by JM Lane

Created on: March 25, 2007   Last Updated: March 29, 2008

For those of you who are unfamiliar with PVP (Player vs. Player). It all started when PVP creator Scott Kurtz began playing online games. Communities where growing round these games with websites and message boards, soon he was meeting these people in real life. It wasn't too long before people asked him to draw cartoons of the stuff they got up to online, the cartoons where passed around the Internet. He made his first website in 1997 about gaming and was offered money by a larger site to have his cartoons appear on their website.

PVP came on the web in 1998 and grew from that day from a couple hundred readers, to hundreds of thousands where it is still coming out daily to this day. Image offered him a deal to publish his comic and here we are - now released in 2004 we have a compilation of the first six comics released by Image.

-Setting-

The setting of PVP is in an office of a gaming magazine; we see the characters in there daily routine at the office (usually having fun and doing very little work of course).

-More Info on the book-

This collects the first six issues that where released under Image Comics. There is no gap so to speak, to tell you where the next issue starts. The comic is printed in black and white, which to me is good and gives the characters a sleek polished style.

The artwork is very basic; you usually see the tops of bodies (though every so often you might see legs).
At the start it has the usual opening, print details etc at the bottom. Followed by an Introduction which is written by Michael Jantze who created the syndicated comic 'The Norm'
Next page we have -The History of PVP, which basically goes into a bit more detail than my introduction to how PVP came about. It features the original drawing of how all the characters used to be drawn.

-Cast-

Cole Richards - Owner of PVP magazine. He does his best to get the team working. Cole doesn't like modern game releases sticking to classic 80's arcade games

Brent Sienna - Pretentious, Mac loving, caffeine addicted. He's cynical, despite this though he goes out with Jade.

Jade Fontaine - Lady writer at the magazine determined to give women a voice in the gaming world. Has limited expressions.

Francis Ottoman - 16-year-old geek, sort of person who you know online and want to kill. Knows everything about gaming because his life revolves around it.

Skull - Is a troll found in the janitors closet when the staff moved in. He's simple, loveable and childlike.

Robbie and Jase - Two ex-jocks who play sports games

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