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Fuego Fish posted:He can literally read minds, he can know their name and everything else necessary to get them doubting their own memories and filling in the blanks automatically. You could write an entire story around the idea of a guy using the power of telepathy to work his ways up from the streets to being CEO of his own corporation that he runs from the shadows. Instead we have gotten a couple months worth of shoe-horning in as much exposition as possible and it's so boring.
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pospysyl posted:An all time great webcomic line. Some notes: The noble sex worker is, of of course, always down for some weird poo poo with any old crying ten year old who slips em a $20, this goes without saying. That's just how life is, on Da Streetz
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This reads like a rough outline of cool ideas that a competent writer could have fun with. Instead its all rote exposition presented in a toxic green haze. Bad.
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Nuebot posted:Just shake hands with someone? Be like "Hey, ol' Billy I know you from the school thing we went to!" Sure they'll be confused, because they're not Billy. But you can shake their hand and drink in that sweet, sweet human contact you need to survive and vanish before they realize you're a weird homeless stock market child. or "I used my psychic powers to glom onto lonely old people whose dead kids looked just like me", or "I started religiously attending comic-cons looking for the guy with the Glomp Me sign" or basically anything, there's loads of lonely alienated people out there and loads of ways they actually do get their RDV of human interaction without making any friends or socializing normally, but Mulligan thinks they're all exactly as plausible as hookers having as much agency and inner life as a vending machine A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jan 19, 2018 |
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I don't think Patrick's choices are actually being portrayed as healthy ones here. He didn't hire a masseuse because a masseuse would probably have questions about why he wanted people's hands all over him and thought he wanted a sex worker. He didn't sleep with the sex worker because he is trying to be someone who is a Hard Man Living In A Cold World and masturbation is safer. (Note that these choices also mean he didn't have to do anything that would involve establishing an emotional relationship. He could just as easily have joined a sports team or something, but that would have meant exposing himself to the human disease called friendship.)
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Flesh Forge posted:If you start getting sick because no one has touched you in years, you can hire sex workers to come and rub your back. I read the comments about the comic before I read the comic itself. I would have bet cash money that this quote was just some hyperbolic exaggeration about some dumb thing the author wrote. Turns out he actually said that! Yeesh. Flesh Forge posted:They met before she was in college, when she was like 16 and still doing superhero stuff. I think Patrick is a few years older iirc. I don't think he ever hung around her college, not that I remember.
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Rand Brittain posted:I don't think Patrick's choices are actually being portrayed as healthy ones here. Well, obviously. Patrick's messed up from a life of cruelty. The sex workers are included to make his story a little more gritty and salacious, but Patrick's not a real person. We can spend all day imagining different reasons why he would or would not have sex with a sex worker. I, for instance, could counter your argument that he's afraid of catching a disease by saying he could read the sex worker's mind to see if she was clean or not. The reason why it's ridiculous isn't because it's internally inconsistent or whatever, it's because Mulligan's trying to tell a salacious, gritty, provocative story, but he's such a loving prude that he can't even imply that one of his characters had consensual sex with a sex worker. Also, from today's New York Times: 
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It is NOT the time. Shut up!
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Galvanik posted:All the people with powers are the same age I think. Like, they were all conceived or born during a freakish month long storm or something. Yeah I'm pretty sure he's the notable exception, I'd have to dig around in older pages to find where that was exposited but uhhh e: Also Patrick has perfect recall and in theory, full access to the memories of every person he's ever been near, tbh if he had sex with his own body it'd probably not measure up to some of the choice stuff in his memory so why bother, just play back those full sensory 5 star full sensory brain porntubes Flesh Forge fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Jan 19, 2018 |
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Patrick is the same age as the rest, it's just that he was in the minority of kids who manifested at an earlier age than the rest.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:or "I used my psychic powers to glom onto lonely old people whose dead kids looked just like me", or "I started religiously attending comic-cons looking for the guy with the Glomp Me sign" or basically anything, there's loads of lonely alienated people out there and loads of ways they actually do get their RDV of human interaction without making any friends or socializing normally, but Mulligan thinks they're all exactly as plausible as hookers having as much agency and inner life as a vending machine You know, that first one would actually be an interesting idea for a character. Just some weird parasitic creep who goes from house to house pretending to be relatives of sad, lonely people.
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They probably could have done some semi-interesting with this. A dumb horny teenage runaway with lots of money and poor social skills wants to get his dick wet so he hires a pro, but then he looks into her mind and sees all the poo poo she's been through and decides not to. That's at least more believable than "I get sick when I don't get my touches".
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Fister Roboto posted:They probably could have done some semi-interesting with this. A dumb horny teenage runaway with lots of money and poor social skills wants to get his dick wet so he hires a pro, but then he looks into her mind and sees all the poo poo she's been through and decides not to. That's at least more believable than "I get sick when I don't get my touches". the comic is pulling its punches so hard it hits its own self in the face
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Jan 20, 2018 02:45
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > Strong Female Protagonist: If you start getting sick because no one has touched you in years, you can hire sex workers to come and rub your back.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > Strong Female Protagonist: If you start getting sick because no one has touched you in years, you can hire sex workers to come and rub your back. as with this comic, it needs a good edit ...Strong Female Protagonist: hire sex workers to come and rub your back
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Jan 20, 2018 04:58
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You can't take away from the majesty of that single, perfect webcomic sentence.
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I love that this comic keeps finding ways to get dumber.
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He's starved for human touch? (we'll set aside how really, really out of nowhere that expression of need is) He could get a haircut.
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Jan 20, 2018 17:53
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It's gotta suck when you long for physical intimacy, but struggle to remember which body is yours.
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Emrikol posted:It's gotta suck when you long for physical intimacy, but struggle to remember which body is yours. That would be a great bit of monologue. Way too good for this comic.
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Emrikol posted:It's gotta suck when you long for physical intimacy, but struggle to remember which body is yours. It's weird how the comic is now forgetting that Patrick did voice that he had issues with his own identity. Isn't that the same conversation where we got the line about him not being able to read his own mind?
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No that was more recently when he first changed out of his booze soaked clothes.
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Flesh Forge posted:If you start getting sick because no one has touched you in years, you can hire sex workers to come and rub your back.
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i love this comic
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Welcome back 
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o jerusalem posted:i love this comic i love you 
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imo mulligan tells all his girlfriends that he will wither up and literally die if he doesn't get his weekly ration of touchies, and if a few days pass without a cursory handjob he starts babbling and swooning about like a gothic heroine struck down by consumption
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Look, if it works, it works.
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o jerusalem posted:imo mulligan tells all his girlfriends that he will wither up and literally die if he doesn't get his weekly ration of touchies, and if a few days pass without a cursory handjob he starts babbling and swooning about like a gothic heroine struck down by consumption livin the life
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Paladinus posted:Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't work, you can hire a sex worker
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  all the philosophy 101 level rubbish that got months and months and dozens of pages of devoted to it, and Menace's backstory is a single page of bland, vague bullshit
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also, cankles omfg
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These people in a vulnerable position needed me. So I, with the billions of dollars available to me, decided to exploit their powers to turn them into supervillain minions, because I was just so used to crime.
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"An early life of crime led me to become a super villain." Read Strong Female Protagonist, the fresh new take on cape comics!
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I like jaggedy man's little smile. e: NOT a fan of the bully from Arthur. I have no opinions on the witch.
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Wait, there were government tests done on him, his parents knew he was some kind of Damien child, he seems to have kept his name: how in the actual hell was he working without anyone knowing who he was until Allison unmasked him?
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