Friends with Brent since high school, Cole started PVP magazine as the business manager with Brent responsible for the creative and graphical content. Characters Ĭole and Brent in one of several Dukes of Hazzard scenes Cole Richards Season 4 of Table Titans was drawn by Brian Hurtt, and Tavis Maiden also worked on a project in the Table Titans universe.
Kurtz wanted to write fantasy comic that "captured the spirit and joy of tabletop roleplaying." Kurtz collaborated with Wizards of the Coast as a marketing partnership to run Table Titans, and Steve Hamaker was brought on to color some of the comics. It features the characters Andrew, Alan, and Valerie (who have appeared in PvP comics), and chronicles their adventures while playing Dungeons & Dragons. In 2013, Kurtz created a spin-off comic Table Titans. Sometimes Kurtz will speak of his father's open disdain for the strip. Kurtz occasionally comes under fire for his satire. 1UP.com described it as one of the first game-based comics, but not the original, saying, "neither Scott Kurtz's PvP nor Jerry Holkins and Michael Krahulik's Penny Arcade were the first gaming-themed webcomic on the Internet." Over the years, the humor has broadened to include technology jokes, relationship humor, in-jokes about and mocking of the generation gaps between the different characters, with gaming increasingly taking a back seat. Originally, PvP focused on video gaming and the larger " nerd culture" including comics and RPGs. A popular but often controversial figure in the field of online comics, Kurtz is usually willing to share his opinions about comics and gaming culture in his blog, which is hosted on the same website as his comic strips.
It features many running gags that are actually references to running gags from other media (television programs, films, games, cartoons, etc.). The comic chronicles the adventures of a fictional video game magazine company (later to become a video game publisher) and its employees.
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