About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Penny Arcade, Pokey the Penguin, User Friendly, Dork Tower, PvP, General Protection Fault, Jerkcity, Funny Farm, Kevin and Kell, Piled Higher and Deeper, Eric Monster Millikin, Goats, Ozy and Millie, Sluggy Freelance, Real Life, Sequential Art, Melonpool, Sev Wide Web, Help Desk, Irritability, Buzzer Beater, Bobbins, List of Red Meat characters, Argon Zark!, Bruno the Bandit, Sheldon, Clan of the Cats, Triangle and Robert, Nukees, The Matrix Comics, Polymer City Chronicles, You Damn Kid!, T.H.E. Fox, Elf Life, Bob the Angry Flower, Where the Buffalo Roam, Stealth, Avalon, College Roomies from Hell!!!, Doctor Fun, Boy on a Stick and Slither, The PC Weenies, NetBoy, NeverNever, Dharma the Cat, Lore Brand Comics, Astounding Space Thrills. Excerpt: PvP, also known as Player vs Player, is a webcomic, written and drawn by Scott Kurtz, with around 100,000 unique visitors per day as of August 2005. On February 1, 2007, it became the subject of its own animated series. The comic chronicles the adventures of a fictional video game magazine company and its employees. A popular but often controversial figure in the field of online comics, Kurtz is usually willing to share his opinions about comics and gaming culture in his blog, which is hosted on the same website as his comic strips. Originally, PvP focused on video gaming and the larger "nerd culture" including comics and RPGs. 1UP.com described it as one of the first game-based comics, but not the original, saying, "neither Scott Kurtz's PvP nor Jerry Holkins and Michael Krahulik's Penny Arcade were the first gaming-themed webcomic on the Internet." Over the years, the humor has broadened to include technology jokes, relationship humor, in-jokes about and mocking of the generation gaps between the different characters, with gaming increasingly taking a back seat. Kurtz occas...
