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Gentle necromancy.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 15:51 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 15:02 |
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Thanks Dominic for making things more boring
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 16:18 |
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So, knowing Dominic Deegan's legacy was to cause a dramatic shift in the nature of magic as we knew it in the original series, Mookie...spent the last two years meandering around the Wild Edge, showing us no magic. Almost no magic, I guess, since we've seen the Ink Witch's battleship and the necromancy. subtle. gentle! Also in the og series Dominic saw that magical dominance would leave Callan and shift to the orcs, leading to a return of the chandaks and their society flourishing. So it sounds a lot like whitey got scared and puppet mastered a scenario where the orcs would inherit a lemon.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 17:13 |
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Oh gently caress yeah mookie's ascended to writing a different story every page.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 19:13 |
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I was waiting for the comic to prove me wrong about Snout standing next to walls of text for multiple days but no, he really went and did it.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 20:38 |
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TheHan posted:Also in the og series Dominic saw that magical dominance would leave Callan and shift to the orcs, leading to a return of the chandaks and their society flourishing. So it sounds a lot like whitey got scared and puppet mastered a scenario where the orcs would inherit a lemon. Wild how Mookie managed to back his character into actively undermining the orcish golden age.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 21:28 |
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The real Legacy of Dominic Deegan was the friends we made along the way
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 21:33 |
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See, magic used to be a nightmare! It was CUH-RAZY! Everyone just ran around throwing fireballs and poo poo! The worst! Thankfully Dominic Deegan did something to stop that! Now our goal is to find out how he did that, because if someone goes out of the way to seal up dangerous power, it's our JOB to figure out how it's sealed up and how to get it out, just you know, in case. Like okay so this is his legacy, why the hell do they even need to investigate it? Is it in danger of failing and magic is gonna come back? Are they bored? Is this just CURIOSITY as a wild goal itself?
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 21:51 |
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This land is peaceful, its inhabitants kind.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 21:59 |
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This is going to be another case of Mookie being obsessed with Jocks vs Nerds despite not understanding either and being like 30 years out of highschool isn't it? The Chad Maltakian vs The Virgin Dominic. Rock on
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 22:03 |
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Aggressive jock magic vs gentle nerd magic.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 22:05 |
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I don't think he knows what "subtle" means. The transition from flashy scientific magic to more mysterious arcane magic could be a genuinely interesting bit of world building, but literally none of the magic we've seen in this comic so far has been subtle. He started us off with a magic spaceship of all things.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 22:52 |
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Because being able to fly has never, ever been used to wage war.
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 22:53 |
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Lol is he using a different font than on Mondays strip?
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# ? Feb 23, 2021 23:35 |
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So if there's no more battle magic, then how do people defend themselves from monsters or the like? Because of Ink Witch's ship can blow up Snout's house, then it sounds to me like Dominic just made everyone defenseless and vulnerable.
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# ? Feb 24, 2021 00:06 |
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Also why does Snout seem to be reading this from a huge sheaf of papers? What else is being explained on them that would take up so much space? It seems to be suggesting that we are seeing only the highlights of this huge essay but I have zero idea what could be filling the rest of the space because they are just like "Dominic changed magic to be more chill, idk."
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# ? Feb 24, 2021 00:22 |
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Despite having spent years building a career primarily out of putting ink on paper, Mookie does not know how big a piece of paper is.
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# ? Feb 24, 2021 00:40 |
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Riot Bus posted:Also why does Snout seem to be reading this from a huge sheaf of papers? What else is being explained on them that would take up so much space? It seems to be suggesting that we are seeing only the highlights of this huge essay but I have zero idea what could be filling the rest of the space because they are just like "Dominic changed magic to be more chill, idk." Well, the first arc in this comic had the characters all seeking a bunch of pages that represented two or three sentences worth of text, so it's consistent in that regard.
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# ? Feb 24, 2021 00:53 |
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Riot Bus posted:Also why does Snout seem to be reading this from a huge sheaf of papers? What else is being explained on them that would take up so much space? It seems to be suggesting that we are seeing only the highlights of this huge essay but I have zero idea what could be filling the rest of the space because they are just like "Dominic changed magic to be more chill, idk." Im just thankful we haven't gotten the Dominic Deegan version of the John Galt text.
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# ? Feb 24, 2021 00:54 |
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ryde posted:Im just thankful we haven't gotten the Dominic Deegan version of the John Galt text. Patiently waiting for this edit
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# ? Feb 24, 2021 01:04 |
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For 200 years, you have been asking: Who is Dominic Deegan? This is Dominic Deegan speaking. I am the seer who loves his life. I am the seer who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the seer who has deprived you of magic and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing—you who dread books—I am the seer who will now tell you. You have heard it said that this is an age of souls of storms and wars in hell. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that jocks are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the magic you demanded. Since magic, to you, consists of fireballs, you have demanded more fireballs at every successive disaster. In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those infernomancers which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to racist knights. You have sacrificed reading books to sportsball. You have sacrificed reason to forgiving abusers. You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your magic. It is your magic ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I—I am the seer who has granted you your wish. Your ideal had an implacable enemy, which your code of magic was designed to destroy with fireballs. I have withdrawn that enemy. I have taken it out of your way and out of your reach with the Asinotaph. I have removed the source of all those magics you were casting one by one. I have ended your battle. I have stopped your motor. I have deprived your world of man’s mind. SEE THE TRUTH. Men do not live by the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those who do. The mind is impotent, you say? I have withdrawn those whose mind isn’t. There are values higher than the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those for whom there aren’t. In my mind, I am fifty feet tall, have three eyes, and have eye lasers. The eye lasers of my mind are without compare. There are none who can survive my mind's eye lasers. While you were dragging to your sacrificial altars the men of booklearning, of heavy metal, of DBZ auras, of nerdy jokes, of punmakers—I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that magic code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp. I showed them the way to live by another morality—mine. It is mine that they chose to follow. They SAW THE TRUTH. All the men who have vanished, the men you bullied in highschool even though I just wanted to play pokemon, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. Our big, book-filled minds. I've read so many books. God I love books, especially comic books with big tiddies. FlocksOfMice fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Feb 24, 2021 |
# ? Feb 24, 2021 01:04 |
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FlocksOfMice posted:For 200 years, you have been asking: Who is Dominic Deegan? This is Dominic Deegan speaking. I am the seer who loves his life. I am the seer who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the seer who has deprived you of magic and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing—you who dread books—I am the seer who will now tell you. Invisible Clergy posted:For two hundred years, you have been asking: Who is Dominic Deegan? This is Dominic Deegan speaking. I am the man who loves his wife. Great job; yours is much funnier.
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# ? Feb 24, 2021 01:23 |
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FlocksOfMice posted:For 200 years, you have been asking: Who is Dominic Deegan? This is Dominic Deegan speaking. I am the seer who loves his life. I am the seer who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the seer who has deprived you of magic and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing—you who dread books—I am the seer who will now tell you.
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# ? Feb 24, 2021 06:43 |
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Friday's page gets two Snouts standing next to walls of text. Just, so lazy. From the names (Open hand...) to other Ink Witch's sub-Care Bear level motivation.
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 18:49 |
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Finally an explanation for why Inkmommy doesn't have a name!... But then, if they give each other nicknames, isn't that just, you know, their name now? Why wouldn't our Ink Witch go by HER nickname instead of the generic term? That's got to get confusing. Also, "Redactor", lol. I'm sure that seemed real badass in Mookie's head. And yeah, confirmed that Skullet is Rannon Mhorgs, the villain Mookie came up with in high school but couldn't find a place for. I'm guessing "open hand" is a martial art? And of course, he's a prodigy who spent years of hard work training, which was a ton of hard work and dedication... So of COURSE he's a bad guy. Good guys never have to work, they just get things handed to them, like Snout. Also also! STILL no clear driving motivator for the plot, or a reason Snout has to be involved in this. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Feb 25, 2021 |
# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:03 |
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Amid all the blunt exposition from literally-just-character-profiles i think its the footnote (in a separate font??) about why ink witch doesnt have a name that kills me the most
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:11 |
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rannum posted:Amid all the blunt exposition from literally-just-character-profiles i think its the footnote (in a separate font??) about why ink witch doesnt have a name that kills me the most I THINK maybe the typed font is supposed to the the orc Edit: if that is the case it wasn't like that when the orc Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Feb 25, 2021 |
# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:13 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:And yeah, confirmed that Skullet is Rannon Mhorgs, the villain Mookie came up in high school but couldn't find a place for. I'm guessing "open hand" is a martial art? You mean outside of this DnD class?
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:15 |
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Dialogue-free* *free from trying hard. Rock on
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:18 |
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lol i should have loving known
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:19 |
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That's 5th ed. This character is older than that. I mean it's possible, but for once I don't think it's the case. 'Open Hand' is just a pretty obvious and low effort name for a unarmed fighting style. Although it's usually more benign, which is also something he put in the backstory. Jade Empire had Open Hand and Closed Fist as its morality system, for example. Also meet the villains, popular girl and jock.
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:24 |
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Open Hand is a super general martial arts term that just refers to strikes that use, well, an open hand. That means that it would make exactly as much sense for it to say "he is one of the most talented practitioners of Punch" in the world. Also, 'Redactor' isn't even her general nickname...it's apparently just the nickname she was given specifically to refer to the incident that happened with Snout. Which means before she was called...??? Oh, and taking no bets that all other characters will acknowledge Redactor as this character's name with no context for where it came from or previous communication with Ink Witch Prime who named her. This will include Redactor herself who will never question how or why she is called this. oriongates fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Feb 25, 2021 |
# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:40 |
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"Our cult is famous for free expression, which is why none of us are allowed to have actual names!"
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:43 |
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And don't forget stealing from people if we don't think they 'deserve' what they have. It is notable that the reason why Redactor is bad sounds just as vague and meaningless as the reason why Arundak was bad. And the "bad thing" Mhorgs did to Snout is also basically the same as what Arundak did (make him go to sleep with no significant lasting effects). oriongates fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Feb 25, 2021 |
# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:47 |
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Redactrix sounds so much better ugh come on Mookie
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:54 |
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See, more of this "free expression" creativity facebook stuff. This is literally the posting of smug amateur authors in comic form. I love how he just handwaves away the Ink Witch name controversy, but introduces the idea of coven politics in a way that he won't examine or bother to think through. Now Ink Witch 1 and 2 knew each other previously, and belong to the same organization, and obviously didn't get kidnapped, so the question of why Ink Witch 1 and Arudak left snout with a concussion on his own really stands out. Even if Redactor has "growing influence", it seems unlikely that she could physically harm another member of her org without repercussions.
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 19:58 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:That's 5th ed. This character is older than that. Aaah, I didn't realize he's literally just a transplanted character and not just Mookie reusing names like he did with Arudak. That description instantly reminded me of the character class, but Mookie could have just as easily stumbled into the concept. Kinda curious if Rhannon was always just a balding guy in a tank top though, seems low effort by OG DD standards.
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 20:00 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:"Our cult is famous for free expression, which is why none of us are allowed to have actual names!" To be fair, the thing just says they aren't allowed to share their names, not that they don't have them within the coven. Presumably she has some secret coven name that Mommy Witch knows but isn't sharing. Also calling it now one of hte witches will be revealed to be a Deegan. Or a Travoria. All of Luna's family, even unto the distant descendants, are evil.
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 20:02 |
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I love how the stupid explanation for why the ink witch doesn't have a name, doesn't also explain why Snout never asked for her name in the first place. It's so obviously a retroactive justification when someone probably called him out on how weird it is that none of the female characters have names. It's really just incredible how much this sucks.
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 21:08 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 15:02 |
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"Villains work hard and train, while heroes are gifted their powers and never have to do anything for them" is such an incredibly prominent theme in Mookie's work. I think I sort of understand why he has it though. If someone is the best at something and they worked hard and pushed themselves to the limit, there's always the possibility that someone else could do the same thing, and maybe even become better. This means that they can't possibly be anything special, could eventually be replaced/surpassed, and how could someone who isn't anything special and replaceable truly be a hero? Whereas if someone is gifted their powers from a god/the heavens/magically strengthened, then nobody who works hard could possibly surpass them. They're special, they'll always be better than everyone else, and that's why they're a hero. It also makes sense since this means villains are attempting to attain a level of power they aren't allowed to have, they're trying to be as strong as the heroes which is why they work so hard...and of course they'll never reach that level of power but they're always making the attempt.
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# ? Feb 25, 2021 21:12 |