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Mnementh:
From the rant in today's PvP.  Funny how these things are precipitated by Scott Kurtz so often.


--- Quote ---First of all, Penny-Arcade brings in HUNDREDS of thousands of readers a day, not tens of thousands. Also the creator of Ctrl Alt Del is Tim BUCKLEY not Absath. So thanks to the Tribune’s crack research team on THAT one. But, to me, the most disturbing inaccuracy in this article is to lump Ctrl Alt Del in with Penny-Arcade and PvP.

Now, I know this is going to send everyone over at CAD on a total snit, but let’s all be brutally honest here. CAD does not share a "formula similar to Penny-Arcade". Buckley has observed and replicated Penny-Arcade’s formula EXACTLY. Everything from the violence and cursing, to the entertainment-unit turned sentient being, to the unnecessary use of a dash in the URL has been painstakingly lifted from Penny-Arcade. But you would never know that from reading this article. When this article becomes the official history of webcomics, the order of events may be rewritten. If you ask around now I'm sure you will find, that with many people, it already HAS been.

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I've met Tim Buckley once, and he was drunk for part of that.  While he's been successful and knows it, he's a pretty humble guy, who would probably be the first to say that he isn't in the league of Penny Arcade.  Still, Buckley works for his success, he busts his ass and he knows that he owes a lot to his fans.  Kurtz is a slacker who disrespects his fans and hates the idea that anyone may be better than him.


Additionally, the amount of prentention out there in the webcomics community is really really annoying.  It comes through in their work and how they treat their fans, and I've found that my favourite comics are the ones written by some of the least pretentious folks out there, the ones doing it because they love it.
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ForteBass:
Kurtz is also just a jerk who is all upset over his offer to newspapers going bust, so he has his underwears all in a bunch and will take it out on anyone who has actually worked for what they've got.

Sideways:
Yeah, I read that this morning, and just shook my head.

Tycho and McCloud get into it over something RELEVANT to the community, and Kurtz pussies-out (pardon the language) by basically saying "Now guys, I like you both, *sucking noises* I think you both have some good points *slurping noises* so let's all just get along, ok?"

Then, not even a week later, he's insulting T.B. for absolutely no reason.

Typical bully.  He gets dragged into something, and he winks out... then turns around, and stirs the shit with a 'smaller guy' (I guess in Kurtz's case, they're all smaller... dude has his own gravitational pull) just because he can.

He won't fuck with anyone who's doing better than him, but he'll mock everyone who's doing as well as him.

Yeah, he seems like a real cool guy.

Fortebass, you're dead-on... the guy has some major insecurity-issues.

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Blue Kitty:

--- Quote from: Mnementh ---I've found that my favourite comics are the ones written by some of the least pretentious folks out there, the ones doing it because they love it.
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I completely agree with you on this.  CAD is one of my favorite comics, in part because he treats his fans well.  I've seen other comics where the creator is being a total dick and it just sorta ruins the comic for me.

JJMitchell:
Maybe its just me but I didn't realize there was so much drama in the web comics.

I just read the comics and either continue to read them or don't.
Maybe I should be more critical but I'll leave that to someone else.

Btw I read PvP, PA and CAD.

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