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Something threatens to happen. Thankfully though it still first tell us poo poo about why anything of the last 5 months mattered. Gotta preserve the mystery
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2019 12:50 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:52 |
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Mors Rattus posted:It should be noted that all of this spiraled out from Mookie being mad that people liked the rear end in a top hat knight dude because he was a jock. Also Luna choosing not to go to the magic plastic surgeon was initially really just about mookie being judgmental about plastic surgery and fake boobs. When you read the early strips you see he has nerd boy misogyny about how he doesn't like bimbos and sluts and gently caress big boobs. Then he had a hamfisted arc about a trans woman using an "alterist" because I guess at some point somebody explain to him that plastic surgery has uses beyond "bimbos" Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Dec 5, 2019 |
# ¿ Dec 5, 2019 21:13 |
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2019 05:50 |
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I know we're supposed to assume he wrote that second message right then, but without the plot contrivance of the ink magic, snout furiously scribbling out that message with a brush and ink seems dumb and implausible to me.
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2019 13:42 |
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an extremely lazy dong. Just a thumb sticking out between his legs now. I feel like the nudity would be less jarring if he just made snout a nudist As it is it just pops up out of nowhere for no reason and feels totally out of place. The nudity isn't a political statement, it's not an aesthetic examination of the human body, and it serves no plot point. It's not even doing a good job of normalizing nude bodies because it comes up so rarely, and Mookie calls it out each time.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 05:44 |
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Yeah order was acibek the super golem. why do I remember that Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Dec 11, 2019 |
# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 23:31 |
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PMush Perfect posted:What gets me isn't the random, gratuitous dick, it's that it's gratuitous but it's also just so lazy. Like, it doesn't even look like it exists because Mookie wants to draw dicks (a noble endeavor). He wants to have a comic where dicks are drawn for Art Points. It's dick-based cargo culting. Yeah I think that's what is the most irking. If he'd gone full oglaf and just had the orc and snout go down on each other's hog's it be less annoying than these intermittently flashing the audience to be edgy
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2019 03:50 |
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Farmboy is a stand in for humble origins and a disconnection from the world. I don't think it's even that common in fantasy, especially if you read fantasy with female protagonists. Ranger I think is more boring. Also Mookie is in a glass house when it comes to cliches. His uniqueness comes from cliche mashups, like gluing superheros or metalheads or even legal drama into his fantasy setting. The battle for barthis was so bad, loving benifit concert and a last minute win by the protagonists that was obviously modeled of something out of suits, but is dumb and doubly so for being in a setting with no clear description of how law or the courts or even something like companies would work in this magical fantasy setting. I'm not saying everything has to be pre-defined in worldbuilding, but I really hate when writers assume modern conventions in settings that otherwise don't seem to have any of the components of modern society to make those function. It's just lazy. Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Dec 13, 2019 |
# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 02:48 |
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I can't believe this comic has had 2 dream sequences and neither one of them has had any plot meaning. Literally dongs in a white void twice. nothing communicated to the audience, not even interesting visuals.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 06:12 |
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I'm gonna sound like a broken record, but the dream sequence is baffling to me. The last update might as well have not happened, and at 3 updates a week Mookie can't afford that much wastage. How can someone be this hard at plotting? Even those madlib story games have a better pacing than this.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2019 08:22 |
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Poems maybe? Also I'm sure Mookie is proud of having planned two whole strips ahead. The fact that the only relevant part of the dreams was the literal text spelling out something the audience has never heard of does undercut it a bit. Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Dec 16, 2019 |
# ¿ Dec 16, 2019 03:36 |
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Tesseraction posted:So did he recognise "The Day I Dreamed Again" as something from the library? If so, why did it take until now for him to look at it if he was interested in who the gently caress Dominic was? Did he just pop into the library on the off chance something he saw in a dream was Deegan related? If so what loving book did he pick up? If it's an index like another poster suggested then why hadn't he looked for Deegan in it until now? The implication is supposed to be, i think, that snout has read all the books in the library, and is using his encyclopedic knowledge to recall a particularly moving/beautiful bit of prose from our dear departed author self-insert. Given how much the library and reading in general has come up in this story, it feel like Mookie might be one of those people who posts memes about buying too many books on Facebook.
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# ¿ Dec 16, 2019 13:13 |
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TheHan posted:See I think the implication is that while Snout has seen Dominic’s chapter in that book’s index, the mundane dreams we’re seeing are meant to be visions, and this book’ll either relate to them or give Snout his next waypoint to slog the plot along. Yeah I think the witch is sending him these visions. This could have been effective if we the audience had ever seen that index before, maybe without the author line.
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# ¿ Dec 16, 2019 14:17 |
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So Dominic became a self-help guru huh. Also wonderous magical wonder magic from the wonderous magical heart dreams of magic and wonder. This is exactly how energy healers and the like talk.
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2019 04:38 |
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I'm thinking he's about to set out on a journey to Barthis. Luckily for him it's just offscreen.
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2019 12:22 |
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2020 01:41 |
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Just grinding my horn straight into the hard cavern floor. Don't even tuck it between my legs.
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2020 02:36 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:The only explanation is Mookie is reading this thread and designing this comic just to piss us off I had that conspiracy theory during the last run of the comic. Sometimes comics would come out specifically refuting points raised here.
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2020 02:49 |
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Snout is also seemingly entirely alone, existing with no community other than the squid eyeball thing from the library. It's really unclear what is holding him anywhere.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 12:10 |
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 01:16 |
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I can't believe the pacing of this story. 3 updates to get to the point we knew was coming in December. It's so bad. I know we come in thinking we're going to be snarky. But this is just so unbelievably badly paced.
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 20:10 |
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He says in the blog post that these are just cribbed off of Moebius art. E: And at the risk of sounding snooty, I do find it funny that Mookie talks about only recently discovering the works of one of the most famous comic illustrators of all time. I get that he's more of figure of the Franco-Belgian BD world, but like Jesus Mookie take an interest in the medium. Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jan 15, 2020 |
# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 21:51 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Hey, I'm fine with the "inspired by/lifted from Moebius" part. I'm composing electronic music for the first time ever, and most of my tracks so far outright steal elements from other songs I like - key signatures, basslines, structure, beats, etc. It'd be crazy NOT to build on what others have done, it's how we learn. I wouldn't have a problem with it if it wasn't for the fact that these are the only backgrounds and landscapes that Mookie has drawn so far. It's just weird to say and admit that the only times he bothers putting in things like this is when he's directly imitating another's work. this is compounded by the fact that none of these locations mean anything or will be seen again, and the next place that snout will be will definitely be another white void. It doesn't feel like inspiration out exploration so much as lazy self-indulgence.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 00:00 |
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Mookie made me laugh, at least
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 01:20 |
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Mors Rattus posted:What the hell is that orb It's impressive that mookie can make a circle and two lines off model to the point it's hard to recognize, but that's definitely the ship from way back.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 13:23 |
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Mors Rattus posted:Is this an edit or did he take off his shirt in hopes of a mongrel orgy It's an edit from when his house blew up. This does raise the question of why Snout lives on his own if Mongrelfolk congregate in towns. Too much of an awkward nerd? Everybody grossed out by the second penis growing out of his back?
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 14:06 |
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Bad news guys, the fun thing didn't really happen
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 16:28 |
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Why does Snout even live on his own? Like, this is something that now has to be addressed because he is pointedly not living in the town dedicated to his people, so much so that he had to spend days? weeks? travelling there. skeleton warrior posted:Outstanding Agreed
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 00:38 |
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 19:46 |
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Clawtopsy posted:I cannot get over how the hat is sitting on the head - Is it off-center? Something about it just looks... Wrong. Think about how that hat would have to be sitting for it to cover her eyes and nose as she walks towards Snout. The brim appears to be pulled way down in the front. But ti looks more like its floating in front of her head. But yes, points for effort Mookie.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 23:13 |
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Poor Snout is loveshy
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 01:06 |
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Those are some very carefully drawn tig old bitties. also her loose flowing dress somehow conceals nothing of her curves. Like now I am 100% sure naked witch is coming soon.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 02:28 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:It could easily be that just as much as Snout dodging her hug. This page is completely indecipherable. This is what it is. Snout is freaked out and side-steps.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 20:11 |
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This is poor writing. A lot of exposition but nothing that actually tells us the why of anything.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2020 22:25 |
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Sigfried was a dick from the beginning, but he became good accidentally in Mookie's stream of conciousness writing by murdering Luna's evil mom, Croona. Then he's sort of like a jerk with a heart of gold, until he is made irredemably evil and doomed to hell because of the wiles of the evil Jayden.
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2020 18:54 |
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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. It's like Mookie has a pattern or something.
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2020 20:08 |
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I guess Snout doesn't want to know why what happened to Dominic matters. Stakes? What are those?
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 07:38 |
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The reason Mookie's panels are now perfect squares is he's using a tablet. He started right around the ink witch crashing, which I think is why we're seeing (some) experimentation with technique and texture. He made a blog post about it, which I checked because something felt off about these new strips, and it turned out to be that the panels weren't irregular and janky. Though funnily enough, I feel like that takes away some of the little charm DD has. Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Feb 12, 2020 |
# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 14:29 |
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I'm like 70% sure you could find a picture of Mookie's wife in a witch costume on his instagram or something. This definitely feels like a self-insert fantasy.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 23:02 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:52 |
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I do not have Instagram and I would not go to Mookie's social media accounts. It's just that the ink witch makes me think sexy Halloween costume. And Snout looks like Mookie. So I feel like this is playing out the same Luna/ Dominic self-insert fantasy
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 23:31 |