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The Worst Unicorn posted:The dialogue is reaching Silver age levels of exposition. So much wasted space! Really, I don't even think the art style is holding back this comic as much as Mookie's complete inability to use art to convey action. Danzou fucked around with this message at Jan 24, 2012 around 17:41 |
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Dush posted:Wait, what?
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| # ¿ Jan 25, 2012 14:22 |
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This is unbelievable. This detail should have been very early exposition, setting up the central conflict in the arc of Jayden's Luanianism versus Stunt's experience with Scalpianism. Instead, whether Mookie invented this on the spot or just forgot to ever mention it (it's the former), Stunt just seemed completely apathetic to basic details of the world he lives in, and there's no dramatic tension anywhere. Everything comes across as heavy-handed moralizing for the benefit of a one-dimensional "rogue" instead of lessons that Stunt can internalize and shape his worldview. Now watch as, having plugged in this plothole, he proceeds to never use it in any meaningful way. This detail is literally just to fill in a superficial plothole so Mookie can continue writing whatever entertains him at the time.
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2012 17:35 |
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Considering how very Fullmetal Alchemist the whole plot with the King and the Beast and Maltak was, that'd be my guess as to where he's directly cribbing this from.
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 10:40 |
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Wandering Knitter posted:Yes! That was the name of it. I could keep going about loving 90's video games with more depth than this lovely comic. How about the perfume-scented rich town in Legend of Gaia that had a horrible underground slave trade? (That town was named Freija, by the way. Doesn't have the ring Barthis or Errosus does, I know)
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| # ¿ Feb 18, 2012 21:53 |
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So wait, what the hell was the deal with the Hydra song, then? God damnit Mookie.
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| # ¿ Feb 19, 2012 19:49 |
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Well, I've done it. I've read through both of the prior Deegan threads. I... I need a drink.
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| # ¿ Feb 19, 2012 23:38 |
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Wandering Knitter posted:Why the gently caress is she the Orc Savior?!
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| # ¿ Feb 20, 2012 02:10 |
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If it were any writer but Mookie, I'd be anticipating a plot twist concerning Heaven. After all, we have entire arcs set in Hell, but Mirands says that seers go blind when they try to look into Heaven? That would have been really clever foreshadowing, hiding it behind the obvious foreshadowing of Bulgak exploding ten strips later. Instead, we'll probably end up there within a few arcs, and it will be as dull and uninspired as every other plane. The only interesting plot twists in Dominic Deegan are when Mookie subverts expectations by doing something so fantastically retarded, nobody would have guessed.
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| # ¿ Feb 20, 2012 18:12 |
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Twelve panels of Stunt's misogynist background? This is gonna be amazing.
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 02:38 |
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quote:Momgan threw Celesto into her personal pocket dimension solitary confinement cell. The painter was driven to suicide by Luna's sister who then sold the paintings to the king. It was all a load of shite.
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 03:58 |
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My favorite part of those arcs is that what little forward progression was made in the Beast plot - Celesto revealing the Battlecasters and literally framing the King as in cahoots with the Beast - the King outright dismisses as being "minor distractions". Nothing even loving mattered. Jesus.
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 04:33 |
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A permanent loss to your SAN score.
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2012 02:42 |
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The fact that Stunt apologized to Jayden is irrelevant because of the dog whistle slut shaming going on with Lezzie. Terraciano didn't remove the misogyny from the comic even while attempting to redeem a misogynist. This is too amazing for words.
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2012 07:32 |
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Insert puns here posted:RUN JAYDEN, RUN. It refutes everything Mookie believes, and does it with better writing, too. gently caress!
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| # ¿ Feb 24, 2012 02:50 |
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DaveWoo posted:I'm stuck in bed fighting a cold right now, so I thought I'd take a crack at writing Dominic Deegan: The Collectible Card Game.
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| # ¿ Feb 26, 2012 02:44 |
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Internet Kraken posted:Also Karnak is one goofy looking fucker.
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| # ¿ Feb 26, 2012 05:46 |
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Thinking about Mookie's life, especially ten years down the road, makes me despondent. There's a chance he'll have a successful life after Deegan, right? Not in art or storytelling in any creative field, of course, but I hate to think of him being a forty year old manchild with no marketable skills.
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| # ¿ Mar 3, 2012 07:09 |
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It's important to note there's a population that goes to these conventions in order to attend these panels and learn how to make their own manga-inspired comics. They see Mookie's panel, ooh and ahh that he's "making it", and add it to their rigid panel itinery. Yes, Mookie is helping breed more Mookies.
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| # ¿ Mar 4, 2012 00:15 |
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Lizzie was also dressed like a whore, but I guess that goes without saying.
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| # ¿ Mar 4, 2012 09:50 |
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Even tied up and watching her friend sell her soul to Hell, Luna still has that "deeeeeerp" look.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 09:09 |
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Uh you guys forgot the cat a whole bunch of times. There was this whole subplot about fish that really relieved the mood after the werewolf killed his girlfriend and then was mind tortured by a Hell Baron or whatever.
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| # ¿ Mar 6, 2012 01:47 |
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This is just amazing. If Mookie beat your expectations on this one, it's because he went too low. Also, Stunt's faith in Jayden's faith will be stronger than the chosen's faith minus Greg's faith in Jayden's faith and so Jayden will be purified again through faith and good god let's get it of the loving desert.
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| # ¿ Mar 6, 2012 07:26 |
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Linkxwolf posted:It's convenient that you bring up that quote, because reading through the previous threads, I could not figure out for the life of me why it was particularly hate worthy. The quote in question: By the time I'd slogged through most of one of the archived threads, I'd been inundated by enough examples of Mookie's shamelessness that I understood how people were making such huge inferences from relatively innoccous strips. Mookie's brand of terrible isn't as overt as Buckley - it's little bits and pieces, adding up over time to form the picture of a broken man. You stop giving him the benefit of the doubt, because you can find a dozen supporting panels for any deficiency you can hang on him.
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| # ¿ Mar 18, 2012 22:12 |
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Who dragged DnD in BSS? A little LF is fine, but this is ridiculous.
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| # ¿ Mar 19, 2012 06:14 |
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Uhh, Rillian showed the pool to Stunt a couple comics ago. Seriously, guys? Everyone is really jumping the gun trying to get the hate flowing for this next plot line. Give him another week to provide hamfisted explanations for this mess before you tear into him.
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| # ¿ Mar 22, 2012 06:12 |
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What are you talking about, dude, you just neatly solved the problem of why Errosus is the city of sin, simply by considering the economics of the situation. Your history is the official version, Mookie vaguely glimpsed at that page in the DM's guide and went "Allright, City of Sin, Rock On!" Keep them coming.
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| # ¿ Mar 25, 2012 06:59 |
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And by calling authorities, you mean his mom.
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| # ¿ Mar 30, 2012 13:16 |
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Wait, is it giving Mookie too much credit to just assume the Luanians have reformed the Scapalian church? That was my interpretation.
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| # ¿ Apr 2, 2012 18:18 |
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Holy poo poo are we really diving straigh into A Nimmel House part 2? The much hyped reunion of Jayden and Milov is handwaved away now that Mookie's remembered he has another Deegan to write about (Pretty sure Nimmel even used "gently caress You See The Truth" once). Man, as lovely as that storyline was, at least have the follow through to wrap it up properly, Jesus.
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| # ¿ Apr 6, 2012 04:55 |
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Also, wasn't this comic slated to end this year? It's clear that Mookie doesn't have an endgame planned and is just merrily skipping around side characters until he brings out Dominic for an arc no more remarkable than any before it. I don't even think there will be much narrative distance if he decides to do a direct sequel. Just a new name for old poo poo.
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| # ¿ Apr 6, 2012 05:22 |
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Internet Kraken posted:Like a river running through a canyon
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| # ¿ Apr 7, 2012 00:12 |
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Why wasn't the Nimmel reveal a Friday cliffhanger? Mookie you stupid gently caress, if you're going to stick to soap opera standards, at least loving be consistent about it.
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| # ¿ Apr 7, 2012 22:52 |
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DoodleMoogle posted:Also note that the little heart next to Bort is actually MY MONGREL HEART.
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| # ¿ Apr 9, 2012 21:43 |
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Wrist Watch posted:Why is the fantasy bipolar disorder girl there? And why is she still upset about this? If "runts" (ugh, that is the worst loving term, made worse since it's supposed to be socially acceptable) are prone to mood swings and stuff like that, shouldn't they also have shorter attention spans for this sort of thing?
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| # ¿ Apr 10, 2012 04:36 |
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Nimmel "The Phoenix" Feenix
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| # ¿ Apr 10, 2012 17:32 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:That's probably exactly what Mookie called him in every D&D session. Because Nimmel is another one of Mookie's old D&D characters. I know I've pointed that out before, but it just stuns me how many of these people are characters Mookie has roleplayed as. "Tee hee!"
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| # ¿ Apr 11, 2012 03:07 |
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This means Mookie probably played Stunt as a woman hater, in comets sincerity that that was a ROCKING trait for a Rogue.
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| # ¿ Apr 11, 2012 04:48 |
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I keep forgetting that, literally, all Jayden did was cheat on Milov, because not a single mention of their past has been in proportion to that meager an offense.
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| # ¿ Apr 11, 2012 05:02 |
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World Famous Whore posted:
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