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Some unusually brittle landscape in this Blood Death Blood valley or whatever it's called.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I’m willing to accept that ‘Pagefinder’ can inexplicably appear at Snout’s door, and start talking about the plot of the comic as though it’s been reading it, because the whole thing is just a cutesy device for God to guide His own creation through the narrative. It’s literally Terracciano sending little notes to Snout via the power of **authorship** - while maintaining the self-imposed limitation of only pointing to the arbitrary collectibles, so as not to overwhelm the narrative with his omniscience. (This is implicitly why Pagefinder can’t just print the content of the missing pages on itself and spare us a ton of bullshit). Yeah, I've been thinking about this and you're right, the spell went from being an abstract force to a scroll datapad AI. It is now in the paper, and also has like a personality that includes the fear off death. Hard to tell if Mookie just forgot or didn't understand what he was setting up to begin with.
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Oct 7, 2019 15:43
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In its first appearance the spell also apologizes to Snout for getting ink on it, which you wouldn’t expect from what’s essentially a magical .exe file. Think he’s going more for a Fi from Skyward Sword sort of deal.
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Oct 7, 2019 16:05
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TheHan posted:In its first appearance the spell also apologizes to Snout for getting ink on it, which you wouldn’t expect from what’s essentially a magical .exe file. Think he’s going more for a Fi from Skyward Sword sort of deal. Sure, but initially it wasn't even clear if the spell chose to manifest on one of the random floating pages that are everywhere in the wild edge apparently. But now it's scared of being eaten, like the paper is its body. It just seems like, to me, a strange choice, since this spell will presumably stop existing when it completed its task.
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Oct 7, 2019 17:05
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Plot twist: the paper is actually Dominic Deegan.
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Oct 7, 2019 19:33
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The Little Death posted:Sure, but initially it wasn't even clear if the spell chose to manifest on one of the random floating pages that are everywhere in the wild edge apparently. But now it's scared of being eaten, like the paper is its body. It just seems like, to me, a strange choice, since this spell will presumably stop existing when it completed its task. Yeah as with all Dominic Deegan, I don’t think it has been or will be fully fleshed out. I think the implication was that somehow the paper had made its way to Snout’s doorstep? The most likely answer is Mookie hit a wall in the story and delivered it himself. Mikl posted:Plot twist: the paper is actually Dominic Deegan. God please, let it be this.
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Oct 7, 2019 20:06
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TheHan posted:Yeah as with all Dominic Deegan, I don’t think it has been or will be fully fleshed out. I think the implication was that somehow the paper had made its way to Snout’s doorstep? The most likely answer is Mookie hit a wall in the story and delivered it himself. The sad part is it's a self-inflicted wall. Easy solution: don't have the Ink Witch be kidnapped so immediately after he meets her. She tells him about her (apparent) mutual quest for the pages and they should be searching together for a time before being separated. Done! But nope, she's whisked away before she can even be fully conscious, so it's up to a literal magic piece of paper to fall into his lap. If she (assuming the Ink Witch made the pagefinder) is so good she can make a spell like that, and is apparently able to do it despite her (again, apparent) captivity, why does she need Snout at all?
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Oct 7, 2019 20:37
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How can he draw sex without Snout there?
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Oct 7, 2019 22:09
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Mookie Twitter update! https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1179811858963939329 It didn't work. https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1180156658678468608 https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1180292716686692353 Mookie's horny again. https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1180655139314716672  https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1180971613187182592 This one's actually... Not terrible? Characters like this seem to work well in his art style. If only he'd ditch the faux-anime thing. https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1181231135294144515 Same thing here. I mean, it does nothing for me, and it's not good, but... That's way better than a lot of his other stuff. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Oct 7, 2019 22:20
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TheHan posted:Yeah as with all Dominic Deegan, I don’t think it has been or will be fully fleshed out. I think the implication was that somehow the paper had made its way to Snout’s doorstep? The most likely answer is Mookie hit a wall in the story and delivered it himself. Rotten Red Rod posted:The sad part is it's a self-inflicted wall. Easy solution: don't have the Ink Witch be kidnapped so immediately after he meets her. She tells him about her (apparent) mutual quest for the pages and they should be searching together for a time before being separated. Done! Yeah, this continues to be my theory: Like the GM of an RPG session that's gone off the rails, Mookie realized he'd cut his protagonist off from the plot, and so he introduced a plot device/NPC to lead them back to it and make sure it doesn't happen again.
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Oct 7, 2019 22:27
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Dominic and Luna look worse than usual there. What's up with their jaws?
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Oct 7, 2019 22:35
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Tesseraction posted:At this point I'm just assuming the monster realised it was in a Deegan comic and just gave up on life. The typical escape for most Dominic Deegan antagonists. Well unless it's a woman.
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Oct 7, 2019 22:40
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Man it's astounding how much better the art is when he's drawing literally a bag for a head instead of his usual cargo-cult anime snouts. And speaking of snouts, on these patreon preview profiles, I guess it's "good" that he's trying something different but it just emphasizes how much his art doesn't work. Those things aren't noses. I don't know what they are, but I know they can't be noses.
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Oct 7, 2019 23:31
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God yeah, those look loving terrible, like worse than usual. Snout is a character named Snout with a literal snout that looks like less of a snout than those, uh, snouts.
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Oct 7, 2019 23:40
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Literally like Tauriel from Undertale. That's what their faces look like
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Oct 8, 2019 00:51
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The Little Death posted:Literally like Tauriel from Undertale. That's what their faces look like nah, people wanted to gently caress toriel
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Oct 8, 2019 01:24
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Mors Rattus posted:nah, people wanted to gently caress toriel As hard as it may be to accept we all know there were and are people horned up for Luna and Dominic. At the very least Mookie is.
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Oct 8, 2019 01:41
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Where the gently caress are your lips, Dominic. Ague Proof posted:Dominic and Luna look worse than usual there. What's up with their jaws? He moved the mouths forward-I guess to de-emphasize the snouts-but didn't actually change the structure of the heads at all. Now we're stuck with these Tapir looking motherfuckers.
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Oct 8, 2019 02:18
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Snout looks like he has a mustache in the first panel.
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Oct 8, 2019 06:33
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rudecyrus posted:Snout looks like he has a mustache in the first panel. 
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Oct 8, 2019 10:26
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So the ink golem is what the paper spell is going end up becoming when it gets the rest of the pages right?
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Oct 8, 2019 12:14
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:So the ink golem is what the paper spell is going end up becoming when it gets the rest of the pages right? No idea, it could just be an idea Mookie is kicking around. He loves drawing the Ink Witch and all the powers she may have, because A) Mookie horny, and B) "ink magic" is really, really easy to draw.
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Oct 8, 2019 14:25
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She must be some kind of... ink witch? NARRATOR: Her name is the ink witch
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Oct 8, 2019 15:19
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SNOUT: My name is Snout. I am deaf & mute so I cannot communicate this. PAGEFINDER: Hello Snout. Mookie twitter watch: https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1181584572724776960 
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Oct 8, 2019 16:07
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Honestly, I'm wiling to cut some slack to people doing Inktober, especially if they don't normally use ink or if they're strict about daily illustrations. It's something that can be exhausting and stressful to any artist. And it's a good time to experiment with different techniques and focuses, like that landscape. ...Inktober aside, Mookie has still let his style stagnate, to the point where I have to wonder if he's spent the past six years deliberately trying to keep his "brand". The cropped thumbnails of Dominic and Luna are more snoutlike than Snout, and the only changes seem to be a new default nose shape and the loss of flounder mouth. Granted, without having full context from where they're posted (hahaha no), I don't know if that's current art or something a bit older. I'd use Ink Witch as a better comparison, but all her profiles in the comic have either been partially obscured by hair or were extreme (but surprisingly defined) close-ups. I guess we'll see once she or another human begins appearing regularly. I'd probably forgive all that if it didn't seem like the writing was also stuck in a rut! The pacing has been pretty atrocious, and a few of the latest comics could have been condensed down; there wasn't a need for a second "Snout climbs while obliviously injuring the monster" page, and the unclear perspective gave the appearance that he had seen it and thus made the following page more confusing. Whole pages are also used solely for writing down Snout's thoughts and motivations, most of which are just recapping scenes that just happened or could be easily inferred from his actions in subsequent scenes. And, somehow, it all goes back to Dominic. Dominic Dominic Dominic. A 200-year timeskip is the perfect time to explore a changed world with a new cast. Him being simply acknowledged for saving the world would have been fine, but instead the mere mention of his name has consumed Snout's motivations. And apparently Ink Witch's, too. It feels like a waste of a timeskip to lean on him so heavily.
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Oct 8, 2019 22:37
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Mookie's inks are generally pretty solid, considering that he used just a brush pen for that landscape there's still some line variance and some depth to it. While he's almost deliberately avoided honing his skills in anatomy and character design, he's confident and clean with pens. Also here's Wednesday:  I don't know how you take into consideration that the paper would be illegible from all the blood and spikes, but fail to find it completely insane that he's 3/3 for finding the pages in sequence.
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Oct 9, 2019 00:34
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And now he has almost a sentence of a page from a book that tells him nothing. Effort well expended.
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Oct 9, 2019 01:00
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Why is the text so big? Is "It's been two hundred years since Dominic Deegan began his last journey in the realm of" actually a single page? Is this a book or a loose essay or what?
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Oct 9, 2019 01:13
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It's a children's book.
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Oct 9, 2019 01:25
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I think it’s supposed to be illegible, but it clearly says “Asinotaph, where dreams are touched by the heart of magic and become [real]”.
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Oct 9, 2019 01:56
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TheHan posted:but fail to find it completely insane that he's 3/3 for finding the pages in sequence. I thought the page finder was simply pointing him to the next page in the sequence
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Oct 9, 2019 08:52
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Who What Now posted:It's a children's book.
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Oct 9, 2019 10:21
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it's going to turn out that this whole comic is a dream Dominic's having that's become real and Snout was Dominic all along
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Oct 9, 2019 10:31
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Deegan tried to get his magic back?
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Ague Proof posted:Deegan tried to get his magic back? Oh God that's going to be entirely why he did it.
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Oct 9, 2019 16:45
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Usually when stories end with superhuman characters losing their magic/powers, they make peace with being normal people and grow as characters. Dominic went to the Zone. Ague Proof fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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Oct 9, 2019 18:20
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Calling it now, he also fixed Luna's sterility and Snout is their descendant. Just watch, he'll loving do it.
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Oct 9, 2019 18:27
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I think the Ink Witch will be their "legacy" and Dominic will be immortal.
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Oct 9, 2019 18:40
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GrossMurpel posted:I thought the page finder was simply pointing him to the next page in the sequence I don't know why, but I'm willing to give him the paper magically finding snout and magically knowing Snout's motivations, but magically being able to discern where the next pages are in sequential order? A bridge too far. Edit: Like if the book these pages were from was magic and the pagefinder was the index? I could accept that. Something about it being one spell that does a plethora of things is frustrating. TheHan fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Oct 10, 2019 |
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Nessus posted:They used that in the latest FFXIV expansion as a clever framing device for some Here's Basic poo poo About This Planet Every Child Knows. Good art too. Don't compare FFXIV to this dreck. Compare it to Trixie Slaughteraxe, specifically that last storyline.
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