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Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

There's a new page

It's boring

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Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

why does snout automatically assume the ship will respond to his signals instead of ignoring him like before

why does snout assume the ship is friendly, she said "find the ship", not "lead it to me"

actually he didn't even successfully signal it, why does it care about him now at all

why does the ship automatically assume snout knows where the witch is now when it didn't before

because mookie is lazy and can't write a narrative for poo poo

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

why/how does the ship know this dude is deaf and needing to write things out to communicate

it read the patch on his shoulder, duh

yes i know he took his shirt off

SardonicTyrant posted:

Technically Mookie didn't lie to us. We just foolishly assumed he wouldn't half-rear end it.

lol

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Honestly that could have been ink she was "bleeding" and not blood, we all thought she was "writing" using blood at first since Mookie's art is so unclear. As far as we know he hasn't even treated whatever wounds she might have.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Again, it's super unclear, but I think it's supposed to have been ink the whole time. She has no visible wounds but she was dripping a LOT of that stuff, enough to make people here think she was dead.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Oh gee, what a twist, the mysterious threatening looking ship turned out not to be friendly

Who could ever have seen this coming. Certainly not our moron of a protagonist.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Yeah she's obviously not there, the ship will fly away and then she'll come out of hiding behind a rock or something.

By the way I'm guessing the ship is piloted by someone called the "Space Boy" based on the titles from his Patreon art posts. (I'm getting tempted to give $3 and then cancel just to get access to those for spoilers about this, help me my brain is broke.)

Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Aug 21, 2019

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

All I know is that there's an art piece titled "The Space Boy" and it's part of a string of art updates that seem to center around characters from this Legacy comic and so I assume it's referring to a new character here instead of fanart of another comic and stop making me tempted to pay Mookie $3 to find out for sure

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Always assume Mookie writes with all the skill of a kid bashing their action figures together, but without the charm of Axe Cop.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

God drat it, I broke my own advice and overestimated Mookie.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Sooooo I did it. I paid $3 to Mookie's patreon to look at the art available at that tier. Again, my brain is broke.

I'm not going to actually share the images, because that's not a cool thing to do even for something I'm an ironic fan of. But here's my conclusions:

* I was wrong about the Space Boy, it was just an unrelated drawing of his son.
* The character who actually flies the ship might be the Girl from the Sky, who looks like a black woman with an afro in a space suit. But it's an early concept image so he might have changed his mind.
* Snout's snout used to look WAY dumber, like just a big triangle on his face. Think Pearl from Steven Universe.

And... Unsurprisingly...

* Almost every single art image of the Ink Witch involves her showing off her boobs or butt through the ink and posing like she's in a porn shoot. She is literally just Ink Bayonetta and is 100% a character Mookie created because he's horny. He's been much, MUCH more restrained with her in the comic so far than he has been in any of the Patreon art pieces.

He says she "has an aversion to clothes" and "I hope to keep her partial and/or implied nudity more natural than objectifying." This is below an image of her topless except for some ink on her boobs.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Not curious enough to pop for the higher tiers that have epilogues on Dominic Deegan characters, though.

Edit: Oh, I missed a notable one. One of those bonus images (unrelated to this comic) was a character he created who is a necromancer in a graveyard reading a book called "Put the Romance back in Necromancy" with "Talk to Dead Girls" on the back of the book.

Yeah. He created a necrophiliac necromancer OC. According to Mookie, he'll "either go on to defile corpses for horrible undead rituals, or he's going to be a harmless pervert with a ghost fetish ;) "

Not ;) , Mookie. Not ;) at all.

Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Aug 23, 2019

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Yeah, nah, I'll let someone else venture down that path if they want to drop the :10bux:. It would be wasted on me as I came into the DD mock thread near the end of the strip so I don't know the details of all the plotlines and characters and such.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

It was always weird when Mookie remembered that Dominic is supposed to be an oracle and not just a dbz dude that can do anything.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

WELP guess this isn't gonna be a short story. In for the long haul!

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

That could only be perfected by putting Mookie's painstakingly faux-scrawled signature on it.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Oh my god, how does he keep managing to gently caress up Snout's face in a brand new way every time he draws him

Also, he might as well have lived in that cave in the first place. Pretty much the same as his house, no furniture, no features.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

So obviously the plot is going to be that someone is trying to erase Dominic Deegan's legacy by getting rid of all the books detailing his history and Snout + the Ink Witch lady are gonna work together to tell the world what really happened.

This could easily take a left turn into being a religion with Dominic being the deity. I wonder if Mookie realizes that.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

PMush Perfect posted:

Oh my God, please. Let the twist here be that Mookie discovered at least a tiny amount of self-awareness and Dominic is the big bad now.

Lol, that will never, ever happen. Mookie is VERY committed to the idea that good guys are always good and bad guys are always bad.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

I like you.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

WHO CARES ABOUT DOMINIC DEEGAN, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THAT ARRRRRGHHFBFNGKJ

I mean, I know it will, but Mookie is doing SUCH a bad job setting it up. Ugh.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

PMush Perfect posted:

I'm holding out for more of the entertaining trainwreck, but right now this is just dull and bad.

Yeah he bit off way, WAY more than he could chew trying to make a story that relies completely on its visuals to convey the story and keep the readers' interest. His very sparse, basic art style has always depended completely on being accompanied by dialogue.

These recap pages don't even address that. He's just rehashing things we already know and understood! Why does he have these? They add nothing! He might as well have dialogue-filled thought bubbles, this undercuts his choice not to have those.

Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Aug 30, 2019

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Come to think of it, he doesn't even have a reason to connect the pages to the Ink Witch! He never saw that the pages came from her - the first time he saw her was when she staggered up to his house, long after he gathered them up.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

In fairness we are talking about people who willingly read Dominic Deegan.

But... That's just us.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

I don't really consider paying $3 touching the poop, it's not like I pinged him on Twitter or something.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Yeah, like, sorry I posted about something you already posted, and also bought Mookie a coffee? I guess? I dunno why it offends you so much.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Nuns with Guns posted:

But tell me why it's not weird to buy your way into someone's Patreon just to see if there's any funny material to leak to a mock thread?

Like sure, the classic CAD threads would've probably stooped to that but they were also resorting to cheering on WebDog's weird stalking efforts in a desperate bid for laffy material as CAD shifted into banality. That's what got them banned in BSS and a big part of why every other mock thread was banned in BSS while the Deegan thread was allowed to peacefully die after the comic reached its natural end.

These things are absolutely nothing alike. Paying to access Patreon content tiers is in no way stalking.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Ok, well, if someone takes it further then we'll have a problem, but I'm not. I don't think paying Mookie $3 to look at his bad art is (much) weirder than participating in a mock thread pulling apart every single panel he draws, which is already admittedly pretty weird.

If someone actually starts harassing Mookie I'll be the first to object. But this is a really, really minor thing to get so aggro about.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Nuns with Guns posted:

I know 'lol slippery slope' is a serious political own, but this turned into a debate about whether or not I said it was stalking and I said it wasn't. It's a bid for fresh material to point and laugh at rather than letting it come out naturally, and maybe if the comic on its own isn't delivering that's a sign to sit around and wait for a while and boot up Skyrim for the 100000th time, or that the mock thread itself was a bit premature if we're burning through the publicly accessible laughs so fast.

You brought up the comparison to the CAD stalking, not me.

Nuns with Guns posted:

And the only counter I've seen so far to "Why is this not weird?" is that it was only kinda weird because it was just enough to buy a nice coffee at Starbucks.

I fully admit it's weird, but it's utterly harmless and I gave no indication I was taking it further, and neither is anyone else.

Nuns with Guns posted:

But since we're still rolling with the "I never" I never said it wasn't a wooo~slippery slope~wooo to stalking him. I do think it is, actually, and I'd like to head that off at the pass. Because something about mock threads causes the irresistible urge for people to secure their heads to their asses and cross the line into deeply personal grudges against creators that are generally, not much more than mediocre idiots, and that drains a lot of the fun out of laughing at badly-drawn comics on the internet.

Well consider it headed off. Again, no one gave any indication they were taking it further.

I don't even have a grudge against Mookie - in fact, I didn't say anything, but I thought the comments a few people made about being bewildered he had a son were pretty crass. My sole focus is on the art he creates and how much joy it gives me to mock it.

Anyway I probably helped prolong this so I'll stop posting about it now.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Nuns with Guns posted:

The comments about Mookie's son were lovely, too, and prior comments were people were laughing and psychoanalyzing descriptions of Mookie's wedding photos, yeah. :smith:

Yeah, this we can agree on. Mookie seems like a nice, if cringy, dude. His nerdy as gently caress wedding sounds like a blast and I hope he's a goofy-rear end, embarrassing, fun dad.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

This is really dumb, can we stop

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

And we still have no good reason he cares so much about these pieces of paper except that the name Dominic Deegan is on them.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002


Yes. Good.

I'm tempted to share the 2 proto-Snout images from the Patreon images (just the faces cropped) for SuperMechagodzilla to draw but the thread would probably get mad. (Plus for a Snout face they're mostly competent aside from the hilarious nose.)

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

I’m curious as to what could possibly be the context of the book. Ok so it’s obviously about DD. And it was written 200 years after Dominic did a thing. But there’s no indication of the age of the book itself. Why would it be written in present tense? Is this in relation to an already known arc in DD? The ending of the original run make it pretty clear that after losing his second sight Dominic just lived his life in relative peace and had/adopted a kid? If anything happened after then the book should have been about Luna. You know, the top wizard and protector of the realm after Dominic’s mom stepped down.

Where is this poo poo going? Why should we care? Who is this for???

My best guess is the Ink Witch is actively writing it. That's the only reason I can see why she's got all those loose pages dropping all over the place.

As for why one just dropped right above Snout just now when she (and the ship) is presumably nowhere to be seen... :shrug:

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

The main issue with Snout is how inconsistent his look is, not any part of his design, which is mostly fine. Or at least not outright offensively stupid like Bort.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

This is too wild for me :(

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

You realize this story is gonna end up with Dominic Deegan being mythologized in [name of Mookie's generic D&D world] as a diety, right? Whether Mookie realizes that's what he's doing or not.

Deegan IS god.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Ok now I'm getting convinced Mookie is reading this thread and intentionally making this comic just to troll us

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Reminder that this story has the possibility of fully depicting a loving, consensual sex scene (Mookie is horny as gently caress so it's sure to happen). At this pace I'm thinking it'll probably be between Snout and his shirt.

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Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

I'm sure someone who knows comic layout better than I do could analyze it, but this page in particular strikes me as a horrible failure of storytelling and dramatic tension due to the pacing and panel choices.

SardonicTyrant posted:

Wait, I'm not imagining it right? He's jerking off there and it's not in my head?

You're imagining it. He fell asleep holding his ink brush.

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