Dalris Othaine posted:

I suddenly need to know more about this.

Beelzebufo posted:

So yes, Greg's big idea is to set himself up as a Clark Kent/Peter Parker altar ego to his magic self. I mean this right down to being a reporter. To anyone who hasn't experienced all of this arc yet, you can see why people started to get annoyed. The degree to which Mookie was telegraphing his intentions, and the stupid contrivances he was introducing to get the plot to twist in that direction, were really out of place in the setting.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Jazzhands?

SubG posted:

Like for awhile I thought the gimmick was supposed to be that it (and the rest of her outfit) was a magical construct of ink and therefore in constant flux--which could be a cool gimmick...Mookie could have a character emoting with their outfit, kinda like Roberta Gregory's Midge emoting with her boobs--instead of just a physical article whose exact dimensions and properties remain a mystery to the artist:

Zerilan posted:

Nothing beats him actually trying to write out the songs for the in-universe greatest composer.

Codependent Poster posted:

Why does everyone want to gently caress Snout?

Beelzebufo posted:

by NevrMore on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:14 pm posted:

Please for the love of Christ tell me that either Gregory is imagining this or that I am imagining it from a coma-inducing industrial-adhesive accident.

by Warde on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:19 pm posted:

(This topic was here first...)

Yup, I think that's it for me. I think this is the point where I stop reading.

by Taylon on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:28 pm posted:

...have to be making GBS threads me. Or well, at least in my general direction. What is this...thing?

by Necris Omega on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:29 pm posted:

o.O

...And then all creation collapsed into itself, and existence ceased to be. All that is unmade itself, and history was null and void. The past imploded with unimaginable fury, and the future simply faded away. Nothingness reigned on high, and even silence was too loud a sound to sing of its rule.

by legendary on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:31 pm posted:

And this shall be remembered as the exact moment that Mookie became the most [redacted] man on the Internet.

by Helleshin on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:34 pm posted:

I've been clinging to a shred of hope here, but seriously folks,
someone take this comic out back and shoot it.
The fascinating thing is, I'll still keep reading, just in case a miracle occurs.

by Janika on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:46 pm posted:

legendary wrote:
And this shall be remembered as the exact moment that Mookie became the most [redacted] man on the Internet.

Or the moment that DD jumped the shark. Either works.

But god...all I could do at the sight of Super Gregory was facepalm. What the hell, man, what the hell. Just no. I mean, no, you can't expect reality from a webcomic, but...jesus. This is fail. And I don't normally feel that way about this comic either.

by Silvsilvchan on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:47 pm posted:

madjo80 wrote:
It's a freaking comic! What did you expect? Reality? We have enough of that already.

This is really the most spiteful FAN forum I've ever had the displeasure to visit.


You forgot the quotation marks around 'fan'.

Because you know, not every one that posts on a forum is a fan.

For me, this has been a long time coming. I even distanced myself from the community for a while because when the comic first started to bug me every one else still liked it.

I will probably keep reading. I have been since the first thing he did slapped me upside the noggin. A comic that updates every day is something very rare and gem like regardless of quality.

This just means I will never ever ever take the comic seriously again.

by NevrMore on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:48 pm posted:

madjo80 wrote:
It's a freaking comic! What did you expect? Reality? We have enough of that already.

We really have to go through this again?

We aren't expecting reality. We are expecting internal consistency. Gregory transforming into a loving superhero, especially in a medieval time period when the word superhero did not even exist, is not logical or even entertaining. Willing suspension of disbelief has been jumped, dragged into a back alley, raped, murdered, and thrown in the nearest river.

This is really the most spiteful FAN forum I've ever had the displeasure to visit.

You're silly.

by Taylon on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:52 pm posted:

You know, for the longest time I was supporting the comic. I still do. I've met Mookie in person on numerous occasions at Conventions, as some people here might have as well. Had a nice twenty minute discussion and what not almost every time. Also expressing how much I do enjoy reading the comic and his works. But...


Seriously, what the gently caress?

by Merry on Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:59 pm posted:

Gone are the days, when a good idea or a well placed lowlevel spell saved the day.

Ultimate firepower all the way, it seems. How boring. I dont feel like defending the comic today, no.

by NW on Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:02 am posted:

why did gregory turn into captain planet with a cape?

why?

I know that Snowsong is a reference to a City of Heroes character but can't the heroes solve anything without having to go SSJ5000?

by Thy Brilliance on Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:03 am posted:

This is hands down, the worst strip in this comic.

No matter how much you try to sugarcoat it, it is simply impossible to praise this strip.

Constructive criticism you ask?
Let's try:
No wait, I'm still stuck in wtf.

Let's try again:
Inconsistencies, out of character, discontinuity errors, horrible dialogue, i.e. "Believe it Dex."
It's not even funny.
I think the plot got shot in the face multiple times.

I mean, Mookie, I know you like comic books and everything, but some genres just don't mix. Is this strip a subconscious self depreciating satire of the comic, your desire to move on to better things? You really have to ask yourself that.

And to all those who find these comments deplorable, remind yourself that these opinions are given freely, in the efforts to actually improve the comic.

by Hinoarashi on Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:14 am posted:

Mookie, please tell me you're fuggin kidding us.

I'm gonna pray you're fuggin kidding us.

PLEASE tell us that this is just Gregory's imagination and he is really just showing his white fire on the outside right now.

...please don't make us have to come down there and keel you.

DamnitGannet posted:

Remember the other ink witch and the other dude with her? Remember how they were bad guys who kidnapped ink witch? I don’t think Mookie does.

Riot Bus posted:

Though, like I've seen a few mention in the Keenspot forums, I think that DD's update frequency had a lot of people hanging on for much longer than they might have otherwise. A webcomic updating daily had a way of keeping people around regardless of what went on.

Beelzebufo posted:

What is the nature of the relationship: Mookie provides us no clues as to what the context of that relationship is, or what sort of trouble Veth could get into for talking to Snout, which is what was implied could happen with the clandestine note. What are the stakes for Veth? What are his goals? Does he like Daxethar but finds his professor's manners embarrasing, or is there fear/resentment/hatred there?

Bismuth posted:

To be fair to people back then (lol) The stonewater thing wasnt...that out of the ordinary for webmedia at the time was it? I remember being a girl online back then it was sort of hard to find any webcomics that appealed to me because they were a bit dominated by the 2000s gamer boy demographic so the market was pretty saturated in sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. Not defending mookie for doing it, but I can see how readers may not be that shocked by it considering the "market"

Bismuth posted:

I'm still bewildered by ... Mookie ... comic

Bismuth posted:

Do you think he even asked if they had books about Dominic?

super sweet best pal posted:

Spaceballs is still pretty great.

Codependent Poster posted:

Spaceballs still rules.

Beelzebufo posted:

And here's the first instance of the really gristly misoginist imagery of this arc. There's something about the viciousness in the way that Mookie drew Milov literally tearing Jayden's throat open, and her dead on the ground, that is gross. Not because it's a woman being killed either, but because this is explicitly the immediate reaction of the man who has been cheated on. It's this enacting of violence towards the significant other that is just too reminiscent of real-life, and given how Jayden is going to lay the blame for all this squarely on herself, and that she will actually be physically assaulted later in this arc, I don't give Mookie a pass just because it's an "illusion" or Milov apologizing later for "losing control". Mookie is the author is in total control of everything that we see and read, and he chose to draw Jayden dying this violently immediately after revealing her infidelity. That is symbolic punishment. That is misogyny.

Billy Gnosis posted:

I know I posted this before, but by this point Mookie has been hired and fired as a burlesque emcee. The same person who wrote the above that feels so misogynistic and sex negative (also like it was written by a boy half his age)

Billy Gnosis posted:

If I cared more, I'd track down when he complained about being ousted on the Deegan website. But that feels like way too webdoggy for my tastes.


But good? to know that maybe he grew up a bit

I'm sure as hell not watching that video but I'm happy? it exists. Maybe.

Codependent Poster posted:

lol so Dominic definitely wrote that rule because he saw the future and has been puppet-mastering Snout all this time