i've been reading this webcomic PVP for... couple years at least. normally my attentionspan hops off to something else and i switch, forgetting it exists at all. i've hopped from Machall.com to a couple pixellated video game comics, one based off final fantasy, and the other just looks like it ought to be an old school side-scroller. no links, becuase, well, the bored and switching thing, dont even remember the name of the comics. oh ya, and megatokyo.com, must have megatokyo, it's one of the great landmarks of the internet, in the dorkwalks anyway. so, tangent. right, pvp, so i actually keep coming back to this one b/c it's the best blend of what i love about comics. it's short, with a sunday edition, he was testing it out in real papers last i'd heard, dont know if he's still doing that. anyway, so it's like a paper comic length, four, five panels, short, quick gags, setting each other up for the longer ones, some nice running gags (and some just strange ones, giant panda attack! tho he tops it with baby panda attack! the very definition of an injoke. tangent.) anyways, it's not too heady, but it's not empty and. well. look, go here, for the storyline in discussion starts here: http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20051010 poor kurtz is like, mr.overanalyzed, if they're gonna beat on somebody, it's going to be scott kurtz and pvp. short of penny arcade (which i've never actually read, btw, hm) i dont know of any webcomic that comes under fire more consistently. he even wrote me back when i emailed him a while back!>^_^< anyway, this storyline is what made it all click, it's pretty typical of the series. then then characters fall asleep. kurtz leaps from consistently good, insightful and pretty cool, to one of those anime moments, like at the end of Evangelion where, you either get it, and you love him for it becuase it's way more than anything carrying the title 'webcomic' ever should be, or you don't get it, and in your smallmindedness you reject it for being what it is: an artform. i know i'm going off the deepend on this one, i'm overanalyzing and lavishing praises like the bajillion other pathetically-social-life-starved geeks out there, but when brent has his subconcious exploration of his own deep fears and plays out his emotions... it's like reading a book. it's like the end of Crime and Punishment, when the psycho suddenly realizes he's human. that's a bit much perhaps, but it's character equivalent. look. my point is, this is too deep for a webcomic. it reaches the emotional depths and intensities that pyr0's been trying to with megatokyo since it's inception. and kurtz does it casually, and it makes sense. anyway, for me, pvp is everything it should be.