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He's right. How does Mookie think charity organizations work? If the SS members aren't accepting payment and their order isn't giving them a stipend, how do they get by? We saw Spookie busking using the power of her ghost but that was a one-off thing; odds are most ghosts are like the walk guy and they don't benefit at all.
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super sweet best pal posted:He's right. How does Mookie think charity organizations work? If the SS members aren't accepting payment and their order isn't giving them a stipend, how do they get by? We saw Spookie busking using the power of her ghost but that was a one-off thing; odds are most ghosts are like the walk guy and they don't benefit at all. Presumably their offscreen partners pay for everything, since Mookie can only write what he knows.
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Apr 24, 2024 06:27
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This is page 21, so I bet this is the last of Pares. In a better story, Pares might reveal his mercenary outlook is because he can't connect with spirits, and since spirit shepherds only get paid when they do their job, he turned to lying out of desperation. maybe he keeps lying because he thinks he's actually doing good, or maybe he's doing as a subtle "gently caress you" to the successful shepherds, who knows nah, he's just selfish and greedy super sweet best pal posted:If the SS members lol
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rudecyrus posted:This is page 21, so I bet this is the last of Pares.
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If the goal was to have Pares as a foil of some kind, this would be ok. Grading on a curve, I mean. It would represent better setup than he's ever done for a more interesting dynamic than he's ever written. It's a great hook for them to keep coming into conflict and learn from each other+grow as characters, maybe in episodic stories. I don't think it's going to go anywhere, of course.
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Given mookie's goal here was to attack mediums and his preference for black-and-white morality I was expecting this to end with Pares going "you were right, Saritha, I am nothing but a scam artist". Having him give a semi-coherent argument for what he's doing and a legitimate critique of how spirit shepherds treat themselves is a pleasant surprise. I guess there's still a page left for rocks to fall on him and kill him as karmic justice.
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Apr 24, 2024 09:05
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A sympathetic argument from the designated bad guy, and an appeal to We Are The Good Ones from the designated good guy. Still, the best actual conflict of opposing views we've seen basically ever from this comic.
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Apr 24, 2024 09:43
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super sweet best pal posted:He's right. How does Mookie think charity organizations work? If the SS members aren't accepting payment and their order isn't giving them a stipend, how do they get by? We saw Spookie busking using the power of her ghost but that was a one-off thing; odds are most ghosts are like the walk guy and they don't benefit at all. maybe the town should ensure their local afterlife communicator (with actual powers) had their basic needs met but mookie has not played a game about a monk.
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The problem with Pares is that his argument doesn’t work because he’s a scam artist. There’s nothing to make us want to see that Pares may be right. If he were to be a foil, then he should have actual skills. Otherwise, he’s not compelling at all. The only thing that could happen that could make this work is Pares dies, and now it’s up to her to set him at peace. General statement about removing 50% of the words. Also, where is the skull? I was promised a skull with character and charm! I want the skull!
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Cemetry Gator posted:The problem with Pares is that his argument doesn’t work because he’s a scam artist. There’s nothing to make us want to see that Pares may be right. Turns out the skull was inside you the whole time!
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There's still time for the scammer to become the skull
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This sucks. It's dull, the characters are flat, and the art is dogshit. It's also probably the most unironically good thing he's ever written. Mookie: a man of contrasts
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Congrats to Mookie, achieved actual and legitimate mediocrity after years of trying! Hooray!
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I still don't understand why the rock lady flipped out on them. Apparently it's just to set up scamboy's point of "why are you so nice to customers when they're all craaazy" but it seems to come out of nowhere. It's also very bold of Mookie to point out, once again, that spirit shepherds do a public service with zero public support. The guy's right, if no one wants to pay for ghost infrastructure then it's going to have to be an enterprise, even a nonprofit one, and blah blah the real poltergeist dad was capitalism all along. Seriously, how is there an organization? Is she the only one who's not exorcising ghosts on weekends while holding down a day job? Caphi fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Caphi posted:I still don't understand why the rock lady flipped out on them. Apparently it's just to set up scamboy's point of "why are you so nice to customers when they're all craaazy" but it seems to come out of nowhere. She wanted to be alone with her grief and the other assholes around her were arguing. That at least makes some sense. Not the continued throwing, but the emotional response. Her brother decided she needed a drat fight in the room, Pares caused the problem to begin with, and our hero was caught in the crossfire.
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It's also not clear that Merrill wanted them there in the first place, and it's definitely clear she wanted reconciliation and peace with her father rather than have his ghost forcefully exploded. Saritha gave that little speech about what was best for Merrill but she didn't at any point actually ask her.
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merill isn't a person she's a prop i mean moreso than most of the characters
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Mx. posted:merill isn't a person she's a prop
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don't attribute motives and beliefs to characters unless stated openly via dialogue or internal monologue
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Mookie's blog post today confirms this chapter ends next week, then we're "back to Kadaz for more dwarf drama".
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Trapezium Dave posted:Mookie's blog post today confirms this chapter ends next week, then we're "back to Kadaz for more dwarf drama". Oh good. I was getting tired of 'surprisingly competent mediocrity'.
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Caphi posted:Seriously, how is there an organization? Is she the only one who's not exorcising ghosts on weekends while holding down a day job? The other Spirit Shepherds are all nepo babies. This means they never had to work for anything that didn't come naturally to them, a sure sign of good person alignment.
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Hippocrass posted:Oh good. I was getting tired of 'surprisingly competent mediocrity'.
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I'm glad Mookie took several weeks out of his dwarf story apropos of nothing to tell this bland story about how he hates some kinds of woo healers and not others.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Mookie's blog post today drat, Mookie almost threw out his entire story for the next chapter because drawing the cover page was too hard. quote:In preparation for the next Kadaz story, I sat down to begin working on the “cover page” to display while I take the scheduled week off between stories. I was convinced it was going to be an easy work day because I knew who the story would be focusing on and I knew what I wanted to draw.
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the last kadaz title page also didn't have anything to do with the story though
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super sweet best pal posted:He's right. How does Mookie think charity organizations work? If the SS members aren't accepting payment and their order isn't giving them a stipend, how do they get by? We saw Spookie busking using the power of her ghost but that was a one-off thing; odds are most ghosts are like the walk guy and they don't benefit at all. The comic mentioned donations earlier, so presumably they work like a mendicant order. Edit: Found it:  They don't accept "payment", but they will guilt people into making voluntary donations. Totally different. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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I just wanted to say that it warms my heart that after so many threads dedicated to shows, comics, and movies I've liked have vanished as people stopped posting in them, this thread dedicated to this drat webcomic is still thriving. You're all doing the work of the righteous and please keep it up!
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NowonSA posted:I just wanted to say that it warms my heart that after so many threads dedicated to shows, comics, and movies I've liked have vanished as people stopped posting in them, this thread dedicated to this drat webcomic is still thriving. Feel free to join in on us losing hair over this!
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