Beelzebufo posted:

See, this is again Mookie patting himself on the shoulder for help progressive his characters are, despite the fact that Stark's sole characterization is his gayness for Dominic. Also, I understand that DD is a product of a specific time and place, and that Mookie was not writing a subversive gay epic, but again there's of the inherently problematic of having your one gay character remark about how nice it is not to be defined by his homosexuality for once, to the point where it is the nicest thing that anyone has ever said to him. This is why Callan needs gay pride.

Mutant Headcrab posted:

Was just flipping the mouths to make them mournfully sad when I realized that Ink Witch's neck looks like someone violently twisted it.

Mors Rattus posted:

He thinks it’s flirty.

You know, flirtation like “name me, daddy”

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Rotten Red Rod posted:

The second panel actually looks okay-ish. If the rest of the scenery shots looked like that I wouldn't have any complaints - it's nothing impressive, but it works. But instead this is an art style we've never, ever seen before, so it's pretty jarring, especially after the previous page and its depiction of water.

a cartoon duck posted:

invisible ink

SubG posted:

Hm, strange runes on the water, I wonder what...oh yeah, those are exactly the ones I already know. Identically literally every one of the exactly three runes I've seen before. Thank god the arcane symbolic language of the dream realm, through which we will unlock the secrets of a centuries-old mystery, is slightly less complicated than a deck of playing cards.

super sweet best pal posted:

Never read Pibgorn

TheHan posted:

Oh yeah, and it’s funny how much emphasis is put on Serk never being able to hurt Dominic or his family again. Dude’s spent nearly all his screetime being humiliated by the Deegans. They took everything from him, they took his hair. He literally poo poo his pants. He’s not really got the history to warrant such a violent retribution.

Today’s page of the legacy is actually perfect on brand for today’s read through



Kazya’s purity has been TAINTED. Guess Arudak’s got no choice but to move on and let her rot.

Bismuth posted:

whats more unsettling is that gif is reversed!

Moola posted:

Rotten Red Rod posted:

YF-23 posted:

Except for panels 3 and 4 where the chandak is extremely obviously traced from erotica/pornography.

Maxwell Lord posted:

Yeah the problem is Snout has been given absolutely no reason whatsoever to think his friends might be holding him back. There is no actual pressure in this decision because there's no real temptation to go with what the oracle's saying. And of course Snout would never do that because Snout is a nice soft boy etc. You can't make this a decision point when you've established no conflict between "friends" and "the Legacy".

Like okay, in the original Star Wars movies, Luke gets torn between what he sees as his duty to his friends and his duty as a Jedi . He leaves Yoda because he sees his friends in danger. He is told that he must destroy Vader when he wants to save Vader. Those are cases where it seems like he does have to make a hard decision and the choices he makes are important. In the Matrix the Oracle tells Neo that he is not The One, and this instils in him a certain self-doubt because his new friends are relying on him but it helps him to make an important decision.

This is nothing. There is nothing at stake. There is no potential consequence for him being wrong and there is no actual burden he must undertake.

You can't just say two things are conflicting, you have to actually make them conflict.

Eight-Six posted:

Pulsarcat posted:

The other problem is it would require Mookie to realize that Snout actually is holding everyone back and that simply being "nice" isn't exactly a trait worthy of praise, it's the baseline.

It would mean realizing that being kind and being nice aren't the same thing since it would require Snout actually go out of his way too help out others.
It would mean realizing that being generous and being nice aren't the same thing since it would require Snout to actually sacrifice something more than like five minutes of his time.
It would mean realizing that being gentle and being nice aren't the same thing since it would require Snout to show compassion and humility.

But most of all, it would mean realizing that Snout is an awful protagonist whose only contribution too the group is occasionally stomping his foot when mom and dad fight.

I can't look into Mookies soul or anything, but God drat this comic feels like it's written by someone who listens to his friends complain about their day and then praises himself because he's always there for them.

Also I would like to add, it's hilarious that the Seaweed Seer apparently told the others things that hurt them and made them think hard about themselves and what they want.
But the only thing she told our hero is that he's the goodest of the goodboys and gave him yet another opportunity to prove how nice he is with no effort required on his part.

This entire drat comic has been a string of people giving Snout doting smiles while praising him.

Beelzebufo posted:

Right, but these are obligate herbivores, apparently hyper-evolved to root for tubers with their faces if we believe Mookie,

RoboRodent posted:

Hell yeah, saber tooth deer.

There is a thing where a lot of plants have evolved "hey you, eat me to complete my life cycle." Plants may have defenses to keep the rest of them from being eaten, but a lot of them will then put out a tempting edible fruit full of seeds to be pooped out somewhere with a convenient supply of fertilizer. Oak forests will create massive crops of acorns, just to play the game of "if we jointly create as many acorns as we can, it's impossible for all of them to be eaten."

There is definitely room for exploring a sapient plant culture that takes a slightly unexpected view of whether or not it's okay for animal races to eat their seeds. There's room to think about motile plant species and how they're constructed, how they behave, to look at plant species that move quickly in the real world and extrapolate. But, you know, Mookie is king of lazy world building and just ignores all this. It's just magic. It works because magic. It exists because I say it does.

GreenMetalSun posted:

I don't really get why the 'Your girl loved someone else' thing is loving him up so much.

There was a picture of them together in his house, so presumably they had an actual relationship at some point. If she was with someone before him, surely he would have known about it. If they broke up and she married someone else, he would have known about that too. Was she cheating on him (because if that's the implication, I didn't pick up on it)? Why did the seaweed orc's reveal even matter?