Another title I considered was ‘this is why I hate the internet.’ There’s a stink going on about PVP (pvponline.com) about how unfunny Kurtz has been lately, and how blah this and blah that, and waaaah. The two most relevant are this and this, posted in the authors blog on the PVP site.

Now I’m going to be inherently hypocritical here by even posting anything about it, but seriously guys, you take this way too seriously. To the guys who hate it, get over it and stop reading it. No one cares what you think. To the guys who defend it, it’s not really that big a deal. If people like it they read it, if they don’t who cares?

Now to get specific. Yes, PVP started as a gaming/pop culture comic. Guess what — that demographic is pretty narrow. The amount of content you can really use is very small for a number of reasons, the two most major reasons for that is the only thing that REALLY changes about video games (at least in terms of overall style) is the content and secondly every possible joke on it has been done to death. As for pop culture, a lot of it can be pretty obscure. In any case I think it’s apparent that Kurtz is attempting to expand his audience so guess what, it gets watered down. So what? Save the “good ol’ days” for the rest home.

As for his stories, he uses continuity to generate more chances for jokes (sometimes) but you take the stories way too serious. Every story I’ve seen from Kurtz is presented in a sarcastic or satirical way. Sometimes it seems he tries to get tender but it’s never for very long. If you look at his stories in a less serious, less life-or-death way, guess what, they’re actually mildly entertaining which is more than we can say for 90% of the internet.