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Wait until it’s revealed that he’s the descendant of the orcs involved in you-know-what.
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Alright, so I’ve recently been reading some books on writing, and one of the major things that’s stuck with me is that (roughly paraphrasing) every single paragraph, line of dialogue, etc. should be written to have at least some kind of a hook that makes the audience want to read the next one, and so on and so forth for the whole story. With a comic like this, I’d say that each page is roughly analogous to a paragraph... In which case, this strip is basically a do-nothing paragraph that fails to really give the reader any reason to be concerned, intrigued, or anything for Snout, because it’s clearly supposed to be the first half (or third, quarter...) of what should have been a single, continuous page that’s been hacked into multiple pages. And it’s really obvious that it’s only happening because Mookie’s apparently got this drip-feed strip format nailed down in his head from the original Deegan days.
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Nov 29, 2019 17:45
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Oh gently caress me, I thought it was supposed to be a montage of him going to different past locations and getting summarily rejected until he lucks out on the final one.
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Nov 29, 2019 18:03
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Also they’re metalheads or something like that, it’s been forever since I read DD when it was being posted in the bad webcomics thread.
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Dec 1, 2019 02:27
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For 200 years you’ve been asking: Who is Dominic Deegan? This is Dominic Deegan speaking. *proceeds to fart for six hours straight*
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Dec 1, 2019 22:40
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So, wait, he found all of the pieces of the message now, right? So what the gently caress is he supposed to do now?
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Dec 2, 2019 06:54
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I mean, I’d be more surprised if there wasn’t a “revelation” that he’s actually still alive two hundred something years later.
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Dec 3, 2019 19:35
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I never reread Deegan, but if I remember right, Luna indeed revitalized the orcs’ homeland by sacrificing her womb because she was an awkward cross between The Chosen One and White Man’s Burden.
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Dec 3, 2019 22:30
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This comic will end how DD began. With a *FAP*
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Dec 4, 2019 01:56
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I forget, has it been said if he was born deaf? Because I could easily see him doing something incredibly stupid that ended up with him losing his hearing.
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Dec 4, 2019 17:21
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But the bear is the orc’s pet!
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Dec 5, 2019 18:53
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Really though, all that’s happened is that he finished assembling all of the pieces of the prophecy, including one from a Whomping Willow reject that flipped the bird at him, and then ran into some orc that the magic piece of paper is trying to warn him about.
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Dec 6, 2019 01:03
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Didn’t he basically say that he thought that physical handicaps were good examples of character flaws? I never followed DD before it finished, so I’m only half remembering this stuff secondhand.
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Dec 6, 2019 01:50
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RandomPauI posted:I tried to start a family by turning a tree into a woman and a bird into a baby but I kept getting "yes yes yes". Were you trying to name the bird Jolyne?
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Dec 8, 2019 17:33
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Yeah, one of the few things I still remember from the original Deegan was one of his students from the “now I’m a grumpy teacher” arc doing his homework and realizing that a ton of major prophecies from all over the world just so happened to all be made on the exact same day, despite originating from all sorts of different cultures. I forget if that ever actually had any payoff, or if it was one of those few genuinely interesting plot hooks Mookie made that he then quietly forgot about in favor of puffing up Dominic’s ego.
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Dec 8, 2019 21:11
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See, in the hands of the right author, that could at least be some kind of foreshadowing, if not the central question for a mystery that the characters try to solve. Instead, it’s really briefly brought up, and then just... never gets explored ever again?
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Dec 9, 2019 01:18
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...That is some prime material for editing into you know what.
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Dec 9, 2019 05:43
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Oh, I really don’t disagree at all, considering how... tasteless the original strip already was. Really, DD was largely solidly mediocre with a few kernels of good ideas that another writer probably could have executed better... And a few arcs and individual strips that made you wonder “what the gently caress, Mookie?”
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Dec 9, 2019 18:43
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It’d be a fun gag if someone tries speaking to him in the dreamscape... And he has no idea what they’re saying, because he’s only ever known the written word.
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Dec 9, 2019 21:36
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To be honest, I like that idea better anyhow.
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Dec 10, 2019 05:00
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He’s totally psyching himself up to finally draw a woman’s tiddy.
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Dec 11, 2019 07:13
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From what I vaguely remember, Dominic & co. killed his evil girlfriend during one of the earlier arcs right in front of him, and he swore vengeance against them because he truly was in love with her. Wound up becoming the Champion of Chaos (or something like that) over the rest of the comic’s run.
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Dec 11, 2019 23:21
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Oh yeah, and her death was when the whole... thing with women dying with their asses in the air started too, I think.
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Dec 11, 2019 23:22
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I only ever read through it once, and that was when someone was posting the entire archive of it across the first couple of incarnations of the Bad Webcomics megathreads like a year or so after it ended... So everyone else already knew about all of the worst bits ahead of time. I just remembered that whole arc where they got married and took a honeymoon in what’s still one of the clumsiest attempts at world building that I’ve ever seen. Though that arc also gave us the overall best character of the entire comic.
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Dec 11, 2019 23:38
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Oh, I forgot until I went looking it up on a lark just now: Celesto also wound up getting killed off forever at the very end with only the very same strip building up to it.
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Dec 12, 2019 09:59
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Wasn’t that kind of always the thing with DD? Like, he never planned ahead outside of a broad strokes idea of what the current arc’s story would be.
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Dec 23, 2019 19:36
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Also, the gently caress is that throwing motion?
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Jan 6, 2020 03:53
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Snout's routine is whatever Mookie imagines his character in No Man's Sky might do. Unfortunately he forgets to actually translate that into representation on the page. His characters can read his mind, but the audience can't. You loving called it. Also, notice how Snout literally puts slobbering over Dominic’s knob ahead of himself?
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Jan 8, 2020 03:09
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And again, as has already been pointed out, there’s next to no sense of a progression of time. We have no idea if this was all in one day, or if it’s been weeks or even months since Snout began his journey. All we’ll ever have to go on for that is the inevitable  journal entry that doesn’t even attempt to make itself look like it’s not addressing the audience directly.
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Jan 16, 2020 21:17
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ninjewtsu posted:That waterfall landscape isn't terrible. There's something approaching a sense of scale there I’ll agree to that, though it would absolutely be better served with some coloring. It took me a moment to figure out that it was that, and not just some random crater.
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Jan 16, 2020 21:48
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I just figured that the thing following him was a scout for the “real” ship.
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Jan 24, 2020 06:38
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I’ll cop to it going over my head.
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Jan 27, 2020 07:03
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Oh. ...Ohh.
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Jan 27, 2020 21:41
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Or she gets fed up with how long communicating with writing is taking, and just magically grants him hearing... which just makes things worse, because it’d be the first time Snout’s ever been able to hear, and gives him sensory overload. Also, gonna play a bit more conservatively and guess that it takes two months of strips for Mookie’s kooky nookie with the witch.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:19
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I feel like this take from another goon is relevant to the discussion at hand. https://twitter.com/samBkays/status/1188287817152991232
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Feb 1, 2020 17:50
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If this was a physical comic, it feels like we’d only have something like three or four issues worth of material if it was starting from the very beginning. Set up the setting in the first, second and maybe third pick up after his house is destroyed and feature his hijinks trying to get the pages, and the current issue is everything from just after getting robbed by the orc till the present.
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Feb 6, 2020 08:44
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I’m surprised that we don’t have a :loss: yet.
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Feb 11, 2020 00:45
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I forget, did the original strip ever have an arc where the big reveal was that the seemingly-trustworthy character was actually the villain? Because I could definitely see the twist coming with the Ink Witch actually exploiting Snout’s gullibility for some nebulous agenda that involves... the legacy of Dominic Deegan.
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The Little Death posted:I know, I just find it funny that the act that cemented him being on the side of Deegan was brutally murdering a woman, who was old and vain and therefore evil, and the act that damned him also was about a woman and sexuality. This is all the more hilarious to me after I just got done reading a summary of the Golden Fleece for the first time, for some reason.
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Tesseraction posted:Maybe it's due to the cursed bridal shower poop cake posted in GBS but that last panel looks like they're sitting underneath a giant turd impaled on a tree, that's just, shedding poop flakes. You can’t just mention that and not link to it.
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