If I’m gonna lay out a pair of sawbucks for this, I kind of need more info than a minute-long clip can provide, but the 1 minute preview is actually fairly promising. I’m not at all sold on Skull’s voice, but Brent and Francis are pretty good. I’m sure Kurtz will do well with the PPV format, but when sites like Homestarrunner provide hours of animation for free and turn a handy profit, I gotta wonder if Kurtz and company are kind of missing the forest because all the trees are in their line of sight.

EDIT: Kurtz actually covers this over on the PVP forums, and, well, he kinda inadvertently disses quite a few people who are making a living with free online animated stuff.

I would love to give this shit away like the comic strip, and we can do that with flash and the blamimations. But once you decide you want to do something for real, with production value and professionals involved, you have to spend money. So it’s a huge investment for us to produce this.

Once again spotlighting the HSR brothers, it’s entirely possible to create regular Flash-animated cartoons that are 100% professional in quality. I do wish Kurtz well in this venture, and should the inevitable DVD be resonably priced, I’ll likely give it a shot. However, I’m still of the belief that 20-30 bucks for about an hour’s worth of cartoons is just too much.

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