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Mors Rattus posted:I’m more impressed that half his reasons to stay are reasons to leave. The idea of Snout being able to lose anything at this point is laughable. What've you got left, man? The last notable thing about him is his penchant for whipping his dick out and he's way more likely to lose that laying in the dirt.
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Mors Rattus posted:I’m more impressed that half his reasons to stay are reasons to leave. I know, right? "Staying has wrought me untold misery... I should stay."
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Jan 9, 2020 11:54
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Snout is also seemingly entirely alone, existing with no community other than the squid eyeball thing from the library. It's really unclear what is holding him anywhere.
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Jan 9, 2020 12:10
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It would have made a lot more sense to portray Snout as being cowardly if he hadn't so willingly gone out of his way to find those pages, including going to places in the Wild Edge he had seemingly never gone to before and was unfamiliar with. Dude's been braving dangers and going to new places all this time but now he's scared to leave home?
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YF-23 posted:It would have made a lot more sense to portray Snout as being cowardly if he hadn't so willingly gone out of his way to find those pages, including going to places in the Wild Edge he had seemingly never gone to before and was unfamiliar with. Dude's been braving dangers and going to new places all this time but now he's scared to leave home? He's afraid of leaving inconsequential random monkeycheese land, unaware that the entire Mookiverse is inconsequential random monkeycheese land.
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Jan 9, 2020 15:36
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With a better writer, "I tried to write a list of reasons to stay but they all pushed me to leave" could be a clever bit of writing it a subtle bit if writing showing something about the internal insecurities of the character, but this is Mookie.
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Why I shouldn't leave: This is my home and I like it here, and I seem to have no need for companionship anyway Counterpoint: Deegan Why I shouldn't leave: The rest of the world probably won't accept me Counterpoint: Deegan Why I shouldn't leave: The Ink Witch lied to me and there are dangerous people involved in this plot that has nothing to do with me and seemingly no importance or stakes, much less any good reason to uproot my life investigating Counterpoint: D̥̬͈̘̦̥̞̬̫̆̀̾̏͌̅̓̊́̿e̜̳̖̜̜̘̩͈̬̽̉̓̒͗͆͊e̥͙̯̥̘̩͍̭̊͂͆̑̏g̘̣̮̱͐͒̿̆a̙̫̲͕̭̳̣̓̀̔̈̂̈̒̀̓̂ń̝̩͎͍̱̠̭̙̞́́͗̑͛́
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Wow, Snout has literally nothing going on in his life id this is what keeps him up at night.
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SardonicTyrant posted:Wow, Snout has literally nothing going on in his life id this is what keeps him up at night. I mean, he did spend several days on a risky and pointless fetch quest, after his home was destroyed. Mookie didn’t write Snout with an actual established life. At the risk of writing DD fan fiction. This could have worked so much better if the ink witch’s abduction/home destroying happened after or near the end of the fetch quest. Have Snout get the reference to other libraries and look upset before continuing other research paths. Then have his home destroyed, then have the orc (cleaning up loss ends). And that’s it. Snout in cave, established that he does not want to leave, but motivated by mystery/revenge on orc, and no reason to stay now that home was destroyed
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Yeah, agreed there. Story telling-wise, so many things were botched about the house destruction that it's totally neutered as a plot point: - The house looked pretty lovely inside with literally no furniture, the cave is basically identical - He found the cave almost immediately, and it appears comfortable and livable as far as Snout is concerned - Furthermore, he's making no attempt to build a new house and appears to be content to live in the cave forever - It's still super unclear as to WHY his house was destroyed - is the ship allied with the Ink Witch? Or did it kidnap her? - He didn't press the Ink Witch at all about the destruction of his house and spent most of his time looking for the pages instead of rebuilding his life Focusing it on the orc and the destruction of his house makes a lot more sense. As of now, Snout appears to not care about finding out who/why his house was destroyed, but is VERY concerned about finding out what happened to the pages and a guy that put a sleeping spell on him (so much for "hurting" him, huh?). I'd even go further and have there be some piece of dangerous knowledge that Snout accidentally learned, and now the orc is trying to find and kill him to make sure there's no trace of it, so he has to leave and research the rest of it (or at least find out who's trying to kill him so he can evade them).
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Let it never be said that Dominic Deegan did not inspire greatness.
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Ha ha ha. Preparing the audience for more gratuitous nudity got me good.
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Jan 9, 2020 20:16
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Saw the number of posts and thought there was a new comic. This is better.
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Jan 9, 2020 20:24
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that repellent creature does not deserve the dignity brought about by clothing
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Good bye, sea of trash bags. Maybe some day the garbage man will come for you.
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Jan 10, 2020 01:18
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Credit where credit is due. I have never, ever seen a wide background shot like that from Mookie. It's not great, and I have no idea if most of those objects are treetops or rocks. But he tried something new. Good job Mookie.
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I'm sure those soft ripe berries will be just fine banging around in a bindle with a hardcover diary. And even if they aren't, they'll probably wash right off those paper pages.
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maltesh posted:I'm sure those soft ripe berries will be just fine banging around in a bindle with a hardcover diary. Should have sewn himself some pockets
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Jan 10, 2020 02:26
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I wonder why, after not once going to a forest or even, I think, drawing a tree, would Mookie choose a dense forest as the scene to end the Wild Edge on.
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TheHan posted:I wonder why, after not once going to a forest or even, I think, drawing a tree, would Mookie choose a dense forest as the scene to end the Wild Edge on. how quickly we forget the
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For a moment I thought the first panel was showing the diary being forgotten/left behind rather than prepared to be wrapped up and got hopeful.Drunk Theory posted:Credit where credit is due. I have never, ever seen a wide background shot like that from Mookie. It's not great, and I have no idea if most of those objects are treetops or rocks. But he tried something new. True.
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Jan 10, 2020 10:47
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It's like the start of The Hobbit except Gandalf got abducted by aliens and Snout can't hear the singing.
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PoptartsNinja posted:It's like the start of The Hobbit except Gandalf got abducted by aliens and Snout can't hear the singing. An Unimportant Journey
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Drunk Theory posted:It's not great, and I have no idea if most of those objects are treetops or rocks. I straight-up just had to have it pointed out to me that's a forest. I thought it was a field of boulders.
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It's really quite sad that his Twitter is full of crazy No Man's Sky alien landscapes he could take inspiration from and all he felt like doing for a wide shot of the the wild edge is... Some trees.
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I can't believe the pacing of this story. 3 updates to get to the point we knew was coming in December. It's so bad. I know we come in thinking we're going to be snarky. But this is just so unbelievably badly paced.
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I almost feel like this is being written to troll us, specifically. Huge stretches of boring nothing interspersed with just enough outright terrible to keep us on the hook.
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The Little Death posted:I can't believe the pacing of this story. 3 updates to get to the point we knew was coming in December. It's so bad. I know we come in thinking we're going to be snarky. But this is just so unbelievably badly paced. And I don't know why he didn't bother doing "crummy filler" during the holiday like he used to. Like everyone else it seems, I completely forgot his comic existed until this thread actually got replies.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:An Unimportant Journey
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SardonicTyrant posted:To Nowhere And Back Again
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Have we reached the point where we are told why our presumed protagonist gives a drat about learning this story from 200 years ago? Like even when he was listing reasons to leave it mostly boiled down to "I have nothing better to do."
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evilmiera posted:Have we reached the point where we are told why our presumed protagonist gives a drat about learning this story from 200 years ago? The beginning said Snout wants to know because he saw Deegan's name a bunch of times in his books. Deep character motivations!
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Did Snout not appear in the original Deegan?
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Daikloktos posted:Did Snout not appear in the original Deegan? No, but there was Bort, who might be Snout's ancestor. Instead of having a hosed-up tail, Bort had a hosed-up face.  
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My son's name is also Bort.
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God, I forgot how all of the animals looked like people in fursuits.
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The weird sex elephant absolutely looks like Mookie used a pornstar giving a BJ as his reference image, in the panel where it reacts to being bonked on the head.
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For being characterized as a dumb yokel Bort was always really violent, often unnecessarily. It's the one trait that differentiates him from the bland as hell Snout. Speaking of:  Wanna stamp a big F on this page. No sense of relation between these panels and Snout journeying through them.
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