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Matlock Birthmark posted:
Oh look, Dominic is going to have a conversation with the setting's Jesus. As an equal.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 04:58 |
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I wonder if he forgot how he had Luanneism define God before.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 05:02 |
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Anyone else feel like we're about to be swept away by an unrelenting torrent of drivel courtesy of this Jesus surrogate? I mean, this is the comic that gave us "I am I", and "God is Us, We are God," and now "The face of God is the heart of Magic."
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| # ? May 4, 2012 05:26 |
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 =  +  Was The Phantom Menace on TV recently? Cordyceps Headache fucked around with this message at May 4, 2012 around 05:30 |
| # ? May 4, 2012 05:28 |
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colonelslime posted:
EDIT: If anything, her dress reminds me of that oe not-archmage Momgan spoke to sometimes. The one with a kind-of-interesting design? The hook-nosed guy? RoboChrist 9000 fucked around with this message at May 4, 2012 around 05:37 |
| # ? May 4, 2012 05:32 |
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Apparently the reason Luana lost that necklace is because she had two rosaries and a belt made out of the same stuff.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 05:34 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Sorry, not seeing it, man. I just see two stupid characters in ridiculous dresses. Mookie's an unoriginal hack, but I think that's reaching. It's those circles in the ring and the weird circular spread of the bottom of her robe. It looks really similar to me, but maybe I'm just crazy.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 05:36 |
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Not to mention the small debris belt orbiting her. Is she the sun?
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| # ? May 4, 2012 05:36 |
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Shadeoses posted:Not to mention the small debris belt orbiting her. Is she the sun? Yo' prophet's so fat?
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| # ? May 4, 2012 05:39 |
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Rulebook Heavily posted:Oh look, Dominic is going to have a conversation with the setting's Jesus. So how often does the actual clergy get to see their prophet? Wasn't Dominic described at one point not being very religious?
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| # ? May 4, 2012 06:06 |
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That Old Ganon posted:It's the thought of this happening that gets to me most. That's why it's equal, duh. Because he doesn't subscribe to the spiritual side of things, he can like her as a person without worshipping her.  also does mookie subscribe to r/atheism or something
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| # ? May 4, 2012 06:15 |
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Just decided to stop the plot cold for this week, Mikey? Comics spent on the beginning of a vision that reveals nothing useful so far: 3 Comics spent fleeing from a magical desert while being tracked one of the universe's most powerful mages: 0
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| # ? May 4, 2012 06:17 |
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So the necklace is gonna be part of some super-powerful magic ritual or spell right? I don't know why but it feels like he's trying to construct(poorly) some sort of mystic puzzle. The lady in robes will say some mysterious and vague advice that's supposed to sound deep but is just gibberish. Then he'll have his characters realize at some point that it was a hint to do X with magic McGuffin necklace.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 06:24 |
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Anyone want to bet that Dominic is one of Luana's distant descendants? I wouldn't put it past Mookie to do something like that. Also how is he seeing Luana now? I suppose it's something we can chalk up to the poorly defined nature of being a seer that allows Mookie to pull new powers out of his rear end whenever it's convenient.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 06:33 |
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Her cozy little grandma sweater ruins the entire design. Learn another texture you hack.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 06:34 |
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Scintilla posted:Anyone want to bet that Dominic is one of Luana's distant descendants? I wouldn't put it past Mookie to do something like that. Not Dominic. You think it's just a coincidence that she's named Lu 
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| # ? May 4, 2012 06:39 |
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Mookie posted:
You cannot get more delusional than this posted:
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| # ? May 4, 2012 07:12 |
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' ' :Hey honey? Have we had any complete and utter bullshit in the comic recently?" : No, we've just had offensive, revisionist claptrap and confusing crap lately.' ' :PEFRECT!
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| # ? May 4, 2012 07:14 |
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colonelslime posted:Not Dominic. I thought about that at first, but that would imply that Luna might actually do something important without being a doormat. And surely that goes against Mookie's tastes.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 07:24 |
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WeaponBoy posted:Except Dominic knows better than religion. Religion won't be wrong per se, but he will see deeper than those regular priests and poo poo. That didn't take long. Also, he didn't even try to stylize the letters this time, just sort of made them look like poo poo cobbled together, then it all fell apart and then it turned into literal debris. I think I need to go read a chapter of GC with some Coyote artwork in it now. WeaponBoy fucked around with this message at May 4, 2012 around 07:29 |
| # ? May 4, 2012 07:27 |
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colonelslime posted:Not Dominic. To be fair, naming your kids after famous religious figures isn't a revolutionary concept. This is Mookie though, so of course there has to be a direct connection between the two.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 07:47 |
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One of the most revered prophets? I thought she was THE prophet, end of story ... ?
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| # ? May 4, 2012 08:20 |
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Mulatto Butts posted:One of the most revered prophets? I thought she was THE prophet, end of story ... ? Surely the
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| # ? May 4, 2012 08:35 |
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Oh look, literally the dumbest thing possible is happening. Tune in next week as this turns out to be Luana's vision of god and I put myself face first through a wood chipper.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 10:05 |
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Remember when Luna was infertile, but Dominic had to come along and be told he was even worse off and it all had to be about him with alterists? This is the same thing. A priest goes to a desert to have a spiritual death and rebirth but no, its Dominic who gets to see the prophet and have something revealed to him, and he wasn't even there. No one gets to have anything amazing to them except a deegan. Stunt cant just hide the treasure a Deegan must have it, a Deegan must see the prophet, a Deegan must stop The king and the Beast. Deegan Deegan Deegan.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 10:19 |
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Scintilla posted:I thought about that at first, but that would imply that Luna might actually do something important without being a doormat. And surely that goes against Mookie's tastes. Pfff, it fits in fine. Dominic just needs to boost Luna's confidence to make her see her divine heritage. In the end he gets all the credit as she tearily thanks him for her new super mage powers
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| # ? May 4, 2012 10:54 |
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How is this happening, anyway? I get that second sight might pick up on strong magical energies embedded in the necklace, but where does that leave the writing? Or the flashback of Stunt? Even as an excuse to infodump, and there will be an infodump and it will be stupid, it seems really unfocused and stupid.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 14:37 |
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Mookie posted:After a couple of Friday cliffhangers, I felt it was time for a break. Though no one is any immediate danger (yet) I'd like to think things are intriguing enough to make you want to come back on Monday to see what happens next. Friday is easily my favorite day of Dominic Deegan. I love seeing the incoherent, illogical, and easily brushed-away cliffhangers that Mookie puts into his comics in order to try and introduce tension into his story. I love it when he wastes 4 panels on Friday in order to shoehorn in something that will be resolved in 4 panels on Monday. Good writers have long since realized that constantly saying "How will they get out of this new danger?!" at the end of a chapter only to quickly and cheaply resolve it right at the beginning of the next chapter has diminishing returns. There are only so many times you can create an interesting "immediate danger" cliffhanger without making the resolution feel cheap. If Mookie had created a compelling story with characters that we care about, we'd be guaranteed to tune in on Monday, regardless of artificial dangers. But even he seems to worry that we'll forget about his comic in two days, so he forces in pointless cliffhangers and publicly worries about us coming back when he doesn't. It's a testament to Mookie's weakness and insecurities as a writer.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 16:59 |
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You know, I just really hope Lady Jesus just screams 'who are you to approach me' and vaporizes Dominic or something. Like, I know this is gonna end with him talking to her like a peer because gently caress it, but I think that'd be the greatest end to a comic ever.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 21:21 |
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Surly Duff posted:Good writers have long since realized that constantly saying "How will they get out of this new danger?!" at the end of a chapter only to quickly and cheaply resolve it right at the beginning of the next chapter has diminishing returns. There are only so many times you can create an interesting "immediate danger" cliffhanger without making the resolution feel cheap. Mookie learned everything he knows about writing from old adventurer serials. You know, the ones they used to show in theatres in which every reel ended in Dick Danger dangling off the edge of a cliff while the narrator said, "Will Dick be able to come back from the edge of defeat? Who will save Miss Penelope? Who will stop that Dastardly Doctor Illwill? Find out next time on the Incredible Adventures of Dick Danger!"? Mookie does the same thing except Deegan is never even allowed to get to the edge of the cliff.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 21:44 |
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Razorwired posted:Mookie learned everything he knows about writing from old adventurer serials.
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| # ? May 4, 2012 21:46 |
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It's like the old Doctor Who serials that had to have a cliffhanger at the end of each part - even if the plot didn't lend itself to one, something would just happen for no reason and undo itself next episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw6OwJQDCoM
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| # ? May 4, 2012 23:30 |
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Tempo 119 posted:It's like the old Doctor Who serials that had to have a cliffhanger at the end of each part - even if the plot didn't lend itself to one, something would just happen for no reason and undo itself next episode.
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| # ? May 5, 2012 01:18 |
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Tempo 119 posted:It's like the old Doctor Who serials that had to have a cliffhanger at the end of each part - even if the plot didn't lend itself to one, something would just happen for no reason and undo itself next episode. Holy poo poo, I knew exactly which clip you were referring to before I clicked on the link. Best useless cliffhanger ever!
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| # ? May 5, 2012 03:09 |
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Tempo 119 posted:It's like the old Doctor Who serials that had to have a cliffhanger at the end of each part - even if the plot didn't lend itself to one, something would just happen for no reason and undo itself next episode. And yet even this totally ridiculous cliffhanger is a dozen times better than all of Mookie's cliffhangers put together.
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| # ? May 5, 2012 05:40 |
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I like friday's cliffhangers because every week it turns into a guessing game where everyone tries to out-stupid each other into predicting the most terrible way the situation could be resolved on monday. and 90% of the time no one manages to predict it because no one can reach Mookie's level of terrible writing even when trying.
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| # ? May 5, 2012 05:55 |
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Mulatto Butts posted:One of the most revered prophets? I thought she was THE prophet, end of story ... ? I hate myself for actually remembering this. She's "one of" the most revered prophets because every race has their own prophet they regard. The Semashi, the orcs, the Qualenti, the NOBLE SPELLWULVES, even the slimes; all have their own prophets. One moment. Prepare yourself for critical mass of smug douchebag.  That's right; every single "first prophet" of every single race had their first vision at the same time. And look, it's an authority figure with skunkstripe hair. *shockgaspawe*
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| # ? May 5, 2012 09:16 |
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:Oh look, literally the dumbest thing possible is happening. Tune in next week as this turns out to be Luana's vision of god and I put myself face first through a wood chipper. If that happens I will literally plan to, at some point in the next five years, fly over to America and kick Mookie in the butt.
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| # ? May 5, 2012 09:30 |
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:Oh look, literally the dumbest thing possible is happening. Tune in next week as this turns out to be Luana's vision of god and I put myself face first through a wood chipper. Yeah, this is the one that I'd bet money on, if I had money to bet. Or cared. I'm also prepared for this little interlude to be somehow directly related to the cave-in that buried Rilian and/or saving him from the cave-in. Dom solves all the problems and becomes god!
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| # ? May 5, 2012 09:50 |
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| # ? May 19, 2013 05:27 |
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One thing I cannot really get is how someone who has A BA in Writing, Literature & Publishing manages to fail to understand the basics of a three act structure. Mookie's structure feels like it's aping Dan Brown's habit of a cliffhanger at the end of each chapter - yet Brown manages to keep the action compelling even though he's not that great a writer. Everything Moookie writes reads horrifically like poo poo I did when I was 14. "Oh we have to put them in danger and so there's a demon buried under the island who suddenly wakes up and our band of cliches have to fight him...and the demon has a soul stone in his forehead..." Just I didn't rage against jocks, beer and the evils of infidelity. Reading back is like reading a list of things I was into at the time. There's some horridly written flirtation "Oh I wub you, no I do". Everything reads like the appendixes from Lord of the Rings...just with no logic and set in cursive font for some reason. My saving grace was seeing that Dungeons and Dragons movie and realizing it was basically my poo poo come to life because I assumed fantasy "has no rules" and looked easy.
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