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Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

GrossMurpel posted:

He's still making fun of this thread because we said he's only focused on tits and dicks. It's obviously a self-parody :smug:

Apparently.

So, Mookie's responding to people criticizing his comic online by tuning all the elements we criticize up to 11. Can't make fun of him if he makes it suck even more on purpose.

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Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
So, any bets on if this rear end in a top hat will have a porn book about Dominic Deegan?

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Ok. This is not a suggestion to improve anything. But why do the Mongrelfolk wear pants when none of them have belts and it's clearly a huge inconvenience.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Damnit Mookie. This wasn't even a library. You spent two strips establishing Mongrelperv as gross and pointless. So of course he has what the plot needs.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Invisible Clergy posted:

I don't think gnolls exist in deeganland.

Correct. No Gnolls. These are Mongrelfolk, original fantasy race do not steal.

(Gnolls have more dignity, and belts)

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Okay, Pervmongel look way too excited about the prospect of a sale. You aren’t going to convince me he doesn’t do a brisk smut business in this town.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Ideas make me go cross eyed every time.......you know what, this is Snout. Perhaps thinking does make him go cross eyed.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Look, this is really easy to understand. Dominic Deegan was a seer for money.

So obviously, that's the service Ink Witch would offer as well. No other way to make money with magic.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
He really can't stop drawing Snout cross eyed.

And. Um... Yeah he rest is pointless really.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Time for another journal and then naked dream I guess.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
I just don’t like these interludes because they are pointless. Cool, you can poorly draw cock and tits. Hurray.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Why must every naked sleepy time interlude take a whole week of comic. It’s like a cycle now. 3-4 weeks of comic, then a week of journal and naked sleep.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
So. This I a dream, because Ink Witch fell asleep in a thong, but now she’s completely naked.

Oh, and the river of course.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
I mean, they've had two naked dreams, she's slept with him topless, and he doesn't know her name. They're a couple now, let's move on.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Holy poo poo! That crafty orc villain with his dastardly deeds. How dare he purchase that book legally!

...The most passive of antagonists, for a story with no stakes.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Original Dominic Deegan was much worse written than this, but not as boring. It also had some classic mock highs.

Legacy is so dull.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
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.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

I actually like this one....

Understandable. It's rather an inoffensive joke. That said, you've only really got this joke once in this sorta comic.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
It’s a loving cube...come on Mookie.....God damnit we’re going to be following a plot about the mystic loving symbol “a cube”

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Sure is cool that those ink dripping pages are just lying there for Snout to pick up and show.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
I appreciate how they are gathered around for the opening like it's the loving ark of the covenant. This monumentally important book they bought for 10 bucks at the Mongrelfolk pornography store.

Edit: he has the opportunity for a laugh here. They need to open it up to a cube shaped rear end.

Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Apr 20, 2020

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

PoptartsNinja posted:

I can see why this book was in the Porn Dollar Store.

The perverted Mongrel really was the crafty one. He sold these suckers garbage for 10 bucks, and got to keep all his valuable porn.

Okay. So, what does this lovely nothing do for our idiots at all. I assume none of them are seers, thus they can't travel the dreamscape.....oh drat, he's going to make Snout a seer isn't he.

Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Apr 23, 2020

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
And with that I think I'm done for a few weeks. When the joke is "main character confused" because the author has intentionally provided no information.

When the audience has no idea wtf you mean, you look at them directly and say "confused yet" you loving suck as a writer

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

PoptartsNinja posted:

If she's trying to get out of þe olde Wilde Edge, why did she pick the one guide who's clearly never been more than ten feet away from his house and knows less about the place than she does?

I’m not sure why she’d need him at all. She had/has a ship/spell capable of flight. And those pages were worth fuckall.

Glad to come back after my short break to an argument carried out in a book for a deaf idiot.
In this comic with “no dialogue”.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
You know, I think we all knew something like this was coming. Doesn't make the Ink Witch using magic to spell out her argument to Arudak any less stupid as hell in this comic with no dialogue.

Look Mookie, both of these characters have been established that they can hear/speak just fine. Unless she's trying to convince Snout with her argument, (and it sure as poo poo doesn't look like she is, since she just walked away from him last comic), she has no reason to yell using magic, when she's perfectly capable of yelling using her voice.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Ahh, Dominic's Legacy was that cat suit he got sexually assaulted in. That makes a lot more sense.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Edit: On second thought. I actually don't want to know the answer to that question.

Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 21:46 on May 6, 2020

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Well, you see, they both need his help, because [SCENE MISSING]

They just know Snouts going to be important.

Because you know, Snouts going to be important, Mookie knows this, and thus all his characters act like it subconciously.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Is she immediately coming onto him after writing? "I hope you still trust me" Is that what is suppose to be happening?

Damnit Mookie. And this means we get another week of naked sleep time and dreams.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
So. Snout is both Deaf and an idiot. I mean, it’s a bold move to upgrade your protagonist to “eats paint” level of critical thinking.
I just thought he was bad around other people and easily manipulated.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

The Little Death posted:



Everybody shut up about Mookie's old hacky drawings, let's talk about him wasting a week of strips on Looney Tunes gags for no reason.

Ehh. I’ll take a week of this over naked sexy time....unfortunately I feel this is just delaying naked sexy time.

And triclops Minotaur is a much more interesting character design than Snout

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

TheHan posted:



This week has had, what I think, are some of the worst jokes in the series. They feel like the jokes of a man who doesn't want to be here.

:gbsmith:

Alright, we've had a week of Snout running around like an idiot. His head is clear now.

....So next week will be naked dream time.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

TheHan posted:

Interesting thought...what if instead it was more stupid jokes? Just an endless parade of pointless garbage?

Still an improvement though!
So, “going to clear my head” was Mookie code for “go waste a few weeks on nothing”

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

super sweet best pal posted:

If the laundromat loses your laundry, it had better be responsible for it.

Best part is, this bathhouse has an item check area, which implies they are responsible for those things, but not your loving clothes.

Whatever, this was a contrivance to get Snout naked again. But not to lose his way to communicate to us in diary.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Codependent Poster posted:

They don't have a better system that "tall stool and stepladder" either? Imagine how many people fall off of those things.

You know, now that you mention it. Why the gently caress is giant Minotaur triclops giving out free cupcakes, this seems like his ideal job?

I hate to say it, but I like giant shaggy Minotaur triclops as a character design, and will likely use it for my own amusement elsewhere. So good on yeah for that character Mookie, please never draw it again.

Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 08:30 on May 28, 2020

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Oh yeah, isn't Snout supposed to be totally comfortable with nudity? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to end up without clothes for some reason and to think it's no big deal? But no, that character trait was dropped when Mookie decided it was time for bashful naked cuddles with the Ink Witch.

Snout doesn't act all act like someone who's lived his entire life away from other people - why did he ever live alone in the Wild Edge if he was so well read and curious about the world, dropped his home like a wet blanket the moment he needed a certain book, and got so excited about Mongreltown? Why had he never even heard of Mongreltown (since it's clearly only within a few days' walking distance of his home)?

It occurs to me, once again, that I'm putting more thought into this than Mookie did. Snout was a hermit because that was the setting Mookie wanted, and now he's not because this is now the setting Mookie wants. Not because of anything related to his character or motiviations.

Also, if perv mongrel is to judge, Mongrelfolk don't care about nudity either. Well, until just now because as you said, Mookie wanted it.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Alakantar posted:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180329103529/https://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2012-01-06

Mookie posted:

This week has been weird. I've had a buffer of comics prepared for most of the week, which I haven't had for years. That buffer is now gone, and to be honest I'm relieved. My sense of "what happens next" was a little off as I was working on comics a day or two ahead of the update schedule. But now that my buffer is gone (thanks to a combination of Star Wars and babysitting) things will be back to normal for me next week.

Oh yeah, we talked about that blurb in the original thread, back all those years ago. It's basic confirmation for anyone who wants to know that he doesn't storyboard these things. He's doing these comics for himself, even down to the "and now what happens" he has to dream every time he sits down to create a comic. Not knowing where his story is going day by day is exciting for Mookie.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
Ok, well I’m less offended by the low effort tracejob and more annoyed by the inconsistency of Mongreltown’s ascetic. A honestly minor thing given this comic.

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

The Little Death posted:

I feel like choosing Nighthawks was his way of hanging a lampshade on his tracing. He obviously knew people were talking about it, so now he's done it in a way that is so blatant he can pretend there was never any attempt to obscure his tracing at all.

It’s so this. Mookie may not read here, but he obviously reads people’s opinions somewhere and noted people were talking about his background tracing. So he traces something absurdly obvious, then explains he’s tracing so he can justify it in the future.

I’ll reiterate my opinion. I am less annoyed with tracing Nihthawks and more annoyed by how just tracing your backgrounds makes your Mongreltown seem inconsistent. It’s like a ninja village from Naruto, but with a Central Park, an open air market, and a 1940s diner. It feels all over the place.

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Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler
....Is Arudak actually insulting/think poorly of Snout. Because those pants with that patch right in the center of the chest....

I am reminded of “here comes a special boy” shoes from Achewood.

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