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Someone let slip there was more Dominic Deegan and now I'm all caught up on the thread. Honestly I'm not surprised at Legacy given where the original went in its second half (nowhere, agonisingly slowly). Thanks for the read-through of Star Power; I actually thought there was some potential in those later stories with Dr Hymn and the alien mobster planet if Star Power wasn't there with the I Win powerset. The character were all still very much Mookie archetypes but Garth's art sold them much better. I also thought it helped that they had to write collaboratively issue by issue instead of whatever whim Mookie is following now strip by strip.
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Twelve by Pies posted:As far as I know that actually never happened, Mookie was solely in charge of the writing and Garth was solely in charge of the art (aside from the bonus story). I am prepared to be disappointed.
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Jun 11, 2021 08:10
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super sweet best pal posted:City with no surrounding structures or farmland outside the walls.
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Jun 14, 2021 10:34
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GrossMurpel posted:Yeah pretty much every depiction of faux-Medieval cities tends to forget they can't just ship in all their food via trucks.
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Jun 14, 2021 12:16
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oriongates posted:He forgot to give his second main character a name and then he tried to cover it up by pretending that was on purpose.
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Jun 15, 2021 04:42
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TheHan posted:I really enjoy how while Dominic’s living on easy street with his free house, kushy job and lackeys to fight his battles the orcs are just offscreen loving suffering and dying. Kinda makes the entire arc up to that point look petty! Keep that in mind when seeing how Dominic decides to spend his time from now until the end of the comic.
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Jun 16, 2021 04:58
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I still had a faint glimmer of hope that the giant walls signalled some kind of imminent potential danger, like at night the plains flooded, or swarmed with carnivorous radishes. Anything that might make things interesting. But nope, it's orcish land zoning restrictions.
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Jun 16, 2021 09:01
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The Maltak plant creatures were introduced in the first place because Mookie went with orcs being a bunch of stock hunter culture stereotypes without realising how that doesn't mesh with being herbivorous. So the reason they have spears and archers is because they hunt plants.
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Jun 18, 2021 02:57
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Twelve by Pies posted:Anyway the point is I don't understand the need for "sentient vegetables creatures" because having tusks doesn't imply meat eating. If it were any other comic I'd assume we're supposed to view that guy as an idiot for thinking big tusks are the same as fangs and that they're used to hunt prey, but this is Mookie and I genuinely can't think of any other reason why he'd have sentient vegetable creatures except if he genuinely thinks that tusks are meant for eating meat. Twelve by Pies posted:I know that Warcraft orcs were a peaceful shamanistic society before they got corrupted by chaos magic or whatever so it isn't a unique idea or anything, but I don't know how much Warcraft influenced Mookie, but D&D definitely heavily influenced him. Trapezium Dave fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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Jun 18, 2021 05:38
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Heliotrope posted:I think Nimmel was a character he made in City of Heroes. edit: I see he hasn't forgotten the fisher orcs, we're going to get an explanation of how it's totally vegan soon.
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Jun 18, 2021 05:51
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I recall Jacob was based on one of Mookie's evil RPG characters, which explains why he can get away with so much more when compared to similar villains such as Celesto.
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Jun 20, 2021 04:54
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The more horrifying thing is that a) we're now past the point where every chapter is a downward slide from the previous and b) we're only at chapter 18 of 45. Snowsong (next chapter) technically falls in the "better" half of Dominic Deegan.
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Jun 20, 2021 07:08
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oriongates posted:Except...where are the halflings? You'd pretty obviously need an even larger population of halflings living in Maltek for the 'orcling' group to become a significant group (even if two orcling parents produce an orcling child, that doesn't really bypass the need for a significant population of both parent types to start things out). I never got far enough in old school deegan, were halflings presented as living in or near Maltek? What're the odds that mookie will even remember to include even one halfling?
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Jun 22, 2021 09:25
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Holy poo poo why would he need to trace for such a simple, geometric drawing. Why. WHY
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Jun 24, 2021 05:06
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Honestly I think everyone is focusing on the art issues because nothing else is happening in the comic. While early Deegan had many, many problems the one thing it did have was pace. Stuff happened, usually daily. Legacy has the same problem as late Deegan where everything is drawn out for months, compounded by the speechless format. I just want them to get to the main desk and fish out the library card dammit.
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Jun 25, 2021 04:09
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Beelzebufo posted:Now, to be fair to Mookie, this is something we have seen him do previously, but I really dislike the ease with which Dominic can just enter Greg’s mindscape here. Just instantaneously via touch. Won’t come up again, but incredibly powerful and dangerous when you think about it.
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Jun 29, 2021 14:47
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I'd forgotten about all the Buzz Beardman stuff.  Rachel joining in on this nonsense feels like a callback to when she tried to turn earlier Greg into a superhero and Greg plain flat refused, saying he wanted to be plain, ordinary Greg. Also it's reminded me that in Greg's mindscape where he was a giant glowing angel he very specifically said that the reason why he hadn't powered himself up before was because he didn't trust himself to abuse it and morph into someone he wasn't, but he trusted Dominic to lead him through it. And here we are. And this would all be fine and actually have great story potential if Dominic ever gets called out for it.
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Jun 30, 2021 00:47
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There were references to comic book heroes earlier on in the comic; it was in the part where Original Personality Greg refused to take part in Rachel's dress ups: It just hasn't been front and centre as the main focus of the story before, and the reveal of SuperGreg is the point where the reader realises that all that Buzz Beardman stuff wasn't just a nod and a wink at comics - it was the entire point. I also think it would have gone over a lot better if this was Greg organically becoming a superhero within the setting and not Greg play acting a superhero (despite actually have the requisite powers). Totally agree with the feeling of Mookie smashing his action figures together here. edit: I will add this though, Snowsong is still miles better than where the comic currently is because at least stuff was happening back then.
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Jul 2, 2021 02:35
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Rotten Red Rod posted:finer Deegan scholars
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Jul 2, 2021 09:20
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Beelzebufo posted:I feel like Pam gets punished for this later but I don't remember exactly what happens. I'm also sure Greg completely forgets any lessons he learned the next time we see him.
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Jul 4, 2021 05:18
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Billy Gnosis posted:Like I think there is still good odds he will abandon this comic before anything happens.
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Jul 12, 2021 23:14
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Breetai posted:Wasn't the Big Bad Unknowable Horror at the end of the original DD basically killed by a bad-guy/shades-of-grey character in what would in any other story be essentially a redemptive self-sacrifice and then from the panel after he dies to the end nothing is mentioned of him again? Or am I grossly misremembering?
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Jul 13, 2021 00:32
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Pam is depicted as universally likeable by ordinary people so I could see her winning the election on her own merits, the problem is how a Queen Pam maintains that position when the entire Callan ruling caste are depicted as murderous power hungry bastards.
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Jul 14, 2021 10:57
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Dominic Deegan is one of the most important figures of all time, now after two hundred years it's time for some random mongrelfolk to finally write his biography. Although it is Snout, I wouldn't put it past him to ignore entire shelves of "The Life and Times of Dominic Deegan". He's spent an entire day of research in an orc library where Luna and Donovan are two important figures in their history and somehow he's only got links to Miranda and "J. Deegan". Robot Style posted:How does this compare to the pacing of the original run? Legacy's updating less frequently, but has more room on the page to move things forward, so 2 years of each should be comparable. Trapezium Dave fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 01:33
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Snout can get a room in the hotel but they have to put a drop cloth on literally everything. edit: actually that might make sense for the Ink Witch. Trapezium Dave fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jul 23, 2021 |
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Jul 23, 2021 05:35
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The last time Mookie did an arc without naming the women he ended up giving them the names the fanbase were using, but somehow I don't see that happening with "Corpsemomwife".
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Jul 24, 2021 00:50
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Billy Gnosis posted:Aren't we the fanbase?  This time I've forgot every characters name except Snout and I don't care because every character is only there to be Snout's helper in a quest that I've also forgot because it might as well not exist.
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Jul 24, 2021 02:14
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Feverishly insisting Milov is the best guy as he forcefully expels an entire religious group just to save face.quote:What follows are 3 strips pushing the overarching plot forward. I don’t have much to say about them, other than I don’t hate them.
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Jul 25, 2021 23:37
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:As you said, none of these ideas came to pass, but I don't recall Mosly or Ethelia at all; like they are never even mentioned before or after this, unless I am mistaken.  Then there was that teaser comic, then nothing. Dominic never gets back in contact with his old friend Mosly.
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Jul 26, 2021 02:39
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I'm not sure it's a good idea to ask someone who presumably named himself "Snout" for creative naming ideas, he's probably going to pick Dominique Treegan.
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Jul 26, 2021 14:35
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Twelve by Pies posted:Honestly I'll admit I'm vaguely interested in it because it actually has the potential to lead to conflict...
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Jul 31, 2021 10:00
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Heliotrope posted:"Hey should we be worried about a massacre that occurred recently?" Of course it also means Dominic looking upset when Luna walks away from his marriage proposal is unbelievable because he absolutely would have scried ahead to know her answer in advance. TheHan posted:Otherwise I don't understand why you'd do an entire arc making Sigfried a lovely lil baby killer just to immediately give his story to someone else.
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Aug 2, 2021 06:18
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Sorry no-one returned your high five there buddy, lets go to Maltak's Most Xtreme skate park.
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Aug 20, 2021 08:58
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I'm fairly sure Zelda Zanzibar is a character Mookie would play at cons which pretty much explains why she is the way she is.
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Aug 29, 2021 02:47
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I always assumed Jacob Deegan was yet another one of Mookie's D&D characters which explains why he has more depth and also explains why he gets treated far more favourably in the narrative than comparable characters like Celesto.
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Aug 29, 2021 03:38
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In the Deeganverse the invention of the bendy straw comes before the pen.
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Aug 30, 2021 12:09
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Yes let's appoint the master name giver position to the guy who named himself "Snout".
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Sep 1, 2021 09:35
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It's annoying because there are some very obvious reasons a school of magic based on the written word might be careful with their true names which could go to some interesting places and instead we've got this throwaway bullshit. Unless the Ink Witch is blatantly lying to Snout but this isn't that kind of story.
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Sep 1, 2021 22:32
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Szark's kink is violent murder so he's particular about the bodily fluids he's turned on by. Entrails, yes; vomit, hell no.
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Given Snout's background is that he voluntarily chose to live like a hermit in the middle of the murderous wilderness you would think he'd have a higher value for his own personal space.
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