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Will Strip For Games

Posted by Zonk on from the ha-ha-ha dept.

1up has a piece today on the backbone of the gaming zeitgeist: online comics. From PA to 8-Bit Theatre, they have thoughts on all of them. From the article: "The 'real' origin of game-based comics came in May 1998, when Scott Kurtz started Player vs. Player, a strip based around the office hijinks at a video game magazine. Hosted at MPOG.com, like Polymer City Chronicles, early PvP reflects its origins as a lighthearted way to lampoon games in the context of a larger gaming-focused publication. Some of the earliest gaming webcomics were started in a similar fashion; Penny Arcade, for example, was originally conceived and submitted as a strip for Loonygames."

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  1. Misleading title by penguin_asylum · · Score: 3, Funny

    The title really had me looking forward to reading the article...

    1. Re:Misleading title by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

      I felt the same way after a friendd took me to a Bare Naked Ladies concert. Three lies in one name.

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  2. Re:I hate PA. by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They sold out? How's that? By wanting to make money?

    The horrible people wanted to make money doing their jobs? How TERRIBLE!

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  3. Don't think too much about it by AvantLegion · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "Sold out" is one of those things people say when they don't have any intelligent criticism to offer.

  4. PvP Wasn't the First Comic by TarrVetus · · Score: 3, Informative
    The 'real' origin of game-based comics came in May 1998, when Scott Kurtz started Player vs. Player, a strip based around the office hijinks at a video game magazine.


    Wrong. Dead wrong. My proof? Howard and Nester (http://hn.iodized.net/main.htm), a comic which successfully ran in Nintendo Power for several years in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

    And while Howard and Nester predates PvP by 10 years, I'm almost positive it wasn't the first of its kind, either.
  5. Arg, type-o in article. by gmezero · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've already written to the editors, to fix the errors at the beginning of the article:

    In the third paragraph, it is stated that PCC started off in 1995 on MPOG.COM, that is wrong. It started out on the web on GameZero.com in 1995. It only ran on MPOG for a short stint from mid-2000 to mid-2001.

    And only the archives for the current storyline date back to 2000. For previous strips dating back to the start you need to visit the pre-2000, older archives on the Game Zero site at:
    http://www.gamezero.com/team-0/comics/

    Please see wiki for clarification:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_City_Chronicl es#Basic_Chronology

    Sigh...