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Nighthand
Nov 4, 2009

what horror the gas

Once Stung was a staple of the bad webcomics thread and owns. Sure, maybe it's fetish material, but at least it's weird and horrifying in a not overtly despicable way like MoJ or Snout's Spicy Saturdays.

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Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002



Wow, look, we were all correct. No consequences. None of this meant loving anything.

Also, "Orc women are incomparable. Attaboy." :stare:

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse
The sound I just made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zBTF4INW5g&t=23s

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


Twelve by Pies posted:

That red headed grandma is stacked.

It's come up in this thread before, I vaguely remembered it being called Once Stung and a google search of that confirmed this. And yes, it's not just the faces that are terrible in that one, every character seems like they're half stick figure.

http://oncestung.thecomicstrip.org/comics/143/

Seriously look at that woman on the left in the first panel. She's part snake or something but even so.

once stung loving rules

that's some proper webcomic poo poo right there. reminds me of vendetta


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Rotten Red Rod posted:



Wow, look, we were all correct. No consequences. None of this meant loving anything.

Also, "Orc women are incomparable. Attaboy." :stare:


agggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Rotten Red Rod posted:



Wow, look, we were all correct. No consequences. None of this meant loving anything.

Also, "Orc women are incomparable. Attaboy." :stare:

This is unbelievably pathetic.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

"Oh Snout, you're the bestest boi! We're so glad you hosed!"

Goddamn every character doesn't act normal and they all loving suck.

Billy Gnosis
May 18, 2006

Now is the time for us to gather together and celebrate those things that we like and think are fun.
Mookie just loves to add in weird racism but it's OK because it's coming from the good guys, doesn't he?

Also love to see that next to comments that are basically "we thought you were just throwing a little boy tantrum"

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

This whole chapter is incredibly vile. I think this moment just made me hate this worse than the Elf War from Star Power. It's not as immediate a reaction, but the more I think about it the more it disgusts me. There's just SO many things wrong, from the contrived situation, to Snout's bizarre choices, to the incredibly inconsistent characterization, and of course the gross sex Mookie definitely traced from porn.

It just all leaves an awful taste in my mouth, and I think it's my personal choice for worst writing from Mookie.

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

Rotten Red Rod posted:



Wow, look, we were all correct. No consequences. None of this meant loving anything.

Also, "Orc women are incomparable. Attaboy." :stare:
This is the best webcomic. So good.

skeleton warrior
Nov 12, 2016


The idea that they aren’t angry and in fact are proud of Snout as a good sex-having boy is just so absolutely atrocious, especially because the fact that they aren’t angry doesn’t change the fact that Snout still completely did an aboutface on his moral stand because he had a chance for nookie. That’s a personal failure of will and morality, not some subjective “it’s bad because your friends are unhappy with you” thing.

Jesus, it never cease to amaze me that the main part of this comic that is ‘fantasy’ Isn’t magic or orcs or ink space ships, it’s that the protagonist is always right and justified and a good soft boy

Bismuth
Jun 11, 2010

by Azathoth
Hell Gem
god, i knew it, this comic is incredibly predictable, until its not, and then its horrifying

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

lol

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

when did whatsher name learn to read and write ? wasnt she illiterate?

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
We all knew it was coming, but having him just toss literally the only thing resembling plot development in this comic just like that still astonishes me.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

That's similar to but worse than what I predicted

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


BattleMaster posted:

That's similar to but worse than what I predicted

i assume this is because you predicted nothing would happen, however instead nothing happened but aggressively so

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

I knew the comic would revert back to everyone treating Snout like he's their ten year old boy at some point but I didn't think it would happen right now goddamn.

Marin Karin
Jul 29, 2011

What are you, compared to my magnificence?
THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOO loving BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
It's the bits about fishing that really do it for me. Really trying to justify buying those fishing rods.

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.
Actual literal masturbation would be less masturbatory than this.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
And so this surprisingly explicit plot cul de sac comes to an end.

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse
And just like that, a hard swerve to avoid conflict and plot development

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Synthbuttrange posted:

when did whatsher name learn to read and write ? wasnt she illiterate?

Nope she was immediately fixed when Snout found that flower, which included relearning language and writing skills. No, I am not joking.

Ron Paul Atreides
Apr 19, 2012

Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

SubG posted:

Actual literal masturbation would be less masturbatory than this.

Isn’t it amazing? We try not to armchair psychoanalyse too much here (:classiclol:) but you can’t help getting the impression that something is just deeply off with how Mookie understands relationships between people

Heliotrope
Aug 17, 2007

You're fucking subhuman

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

Isn’t it amazing? We try not to armchair psychoanalyse too much here (:classiclol:) but you can’t help getting the impression that something is just deeply off with how Mookie understands relationships between people

I don't think it's quite that, more that Snout is the main character and therefor a Good Person. If he does something a Good Person wouldn't do, the narrative and the other characters will bend so that Snout is a Good Person in their eyes - no matter how ridiculous it is.

YF-23
Feb 17, 2011

My god, it's full of cat!


Rotten Red Rod posted:



Wow, look, we were all correct. No consequences. None of this meant loving anything.

Also, "Orc women are incomparable. Attaboy." :stare:

This is loving incredible. I didn't think it would be like this. I expected some kind of wishy-washy "awww it's fine, we don't mind", not "sick gently caress bro".

Billy Gnosis posted:

Mookie just loves to add in weird racism but it's OK because it's coming from the good guys, doesn't he?

For whatever it's worth that's Arudak's line so it's some kind of ethnic pride more than racism. Mookie's not bold enough to have his waifus loudly proclaim that they also gently caress like that. Arudak gets to do that because he's a boy.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



This is... Skin-crawling, but boringly so?

MiracleFlare
Mar 27, 2012
"Orc women are incomparable. Attaboy."
URK. That is certainly a sentence. I know the handwriting is very slightly different between characters so theoretically I should be able to learn who said that, but that's more effort than this comic deserves. I'm gonna assume the most logical, least problematic option that it's Arudak. That's still kinda weird of him to say both to a non-orc and in mixed company (I'm not sure if i could call him friends with IW just yet, and definitely not with Kaianda since they haven't interacted much)

Also holy poo poo this is just complete aversion to any kind of conflict or even just some different personalities between characters. Maybe one of them could be immediately forgiving and congratulatory, but someone might go "we thought something bad happened to you, why couldn't you at least tell us you were going somewhere!?" or "wait, so you slept with someone you thought was hurting us?" and it leads to some bickering of if any of it really matters. It doesn't have to be a huge fight and they can all forgive Snout in the end, but just maybe Snout could have been held responsible for his actions for more than two seconds? His supposed flaw of making bad decisions when horny doesn't mean much if it doesn't have consequences!

There's also how they go on about how they've burdened poor Snout and he deserves some time off from them, and also if it'll make him happy they can go fishing? There are several ways to read the relationship dynamics here and none of them are headed for a healthy place. I don't want to call it codependency because I'm not sure if that's the right term for it, but this feels like the trio going out of their way to appease Snout, even if it means pushing aside their own wants and feelings, so he won't leave them ever again. Maybe Friday will have Snout ask "are you sure you're all okay, let's talk about this some more", but it feels more likely to end in a group hug and/or a feel-good panel of them all fishing.

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.
It's a "Dear Pevnthouse Forum" letter that ends with "and then they all stood up and clapped".

Like it's such transparent wish fulfillment that if Mookie was a remotely better writer it's all so over the top you might suspect that it's all a fakeout and Snout's still having a vision and it's just the Dream Realm or whatever playing off Snout's insecurities, selfishness, and hubris. But if Mookie was a better writer we wouldn't be here in the first place.

Fuego Fish
Dec 5, 2004

By tooth and claw!

Synthbuttrange posted:

welcome back.

Welcome? Welcome? I have to see mutant softboy Scrunt jam his malformed weenus into a bog hag? And then watch as all Scrunt's poorly-written friends high five him for having sex? THIS IS A WELCOME?!

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



Fuego Fish posted:

Welcome? Welcome? I have to see mutant softboy Scrunt jam his malformed weenus into a bog hag? And then watch as all Scrunt's poorly-written friends high five him for having sex? THIS IS A WELCOME?!
You went back to the thread about the comic where Mookie draws naked people.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Rotten Red Rod posted:



Wow, look, we were all correct. No consequences. None of this meant loving anything.

Also, "Orc women are incomparable. Attaboy." :stare:

gently caress you Mookie

Bismuth
Jun 11, 2010

by Azathoth
Hell Gem
Do ou think we'll ever learn why he erupts into crumbly dicks when he gets a boner?

Pulsarcat
Feb 7, 2012

Wow, no one could possibly have predicted that this would end with everyone patting Snout on the head and telling him he is the goodest of the good boys.

I love how when Snout feels bad everyone rushes to comfort him.
But when they feel depressed they all just need to get over it and rush to comfort him for making him feel bad.

Seriously, not only does their messages to him bounce back and forth between, "Don't you worry slugger mom and dad will take you fishing!" and "Way too gently caress that orc!"
But they all but apologize for feeling bad in the first place.
Like, a vine clone who didn't exist a few days...weeks? ago and has insecurities about her very soul just needs to toughen up sunshine,
but Snout who feels bad because he's not the one who gets to help his friend needs comforting and reminding that he's great.

Roleplaying Larry
Dec 5, 2008
Me, upon finding out a guy I knew for a few days had sex with someone of my race:

White women are incomparable. Attaboy!

GreenMetalSun
Oct 12, 2012
It's really not relevant that the chandak (of course she doesn't have a name) wasn't evil, most of us already called that.

It's that Snout believed she harmed his friends on purpose and he stopped caring about them as soon as she flashed her puss at him.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009



Every comic is a painful reminder that story must not progress on punishment of death.

Everyday Goast
Nov 27, 2011

spoopy

locker room talk, but written in your friend's diary

TheHan
Oct 29, 2011

Grind, you poor fool!
Grind straight for the stars!
Holy loving hell, who thinks like this? A grown man wrote this? They’re congratulating him for the gently caress like he won a softball game and now gets to go fishing with pop as a reward. This comic has really bloomed into the most repulsive flower.

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Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

FATAL & Friends
Walls of Text
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2014-2018

Once again this feels directly targeted at people criticizing the comic, and once again it is a baffling answer.

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