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Codependent Poster posted:The Good Guy abandoned his friends to go wandering around instead of showing any concern about them at all, since last he saw they were both frightened of the other two who beat his rear end. I mean technically he's doing all he can to find them, since Mookie decided the way to set up this plot is to give Snout no breadcrumbs at all. And then when he stumbles on the plot it'll be a surprise even to Mookie! He's just trying to enjoy the comic the same way the reader is, don't you see?
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catlord posted:You know, there could have been a fun little The Yattering and Jack type story here where the evil vine things are trying to corrupt and tempt a completely oblivious Snout and get more and more frustrated as he just goes about his... whatever he's doing. Of course, that'd require a good sense of dark comedy and timing, and I've not really seen any evidence of either. It would also require Mookie to portray a bad guy as anything other than goofily incompetent and extant only for the good guys to style on, which, with the exception of the evil ink witch (the second evil ink witch) I honestly dont' think he's capable of. If he makes the bad guys into a THREAT then that gets really scary!!
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I mean technically he's doing all he can to find them, since Mookie decided the way to set up this plot is to give Snout no breadcrumbs at all. And then when he stumbles on the plot it'll be a surprise even to Mookie! He's just trying to enjoy the comic the same way the reader is, don't you see? What's really funny about this is that Mookie's probably got a whole headcanon for his own comic that fills in all the logic and personality gaps, like a lot of diehard fans of terrible media.
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Aug 30, 2020 21:47
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Yeah, as always, he shares a psychic link with all his characters (but not with the audience). It's how they instantly know each other's names and manifest important traits out of nowhere.
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Aug 30, 2020 22:41
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catlord posted:You know, there could have been a fun little The Yattering and Jack type story here where the evil vine things are trying to corrupt and tempt a completely oblivious Snout and get more and more frustrated as he just goes about his... whatever he's doing. Of course, that'd require a good sense of dark comedy and timing, and I've not really seen any evidence of either. I thought the same thing with Dave and the Beast back in the day. Eldritch beasts can be funny too, and there's no shortage of good Dave material.
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Aug 30, 2020 22:48
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YF-23 posted:Mookie is also a coward because IIRC over time Luna's tusks become way less prominent and her face doesn't look nearly as hosed up so the whole "external beauty doesn't matter" message gets lost. "Over time," it happens almost immediately. Like even by this point they're significantly smaller than they were on her introduction but they're at least still somewhat prominent in this picture, and even slightly so after that. quote:But by this point they're barely there, and that's not even too long after that last strip. I know Mookie's art is inconsistent and that their size varies wildly (this seems to be the smallest they're drawn out of this set of strips), but it seems as soon as she leaves her house and becomes Dominic's love interest, they start getting smaller almost immediately.
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Aug 30, 2020 22:57
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Yeah, I don't know if Mookie's plan was to make Luna the love interest right away, but as soon as she is her fangs switch to cute anime girl mode.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:09
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Even in a low-magic medieval situation I refuse to believe Luna couldn't fix her tusks in one (painful) afternoon at a dentist with a file.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:12
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I remember there being several retcons to explain why Luna never got rid of her tusks and why doing so would've been a bad thing, but none of them very good.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:18
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It's basically like Art3mis' birthmark and body type in Ready Player One. She's not conventionally attractive (because that's what Ernest Cline likes, and he is a special little boy unlike the rest of you gross mainstream porn-lovers) but isn't ashamed of it, so she literally makes her ingame avatar look like her actual self - short and chubby with a birthmark. And Wade is attracted to her anyway because he is also a special little boy unlike the rest of the world that would NEVER find a - gasp - "rubenesque" woman attractive. Nope, never happened before, not even once! Oh, except for me. I like big women. Along with a lot of other men. I'm not a superhero because of it, and neither are you, Ernest. And of course in the movie she's super duper thin and very conventionally attractive, lol.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:23
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TheHan posted:I remember there being several retcons to explain why Luna never got rid of her tusks and why doing so would've been a bad thing, but none of them very good. The Little Death posted:Yeah, I don't know if Mookie's plan was to make Luna the love interest right away, but as soon as she is her fangs switch to cute anime girl mode. Rotten Red Rod posted:Even in a low-magic medieval situation I refuse to believe Luna couldn't fix her tusks in one (painful) afternoon at a dentist with a file.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:28
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Not gonna lie I'm a bit sad that we've figured out the trick and are getting all the week's pages at once instead of having that third page be a true wet fart of a Friday payoff/cliffhanger.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:30
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YF-23 posted:Not gonna lie I'm a bit sad that we've figured out the trick and are getting all the week's pages at once instead of having that third page be a true wet fart of a Friday payoff/cliffhanger. Yeah I apologize. I feel like we should draw it out the way Mookie intended, to get the full effect. I just wanted it on the record when he was uploading these, so we can acknowledge the true lazyness inherent in this snail's pace of a story.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:40
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TheHan posted:I remember there being several retcons to explain why Luna never got rid of her tusks and why doing so would've been a bad thing, but none of them very good. If I remember, people who did have tusks and fixed it never felt happy and like something was missing. Of course Luna was depressed to the point of wanting to kill herself so it's not even that good a retcon.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:40
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Heliotrope posted:If I remember, people who did have tusks and fixed it never felt happy and like something was missing. Of course Luna was depressed to the point of wanting to kill herself so it's not even that good a retcon. YF-23 posted:Not gonna lie I'm a bit sad that we've figured out the trick and are getting all the week's pages at once instead of having that third page be a true wet fart of a Friday payoff/cliffhanger. If anyone's to blame here, it's Mookie. The Little Death posted:Yeah I apologize. I feel like we should draw it out the way Mookie intended, to get the full effect. I just wanted it on the record when he was uploading these, so we can acknowledge the true lazyness inherent in this snail's pace of a story. Whatever you guys want to do is fine. Either way, saying they were all shat out Sunday afternoon (which we know from his old blogs) is still very amusing. I can't imagine waiting all week for this crap.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:43
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Yeah I'd be cool with just having a heads up that all 3 were posted (so I can go read them myself because I'm impatient) and then spacing out the reveal in the thread so we can pick apart each page.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:53
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Heliotrope posted:If I remember, people who did have tusks and fixed it never felt happy and like something was missing. Of course Luna was depressed to the point of wanting to kill herself so it's not even that good a retcon. Yeah! That one and the other two mentioned by Invisible Clergy were what I vaguely remembered. This one especially doesn't make sense considering the only way she would've known that she'd feel empty without them is by pulling them out first, so there's no reason she wouldn't try. The fourth retcon is that illusion magic used on tusk mouth is unconvincing, even though over the course of the series illusion magic has no limits whatsoever and Luna is specifically great at illusion magic.
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Aug 30, 2020 23:54
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Yeah, no one has ever felt better after surgeries that changed their physical appearance. They just had to accept themselves the way they were! Trans people? Gender reassignment surgery? What's that?
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Aug 31, 2020 00:00
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Something Mookie only learned about when, I assume, someone emailed him after the first alterist thing.
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Codependent Poster posted:So I guess in this magical fantasy place, the middle finger means the same thing as it does in the United States. That gesture, its symbolism of an erect penis, and its meaning of "up your rear end", was already referenced to in The Clouds by Aristophanes, so it's been with us for over 24 centuries. From there it spread to the whole Mediterranean and to western cultures in general.  An ancient roman statue flipping the finger to tell people to gently caress off. Bar Hill Fort, Great Britain.
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Codependent Poster posted:So I guess in this magical fantasy place, the middle finger means the same thing as it does in the United States. Mookie's work is so eminently dunkable I don't think people need to try this hard. As mentioned it's a very old gesture and it isn't a requirement when writing a thing to invent a new language or insults for a story that is meant to be read and consumed by English speakers. A lot of work is done by context, no one needs to explain what a nerf herder is to understand an insult is being hurled, but it would be way worse if Snout had done a totally invented hand gesture because I'm certain the perfectly reasonable response would be "Mookie, you hack, what the gently caress happened to Snout's hand?" compared to to the short, sharp, shared sign of flipping someone the bird.
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Can’t we just mock how weird his hand looks anyways? I can tell he’s flipping the bird but it still looks... off. In sort of the opposite way from that clearly traced panel with the dynamic pose, which is obviously not Mookie original. Neither are those satyr porn poses, I would bet, and also thanks for that Mookie, you’ve made me resent the mere concept of sexuality now.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:40
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Yeah even accepting the middle finger as a thing in this world, it's still incredibly lazy and just the sort of "badass moment" Mookie and his tiny group of unironic readers think is awesome.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:41
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It's very out of character for Snout...and very weirdly one of the few situations where Snout uses gesture to communicate.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:44
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To be fair, one of the best moments in this comic has been an rear end in a top hat tree giving Snout the bird, so I'm willing to let it slide.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:44
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Oh god, now you actually have me missing when this comic was Looney Toons monkeycheese. It really was better than this.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:48
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Every page of Dominic Deegan is worse than the previous, no matter in which order you read them. This is the Mookie anti-miracle.
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Invisible Clergy posted:Yes, this is correct. I think one of the members of Facebath! says this. The Facebath guy states he only regretted pulling out the one because of seeing Luna be happy with them. Which AGAIN, he could have either still pulled out the other, or went to a drat alterist and have one put back in, instead of just having one tusk forever. (And also again that Luna wanted to kill herself over the tusks and only started to accept them because of Dominic's validation) Evrart Claire fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Aug 31, 2020 |
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Oof. Zen Pencils was also bad. Also, toes. No. Samovar fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Aug 31, 2020 |
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Aug 31, 2020 10:54
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I will never forgive Zen Pencils for tricking me into thinking Bill Watterson was back for a moment.
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I just noticed the skinned guy is being dragged along his skinned flesh, along the edge of the hole. That's gotta destroy like, so much more tissue, shouldn't it?
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Aug 31, 2020 16:42
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Meh, he’s dead already.
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Aug 31, 2020 16:55
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So that WAS the mongrel man? Why does he look completely human, then?
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Aug 31, 2020 17:14
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Riot Bus posted:So that WAS the mongrel man? Why does he look completely human, then? All the weirdness on his body was on the part that got torn off.
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Riot Bus posted:So that WAS the mongrel man? Why does he look completely human, then? I think maybe he sort of had a cat face? It's unclear. What is clear, though, is the reason Mookie is phoning in this comic: 
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Aug 31, 2020 17:31
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Lol implying he has a buffer and doesn't poo poo out his week's strips in an hour on Sunday nights like a child putting off his homework.
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I actually think we’re supposed to assume both these people are alive? It’s the only reason I can think of for Snout going out of his way to drag both of them along. Unless he just wants to give them a proper burial, but he’s never really come off as that level of compassionate. Course he’s never come off as anything. If muscleman is alive though the one consistent thing about Deeganverse necromancy is that you can have your bare muscles and skeleton exposed to the elements and it not be a big deal.
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TheHan posted:I actually think we’re supposed to assume both these people are alive? It’s the only reason I can think of for Snout going out of his way to drag both of them along. Unless he just wants to give them a proper burial, but he’s never really come off as that level of compassionate. Course he’s never come off as anything. If muscleman is alive though the one consistent thing about Deeganverse necromancy is that you can have your bare muscles and skeleton exposed to the elements and it not be a big deal. That makes absolutely no sense, so you're probably right. If they were meant to be alive, Snout should've felt for a pulse or something. Even if he were superstitious, those two looked buried to me.
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