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Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
pfft post your facefuck comic if you're so superior.

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Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

Boba Pearl posted:

pfft post your facefuck comic if you're so superior.

I want to preserve this snype in amber so that future generations can enjoy it.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006
Mookie legitimately seems to have trouble understanding consent and this is troubling

I hate this comic. I don't just dislike it. It makes angry that it exists 😡

FlocksOfMice
Feb 3, 2009
Mookie, honestly earnestly just make a loving porn comic. Trying to accept this as a real story is failing, and you clearly, so loving CLEARLY just want to do a casual-nudity-fetish poprn comic. Just do it. Just do it. Be loving honest and just dewit. gently caress's sake.

The Killer Dynamo
May 31, 2011

Gonna have a good time tonight
In this analogy, we are all the halfling orc, and this page is Snout's dick.

Iacen
Mar 19, 2009

Si vis pacem, para bellum



DeadBonesBrook posted:

I'm not gonna lie, I burst out laughing at the absurdity of it. Like, this can't be real... right? Mookie isn't that damaged? Snout didn't just clothesline someone with his limp shlong?

Ditto, but in my defense I thought it was an edit.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Well you gotta admit, he exceeded our expectations. I didn't predict anything this dumb would happen.

worm girl
Feb 12, 2022

Can you hear it too?
Aw hell yeah. Mookie's back, baby!

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A FLACCID COCK INTO MY EYES. IT'S MOOKIE'S CHARACTER SNOUT'S AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START LAUGHING WITH MY ADULT FRIENDS. I LAUGH AT EVERY COMIC AND I LAUGH HARD. MAKING HUMOR SOUNDS WHEN THE FLACCID DICK DOMES SOME POOR SONUVABITCH IN THE loving FACE OR EVEN WHEN HE FUCKS A BOG HAG. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY'VE READ ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST COMICS. I CAN. I SAY IT AND IS AY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY DISCORDS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE THAT MATURE ADULTS CAN STILL BE JERKS. I'VE LEARNED ALL THE FORMS OF DONG AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 4 PANELS INCLUDING COPY/PASTES TO WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng

Beelzebufo
Mar 5, 2015

Frog puns are toadally awesome


I love how Mookie thinks he's busting all these taboos with his nudity and sex in the comic, only to fall back on this. Like he has all this imagery of the divine masculine and feminine, these lame superficial attempts at translating what I'm assuming is some facebook group's lovely take on Kabbalah, into these "powerful" that use nude human bodies as symbolism. Only to immediately ruin any lingering sense of import or seriousness to the imagery by instantly seguewaying into a lol dick-and-balls joke. At this point, I do judge Mookie for being this shallow and childish. It's not ok for an adult. This shallowness is everywhere in his comics, its honestly shocking someone his age could be so incurious.

Eight-Six
Oct 26, 2007

eeme
Oct 31, 2007

Whatever. Let's go get tacos.

Boba Pearl posted:

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A FLACCID COCK INTO MY EYES. IT'S MOOKIE'S CHARACTER SNOUT'S AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START LAUGHING WITH MY ADULT FRIENDS. I LAUGH AT EVERY COMIC AND I LAUGH HARD. MAKING HUMOR SOUNDS WHEN THE FLACCID DICK DOMES SOME POOR SONUVABITCH IN THE loving FACE OR EVEN WHEN HE FUCKS A BOG HAG. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY'VE READ ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST COMICS. I CAN. I SAY IT AND IS AY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY DISCORDS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE THAT MATURE ADULTS CAN STILL BE JERKS. I'VE LEARNED ALL THE FORMS OF DONG AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 4 PANELS INCLUDING COPY/PASTES TO WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng

Thank you mookie. Your comics might suck but they give us posts like these so its a net positive.

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut
Why is any of this happening

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy
The most disappointing part is that Mookie has created such an awful little echo chamber that the only replied to his tweet about this are positive.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Midnight Voyager posted:

The most disappointing part is that Mookie has created such an awful little echo chamber that the only replied to his tweet about this are positive.

It's entirely unsurprising that unironic Deegan fans aren't the most discerning bunch

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Rotten Red Rod posted:

It's entirely unsurprising that unironic Deegan fans aren't the most discerning bunch

Yeah, I guess he's successfully chased out anyone who would look at this and say anything but "That's some slapsdick comedy"

DeadBonesBrook
May 31, 2011

How do you do, fellow Regis?

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Well you gotta admit, he exceeded our expectations. I didn't predict anything this dumb would happen.

I'm gonna say it. That last panel of Snout doing the dick slide is the worst thing Mookie has ever drawn. It's worse than jazz hands, worse than sniffing the blanket, worse than anything to do with the Bog Witch, worse than all the dead women with the asses in the air. Hell, I bet it's even worse than that necrophilia thing on Patreon.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Yep I hate it.

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut
How the hell do you run into someone dick first

goddammit Mookie

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

Moola posted:

Mookie legitimately seems to have trouble understanding consent and this is troubling


Nah, ask yourself if Mookie would find this funny if he didn't realise that it was non-consensual.

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

Pentaro posted:

Annie are you okay? Are you okay Annie?

You've been hit by-
You've been struck by-
A Snout Genital

Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

FlocksOfMice posted:

Mookie, honestly earnestly just make a loving porn comic. Trying to accept this as a real story is failing, and you clearly, so loving CLEARLY just want to do a casual-nudity-fetish poprn comic. Just do it. Just do it. Be loving honest and just dewit. gently caress's sake.
Lest we think this would be an improvement, let me remind you that just recently we witnessed his patreon bonus: necrophilia laffs.

Billy Gnosis
May 18, 2006

Now is the time for us to gather together and celebrate those things that we like and think are fun.

Drakyn posted:

Lest we think this would be an improvement, let me remind you that just recently we witnessed his patreon bonus: necrophilia laffs.

I'm really not liking the common denominator here.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


oh good he's retweeting the heaviest praise too. that
yep
hmm

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

This is the most engagement he's gotten on his Twitter in a while. You know what that means...

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy
I'm not gonna touch the poop, but I am psychically begging anybody who unironically reads this poo poo to reply to that with the type of horrified reaction it needs.

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

Billy Gnosis
May 18, 2006

Now is the time for us to gather together and celebrate those things that we like and think are fun.

Dominic Deegan: THIS THREAD, PERFECTION

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse

Breetai posted:

I want to preserve this snype in amber so that future generations can enjoy it.

God i laughed harder at this than the comic

Beelzebufo
Mar 5, 2015

Frog puns are toadally awesome


Oh Guys, don't think about orclings getting slapped in the face with dongs, instead think about townsfolk getting brutally slauhtered;

It's


Chapter 25: Built To Resist (Part 1)



This is perhaps the first sensible decision a character has made in DD ever. I realize it's just to give Greg extra hardship, but still. Good for you Pam, you are allowed to find manchildren annoying and not date them!



Here's where things start getting dumb. Mookie here is again signaling that something about the central government of Callan (whatever that is). Here we see that it discriminates against magic resistant people, despite their ability being incredibly useful in a world full of spellcasting petty criminals. One wonders why she even hired him if this law was on the books, and that tax thing seems weird, like there's a public white magic healthplan being paid into. Mookie loves having characters talk to effigies as way of getting tough words out, it's an interesting recurring image of avoiding conflict.

Dumb bait-and-switch cliffhanger, obviously



Whatever, honestly. The characters are dumb and childish, but it's fine in the context. Really what this strip makes me realize is that Mookie starts so many stories with strips that have the rhythm of newspaper gags, only to segue into long serialized sequences with no warning. It makes these early strips plod along. That's what not planning gets you.



I love how Mookie writes troubles characters. Just look at Dex reciting his life history in that upper panel. Totally serious and appropriate approach to the topics he's about to write about. Oh wait, the opposite of that. Not that I would mind that type of dialogue in a lighthearted comic, but this arc is going to stop being lighthearted very soon.

This arc is from 2008. Think about the fact that Mookie was a 29 year old man when he wrote those last 4 panels. Think about everything else we seen since then. Mookie's immaturity around sex is ancient and enduring.




Both of these are a little animu for my taste, but still show more effort and experimentation than he would show again for quite some time.



There's that 8 panel comedy beat again. I will give Mookie this, technically that first panel is foreshadowing and important, so good on him for still having a vague idea of overarching story at this point

Get ready for some heavyhanded drama straight out of a lifetime movie



Yes, indeed, here is where we see that Dex was indeed a pill-popping wife-beater from the inner city with a stripper wife. Indeed, the same stripper that Celesto decided not to explode when he killed the other slaughterball dude. Brett Taggerty was getting lapdances from his teammates ex! Not cool dude. Of course, Mookie can't resist putting her in the thong with both cheeks pointed at the reader.

I'm not even sure how Rachel would know Celesto, so them sleeping together feels a little contrived



Talking about consent... I know the joke is anime uwu, but still, those top 4 panels. Downright sinister. And I know that this sort of humor has its place, and was more prevalent previously, but I don't extend Mookie any flexroom any more for any of this stuff, because it all just pulls from his general skeeviness.

Lower panels confirm that Mookie is still thinking about how terrible the people of this small town are....



Greg completely cockblocks Dex after bringing him to town for free sex. Not cool Greg.



That is all the characterization orc culture gets, right there.



So yes, Celesto is here because, contrary to what Dominic said, something very bad is about to happen. Love Celesto's insane rant about how the sheeple deserve to die. Once again, not an argument that Mookie ever directly counters, just tuttuts as being something good guys shouldn't think.



Here comes TIM, once again. The eldritch language he is speaking doesn't look alien enough. Mookie once again wows with his flat, boring coloring.



I'm not even sure why Celesto warned Dex, given his feelings. But this is a bit of an interesting set up, if a little rushed. Dex is confronting the sins of his past, with the knowledge that something bad is about to happen. A good difficult spot for a hero!



Oh wait, he only beat her that one time! Can't have Dex be too bad of a person, otherwise Mookie wouldn't like him anymore. So he's just an alcoholic drug-addict, but not a wife-beater, not really. It's amazing how Mookie by default switches to apologetics for his male characters. The Bartender is in the right, be he crossed a Deegan-adjacent, which means it's time to die



This sequence is just funny. Like this could be a funny joke in a different comic.



Side characters who transgressed against Dex? Dead! Tits in the air, all inflated? You betcha! That's the Mookie we know and hate!

Now it's time for lots of gore!

But first, more animu energy beams!



See?



And so end's the town of Lynn's Brook. Like Celesto said, they sure do deserve it for treating the Deegans badly. I don't even know where these people came from, they just materialized there to be cut into pieces.



All I can start at is his action figure crotch. There is literally nothing horrifying or scary about TIM now. He was scarier with the blindfold.

We'll leave it there for now.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!



this is the big reveal and he just
he looks so loving goofy

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos

Breetai posted:

I want to preserve this snype in amber so that future generations can enjoy it.

The best snipes guarantee someone going back a page to figure out what the gently caress could make that post happen.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


alright alright i'll post the edit

MiracleFlare
Mar 27, 2012
I feel like the best course of action at this point* would be if this is immediately forgotten about by Friday, it has no lasting impact on the characters, and no one ever brings it up again. Sure that's still pretty lovely, but the longer the comic lingers on this the more opportunity there is to turn it into a serious storyline, and the last thing I wanna see is Orcling (rightfully) telling everyone Snout's a creep who can't control himself and the narrative bending backwards to clear his name. I personally wouldn't trust any author with that kind of story, much less the guy who made Stonewater.

(* The real best course of action would have been to not do this, but unless Mookie retcons this entire page out of existence those worms aren't going back in their can.)

Mx. posted:

alright alright i'll post the edit



You're doing the lord's work

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Mx. posted:

alright alright i'll post the edit



Balance is restored in the universe. Bless you.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

Beelzebufo posted:

Chapter 25: Built To Resist (Part 1)



This is perhaps the first sensible decision a character has made in DD ever. I realize it's just to give Greg extra hardship, but still. Good for you Pam, you are allowed to find manchildren annoying and not date them!
It's still pretty amazing that two fairly main characters breaking up is not only not the main focus of this chapter but not even the main focus of this strip. And this is after endless months of Dominic and Luna's terrible romance around the world. This whole drat storyline is Mookie picking up ideas that could make interesting stories and instantly flushing them.

Also the last time we saw Greg at the end of Snowsong he pledged to always carry his staff to remember that at his core he is a healer, so that went well.

quote:



There's that 8 panel comedy beat again. I will give Mookie this, technically that first panel is foreshadowing and important, so good on him for still having a vague idea of overarching story at this point
The big problem with that first panel is that you think people would start getting a little miffed of Dominic being so bad at his job given what happens.

quote:



Talking about consent... I know the joke is anime uwu, but still, those top 4 panels. Downright sinister. And I know that this sort of humor has its place, and was more prevalent previously, but I don't extend Mookie any flexroom any more for any of this stuff, because it all just pulls from his general skeeviness.
It's worse because the "joke" is it's a callback to the outfit that Rachel forced on Dominic.

Trapezium Dave fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jun 9, 2022

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Cool cool cool, love to see the idiot protagonist forcefully mashing his disgusting junk into a child-like character's face. Extremely mature.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
If it was almost literally any other character it would be significantly less creepy or weird.

Emrikol
Oct 1, 2015

Trapezium Dave posted:

This whole drat storyline is Mookie picking up ideas that could make interesting stories and instantly flushing them.

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DamnitGannet
Apr 8, 2007

i thought the tiny orc person was that other orc's (not arudak) secretary or something. didnt we see her(?) leaving with him? god this comic sucks rear end, there are only a handful of characters and i still have no clue who most of them are or how they actually know each other.

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