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Snout continuing the proud tradition from the original Deegan of showing his naked rear end to children. Rotten Red Rod posted:What are we supposed to be taking from any of this? We got several days of Snout being deaf Mr. Magoo and then suddenly it's redemption for the villain time? Jesus gently caress it's like the plot progression is going backwards. I know you're right since this is an orc and inkwich is the only non-mongrelfolk in mongreltown, but Arudak looks much younger and completely different here due to the lack of consistency. I thought it was just some random orc.
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# ? May 28, 2020 21:49 |
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Wearing the cloak made him look much older, yeah. If he's supposed to not be super-old the art of him previously did not convey that at all.
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# ? May 28, 2020 21:54 |
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maltesh posted:I'm kind of surprised that the bathhouse didn't let him keep the towel. On the other hand, Snout is generally prone to fleeing instead of asking for minimal assistance. If Snout (or the bathhouse) acted at all rationally he wouldn't be able to put himself in the goofy scenario Mookie wrote. That round peg MUST BE RAMMED INTO THAT SQUARE HOLE!!! Invisible Clergy posted:I know you're right since this is an orc and inkwich is the only non-mongrelfolk in mongreltown, but Arudak looks much younger and completely different here due to the lack of consistency. I thought it was just some random orc. Yeah I actually went back and compared and I'm 99% sure it's him, it's just the first time we've seen him without his cloak. In fact it's because his cloak is the thing he's giving Snout to wear.
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# ? May 28, 2020 21:54 |
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The way this comic handles nudity makes me uncomfortable.
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# ? May 28, 2020 22:00 |
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Oh yeah, isn't Snout supposed to be totally comfortable with nudity? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to end up without clothes for some reason and to think it's no big deal? But no, that character trait was dropped when Mookie decided it was time for bashful naked cuddles with the Ink Witch. Snout doesn't act all act like someone who's lived his entire life away from other people - why did he ever live alone in the Wild Edge if he was so well read and curious about the world, dropped his home like a wet blanket the moment he needed a certain book, and got so excited about Mongreltown? Why had he never even heard of Mongreltown (since it's clearly only within a few days' walking distance of his home)? It occurs to me, once again, that I'm putting more thought into this than Mookie did. Snout was a hermit because that was the setting Mookie wanted, and now he's not because this is now the setting Mookie wants. Not because of anything related to his character or motiviations.
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maltesh posted:At this point, I'm expecting a clumsy "Arudak stole his clothes" reveal. If this comic was well written, it would've been the Ink Witch trying to force him to be reliant on her again.
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# ? May 28, 2020 22:38 |
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I would like to know the last time Mookie had a backlog, where he sat down and planned out or drew a week of strips or so in advance. Because it feels like he sits down and writes whatever he feels like each day and forgets where he was going in earlier strips.
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# ? May 28, 2020 22:40 |
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Never. Not ever. He does explicitly sit down and poo poo something out new a few times a week.
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# ? May 28, 2020 22:56 |
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Wait, why does Snout care about being seen naked now?
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Kavak posted:I would like to know the last time Mookie had a backlog, where he sat down and planned out or drew a week of strips or so in advance. Because it feels like he sits down and writes whatever he feels like each day and forgets where he was going in earlier strips. EDIT: Found it! https://web.archive.org/web/20180329103529/https://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2012-01-06 Mookie posted:[...]This week has been weird. I've had a buffer of comics prepared for most of the week, which I haven't had for years. That buffer is now gone, and to be honest I'm relieved. My sense of "what happens next" was a little off as I was working on comics a day or two ahead of the update schedule. But now that my buffer is gone (thanks to a combination of Star Wars and babysitting) things will be back to normal for me next week.[...] Alakantar fucked around with this message at 23:36 on May 28, 2020 |
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I like to think Mookie would literally forget what was happening if he wasn't constantly writing down things as he thought of them.
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# ? May 29, 2020 00:24 |
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It's nice to not even have to think about the audience's entertainment.
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Mors Rattus posted:Wait, why does Snout care about being seen naked now? TheHan posted:I like to think Mookie would literally forget what was happening if he wasn't constantly writing down things as he thought of them. Alakantar posted:I'm sure someone out there remembers better than me, but there was maybe a week's period during the Deegan years where he had a buffer. But it was gone pretty quickly because he hated not having spontaneity. It was in a newspost of that era, but that's all gone now with his revised site.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Oh yeah, isn't Snout supposed to be totally comfortable with nudity? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to end up without clothes for some reason and to think it's no big deal? But no, that character trait was dropped when Mookie decided it was time for bashful naked cuddles with the Ink Witch. Also, if perv mongrel is to judge, Mongrelfolk don't care about nudity either. Well, until just now because as you said, Mookie wanted it.
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Mors Rattus posted:Wait, why does Snout care about being seen naked now? Read your Bible, heathen.
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Ague Proof posted:The way this comic handles nudity makes me uncomfortable. The way this comic does everything makes me uncomfortable. Arduak is about to be redeemed as good but grouchy, but Ink Witch will still be good but suspicious of him, replacing the faintest slivers of dramatic tension with wet farting.
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Alakantar posted:https://web.archive.org/web/20180329103529/https://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2012-01-06 Oh yeah, we talked about that blurb in the original thread, back all those years ago. It's basic confirmation for anyone who wants to know that he doesn't storyboard these things. He's doing these comics for himself, even down to the "and now what happens" he has to dream every time he sits down to create a comic. Not knowing where his story is going day by day is exciting for Mookie.
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# ? May 29, 2020 06:41 |
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While we're mostly talking about character motivations right now, I was reading Drogune and it struck me how much better the worldbuilding is. Currently one of the characters is reading to another a propagandist children's book that introduces you to the setting and races, while also setting up the politics of the situation and how the protagonists relate to it (through corrections someone has jotted down throughout the book). It's clever, organic, and engaging. Mookie's done none of that. If he's actually planned out this world, there's no evidence. It reads more like a newbie DM just throwing in a bunch of set pieces because they sound cool with no regard for how the larger world might look.
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Oh, that's neat. Definitely gonna bookmark that in my good webcomics to read later folder. Thanks. In one or more of Greg Stolze's ttrpgs (I think it was "Unknown Armies," but It might've been in some other places too,) when discussing the preparation of exposition for PCs to find, he said that generally speaking, depending on how well they do, it shouldn't be more than two of the following: unbiased, accurate, easy to understand. The various combinations of these factors provide interesting dynamics on how PCs interact with information, especially when they compare info from more than one source to see what's going on. If a source of info checks all three of these boxes, then it should probably be something that you just tell the PCs rather than making them work for it, since it's not going to motivate action, advance plot, or develop character. This philosophy, I believe is useful in writing fiction as well, especially when dealing with plots that are about investigating mysteries. It's at play in some of the old "Vampire: the Masquerade" books as well with the way a lot of the lore in the form of in-universe artifacts are presented. It'll always be like, someone's diary, or a secret message that was passed from one Camarilla to another, but was intercepted by a Sabbat agent and is being deciphered with the help of another Sabbat, it's never just someone sitting down and delivering exposition to someone else, and I find that makes the material much more engaging.
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Invisible Clergy posted:Oh, that's neat. Definitely gonna bookmark that in my good webcomics to read later folder. Thanks. For being primarily TTRPG rulebooks, pretty much all of Stolze's books have a lot of segments that function as pretty good narrative fiction advice.
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# ? May 29, 2020 20:30 |
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Absolutely. He's a really cool guy. I got to work with him on his latest game, "Termination Shock," and am currently playing an "Unknown Armies" campaign with him. It's a blast.
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Kinda jealous. I have all the books for UA2 and UA3 but have never actually gotten a campaign going of either.
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# ? May 29, 2020 21:58 |
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You and he apparently have that in common. My fiancee offered to run and he said he has never actually played UA.
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# ? May 29, 2020 22:00 |
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Imagine being someone who was excited for Mookie to do comics again and this is what you get lmao.
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# ? May 30, 2020 05:50 |
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I have finally gotten something of value out of this thread!
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# ? May 30, 2020 07:53 |
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DamnitGannet posted:Imagine being someone who was excited for Mookie to do comics again and this is what you get lmao.
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DamnitGannet posted:Imagine being someone who was excited for Mookie to do comics again and this is what you get lmao. I dunno, if I imagine I’m Mookie I might get stuck that way
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# ? May 30, 2020 12:24 |
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Elysiume posted:Honestly if anyone was unironically excited for Mookie to Meanwhile, we're ironically enjoying Mookie fill in a couple squares of webcomic bingo that were left out of the original Deegan.
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PMush Perfect posted:I have finally gotten something of value out of this thread! Same! A black and white fantasy webcomic with non-human protagonists that's well written, beautifully drawn and doesn't have bizarre hang-ups with women and boobs in particular.
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# ? May 30, 2020 13:41 |
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Arudak apologizes for his behavior and offers his resources to Snout, while the Ink Witch accepted no accountability for her actions and still expected his trust. So close. It's so close to saying anything at all. Also, Nighthawks I guess.
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# ? May 31, 2020 19:05 |
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Mookie accidentally drew a better penis in the background of Nighthawvks than he has for the rest of the comic so far.
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# ? May 31, 2020 19:14 |
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He probably googled people at a diner.
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Ague Proof posted:He probably googled people at a diner. It's probably the most famous diner painting in the world, Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. It seems likely he'll mention it in a blog post, because people are going to notice this one. Edit: Beaten by nearly an hour. I need to read more carefully before posting. maltesh fucked around with this message at 19:54 on May 31, 2020 |
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Actually it's an original composition by Michael Terracciano.
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And in case anyone's wondering, filename.
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Okay, first of all how are you gonna trace Nighthawks and think people won't notice? Second, how are you gonna change it so the server is trapped inside some weird Isosceles Trapezoid counter?
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# ? May 31, 2020 20:58 |
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This is literally the least dramatic way you can have a character do any kind of redemption.
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# ? May 31, 2020 21:03 |
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Change.org petition to have the Ink Witch just disappear from the comic and turn it into Orc Mage and his Gross Stupid Boyfriend Have Dumb Sexy Adventures because it's the only thing that could save it at this point.
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# ? May 31, 2020 21:03 |
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He clearly has no idea what he wants the characters or their dynamic to be anymore. All his notecards fell on the floor and he's trying to wing it.
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