Anyone else read “PvP” at pvponline.com or “Dork Tower” at dorktower.com? I’ve been laughing out loud for two days reading their archived strips. Cracked me up!
“PvP” is an online comic about a bunch of gamers working at a fictional computer gaming review magazine. Way funny! I highly recommend it to anyone who games on a computer, console, or RPG’s. Similarly, “Dork Tower” follows the exploits of a gaming group (mostly RPG’s). Both are painfully funny - I need to get them all in book form.
Now I yearn for my days playing D&D and Champions…
Haven’t read PvP yet (I’ll follow your link later) but…if you like Dork Tower (I do too!), you have to read Knights of the Dinner Table. Imagine every dysfunctional D&D group you’ve ever been around. One where the members really, deep-down like each other, but have no qualms about backstabbing each other because “Hey, the game is the game!”
As far as I know, it’s only available in comic form (as opposed to on-line). Early issues are impossible to get, but they’ve got compilations called “Bundles of Trouble”.
Read “KotDT,” didn’t care for it. I guess because every panel is the same, and the dialogue isn’t actually funny to me (although there are lots of, “yeah, I remember doing that once”). I suppose that’s why I prefer “Dork Tower” - more variety, and better artwork.
Check list to start my work day:
get in cubicle, turn on slow ass machine
get coffee/tea/whatever brekfast thing from wheel of death
come back, log in
read these comics: PVP, Sluggy, Dilbert, and Penny Arcade
print out online crossowrd
maybe start taking some calls
I wasn’t thinking of Pvp. It was Angst Technology. That’s the one. They aren’t gamers, they are programmers. They don’t run a fictional computer gaming review magazine, it’s a fictional computer game company.
So you can see that although they are completely different, they are remarkably the same. I like Angst Technology, PvP is just O.K. (I still stop regularly- it’s bookmarked). Spaz Labs is similar, but totally different, than A.T. It’s totally different and remarkably different than PvP.
Sorry I messed on your thread Esprix. You shouldn’t let un-housebroken newbies play with you big boys.
I bumped into PvP from a link on Penny Arcade (another on-line comic strip, but not nearly as good IMO). PvP kicks ass.
“That’s not what I meant.” “Tell that to my shoes!”
“Boobs, breasts, truss them up, call them what you want, but in the end, it’s all about those zoom-zooms.”
And I got the Dork Tower collection for my girlfriend for her birthday. Quite good stuff, though she prefers KoDT.
IIRC, lurkernomore, Brent once tried to find a replacement for Skull (who was missing for some reason). What he found was a giant panda…which hung around, randomly attacking Brent, even after the return of Skull.
Of the two, “PvP” is definitely superior IMO. Not only is it better drawn and consistently funny, but Kurtz manages to do a weekly comic, plus three extra weekly comics for GameSpy.com (Ding!, Planet Couch, and an extra PvP strip), and a number of print magazines. I like quality and quantity, and PvP delivers.
OTOH, I do like “Dork Tower,” but John Kovalic’s lethargic rate makes it hard for me to really enjoy it. I first discovered him through his Wild Life comic strip, and while I’m glad that “Dork Tower” has taken off, I’m disappointed at (a) how he’s let his other projects languish into obscurity, and (b) the afformentioned delays. As far as I know, the only web site that features “Dork Tower” regularly is GameSpy, and even then it seems like Kovalic is hard-pressed to draw two strips a week.
They’re both good comics, but if I had to pick one, I’m definitely siding with PvP.
PvP is one my faves, in fact, I have a gaming fez!
And if you like PvP and Dork Tower, you guys should like Megatokyo (Sorry, don’t know how to link just yet, its address is http://www.megatokyo.com ) It is a must see, and will have you on the floor.
I haven’t found PvP to be as funny as Penny Arcade. But it’s still pretty funny. I read all the comics that are indexed on GameSpy, and they all have some pretty funny strips. But I log in to read The Daily Victim as much as anything these days, since I’ve already figured out that new Fallout: Tactics screenshots are not importantly different from the old ones.
Th’ way I figure it, you owe me for the better part of a day that I’ve spent obsessively reading PvP. On the other hand, I can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed a comic strip so much. So, I guess we’re almost even, except that I’ve got to say:
I love PvP Online. I spent quite a bit of time reading all of his three years worth of strips when I stumbled onto his site. I go back about once a month to get in some good ole fashion fun time reading.
Marc
PS: Well if you were in Dallas I’d certainly welcome you to join our little group. Tsk tsk tsk.
Wow, PvP online is pretty cool! And I actually discovered Dork Tower a few days ago (though I didn’t take the time to actually read any other strips) from a link from www.3drealms.com.
::adds a bunch of bookmarks for PvP and Dork Tower::
I’ve also heard of Kevin and Kell (though I never got too interested in that one either) and I read Sabrina Online every month.
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…whoa. I did a search for “Dragon Tails” and got the Dragon Tails site. This is amazing; I had an idea for something that was almost the exact same concept as Dragon Tails (I won’t totally hijack this thread, but I created some cartoon characters that are dragons, and I thought it would be cool to render them in that cartoony style, since I know how to do that.)
Spent 2 days in my office trying not to laugh too loud. Great stuff. “Does Willy Wonka know you took this from his office?”