I was thinking the exact same thing Frankie.
[Webcomic] PVP Discussion
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At least it was the first joke in 3 weeks.
Seems like Lucille and Cole may be headed to a rough and tumble relationship.
Today's comic, Lucille slaps Cole telling him to come out of his senses. GREAT. Now she's an IMPORTANT character. Still, an all-right joke at the end though. Does anyone else feel that Lucille is getting the better punch-lines?
Her lines feel like the lines a snarky mom says as she enters on screen in a sit-com. Well, we've gone from edgey geek sit-com to...boring sit-com that sucks. *SIGH*
You know I wanted to say something, but I wanted hold any shred of respect I still had for Kurtz. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone. Only she is not so much hilarious, as she is....just there.
Necronic
Staff member
Good lord you guys are terrible at identifying characters. There is absolutely nothing similar between this character and the mother from Arrested Development.
AD Lucille - Wealthy misanthropic socialite that has never worked a day in her life who embezzles company money for face-lifts and booze.
PvP Lucille - Wealthy power broker in the nerd world who is all about serious biznezz (like replacing the conference room).
Yeah omg those characters are totally the same.
AD Lucille - Wealthy misanthropic socialite that has never worked a day in her life who embezzles company money for face-lifts and booze.
PvP Lucille - Wealthy power broker in the nerd world who is all about serious biznezz (like replacing the conference room).
Yeah omg those characters are totally the same.
You gotta admit they at least LOOK a tad similar.
I always thought of her as more a dirty-blonde. Plus both are manipulative business-women, if you've seen all the eps.
Necronic
Staff member
She is more of a dirty blonde now that I look at the old pics. But honestly there's little resemblence between those two. Even in terms of them being manipulative. AD Lucille does not have direct power over much of anything. She has to use very subtle and subversive manipulation to get her way, and often she simply manipulates people just to do it (like all the horrible crap she does to her kids).
PvP Lucille, on the other hand, is quite powerful and can pretty much do what she wants. She speaks straight with most everyone and even if she backs someone into a corner that she wants them in it's not through subtle manipulation it's through brute force.
PvP Lucille, on the other hand, is quite powerful and can pretty much do what she wants. She speaks straight with most everyone and even if she backs someone into a corner that she wants them in it's not through subtle manipulation it's through brute force.
Not to mention the Panda looks too much like the dad from Ranma 1/2. I miss the panda.
Necronic
Staff member
He's also stretchy around the waist.
If he doesn't come back, which is unlikely than yes.
Why does Scratch seem to suck more and more each comic he's in?
Why does Scratch seem to suck more and more each comic he's in?
Do you guys need to do this much reaching to find stuff to bitch about in PVP?
Dave
Staff member
Because there's only so much growth that can happen in a cat that talks and wants to rule the world.
North_Ranger
Staff member
Personally I enjoyed his antics... until the whole "Kringus is a real supervillain" schtick. Before that I got a few nice laughs out of the juxtaposition of his supervillainous behaviour and his lack of resources to be an actual supervillain, if you know what I mean. The whole Kringus thing stopped being funny when the mall Santa revealed that the prophecy was true or something.
You know who I'm glad hasn't been in a comic in forever? Miranda. After her and Reggie broke up she just got more and more annoying.
North_Ranger
Staff member
I wouldn't mind seeing more of her, to be honest. Or Reggie, for that matter... Call me sentimental, but I always felt there was more to be had from their relationship. As it is now, we get only Reggie's word that once they started dating, it was basically just Miranda using sex to keep Reggie going out with him. Now, Miranda is shallow as hell, but somehow I thought Reggie might have gotten through to her.
Me too, I miss Reggie. It kind of annoys me that when they broke up Reggie was the one that left the comic while she stayed and just got sluttier. I mean that Chad sub-plot was funny but we all knew they were gonna break up. It was painfully obvious. Speaking of her being Shallow, remember when they were leaving for Seattle and Miranda was jealous that Jade was getting more attention? I...don't get that one. Was she breaking the fourth wall? It was confusing as hell.
Lack of character development.
It's a struggle in a continuing medium--how much to keep the same to appease the readers who come back for familiarity, and how much to change to please the readers who like to see growth and development.
Man, that is a struggle. When I make my comics, I gotta make sure to develop all the characters I make and not ignore any of them.
S
Soliloquy
Do you know what's going to happen next in this story? Because I think I do. We've got a month of guest strips coming up, starting with the lolbat/axecop disaster-in-the-making (I bet they're going to kill some bad guys!) Followed by the penny-arcade takeover. Then, when kurtz comes back, Cole will be back in the office with only a brief acknowledgement made of what happened. The everything will be back to normal, save for the existence of Lucille who will never be fully fleshed out as a character and only show up from time to time to make one-off jokes before slowly fading from the comic's view. No one will ever acknowledge that Duckerwhatever even existed save for a few references about it the next time Jase shows up.
You just summed up Kurtz writing style in a nut-shell Iago's personal speaking line.
What the...HE'S STARTING THE CROSS-OVER NOW!!! The Duck story-arc isn't even over yet! FUCK YOU KURTZ! FUCK YOU! Unless you bring it back up tomorrow than by all means.