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The Little Death posted:When you think about it, this is sort of a followthrough of Dominic, who is implied to be booksmart in a way that's never really demonstrated, but manifests the power of his knowledge through literal psychic domination of his enemies. It is a fetishization of being a nerd, but in the tv way where nerds are all generally smart instead of being only obsessed with niche pop-culture properties. I'm reminded of Dominic raining books on that little town he hated, like non-nerds would be hideously horrified by books and, if exposed to them like radioactive waste, might become nerds.
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If being hit in the head with a book would turn me into whatever Dominic is, I'd be afraid of them too.
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Feb 14, 2021 01:50
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Feb 14, 2021 22:59
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He keeps finding new ways to waste time. Not even in an unintentionally funny way.
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I love how everyone can tell immediately on looking at corpsemomdaughterwife that she's special and doesn't fit in categories. No effort, no process, not even a real sense of the body of knowledge each character brings to bear, just... nothing. Storytelling as limp as Snout's dick.
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Joe Slowboat posted:I love how everyone can tell immediately on looking at corpsemomdaughterwife that she's special and doesn't fit in categories. I read a few chapters of Eragon and that was a reoccurring thing so I just stopped, probably was the right move.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I read a few chapters of Eragon and that was a reoccurring thing so I just stopped, probably was the right move. And Eragon had the excuse of being written by a teenager.
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Feb 15, 2021 04:18
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Christ it's almost exactly the same thing that ink witch said. Once again we're in a spiral of re-stating knowledge the audience already knew.
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Feb 15, 2021 06:45
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It's like his audience is perverted amnesiacs.
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Feb 15, 2021 06:48
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:It's like his audience is perverted amnesiacs. Well he's clearly writing for himself.
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Feb 15, 2021 07:42
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Truly a master of visual storytelling.
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Feb 15, 2021 08:52
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A more confident writer could have easily done this without the little papers of dialog
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Feb 15, 2021 09:01
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The best part is that Arudak apparently decided to write dramatic pauses into his note. A totally natural thing to do in written communication. Also, the fact that he hasn't named the Ink Witch is really dumb...but now I just realized we have four main characters: two male and two female, and only the men have names.
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Potsticker posted:Well he's clearly writing for himself. Mookie's a lazy pervert, not an amnesiac one.
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Feb 15, 2021 09:13
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The comic doesn't update every couple days so much as it goes into screensaver mode and displays a random test pattern.
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Feb 15, 2021 10:12
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It seems like one of two situations has occurred: 1. In the time (hours?) it took to fly back to the Secret Base, neither Plant Woman nor Snout told the Ink Witch anything about her. 2. When the Ink Witch arrived with Plant Woman and Snout, she told Arudak,"Best to let Snout tell you who and what she is."
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I've said it before, but almost every time an update of this posted, I am convinced I could make a better webcomic. And, remembering the fact that I don't make a webcomic, I recognize I already am!
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Feb 15, 2021 12:56
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Supernatural is not the opposite of unnatural, in fact they're basically synonyms.
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oriongates posted:The best part is that Arudak apparently decided to write dramatic pauses into his note. A totally natural thing to do in written communication. Mookie did the exact same thing (with the same wording!) when the Ink Witch gave a speechbubble paper to Snout like 4 pages ago.
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Is there a reason that guy and snout are happy to see each other? It... doesn't really seem like they should be?
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He's the main character
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One thing that annoys me is that you just know Mookie is going to make Corpsemomwife integral to, and I use the term very loosely, plot. She's a blank slate Snout found when he bumbled into a haunted house, so there's no good reason for her to be connected to anything going on other than because Mookie says so.GlyphGryph posted:Is there a reason that guy and snout are happy to see each other? It... doesn't really seem like they should be? It's been ages, but Arudak and Snout have a decent thing going on where Arudak apologized for putting Snout to sleep and they had a moment where Snout revealedd the only reason he's on this legacyquest was because he's "curious". It's a way healthier relationship than how Snout constantly gets abused by Ink Witch.
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 Just to really hammer home that Monday's page was pointless wheel spinning Wednesday's page is just drops the topic entirely. They're all just loving around in Arudak's studio apartment.
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Lol at the obvious room trace. Also god do I hate that once again Mookie is weird and anachronistic with the tech. I guess the orcs have photographs and glass production now?
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Feb 16, 2021 21:24
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Arudak normally wears robes and togas, but back in the day he was a t-shirt guy.
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The Little Death posted:Lol at the obvious room trace. Also god do I hate that once again Mookie is weird and anachronistic with the tech. I guess the orcs have photographs and glass production now? It has been 200 years.
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Feb 16, 2021 21:48
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For a moment I thought Arudak’s presumably dead girlfriend was Snout.
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Kavak posted:It has been 200 years. But still manual peasants in the fields. I just can't think of anything lazier than having an actual modern picture frame in this scene with no previous setup of what the tech level is
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Anyone want to bet this orc language is some kind of Al Bhed thing where it's 1-to-1 with the English alphabet?
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Anyone want to bet this orc language is some kind of Al Bhed thing where it's 1-to-1 with the English alphabet? nah, that would be too coherent
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SubG posted:Ink Witch's mysteriously shrinking dress be like: I like how the crotch outline is for crossed legs and her legs aren't actually crossed. Rotten Red Rod posted:Anyone want to bet this orc language is some kind of Al Bhed thing where it's 1-to-1 with the English alphabet? Reading the first line seems directly cribbed from Japanese, where that would be "To Arudak!" To be honest I just like the addition of the dash to "-Kazya" which is something we only started adding in the typed word age to my knowledge?
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Tesseraction posted:I like how the crotch outline is for crossed legs and her legs aren't actually crossed. Yes because otherwise it would ahve been a signature, which you don't need a dash to signify. I mean, think about what that square even is. It's literally a post-it note. A medieval post-it love note this wizard left on the magic photograph of his (presumably) dead lover.
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I cast mordenkainen's self-posting note
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So, what did he trace that from?
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The studio looks like a wizard's laboratory from a 90s LucasArts point and click adventure game. The loving framed photograph in glass (god) of Arudak and his fridged gf/wife looks somewhat similar to that stock photo model they used of Tali outside her suit in Mass Effect, though it may well be a trace of him and Mrs. Mookie from an anniversary photoshoot or something (as requested will not look for or post reference pic of this; she has no role in creating this terrible comic.) I really do feel like I recognize the apartment from somewhere though. Do any of the screens in "myst" look like this?
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