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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > The Legacy of Dominic Deegan: Jesus, he's doing this again?
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Oct 23, 2019 08:34
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Don't you Don't you usually write on signs and then put them up? The last panel seems to suggest the opposite, i.e. the person who made that sign staked a blank sign into the ground and then started writing on it.
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Oct 23, 2019 10:20
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Mikl posted:Don't you not in Minecraft
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Oct 23, 2019 15:04
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Mikl posted:Don't you
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Oct 23, 2019 15:37
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Mikl posted:Don't you It's how Dominic Deegan is written. Without planning.
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Oct 23, 2019 16:37
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Ahh. The signs really are the most low effort way to get around this “deaf” premise, especially when it’s the same exact joke. Have we all forgotten the deaf thing. It took me a minute to remember it myself.
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Oct 24, 2019 10:54
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I thought he was mute
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Oct 24, 2019 12:23
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GrossMurpel posted:I thought he was mute He probably is, but more because Mookie likely doesn't realize deaf people can learn to talk, they just can't hear themselves talk, which produces a certain "accent."
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Oct 24, 2019 12:54
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Mors Rattus posted:He probably is, but more because Mookie likely doesn't realize deaf people can learn to talk, they just can't hear themselves talk, which produces a certain "accent." If Mookie were competent, the idea of making his main character deaf as a "challenge" would imply making him mute as well because the point would be to convey action and plot without words. Snout's deafness is definitely not a character trait that is really relevant to the story or the struggles he faces in any way, so this really isn't a story about a deaf character, or a story with a deaf protagonist, but a story with deafness as a plot contrivance to justify not using speech. But instead we have the signs, and journal entries. He immediately got bored and undermined his own premise. Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Oct 24, 2019 |
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Oct 24, 2019 14:08
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If I had money to waste on being mean to people, I'd send Mookie a copy of Comès's graphic novel Silence, which is about a deaf and mute protagonist who meets a witch and who keeps a slate on which to communicate with poorly-spelled phrases. Though I don't believe an English-language version exists.
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Oct 24, 2019 15:01
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Cat Mattress posted:If I had money to waste on being mean to people, I'd send Mookie a copy of Comès's graphic novel Silence, which is about a deaf and mute protagonist who meets a witch and who keeps a slate on which to communicate with poorly-spelled phrases. Though I don't believe an English-language version exists. He can't be deaf, he doesn't have the arm patch!
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Oct 24, 2019 15:41
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It’s not really clear if Mookie made Snout deaf to have representation, or for the challenge of writing a story with no dialogue. If it’s the former it feels kind of weird to not take anything from that community beyond “can’t hear” and if it’s the latter, you don’t really need to contrive a reason for your comic to not have dialogue. If Snout ever interacts with the setting beyond a handful of set pieces we’ll least get a classic Dominic Deegan bigot who’ll be shouted down by a “good guy” that’s also being lovely in their own special way.
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Oct 24, 2019 16:34
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Mors Rattus posted:He probably is, but more because Mookie likely doesn't realize deaf people can learn to talk, they just can't hear themselves talk, which produces a certain "accent." Can you imagine Mookie trying to write a deaf person's accent?
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Oct 24, 2019 17:05
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Who What Now posted:Can you imagine Mookie trying to write a deaf person's accent? It would be awful, yes.
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Oct 24, 2019 17:06
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Cat Mattress posted:If I had money to waste on being mean to people, I'd send Mookie a copy of Comès's graphic novel Silence, which is about a deaf and mute protagonist who meets a witch and who keeps a slate on which to communicate with poorly-spelled phrases. Though I don't believe an English-language version exists. Is Mookie taking inspiration from this comic.
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Oct 24, 2019 18:12
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Ague Proof posted:Is Mookie taking inspiration from this comic. That seems unlikely since, again, I don't think it was ever made available on English-speaking markets. I doubt Mookie would even want to try to write something as gut-punching as it. I just thought of the few superficial similarities and was amused by the contrast.
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Oct 24, 2019 18:34
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TheHan posted:It’s not really clear if Mookie made Snout deaf to have representation, or for the challenge of writing a story with no dialogue. If it’s the former it feels kind of weird to not take anything from that community beyond “can’t hear” and if it’s the latter, you don’t really need to contrive a reason for your comic to not have dialogue. If Snout ever interacts with the setting beyond a handful of set pieces we’ll least get a classic Dominic Deegan bigot who’ll be shouted down by a “good guy” that’s also being lovely in their own special way. gimmick that he got bored with
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Oct 24, 2019 19:05
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Dabir posted:gimmick that he got bored with Okay yeah, occam's razor. But what if...  There's no logical way for Snout to escape with, so place your bets: A) The Tree is actually nice B) Snout uses the ink trick again, inexplicably C) A 3rd party comes out of nowhere and unintentionally saves Snout
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Oct 25, 2019 00:31
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TheHan posted:Okay yeah, occam's razor. But what if...
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Oct 25, 2019 00:48
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TheHan posted:Okay yeah, occam's razor. But what if... Oh no. That poor tree is so screwed. Since it has no obvious squishy weakpoints, I assume it will pull its own roots up and tip over somehow within the next page or two.
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Oct 25, 2019 01:34
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TheHan posted:Okay yeah, occam's razor. But what if...
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Oct 25, 2019 01:34
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Fish Noise posted:D) Puts the D to use
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Oct 25, 2019 01:44
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TheHan posted:Okay yeah, occam's razor. But what if... d) his dick flops out before he dies
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Oct 25, 2019 02:43
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Oct 25, 2019 03:25
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I think the tree tries to eat him and a spiny rock lodges itself perfectly inside a tree knot thus preventing the tree from eating him x2
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Oct 25, 2019 04:31
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It's weird that Snout does not appear to have brought any tools for harvesting sap from an ordinary tree, much less a murdertree with extremely tough bark.
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Oct 25, 2019 10:49
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maltesh posted:It's weird that Snout does not appear to have brought any tools for harvesting sap from an ordinary tree, much less a murdertree with extremely tough bark. Snout never brings preparations, because anything he needs miraculously appears in the first place he looks.
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Oct 25, 2019 13:12
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maltesh posted:It's weird that Snout does not appear to have brought any tools for harvesting sap from an ordinary tree, much less a murdertree with extremely tough bark. After the fight, the scene will cut to Snout looking at a bottle filled with black liquid and giving a weary expression. Actually showing anything about the process would involve Mookie a) thinking details are important to his story, b) making any effort to look at details to show understanding and/or c) planning at all. Edit: he literally created a setting filled with mountains and forests and yet somehow the background is always an empty white void, he’s never actually going to putting any work into this skeleton warrior fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 14:36
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skeleton warrior posted:Edit: he literally created a setting filled with mountains and forests and yet somehow the background is always an empty white void, he’s never actually going to putting any work into this It's been nearly 2 decades and this is still the funniest thing about this loving comic. 2 years where the most background he ever drew was a dimension made entirely of rectangles and with a ball made of smaller balls.
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Oct 25, 2019 16:41
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That skori tree sure is a scary tree.
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Oct 25, 2019 19:47
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Again, all that for some glue to fix a page that is still legible and that glue wouldn't fix anyway. Mookie is the worst kind of DM. "Uh yeah, you find a book... no you can't read it, it's stained and ripped, you have to get glue to fix it. It's magic glue, that's why it fixes stains!" Like objectively unless this glue reverses time, it's not going to help what's on those pages. He doesn't even have the last 2. But now's the time to hunt yet another violently murderous plant, like the giant Audrey monsters that the "vegetarian" orcs hunted.
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Oct 25, 2019 21:10
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Who What Now posted:Can you imagine Mookie trying to write a deaf person's accent? My guess is he ends up with some magic nonsense that effectively negates the handicap; i.e. he'll be able to "hear" and "talk" to everyone perfectly well in some stupid way that makes him being deaf be 100% irrelevant to the story. IIRC, Dominic Deegan had a limb chopped off but it was immediately grown back or he got a Fullmetal Alchemist replacement that was 100% the same thing and it only became a factor in the story when it was convenient.
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Oct 26, 2019 01:49
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I love that he's risking life and limb for nothing more than mild curiosity. What a great call to action for our hero's journey 
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Oct 26, 2019 03:07
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Remember how Star Wars starts off with Luke tagging along with Obiwan because he's really bored? Great stuff.
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Oct 26, 2019 03:10
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Remember how in Star Wars after the Empire torched his home, uncle and aunt inside, what really called Luke to adventure was how he wanted to find out who built C3PO? It’s like Snout’s doing every side quest before leaving the starting town.
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Oct 26, 2019 14:48
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TheHan posted:It’s like Snout’s doing every side quest before leaving the starting town. I feel it's on brand that this is like the world's shittiest SSLP.
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Oct 26, 2019 14:52
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And the solution is...! Good god Snout’s strong enough to rip tree roots apart with his bare hands.
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Oct 28, 2019 00:57
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Nice of it to let go of his leg as well
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Oct 28, 2019 02:01
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Isn't this, like, a Looney Tunes gag, like last time? Where's the joke for the last 2 pages? It's just, "oh it really is dangerous, and now he's scared". At least the blood-fang place had the whole being oblivious of the monster gag, as bad as it was. This just has nothing.
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