch Game of Thrones. If PVP has a readership of say 100,000 people, that's 50 thousand people who will immediately be alienated by two weeks of strips. And then he STILL as to make sure te strips are good enough that the other 50% are liking them.
I know that a creator shouldn't feel like they have to reign in their creative muse in order to appeal to an audience, and that audiences on the internet are pretty self-selecting, but it just seems so reckless to Scott's business to alienate half his readership for over a week by doing strips that they have no point of reference on.
I know that a creator shouldn't feel like they have to reign in their creative muse in order to appeal to an audience, and that audiences on the internet are pretty self-selecting, but it just seems so reckless to Scott's business to alienate half his readership for over a week by doing strips that they have no point of reference on.
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Not I, but i have not read nor desire to read the referenced novels.
I am one of the few that did not like scratch to begin with, has had some good moments but I just don't like the cat.
So I tweeted something Scott didn't like very much.
"Hopefully today @pvponline wraps up an absolutely wretched week of Game of Thrones comics that were thick on reference but not funny"
PVPOnline replied: "Sorry my free comics weren't to your liking. Hope it didn't keep you from important things like n" - I have no idea what was following that n.
So I responded back: "Well, I got what I paid for. But seriously, people who name their kids after GoT characters probably thought it was a bit thick."
"Hopefully today @pvponline wraps up an absolutely wretched week of Game of Thrones comics that were thick on reference but not funny"
PVPOnline replied: "Sorry my free comics weren't to your liking. Hope it didn't keep you from important things like n" - I have no idea what was following that n.
So I responded back: "Well, I got what I paid for. But seriously, people who name their kids after GoT characters probably thought it was a bit thick."
numbering your penguins?
nodding off to sleep?
nixing fake facebook identities?
nagging your significant other?
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I like espy's explanations better
The problem is that if Kurtz didn't half-ass the strip, that arc could potentially have been really good. Remember the Spaceman Spiff parts of Calvin & Hobbes? Imagine how lame they would have been if you just saw Calvin, as normal, walking around having pretend conversations or narrating himself. That's basically what we got with "Scratch of Thrones". Now, imagine if most of the panels from Scratch's point of view had been in full GoT costume, with matching backgrounds - make it look like he's imagining himself in the stories, perhaps prompted by getting whacked by a fish. Then cut back every few panels to show what's really happening - ie for the first few panels it's King Robert and Cersi carousing, then last panel it's Robby and Miranda dancing to pop music.
And for fuck's sake, don't end on a lame-ass pun by the character, especially followed up by 'Amirite?!'. Heck, that would have been a great place for a narration box. "....in the Game of Thrones, you live, or you dine..." to wrap it up.
Having to draw his characters in new outfits, made up like GoT characters, might have revitalized Kurtz, made him experiment more - you know, like everyone else in his fucking office does.
But nope, just half-ass it, Scott. PVP will be finished before you know it.
And for fuck's sake, don't end on a lame-ass pun by the character, especially followed up by 'Amirite?!'. Heck, that would have been a great place for a narration box. "....in the Game of Thrones, you live, or you dine..." to wrap it up.
Having to draw his characters in new outfits, made up like GoT characters, might have revitalized Kurtz, made him experiment more - you know, like everyone else in his fucking office does.
But nope, just half-ass it, Scott. PVP will be finished before you know it.
He added Scratch because it was a character his late mother would've enjoyed, according to a podcast from years ago.
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Philosopher B.
And also cats worked for Jim Davis.
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Philosopher B.
Fuck you guys, it's funny?
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Oh that's it. THAT'S IT. I'm never reading this damn strip ever again! RSS feed unsubscribed! Congratulations Scott! You just joined Buckley in my webcomics black list. Hope you're proud.
EDIT: And now I see that he followed that terrible "arc" with a LOLbat guest strip. That's just the icing on the crap cake.