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Mors Rattus posted:Save her from…what, exactly? Like, is he planning to resurrect her? He must be. If there's a memorial to this war then it didn't just happen yesterday, it's likely several years old. As someone who recently lost a family member, this doesn't bode well for me. If orc guy is portrayed as anything other than unhealthily stuck in the "bargaining" phase of grief, and Mookie frames his quest to bring his wife back from the dead as a good thing... Well. It'll be Mookie, I guess.
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Aug 25, 2021 14:12
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Arudak’s dead wife just feels totally tacked on to make him more sympathetic now that he’s a protagonist. It’s kinda hilarious how Mookie’s idea of him has changed so much that even Arudak’s appearance has changed to be more appealing.
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Aug 25, 2021 15:18
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Damnit, Arudak, we just got done with the first necromantic vines subplot, the last thing we need is another one!
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Aug 25, 2021 18:00
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We still don't even have an explanation of why Ink Witch was opposed to orc guy in the first place. By her own words, he owned the pages they were after, but didn't "deserve" them. Doesn't that make HER the antagonist, for stealing them (and then promptly losing them in the wild edge)? And then of course all of that is extra dumb when you consider the pages had, like, paragraph of text, which presumably either of both of them would have read already, making the pages pointless. Apparently it wasn't much of a conflict anyway, since all it took was Snout going "MOMMY DADDY DON'T FIGHT" and now they're like best friends who have been partners for years.
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Aug 25, 2021 18:04
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Sometimes dead is better.
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Aug 25, 2021 18:23
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Maybe Arudak is really the villain and is manipulating Snout to help him? Antagonist seeks ultimate power and does terrible things with it to save a loved one is a pretty common trope.
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Aug 25, 2021 18:30
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Roman Reigns posted:Maybe Arudak is really the villain and is manipulating Snout to help him? Antagonist seeks ultimate power and does terrible things with it to save a loved one is a pretty common trope. That might be a good story, so almost assuredly, no.
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Aug 25, 2021 18:32
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It's pretty straightforward: Snout: Martyr Complex Mookie Arudak: "Nobody Understands Me" Loner Mookie Arudak's Dead Wife: A sexy lamp Ink Witch: A sexy lamp with a post-it note stuck on combined with Mookie's nostalgia for the early 2000s "con scene" (esp. glomping). In other words, she's Mookie's desire for external validation. Kaneda: A sexy lamp, TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOO Redactor: Mookie's critics Palm Strike: Mookie's latest 'evil party' D&D character PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Aug 25, 2021 18:37
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Roman Reigns posted:Maybe Arudak is really the villain and is manipulating Snout to help him? Antagonist seeks ultimate power and does terrible things with it to save a loved one is a pretty common trope. one thoroughline in terraciano's works is that good people do good things because they're good, and bad people do bad things because they're bad. loving someone is a good thing so obviously arudak is a good guy. nothing in the story so far suggests that trend is gonna get bucked
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Aug 25, 2021 19:16
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Roman Reigns posted:Maybe Arudak is really the villain and is manipulating Snout to help him? Antagonist seeks ultimate power and does terrible things with it to save a loved one is a pretty common trope. This is exactly what we all thought would happen when Ink Witch kept lying to Snout, putting him in dangerous situations and violating his privacy.
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Aug 25, 2021 19:45
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And then someone asked Mookie on Twitter if she was supposed to be the bad guy and that's how we got the detour to the house on haunted hill.
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Aug 25, 2021 20:23
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I still don't understand what the story is here? It feels like the whole comic is a weird fever dream of jumping from setpiece to setpiece. Like, for as bad as the original Dominic Deegan and Star Power were they usually had a fairly basic plot I could follow. Like Dominic's Legacy now includes raising the dead or some poo poo?
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Aug 25, 2021 20:31
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a cartoon duck posted:one thoroughline in terraciano's works is that good people do good things because they're good, and bad people do bad things because they're bad. loving someone is a good thing so obviously arudak is a good guy. nothing in the story so far suggests that trend is gonna get bucked If he was bad it would be lust, not love.
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Aug 25, 2021 21:09
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Didn't the Ink Witch also say that Arudak had severely injured someone he was intimate with?
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Aug 25, 2021 21:25
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If so, well, you know how women lie... which doesn't reflect on my own personal worldview in any way......... ............... .........................
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Aug 25, 2021 22:36
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I totally forgot that ink witch and arudak hated each other
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Aug 26, 2021 00:58
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Mookie knows they're both good guys now so etc. Even in Deegan he cannot conceive of someone who disagrees with you for reasons that make sense to them.
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Aug 26, 2021 01:00
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Zore posted:I still don't understand what the story is here? It feels like the whole comic is a weird fever dream of jumping from setpiece to setpiece. no, you understand correctly
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Aug 26, 2021 06:36
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Zore posted:I still don't understand what the story is here? It feels like the whole comic is a weird fever dream of jumping from setpiece to setpiece. Fever dreams at least have some off-the-wall creativity.
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Aug 26, 2021 08:14
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Rotten Red Rod posted:all of that is extra dumb when you consider the pages had, like, paragraph of text Yeah one of my fave things about this entire comic is that every piece of text whether typed or written is in like 72pt font. They waste so much paper because they only write like 5 words per page when trying to communicate, and dip pens, fountain pens, quills, or even fine-tipped brushes dont seem to exist
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Aug 26, 2021 08:16
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The characters have become tragically aware they're in a Mookie comic. They're doing the best they can to introduce Snout to people and places where a plot point might start or advance, but it keeps ending in congratulating Snout, then sleeping, and more sightseeing. They know Snout's the protagonist, but writing paragraphs of expository dialogue, waiting for him to hit another library, then vaguely dream about it is grinding the story to a halt. They remember antagonistic characters, but they were about as consequential as that minotaur guy Snout kept bumping into.
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Aug 26, 2021 16:16
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Zore posted:I still don't understand what the story is here? I'm sorry, the what now?
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Aug 26, 2021 17:52
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I'm sorry, the what now? I think it has something to do with books? God, I loving love books.
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Aug 26, 2021 17:56
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I think it has something to do with books? God, I loving love books. Mookie loves books in the same way that people who performativity post I loving Love Science factoids loves science. His enjoyment of literature starts and ends at where he can use it as a signifier of his own superiority.
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Aug 26, 2021 22:01
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I want redactor to get a giant fountain pen like IW's brush broom and stab somebody with it then suck their blood into the ink reservoir
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Aug 27, 2021 03:02
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I bet the redactor is having a more interesting time than this Inasfar as it couldn't possibly be less interesting
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Aug 27, 2021 03:07
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At this point I think you all are being very optimistic about her ever showing up again
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Aug 27, 2021 05:01
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She's going to, if for no other reason than that she's tired up with punch man, who iirc is one of mookies older ideas so he wouldn't drop him entirely.
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Aug 27, 2021 06:01
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 Mookie is just addicted to emotional catharsis now. Just sacharrine moments devoid of real meaning, like a webcomic This Is Us. (I know this is us is better written than DD, don't attack me) What comic do you think he traced panel 2 from?
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Aug 27, 2021 11:20
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everything but the last panel is traced, and the jump to the art in that panel is jarring wonder what search words he used on google to find them
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Aug 27, 2021 12:07
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Any% pathos speedrun
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Aug 27, 2021 12:40
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Now kiss
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Aug 27, 2021 12:56
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TheHan posted:Any% pathos speedrun 0% plot slowrun
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Aug 27, 2021 13:44
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Beelzebufo posted:
Eeeeehhhhhhhhh depends on the episode
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Aug 27, 2021 13:56
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Who What Now posted:Eeeeehhhhhhhhh depends on the episode I wasn't able to watch past season 1 cause I felt the writers trying to artificially twang my heartstrings. But even they wouldn't try to pull a Mookie and have characters who have otherwise barely interacted having a tearful moment over some long dead love of one of them, after months of nothing happening. Mookie, you can't possible believe that any reader is feeling sympathy for Arudak right now.
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Aug 27, 2021 14:24
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So he literally just brought him here to be sad in front of him?
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Aug 27, 2021 15:37
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Fister Roboto posted:So he literally just brought him here to be sad in front of him? He's manipulating him into a pity-gently caress. Pretty sneaky, Arudak...
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Aug 27, 2021 15:52
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super sweet best pal posted:How does everyone here come up with names? I just stare at the screen and think of random syllables until something sounds right. If I'm not going with a theme of some kind, I usually use Behind The Name's generator.
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Beelzebufo posted:I wasn't able to watch past season 1 cause I felt the writers trying to artificially twang my heartstrings. I'm pretty sure one of the triplets took a first date to the house their dad burnt to death in or something lmao
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