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rannum
Nov 3, 2012

So we really going to get an End of Day recap page every single time huh

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rannum
Nov 3, 2012

this banjo kazooie sequel sucks

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Once Snout found out the paper was the Ink Witch, why didn't he ask her, who are you? What is the ship? Why did it destroy my house? Are you in danger? Why do these pages matter at all? All we get this this page where he's like "Found the Ink Witch, still gonna look for the pages because [reason]": https://www.dominic-deegan.com/comic/october-21-2019/

In conclusion, Mookie bad writer.
I don't think we've seen anything that says its the ink witch at all. All we know is it claimed to be a specific spell, but has its Own Things going on and could be removed from the paper.
And he did ask the ink what it was, and the ink went "haha well, don't worry about it, i'll tell you later" and that was that.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Rotten Red Rod posted:

It literally says it's the Ink Witch on the page I linked. Or at least Snout is pretty sure that's who it is and weren't not given any indication it isn't, yet.

oh you're right, should have double checked that

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

how large is the wild edge

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Elysiume posted:

Not only is it a (seemingly) minor delay, there's been nothing that gave any sort of urgency to the quest. Or any sense of what x is, for that matter. It's a small delay on a journey of unknown duration for something that is not pressing in any way. And somehow we're supposed to treat this as a significant decision Snout is making.

also this ship blew up his house & took the ink witch so like how is this not leaping to the top of his priorities

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

mookie breaking out the mspaint spraycan for this

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

it's how you know this is an Adult comic doing Serious Art, I assume

see also: nudity

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Thanks, I H A T E I T

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I would probably passive aggressively point at the armband too so that didnt even phase me
and then once snout realized they had his attention he just shares the note

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

i'm so glad that this is A Serious Adult comic that does Serious Adult things, like nudity, so I know it's an Adult comic

PMush Perfect posted:

God, I want to give up, to stop reading this and make my life better, Use this time for literally anything else.

And yet... morbid curiosity keeps me. If it does get worse, I'm going to find out sooner or later. Might as well at least not be alone through it.

I know you hate the seafoam islands but surely its not worse than *gestures* all this!

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

it's mookie so they'll literally be hitting giant cartoon bones while naked

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

It'll be youth potion and now Snout & Ink Witch have to raise a baby!

sitcom shenanigans ensue, slowly, over the course of 10 months

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Fister Roboto posted:

lmao she still doesn't have a name

at this point maybe she's like toad
both what she is and her name

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I know its really, really petty because not everyone's got the supplies or know how to make colored artwork good and lord knows Dominc Deegan was, is and never will be well-drawn but I despise DD's color strips in particular

Just....just really pulling out the ol' crayola markers huh? Coloring them in like a 12 year old. It just looks so bad in a very distinct way from his usual fair, and its effect is only enhanced by the bad art.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Fister Roboto posted:

There's a lot to criticize about this comic, but this is the dumbest thing for me. A "joke" that is completely spelled out for the reader but also makes zero sense within the fiction. And Mookie definitely thinks he's clever for it. Even when I was a fan of DD I thought this particular comic was stupid.
i can see this working verbally by over emphasizing each of the words. so nice to see you. lovely house you have. Unbelievable etc etc

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

There's just something about Dominic's Mom & Dad being extremely powerful important characters who are very good at everything they do and also bail their baby boy out of trouble near-effortlessly that just makes me go really, mookie

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I always knew DD was terrible and I caught the last few mock threads and sort of knew the highlights of some of the more infamous moments and such but uhhhhhh reading all this, but specifically this last chapter is just going "oh wow ... OH WOW" like hot drat this is way worse than I thought it was to begin with.

catlord posted:

I'm still astonished at how it got so gross, so fast. I don't think my "loving yikes" can get big enough for this.

hard agree on this one!

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

my eyes glazed over most of the cabin Lore Journals what, exactly, is this woman's deal. Weird necromancy revival attempt?

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Thanks! I hate it.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

So I know mookie purposely doesnt plan things out, but, to this point it does seem like he had like...ideas? He may not have sketched out anything that would happen in a real timeline, but he had a rough outline of things he wanted to do.

It's just interesting to compare any of these stories, not just this one, to Legacy where byu this point it is full stop question marks and shrugs every single page.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

The Little Death posted:





So there is a memorial, make sense touching and sweet.
strong homestar runner energy here from the guy on the left's agape mouth

quote:

Get ready for the biggest dick move in history



I laughed out loud when I read this strip. I can't believe Mookie thinks this makes Miranda look kind or generous. It can only be read as upstaging the memorial from the parents of the dead children. It's so garishly over-the-top and doesn't even feature their pictures.



I, too, laughed out loud. Its incredible he thought this was Fine, Normal and Good to put into his comic

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I think Miranda might be my least favorite character in the comic, somehow. Something about Miranda, how she's portrayed, how she's literally dominic's mom. Just comes together in a way than, say, any of mookie's string of other mary sues does. And all his villains reflect more on mookie than they do as characters in themselves.



Also "He wasn't under the protection of his mother" is an amazing line to say with complete seriousness. Like you could have easily said "under the protection of the archsage"

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

The Little Death posted:




In case you want to more confirmation that this is all the power fantasy for Mookie we have this.


Oh my god this particular strip is just so frustrating. Like he couldn't even go a single strip without immediately making sure that Dominic gets the smug upperhand. Because like hey those first 5 panels? I kind of like that! Just instantly turning the tables, setting the power scale, i like the imagry of him falling to pieces but then as he's turning into a pile of ash he's already going "no u" culminating in the last panel and i just hate it so much.

e: ALSO HE HAS THE GALL TO TRYING TO USE "VILE ZOMBIE" AS A SICK OWN TWICE IN THE SAME STRIP

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Kavak posted:

You've jinxed it, we're getting bloody Ink Witch breasts on Friday.

*thinks*

there's a non-zero chance we get an ink witch who uses red ink, huh

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

YF-23 posted:

She's gonna show up by the end of the week. If she doesn't and mookie really just introduced a new wifemum for Snout only to disappear her from the comic again I'm gonna loving lose it.
consider snout just bumbling his way into new wifemoms every couple weeks

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I really, truly hate how that fruit looks

Just every conceivable level

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I think it's kind of novel to let 2 artists do their own thing with the same story, especially for a short little aside like this. Gives different vibes, like in those last 2 pages.


I just wish Mookie also did his version of the story just so we can see side by side by side how 2 separate people clown on his art

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

TheHan posted:

Really hosed up and weird dynamic he's creating. I can't articulate just, how uncomfortable it is to watch a man mold the mind of the woman he'll inevitably sleep with.

So once someone calls him out for this being weird and bad again, she will be escorted out of the story for the next one

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Rotten Red Rod posted:

And C U R I O U S I T Y

(lives his entire life as a hermit walking distance from a huge city made up of his race)

It's still such a bizarre decision (which granted, mookie, but--) to have week(s) of travel scenes that apparently took palce over the course of like maybe a day. 2 tops. And then have the place their traveling too be, as you say, an entire city of his race.

he had the whole hemming & hawing over The Call To Adventure and he's gone all of like what maybe a couple miles from his house??

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

The Little Death posted:

So i guess this is the ink witch coming back.

She was in the last dream sequence from...last week? week before?

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I like how Ink Witch has a ship (for some reason) that destroyed his house to get her (for some reason) then crashed (for some reason) and no explanation for that ship was ever given

The obvious answer is "wouldn't it be cool if there was an ominous ship!?" and "what if that ship destroyed his house!!" and "what if hte ship crashed...reuniting them!!!" and then once he was done with the toy it was out of sight out of mind but c'monnnnnnnn

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Invisible Clergy posted:

I think it's rather more likely that inkwich used ink magic to disguise herself as Arudak, rather than Arudak secretly being an ink witch himself this whole time.

or they're just sharing the dream world

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

This is all real gross on several levels but my eye keeps getting drawn to corpsemomwife being sullen over her existence and Snout's response being dopey uwu offering a hug to her like that

its just like...maximum softboy gross if that makes any sense

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Maxwell Lord posted:

And eternally naked, too. There's all sorts of layers here and none of them are good.

Last week he taught her how to read!

It is just astonishingly bad if she's black on every possible level

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

TheHan posted:

Last time on Dominic Deegan Z: Snout got his poo poo rocked.



Today’s episode, Corpsemomdaughterwife reacts to rocking Snout’s poo poo.

snout's snout just makes that last panel look like he's going : D

Happy Landfill posted:

I still don't understand why she has to be naked

it's ~art~

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

at this point i feel like Ink Witch is just her actual name.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Well except we know that "the ink witches" are an actual order of witches, and that's what they're called, so she must have an actual name.

It's mario rules, she's Ink Witch of the order of ink witches

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Maybe mookie should reread his own comic so he remembers plot points

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rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Amid all the blunt exposition from literally-just-character-profiles i think its the footnote (in a separate font??) about why ink witch doesnt have a name that kills me the most

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