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I'LL DISCUSS HIS FUCKING COMIC HERE.

I, for the first time in... ever, maybe, I don't usually laugh out loud at comics, but I'm sure I have... ANYWAY, I fucking LOL'd at this strip: http://www.pvponline.com/2009/08/06/no-butts-about-it/

Bravo, Kurtz. You get a golf-clap. *clap clap clap*

The one after it made me do that, "Heh, that's funny but not that funny" half-smile I do for most every comic I find amusing ever, so that might give you perspective.

Hehehehe. "Let me lick your butt"...

:bush:

Ed has made it pretty clear that Kurtz bashing is not too cool around here. So, I guess I will limit my comments to the strip itself, which is funny from time to time. Kirby and Scratch are always worth a giggle and this strip is pretty damn funny. Unfortunately, it will be a long time before I view material created by teh Kurtz with anything but a jaded eye. Because he's a fucking asswipe.

Sorry, had to say it.

I am willing to bet that some person came to the PvP site for the first time ever... and the first strip he sees is about a dog asking to eat cat-poo and lick the cat's ass.

That person is either never coming back, or has posted the strip on whatever place coprophiliac furries go to.

did you LOL'd

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lol buttz

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only way comic could've been improved is if he had included fartz in there too

Kurtz is still totally an asswipe, but at least this comic was funny.

I wouldn't know, I haven't given his page a single hit since the nuke.

speaking of the Kurtz comics. Who won on the "how long the sunday ding" will last poll? Haven't seen one in two weeks. Not that I miss them but I did check to see how long he could keep it up.

Shegokigo said:

I wouldn't know, I haven't given his page a single hit since the nuke.

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Here you go:

Not even a smirk.

Sigh. It's hard to appreciate a good butt joke these days.

I thought it was funny. And I liked the "get help" ending.

And regarding Ding he has put the Sunday strip on hold while he works on a Ding graphic novel.

Steve said:

And regarding Ding he has put the Sunday strip on hold while he works on a Ding graphic novel.

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The guy really needs to pick a side project and stick with it. How long until he puts the novel on hold because he dreamed up some other half-baked project?

I give that less than a month.

Looking forward to the Penny Arcade Tekken comic though.

Havent visited pvp in three months now.

Ah, kurtz. The source of some great butthurtz in here. I thought that strip was hilarious. I think most of his strips are hilarious. I think that there has been no significant change in the quality of his strips in the last couple years. I think that most people just suffer from the butthurts and let that influence their opinions.

Or you know, formulate an opinion based on the bad writing, inability to finish an arc and self indulging projects with no future?

How any of that has to do with long lost forums or lack of product delivery is beyond me.

Also, he's an asswipe.

Well this thread is pretty much over, might as well.....

*wave*

Hi Scott!

Actually that was just some shameless self promotion for my new domain. www.haterade-gaming.com

its not up yet.....

I do enjoy his gaming related strips. But few and far between. The last one where he made me LOL was the one with the clap.

However, PA RARELY makes me not laugh, there are more times than not where I laugh HARD. This one is my fav from them this year.

Pretty much everything Serious Jay said about PA and PVP.

I wanted to defend Kurtz for a long time, because I met him at an Emerald City Con a while back, and he gave me a free sketch after he'd said he wouldn't do sketches anymore, when I told him I wouldn't be back the next day.

But then I heard him talking in some WW podcasts about some stuff, openly admitting to much asshattery (though he tried to play it off), and I was like, "Yeah. Dude's a huge asshole. Thanks for the sketch and all, but yeah. Asshole."


Still, I can separate an artist from his art, and still manage to enjoy PVP now and then (you know, when it's actually enjoyable).

Even on the PVP forums, his lack of storylining and failure to close were always brought up. I really don't see how it's "he's an asshole so his comic sucks too".

LAWL KURTZ

I knew what it was by the thread title yet I still clicked on it...

SeriousJay said:

I do enjoy his gaming related strips. But few and far between. The last one where he made me LOL was the one with the clap.

However, PA RARELY makes me not laugh, there are more times than not where I laugh HARD. This one is my fav from them this year.

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I have absolutely no idea what that strip means. I don't even get the continuity.

fade said:

SeriousJay said:

I do enjoy his gaming related strips. But few and far between. The last one where he made me LOL was the one with the clap.

However, PA RARELY makes me not laugh, there are more times than not where I laugh HARD. This one is my fav from them this year.

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I have absolutely no idea what that strip means. I don't even get the continuity.

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Think it's a reference to the Battlefield games, where one's enthusiasm for piloting aircraft is often inversely proportinal to one's skill with them.

fade said:

SeriousJay said:

I do enjoy his gaming related strips. But few and far between. The last one where he made me LOL was the one with the clap.

However, PA RARELY makes me not laugh, there are more times than not where I laugh HARD. This one is my fav from them this year.

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I have absolutely no idea what that strip means. I don't even get the continuity.

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Gabe's in a game, waiting for a plane to spawn.


Plane spawns, but asshat immediately runs up and takes the plane before Gabe can.

Asshat flies into mountain, destroying plane, so Gabe has to wait for another to spawn.

I'm happy solid gaming comedic gold isn't over the heads of everyone.

SeriousJay said:

I'm happy solid gaming comedic gold isn't over the heads of everyone.

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Were it not for the blog post on PA I would have had no idea what the comic was about.

If you've played Battlefield 1942, you'll know. :uhhuh:

Curiously, I've only played Star Wars Battlefront. The principle's certainly the same, though.

There's just no connection between the panels for the uninitiated. Maybe something indicating that he's waiting for the plane, which suddenly appears. I know now that those little lines are indicating a sudden appearance, but I would've gotten it if there was an SFX or something. I thought they were speed lines. It looked to me like the plane was moving and the other guy was hanging onto the side of it as it moved. I couldn't even tell that was the plane crashing. Maybe if the tail was sticking out of the fireball or something. I would've gotten it right away then.

Yeah, that PA was one of the rare ones that I had no idea what it referred to.

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Maybe something indicating that he's waiting for the plane, which suddenly appears.

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Perhaps like Gabe standing there, looking at his watch?

Oh, wait.

It baffled me at first, but I made up my own backstory, and am gratified to see that my made up story fits the reality.

Which, of course, reflects well on the art and execution.

-Adam

HowDroll said:

fade said:

Maybe something indicating that he's waiting for the plane, which suddenly appears.

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Perhaps like Gabe standing there, looking at his watch?

Oh, wait.

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Yeah, that shows waiting (though could also be checking the time), but not waiting for something to suddenly appear. Big difference. The second panel, like I said before, doesn't really look like that to me. Sorry to offend you by not getting the joke.

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There's just no connection between the panels for the uninitiated. Maybe something indicating that he's waiting for the plane, which suddenly appears. I know now that those little lines are indicating a sudden appearance, but I would've gotten it if there was an SFX or something. I thought they were speed lines. It looked to me like the plane was moving and the other guy was hanging onto the side of it as it moved. I couldn't even tell that was the plane crashing. Maybe if the tail was sticking out of the fireball or something. I would've gotten it right away then.

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I think you are overanalysing it because you didnt get the comic.

Everyone else got it, and the 4 Battlefield gamers at my house didnt have any problem understanding it. Anyway, its a comic for gamers, and theres an accompanying new story for hose who dont know the game,

I wouldnt read a comic for physics teachers or skateboarders, because I know I wouldnt get it.

I never played any of those games. So I had to read it twice to get it. Like Stienman, I pieced it together. I admit it could be more clear, but I did get it.

Having said that, a lot of PA strips I don't get because I don't play any console games and I generally stick with 1 PC game for several years (MMORPG) at a time exclusively. A lot of that stuff is over my head. I think I'm just hanging around for DivX and the Fruit Fucker anyway.

Similar to how I live to see Belkar and Vaarsuvius and don't really care about most of the rest of the Stick. And O-Chul. And Argent. I would give anything to have a big ass dog jump out of my Pokeball...

That last sentence made me feel a little dirty.

Gaming comic about a game joke made me chuckle. Thats about it.

JCM said:

fade said:

There's just no connection between the panels for the uninitiated. Maybe something indicating that he's waiting for the plane, which suddenly appears. I know now that those little lines are indicating a sudden appearance, but I would've gotten it if there was an SFX or something. I thought they were speed lines. It looked to me like the plane was moving and the other guy was hanging onto the side of it as it moved. I couldn't even tell that was the plane crashing. Maybe if the tail was sticking out of the fireball or something. I would've gotten it right away then.

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I think you are overanalysing it because you didnt get the comic.

Everyone else got it, and the 4 Battlefield gamers at my house didnt have any problem understanding it. Anyway, its a comic for gamers, and theres an accompanying new story for hose who dont know the game,

I wouldnt read a comic for physics teachers or skateboarders, because I know I wouldnt get it.

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Yes, I was. I was just trying to explain how in my opinion they could've opened it up for people who hadn't played the game, that's all. I didn't even mean it as a serious critique, just more of a shoulder-shrugging, "Eh, I guess he could've done this, but whatever".

fade said:

Yes, I was. I was just trying to explain how in my opinion they could've opened it up for people who hadn't played the game, that's all. I didn't even mean it as a serious critique, just more of a shoulder-shrugging, "Eh, I guess he could've done this, but whatever".

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i feel any more would have brought it into a "you had to be there" type situation...and as the ding reboot proved those suck donkey balls. this works for anyone who has ever played a battlefield/battlefront game, like me, who loved it.

wana10 said:

i feel any more would have brought it into a "you had to be there" type situation...and as the ding reboot proved those suck donkey balls. this works for anyone who has ever played a battlefield/battlefront game, like me, who loved it.

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This I think is the main reason why they set it up the way they did. Any more additions wouldn't have made the joke any funnier for people who never played or heard of Battlefield where as anybody who has played battlefield can identify the situation immediately with nothing more than any 2 of the panels.

People need to not be spoon fed delivery lines. Sure, you'll feel withdrawl at first, you may not have those 2nd chances to have the joke's punchline delivered along with the comfort of a farting noise. Give it some time, the confusion will pass and eventually you'll find yourself more enlightened at the creative subtleties of PA.

I've never played any of the BF games(my FPSs have to have aliens and/or zombies or I'm generally not interested), but I got it with no problems.

PA's strip can be related to any multiplayer game where vehicles are involved. For any multiplayer gamer it should be immediately relatable. It made me chuckle anyway and I never played Battlefield either.