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Wednesday: [w] Who are they trying to marry?

At first, my reaction to yesterday's PvP was pretty simple: "Whoa. Mr. McCloud and Mr. Brahe are well-versed in the art of lirpa combat."

Then, I thought: "Hold on. Why the lirpa? Who are they trying to bone? Who's getting their telepathic betrothal on? Who's all mister blood fever? What? Did I miss something?"

Then I found out that the lirpa can be used outside of mating-related tussles.

Then I was kind of sad for no good reason. I wanted to see one of them cheat through judicious stealth application of tri-ox compound, and then be okay.

Mostly, I just wanted to report the fact that I was bouncing up and down and being all terribly excited that all this has come down to lirpa fightin'. If this doesn't actually happen at Comic-Con, we'll all be most disappointed.

Well. I'll be most disappointed.

Posted by Wednesday White at June 12, 2005 8:33 PM

Comments

Comment from: Arachnid posted at June 12, 2005 9:11 PM

I saw this linked from Kaja Foglio's blog a few hours ago, and went "Hmm, I wonder how long until Eric snarks it?". Sure enough...

Kaja, for one, wants a full desktop-sized version of that last frame.

Comment from: Phalanx posted at June 12, 2005 9:18 PM

We should all chip in for a pair of padded "lirpas" and a mud pit with a log over it for the Comic-con. Then McCloud and Tycho can duke it out there once and for all.

If finances fall short, someone can just bring a couple of old pillows instead of the lirpas.

...

Oh my god. Did I just suggest a form of mud-wrestling for men?!

Comment from: Will "Scifantasy" Frank posted at June 12, 2005 9:26 PM

I'll be disappointed, too, and I won't even be there.

Comment from: gwalla posted at June 12, 2005 9:27 PM

Yes. Yes, you did.

Comment from: Wednesday posted at June 12, 2005 9:34 PM

"Hmm, I wonder how long until Eric snarks it?". Sure enough...

Sure enough, he didn't. ;)

Comment from: Wednesday posted at June 12, 2005 9:35 PM

Oh my god. Did I just suggest a form of mud-wrestling for men?!

God, I sure as hell hope so.

Comment from: Arachnid posted at June 12, 2005 10:07 PM

"Hmm, I wonder how long until Eric snarks it?". Sure enough...

Sure enough, he didn't. ;)

Well, if you want to be _pedantic_ about it...

Then you're my kind of person ;)

Comment from: Tragic Lad posted at June 12, 2005 10:16 PM

Can I be the first to put 50 Quatloos down on McCloud's victory?

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at June 12, 2005 10:18 PM

I will have it known that I was the first one to use the word lirpa on PvP's own discussion board.

Say, does Tycho even go to comicon? E3, yeah, but comicon? (I ask because my characters are going but I'm not.)

Comment from: RoboYuji posted at June 12, 2005 10:23 PM

Apparently Penny Arcade has a table RIGHT ACROSS from Scott McCloud's table. Which means this might actually happen!

Comment from: Arachnid posted at June 12, 2005 10:35 PM

Oops. Now I feel really stupid. How'd I miss the [w]? Sorry Weds!

Comment from: Mitch Clem posted at June 12, 2005 11:07 PM

Number of tirades Scott Kurtz wrote about this whole dumb internet drama thing: 2

Number of tirades Scott McCloud wrote about this whole dumb internet drama thing: 1 (which was quickly removed and replaced with a retraction/apology)

Funny strip and all, just kind of interesting the take Kurtz chose to take on it, you know, absolving himself from the drama entirely. Or maybe that was just the only way he could find to tell a funny joke. Who knows.

Comment from: DanShive posted at June 13, 2005 12:32 AM

And the Keenspot booth is next to Scott's booth. Something is BOUND to explode. Lord knows I'll be there with my camera ready.

Comment from: Kendra Kirai posted at June 13, 2005 12:51 AM

Keen, McCloud and PA within ten feet of each other for days? This is the kind of thing I can only pray the result of which is on the news on a national level. I can only hope that it happens while Kurtz is there so he can head there amongst cries of 'KURTZILLA! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!' and breathes radioactive fire upon all who stand in his way.

Damn do I ever wish I could see that.

I mean, dude, the only way that scenario could get better is if there were robot ninja pirate monkeys.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at June 13, 2005 2:32 AM

Keen, McCloud and PA within ten feet of each other for days? This is the kind of thing I can only pray the result of which is on the news on a national level. I can only hope that it happens while Kurtz is there so he can head there amongst cries of 'KURTZILLA! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!' and breathes radioactive fire upon all who stand in his way.

I predict the following... TERRIFYING exchange!

[S.Kurtz] Hey guys. I brought donuts.

[D.Bleuel] Hey Scott. Cool. Donuts.

[S.McCloud] Oh, hey -- I could go grab lattes. Who wants lattes?

[J.Holkin] You know, I could go for a latte and a donut right now.

[S.Kurtz] Cool.

The post-con writeups will be profanity laden.

Sadly, I won't be able to go to ComiCon this year, which means you'll all be spared my post-con 4,500 word essay on how the latte was too hot.

Comment from: Tangent posted at June 13, 2005 2:56 AM

I have to wonder if we'd be able to drum up the money for Eric to go to ComicCon if it was brought up on the main site... the "Get Eric to ComicCon Fund" (though I suppose it's pay for airline tickets and then for hotel room and to get into ComicCon itself... and while Eric is now a Professional Status Cartoonist, it's too late to register as such so he'd have to pay).

Not to mention he'd have to get time off from work (unless he showed up for Sat. & Sun. only, which loses half the fun).

Oh well. Maybe next year...

Rob H.

Comment from: Fletch posted at June 13, 2005 3:24 AM

I'll be at CC, though, and I'm 90% certain I qualify as "a bastard".

If there's no trouble... I'll make it. For, you know, entertainment value. Or something.

...oh c'mon, like anyone else in my situation wouldn't.

Comment from: Meagen Image posted at June 13, 2005 3:59 AM

I *still* say more webcomic disputes should be settled with a fight to the death.

Comment from: Mithandir posted at June 13, 2005 4:21 AM

Deal. I'll take my katana and side with Greg Dean and his impressive collection of swords (I just hope he knows how to use them, too)

Comment from: je.saist posted at June 13, 2005 5:51 AM

hmm... lets see here.

He worked at a lonely airstrip for... how long?

I'm going out on a limb, but I think that air-strip was a cover for Greg's trips to Japan where he learned from the masters.

anyways, back on topic, pictures nothing. I want full motion video this year. Keen across from Kurtz? PA across from McCloud? let the battles begin!

Comment from: gwalla posted at June 13, 2005 1:30 PM

They've had booths near each other before (I seem to recall some joking about "webcomic alley"). I suspect all will remain civil in person (besides, the PA booth will probably be too swamped with people demanding sketches of Cardboard Tube Samurai to allow T&G time to start anything).

AFAIK there's never really been any drama between Keenspot and McCloud. There was some three-way Carson Fire/Tyco & Gabe/Scott McCloud drama a while back, but the rest of Keenspot didn't really get involved.

Comment from: Jamie posted at June 14, 2005 12:55 AM

So does this mean Cat Garza started the whole thing because he secretly wanted to Pon Far with Scott Kurtz rather than Scott McCloud? *groan*

Comment from: Shaenon posted at June 14, 2005 3:29 AM

The last time I went toe to toe with Scott Kurtz in an online dustup, it was about three years ago in a stupid flamewar on comiccon.com. The basic argument was, in fact, the same as the current one: Kurtz and his dark master Cho, for reasons now lost in the mists of history, stated baldly that all "alternative" comics suck, which caused a big alternative/mainstream nerdfight to break out. It pretty much destroyed the Online Comics section of comiccon.com for good, and many ugly things were said on both sides.

A couple of months later, at Comic-Con, I met Scott Kurtz for the first time. He wandered by the Modern Tales table, waved, and said in his soft, mild voice, "Hey, have you guys read 'Blankets'? It's really good."

"Blankets." I shit you not.

These fights never carry over into the real world. We're all way too wimpy for that.

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