While reading a critique of today’s strip, I discovered this quote:

While I’m sure Jade must be putting Brent on…at least a little bit, this panel of Brent is my favorite PVP panel in a long long time.

I found this to be very interesting because it never occurred to me that anyone would question Jade’s honesty (beyond Brent), and it made me wonder if I would have read it that way too before I got married.

I remember a time in my early teens, talking to my father about being married, and if he ever questioned his love for my mother. He shocked me by admitting that he really wasn’t in love with Mom anymore. It had moved beyond love (or anything that I might conceive as love) and that they were connected in a way he couldn’t explain. And I remember feeling sad about it. I couldn’t imagine what was beyond love and it all seemed very strange and foreign.

I’m most likely the same age now as my dad was then. Close to it. This month I’m celebrating 13 years with my wife and I think I understand what my dad meant. I thought I understood it when we were newlyweds, but I was a bit off. It’s not just being so in love with someone that you’re oblivious to their faults or malformations. It’s really about being truly connected to the to the truth of a person. Thats something only years of being exposed to the worst and best of them can provide. When after both of you experience all that, and you’re still….home? Maybe that’s the word. I dunno. I see why my dad opted not to try to explain things in more detail.

Anyway, that’s where my heart was when I wrote this strip. It’s funny now to realize that there was a time before that understanding was a natural occurrence.

For the record, for those keeping track of PvP cannon, Jade was being quite genuine.


Dear Kurt,
— November 4th, 2009

From: Larry Ernst (learnst@wizardent.com)
to: Scott Kurtz

Dear Kurt,

I hope things are well and business is good.

We wrapped up Big Apple Comic Con a couple of weeks ago and are now focused on our 2010 shows.

Our next show is in Toronto in March and then in Anaheim. The Anaheim dates are April 16th-18th. I have attached the form for reserving space in Anaheim and hope you can join us. As you will see, there are no drayage fees.

The celebrity list will grow substantially in the coming weeks but we have confirmed the attendance of Eliza Dushku from Dollhouse.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

All the best,

Larry

Larry Ernst
Sales Manager
Wizard Entertainment

Dear Larry,

First of all my name is not Kurt. It’s Scott. Scott Kurtz. It’s written right there in the email you just pretended to send me. Not that my name’s important or that you are actually aware of who you’re addressing. I’m a pioneer in my field and a “tastemaker” with a large podium, why would it be important to get my name right? Let’s not dawdle on such mundane details.

Your conventions are total horseshit, so it’s wise to stop branding them with the name Wizard. But no amount of polishing is going to make me want to attended any of the 5 turds your company is going to crap out in 2010, especially when you schedule them against other shows in some bullshit dick measuring contests that serves no other purpose but to fracture an already dying industry that I have nostalgic ties to.

Remember Mike Wieringo? Remember how you guys only cared about him when he was the “hot artist” for a window of time and then you quickly forgot his name despite the fact that he was producing some of the best work of his career on Fantastic Four with Mark Waid? And then remember how after he died you had the balls to name one of your panel rooms the Mike Wieringo room? I will eternally hate everyone associated with your company for that. For eternity. For Jack Kirby’s version of Eternity where the concept is embodied as a giant man made up of the universe. That’s me, hating you for the Mike Wieringo thing. Forever.

Maybe if you cared enough to actually get my name right, or maybe if you cared about creators like the late, great Mike Wieringo beyond what they can do for you THIS FIVE MINUTES, the entire industry wouldn’t all be anticipating your inevitable bankruptcy.

Give Dushku my best. She’s pretty hot and Dollhouse is alright. Otherwise, shove everything else up your ass.

Best.

Scott (Kurt) Kurtz
Cartoonist
www.pvponline.com

p.s. please take of me off the comp list for your retarded super-hero boobs magazine.




©1998-2009 Scott R. Kurtz | PVP is powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS Feed | Site Design: Mind Faucet Mind Faucet