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Rotten Red Rod posted: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. It's kind of worse than nothing, because of the whiplash and failure to connect. Why is this horrible monster surrounded by signs supposed to terrify us, while the previous monster was a series of poorly-rendered physical gags? The lack of consistency makes this baffling rather than genuine, combined with the fact that this could as easily have been the plot beat in the blood horror sequence and that would have spared us some agonizingly uninteresting sight gags.
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Joe Slowboat posted:It's kind of worse than nothing, because of the whiplash and failure to connect. Why is this horrible monster surrounded by signs supposed to terrify us, while the previous monster was a series of poorly-rendered physical gags? The lack of consistency makes this baffling rather than genuine, combined with the fact that this could as easily have been the plot beat in the blood horror sequence and that would have spared us some agonizingly uninteresting sight gags. Yeah, look at Snout's face. That's genuine terror. This is like having Wile E. Coyote look horrified after the roadrunner tricks him off a cliff. Even without planning, you think Mookie would be able to read the tone of the last few comics and make things cohere a little bit
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Beware of this dangerous deadly tree that you can easily escape from if you spread your arms and can move faster than a snail.
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Oct 28, 2019 11:19
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Also his tail is gross in the last panel.
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Oct 28, 2019 14:22
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I'm not an expert on prehensile tails by any means, but I'd figure a curled-into-a-ball constriction would have the tail down entirely or curled up like the rest of him, rather than a freaky erection like it currently is.
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Oct 28, 2019 14:39
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 I'm just relieved we're spared 2 weeks of him trying to Mr.Magoo some berries from a monster.
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TheHan posted:
It ain't over until it's over.
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Oct 30, 2019 01:08
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I genuinely can't unsee him just pissing there and then in the last panel.
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Oct 30, 2019 01:29
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pull up your loving pants, dogman
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TheHan posted:
I love that these random flora are just off panel all the time. They just exist for long enough to have the pointless scene occur, and poof off into the void of non-existence again. I know authors can get stuck in too much world-building at the expense of stories, but Mookie would really benifit from sketching out a map of Snout's journey. Right now the wild edge is pretty loving boring considering it's made up of nothing but empty grasslands with singular bushes growing up out of it, a library and a doom canyon.
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The Wild Edge is flat, empty nothing except for whatever locations and objects the plot demands, which are always conveniently located right where the characters happen to be.
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TheHan posted:
This wasn’t subverting any expectations Mookie. You’ve already established the dangerous stuff will be literally sign posted. Since you did not bother with that joke, obviously this plant was no threat at all.
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 Welp, looks like Mookie's finally bored of this garbage D-Plot that somehow curdled its way up to the top of his comic's narrative.
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So what happened to needing the killer tree's sap? Ohhh right. Tree sap fixed the easily guessed stains. This strengthens the spell.
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When you can't think of any good reason to get your character from A to B, just haul 'em along with a giant arrow.
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 Ok. That’s one way to advance the.....that’s one way to....honestly, I’m not sure what this was suppose to do, but boy howdy it’s doing it. Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Tesseraction posted:So what happened to needing the killer tree's sap? No, this is the berries, Snout was looking for two things. But I don't blame you for forgetting. I'm sure we'll either never see the tree again because the sap won't be necessary, or another, more powerful character, will effortlessly collect the sap from it.
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It's genuinely been so long since he exposition dumped about his ingredients that I forgot why they were needed. I know it's unfair to compare but a competent artist/storyboarder would have done almost all of what's happened so far on 2-3 pages. One for the killer tree. One for the raniberries. It would even make for a great visual juxtaposition of the difficulty of the former and ease of the latter. Also there has now been a whole different month between his promised return to workdaily comics in September and today.
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It's weird that Mookie is absolutely obsessed with the Ink Witch on his Twitter but she's barely appeared in the comic so far: https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1187547650578681857 https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1188266799365791744 https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1188625914164326401 https://twitter.com/mookiebean/status/1189554794169622529 My guess, again, is because he doesn't want to put much effort into the comic and Snout is way easier to draw.
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Okay so now we know that the magic paper has an ink golem in it. Or maybe that's Dr. Robotnik outside of the skinsuit.
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Ink Golem would be the #1 answer for a reveal that would make even less sense than it being the ink witch. “Surprise Snout, I’m not this spell you’ve never heard of...I’m THIS spell you’ve never heard of!”
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Well Ink Golems might never actually show up in the comic. Again, it's a thing Mookie is drawing a lot of because they're really easy to draw
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That’s true, though considering his current fascination with “ink” and tendency to shove in current interests it feels really likely to be the case (The golem is also rising from a piece of paper in that piece and with today’s update the pagefinder can now create physical ink constructs). The superior answer is it being a Deegan.
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The ink golem will communicate through literal physical speech bubbles!! Mark my words!!!!!
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The Day 27 gag is cute. Not especially original, but cute.
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I have very, very little patience for Mookie's brand of "cute".
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Okay I found this funny, but not for the intended reason Although at this point I really feel that Mookie hates this guy as much as I do.
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I should not speak before the actual resolution happens, but I guess at least he he's making Snout confront the bad thing rather than having a deus ex machina solve it instantly for him. watch the next page being the spell using its new power to get the page effortlessly
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I know we're all marking how Snout's face struggles to maintain a shape from panel to panel, but I'm completely fascinated by his hairline, which constantly shifts and meanders from "twenty-something starting to lose it" to "middle-aged man trying to prove he's still metal"
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skeleton warrior posted:I'm completely fascinated by his hairline, which constantly shifts and meanders from "twenty-something starting to lose it" to "middle-aged man trying to prove he's still metal" When art reflects author.
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For a minute there I thought the paper dragged Snout in a big circle and dropped him right where he started, but this is actually a different tree. Interested to see how Snout rationalizes risking his life yet again for people who have so far only lied to him and blew up his house.
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I really hope when he returns to the cave after a day's hard skori treeing it's been blown up again.
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This is surely a story that had to be told. Inconsistently drawn rubbery dog person fights plants for library book. A decade in the making Thank god Mookie decided to do this anyway after missing the stretch goal. Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Nov 5, 2019 |
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Chekhov's dong: gently caress the tree you coward
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You and me both, tree. You and me both. Updates like that one are some of Mookie’s best jokes. But they only work because they are used so infrequently and unexpectedly. And the setup is unfortunately the rest of the comic. Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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The Legacy of Dominic Deegan: Full of Hate
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It is enjoyable watching the dogshit protagonist get owned but I'm still confused by why he attempted to contact a tree (noted eye havers) by using a visual medium from a long distance away.
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So last time was he just going to bleed this sentient tree for its sap. Didn't even bother saying hello Larry time. Don't blame the tree, Snout is a dick
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Not sure this "hey new best buddy, mind if I DRIVE THIS KNIFE INTO YOUR FLESH" is the stellar tactic he imagines.
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