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Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

TheHan posted:

Recapping a week where nothing happened.



I don't think I've ever seen a story where the protagonist explicitly draws attention to their call to adventure.

He has to call attention to it otherwise the page ceases to be a 'doubting myself but ADVENTURE' montage and just comes across as a page depicting Snout as someone who lives in a 'beautiful' but desolate place in an isolated way, who has had enough of writing in his journal for the day and is heading home. Hell without the text this could be the first time we ever saw Snout and it'd probably be a better intro than what we got.

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Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Weird how he went for a super conservative neckline (like that's what you give pyjama shirts/nighties) but then went out of his way to vacuumseal her into the dress anyway.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Remember she is literally Ink Bayonetta. Cheesecake is guaranteed.

But there are so many better options even before considering entirely new fantasy fashion :argh:



Sorry for banging on this weird drum but it's really bugging me for some reason :psyduck: Is it that old Mookie sexism rearing its head? He couldn't bear the thought of his new fave girl "choosing" to give herself anything cheesecake appropriate because only villains want to look sexy, but he still wanted to show off her figure because he's desperately horny for her?

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Would it have been so hard to show her body dynamically making the same arc as the ink, giving the brush some mass and her a more interesting pose? She's just standing there with an arm up like she's not hauling a giant hunk of wood around, that's boring.

Unrelated but:

Meowjesty (in 2010) posted:

I like his name. Celesto Morgan. Celesto. Morgan.

That's like the name your hippie mother gives you after giving birth in a field of flowers. It just flows together so well.

I was backreading the older threads with that greasemonkey script (good work!!) and y'know what this is still true 10 years later.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

YF-23 posted:

Nothing stopping him from adopting an orphan from mongreltown together with the ink witch now that they have confessed their love to each other by being together for five minutes.

Nah, they'll use Luna's magic eggs so they can really be their kids!

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
If you take the dick away from the balls and flip it upside down it's probably one of the best fingers Mookie's ever drawn :v:

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

TheHan posted:



Finally in Konoha, good god. I won’t even get into the logistics behind that sign.

He wishes he was in Konoha :colbert:



Wouldn't look out of place in the Boruto era though, I guess. At least in the modern bits.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Weird how a porn store full of porn/sex books insists on having all the covers be blank text and no pictures.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

TheHan posted:

You know what's not funny? These book titles, c'mon Mookie edit a little.



It's dumb that this store that seems to only stock sex books happens to have a book on exactly what Snout needs, but man, I'm just glad this is going somewhere.

Oh neat, more confirmation he's reading this thread. :v:

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Hey, Renewal is just Expression seen from above! :argh:

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Come to think of it why does the monster man have a boring human dick anyway :colbert: Once again, bereft of creativity for his fantasy universe. (:nws:)

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
The perspective of the bed plus the way the ink witch is lying makes it look like Snout is levitating off the bed as he sleeps.

edit: what the gently caress is up with the way her shoulder and back connect?

Pyrotoad fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Apr 1, 2020

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Drunk Theory posted:

Talking about the heroic rapist arc reminded me that Mookie intentionally cut off all other aspects to force the narrative.

Remember, the orc matrons check the hymen to ensure heroic rape happened. Remember that detail Mookie forced into the situation so that it had to happen as he was wanted it to.

IIRC there's also a panel where Stonewater tore her clothes up.

Back to Legacy I went hunting and found this note on the Dominic Deegan page in Tvtropes of all places.

quote:

In May 2015, Mookie revealed that a new stretch goal for the Patreon of Star Power would be a sequel comic called The Legacy of Dominic Deegan, set two centuries after the original comic. As of 2018, however, this stretch goal has not been attained, but in July 2019, The Legacy of Dominic Deegan officially began.


So nobody really wanted it but by god he's doing it anyway!

Pyrotoad fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Apr 9, 2020

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Libra posted:

Her name is Dominic Deegan Jr. The Sixth and that's why she can't reveal it until a dramatically appropriate time.

edit: alternately her first name is Legacy of Dominic

IMO she's some derivative of Luna or Miranda.

Alternatively she's named Morgan because the twist is that she's a Celesto descendent rather than Dominic.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Midnight Voyager posted:

I love how the idiot has just assumed they are arguing for petty reasons and not because like... I don't know, one of them murdered the other one's family or one of them is a war criminal. I am sure he will be right and they will have to reluctantly team up or whatever, but boy would he feel stupid if he realized he was telling a nice person and a war criminal to just get along.

Mookie's absolutely got form for wanting victims and their abusers to just get along.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Hostile V posted:

We get it, you liked the idea of Yog-Sothoth.

Bold of you to assume he was inspired directly by Lovecraft and not the World of Warcraft old gods inspired by Dungeons and Dragons old gods inspired by Lovecraft.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

TheHan posted:

I always thought they were vegetarian cause Mookie was vegetarian and he wanted his pet race to have his favorite traits.

As a vegan, yeah that's probably about as deep as it goes. It's the only pure and good diet, so of course he'd never want his orcs to nom nom nom on any meat (unless it's got *~*mavpel*~* in it!)

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
So the next chapter is going to have Snout say 'I know' for sure then, because no Mookie protagonist is allowed to be outsmarted or not secretly in control of the situation behind the scenes for long.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

TheHan posted:



So the Ink Witch didn’t actually lie about anything. Arudak gave all the same answers except explained how they make her look like an rear end in a top hat.

What the gently caress is her skirt doing? Is that supposed to be an upskirt :gonk:

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

TheHan posted:



Wow the tension diffused at lightspeed. Definitely worth the week of buildup.

What's he writing in panel 3?

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Why is he still doing that lovely 'tail above the clothing' thing goddamn. It's a towel. Fold it right and boom, handy slit for the tail to go through without looking awkward as gently caress.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
A common novice art tip I've seen for drawing stuff is to draw a (for example) shrimp from memory with no reference, then trace over a bunch of images of one angle, then a bunch of another, and then a bunch of another and so on until you have a massive collection of a shrimp from many angles. Then you have to draw a shrimp from memory in a brand new pose now that you understand how its body fits together and ooh wow look at the difference, you can draw a really good shrimp now!

The difference between that and what Mookie does is that you don't upload the first trace and pretend you did art good. And if he has decided to make it intentional, what is the intent? What statement is he making about mongrel society juxtaposed with IRL art and photography?

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

The Little Death posted:

Love that Arudak is a wife beater too. This is Mookie trying to make us like him less because he's figured out that the inkwitch seems like the villain so far.

:tinfoil: Oh god no I think I know where this is going :tinfoil:

It's gonna be a whole thing on callout culture. See, they heard he did all those awful things from 'a trusted source', even though he was fine with them, and then they started ostracising him on the basis that he allegedly did bad poo poo to presumably good people before, and later on they felt like they were justified in loving up his poo poo for their own benefit.

Later on it's gonna turn out that all of those people were assholes who attacked him first, or lied about being attacked, or they were never attacked at all because the source lied because they don't like Arudak or something.

Always count on Mookie for the worst possible take.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

PMush Perfect posted:

There are three problems with that theory. 1) If Mookie had enough understanding of the rest of the internet to know what callout culture is, I don't think he'd still be making this extended train of runny shits. 2) Ink Witch is based on Mookie's wife, there is no way the comic isn't going to frame her as always right all the time. 3) That would display a startling lack of moral myopia, given what comic we're reading.

I'll give you the first one, but that's why I brought up the 'the source lied' thing, leaving room for the retcon that while she didn't personally take part in the bullying because she's a Nice Girl, she didn't try and stop it either because she was scared of the other witches in the coven turning on and browbeating her for not believing the source and by proxy the people he attacked, and therefore blames herself with them even though she had the least involvement, which tracks with Mookie liking doormats who blame themselves for everything.

As for the last part Mookie going for the 'those lying bitches ruined an innocent man's life' take on callout culture feels pretty in-character to me.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

PoptartsNinja posted:

Snout is Jar-Jar hanging out with Ink Gon Jin and Orci Wan Kenobi, his only reason for being here is to make things harder for everyone just by existing. Except at least Jar-Jar was committed to helping others against a vague conspiracy and economic blockade that was destroying peoples' lives a sith lord.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
I'm actually thinking we might be in a reversal with Arudak now - maybe he did do all those bad things but because Mookie spent so much time trying to make him likeable first we'll all get the supposed dissonance and 'makes u think' factor that he was going for with Stonewater.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
I feel like the discord will be handy to keep around for shitposting or really wide derails though.

Anyway, I'm kinda sad none of the livestream videos are around anymore, or at least none of the ones I've found. Would've been fun to hear live reactions to the bullshit.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

RBA Starblade posted:

It would be at least sort of funny if every one of them got a name but The Ink Witch

What if her name turns out to be Veyin K'wij.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Elysiume posted:


What is this jawline/chin situation?

I don't know but that's one angry bird!

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Everything about Snout's deafness is made infinitely worse by deaf characters like General Amaya here existing (spoilers for The Dragon Prince, season 3. There is no reason, literally none whatsover, for Snout to be this incapable of communication beyond making him seem as childlike and helpless as possible. Like this show went out of its way to add ASL, a complex language which necessitates focus on one of the most difficult parts of the body to draw and animate, and he has this guy holding up pieces of paper with Xs on them when he gets mad about a conversation that, once again, he has been excluded from for no reason.

Pyrotoad fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jul 11, 2020

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
I wonder, since Snout's the POV character and he's passed out, does this mean he can skip over the potential confrontation between Arudak, Squidward and the newcomers, and they can fill him in later with text so now Mookie doesn't have to draw a combat scene and just has to draw a static bedroom scene?

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Maybe we're in for the arc being retold again, but this time from Squidward's perspective with her internal dialogue and thought processes. And then once that's done, we'll have the same deal with Arudak. Three arcs for the price of one!

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Who What Now posted:

It's pretty convenient that they're all facing the exact same direction so that Mookie doesn't have to draw them in anything other than a 3/4 profile

I could see that being used for cheesy eeriness in a webcomic that went into the effort of drawing more than three of them. Like imagine if Snout came across a completely flat rock expanse, with hundreds of these things lined up facing away from the sun, casting shadows over every step he takes. Maybe he doodles on one, maybe he takes a nap in the shade of another. Then he leaves a little offering of food at the feet of one with a more severe crack in the face than the others.

Once he clears the crowd, he doesn't look back, but the camera does a 180 to show they've all turned to watch him, and the one with the cracked face is nowhere to be seen.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Not to mention that time he decided the best time to reveal Bumper (who was a thief) was black was when he was mindcontrolled and about to assault Luna, and then also that panel of him stuffing fried chicken into his mouth like an animal, and also how Bumper was, IIRC anyway, like the only casualty of The Beast that wasn't a one-off side character.

I guess that's not in the text though. But still, says a lot about what he thinks racism is.

Pyrotoad fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Aug 7, 2020

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
Anyone else getting bad vibes from the girl with alien dreadlocks repeatedly apologising for being 'uppity' because she's just too goshdarn arrogant or am I reading too much into it.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
From The Owl House, episode 13.

Oracle? Check.
Snoutface? Check.
"See the truth."? Check.



The Deegan is out there.

Also I'm not gonna speculate on the cabin thing, assuming he's taking a break with professional advice behind it. If he recognises that he's A. not doing too great mentally and B. it's affecting his family, then I'm all for him taking some time to help himself because this is a lovely, lovely time for everyone.

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Rotten Red Rod posted:

At least it's just necromantic vines (what does that even mean) and has nothing to do with his necrophiliac necromancer idea, aka "zombie rapist".

:stare:

:catstare:

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
I don't really play DND but I've always interpreted Lawful Good to mean someone with an uncompromising system of values/moral code, often connected to their belief in some divine power which guides them, even if it puts them at odds with the mortals and mortal laws around them, but if it fits she sits. Like, one of my Alliance characters in World of Warcraft is a paladin and she routinely ends up defending reviled classes like death knights even from other paladins, because her moral code demands that she protect the weak and her allies. Death knights were explicitly accepted by the High King of Stormwind and you're supposed to treat them as any other soldier, therefore if she sees some other paladins abusing a death knight for existing near them, she will stand up for that death knight, even if she's personally afraid of the undead due to her #tragic backstory.

I always assumed the terrible results you get with some Lawful Good paladins comes from the kinds of people who automatically assume that if something is illegal, it must be wrong, and that's what they mean when they saw 'lawful'. Like, someone who thinks prosecuting someone for stealing a TV from Walmart during a riot should be the top priority.

Have I gotten it wrong all this time and have I been playing my paladin as Chaotic Good? :psyduck:

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Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen

Rotten Red Rod posted:

And if you’re wondering if it’s explained where he got it... It’s not!



"Ah, yes," Mookie realised as he put pen to paper. "People won't think she's dead if there's not a gratuitous rear end-shot."

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