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[bigscary]

Keep mocking your readers, Mr. Kurtz. It's a really excellent idea.

Note: PvP is probably my least favorite webcomic that I'm capable of tolerating. I read it in extremis. It's the only webcomic I read with any regularity for which I have never once been tempted to purchase anything, ever, at all.

Comments

[avram]

I dropped PvP a few weeks back, after I realized that it had been a long time since it had made me so much as crack a smile.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I keep planning to drop it myself, for the same reason. Habit keeps me going.

I used to think it was hysterical, though -- and I know BSD hated it years ago. Why keep punishing yerself, dude?

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

It got better again, and it's not completely unreadable -- I crack a smile once in a while, still.

But he's the only webcomic I can think of who reliably makes meanspirited jokes about geeks, his readers, and people for being ugly.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I actually like PvP quite a lot; and I suspect that most of his readers don't mind it when he mocks the ones who get a little to involved (or ranty) with his comic.

If you don't like it, stop reading it. I dropped Megatokyo when it stopped amusing me and Sluggy Freelance when reading it felt like work. To each their own.

[mneme]

Pretty much. I've enjoyed various PvP storylines, but Kurtz is enough of an asshole (and a hack, of course; his need to respond to people commenting on this in his comic is...fascinating) that the bads are starting to way outweigh the good.

Compare to, say, Sluggy -- sure, Pete Abrams is -also- a hack, and has a lot of unfunny strips as well as funny ones. But he never goes to the...depths, I guess...that Kurtz does.