[Cairenn]

Comic Panel

The comic panel was fun and interesting. It was a hour long Q&A session, with more tangents than a math class. Anyway... these are some of the notes and stuff i jotted down.


Who are your idols

PVP: Garfield, Burk Bra(something). Gru
GU : Bill and Samwise. Lockhorns
PA: Peanuts, Mark Twain.

Is there any thoughts or motions for some “Pro Gaming” legislation?

The current legislation is not hurting games... they are sure blizzards has a room where they roll in money.

PA: though a prison sketch book would be interesting.

The PVP vs PA rivalry is not violent. They like to play it up, and find it amusing how the fans over react. Its funny that people seam to think that the rivalry is real.


Where do you get your gaming news?

?: “Evil Avatar”, “Magic Box”, “Game Tab”
PVP: Penny Arcade... (Really... pvp does not follow gaming news all that much... far to busy with other things)
“No time to shower or masturbate” ... “bring on the blood elves”

Social responsibility in comics?

PA does the social responsibility outside of comics... to counter balance the total lack of responsibility inside of the comics... keep them fully separate... the PA comic is totally with our any redeeming worth socially.
The 10K donation from PA was done in spite
Child's Play... the charity that PA runs balances the karma of their comic..

Why do other MMOs's not succeed?

The market is saturated... only the good succeed.

Why did you choose gaming as the comics?

PvP : you write what you know
PA : In for the money
GU was originally written from the perspective of inside the games, but has recently ben more from the outside of the games.

When the comic first started he was playing most of the time... now he is more busy, and his comic follows his focus, as he is not playing ALL the time anymore.

PvP are you still taking donation for the mac? No, he bought a mac mini... which is cute... and a paper weight with how much he uses it.

PvP is Frances Ottman the lovechild of Max Powers?

No, max is to self absorbed to love anyone else.

Next gen console

PvP – no revolution... only skinny guys want it. Also... he made a joke about selling advertising on the pvp website
GU – the consoles need to prove themselves, but the 360 is interesting
PA – revolution (then pvp points out that the PA artist is skinny... proving his point)

Academic benefit of games?

It was shown that children who were playign video games needed less pain medicine for the same level of effect vs those who were not playing.

The author of the PvP comic is engrossed in the latest web comic gossip, he revals in who is talking about who, and what was said on what forum.

A large amount of plugging for “Apple Geeks” the web comic.

There was a bit of good natured ribbing between PA and PvP and there war on “Dark Iron”... PA is working to form groups to take on Uldaman... while PvP is already at ZG. Also... PvP's wife is a good healer... but rarely heals PvP... since “she heals the important people”... hehehe... it was a fun bit of ribbing between them two.

There was a good story that the PvP told. Basically, he saw the skull flame shield in the AH for a stupidly high buy out. Later he saw a level 55 shaman with it, and asked about it... the shaman said they just bought it, and when asked how he got the money... the shaman admitted to PvP that they used IGE for gold. PvP then went to tease the guy... saying that he would report him unless he got a cut of the money to buy his epic mount... but ended all of his whispers with a smily... (something from inside his comic)... the PvP guy says it much better. Anyway... long story short... the shaman eventually sends the PvP guy 500g in the mail... and PvP responsed back “my silence has been paid for” and buys his epic mount...

How has wow changed your life?

GU : my ass hurts a lot
PvP: strip is always late now... both him and wife are to busy and the dog poops in the house sometimes
GU has been playing warcraft since War1.
PvP tried EQ2 for a week and stopped
PA was in the early beta. One of them played FFXI until he lost a level due to dieing... and never went back... death is easy in WoW.