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Bismuth
Jun 11, 2010

by Azathoth
Hell Gem
Boy if you go back to the very beginning, not only does snout look considerably different, but the other characters side profiles DO NOT look like they do now


Also Snouts body hair doesnt form a thick defined T shape over his torso, and his shoukder boils look more like small scales

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Dalris Othaine
Oct 14, 2013

I think, therefore I am inevitable.

Bismuth posted:

You could replace every face with Snout's and it would take me so long to even notice

"I... I only wanted to see the faces. Human faces. I thought... I thought that if I could gain the ability to access the morphic fieldset, then perhaps I could see faces... By peering into people's minds, you could understand how they were processing the expressions of others."

E: wow was I lucky this lovely reference wasn't the new page ty bismuth

Pseudoscorpion
Jul 26, 2011


Dalris Othaine posted:

"I... I only wanted to see the faces. Human faces. I thought... I thought that if I could gain the ability to access the morphic fieldset, then perhaps I could see faces... By peering into people's minds, you could understand how they were processing the expressions of others."

E: wow was I lucky this lovely reference wasn't the new page ty bismuth

If Mookie wrote 999, it would resolve the entire plot in 5 minutes then the rest of the playtime would just be the animation of Lotus' boobs bouncing on loop.

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!


catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
One time, when I was a kid at summer care or whatever, we went to a lake, and one of the other kids said something and was sorta spinning his hand around, and I just sorta stuck my hand out. Turned out, he'd found a rusty fish-hook on a line and was swinging it around, and it went and got me right in the finger.

A completely pointless story, only tangentially related to the comic at hand, but since we're apparently going to do a week of fishing mishaps, why the gently caress not.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

I mean I know that Mookie is vegan and thus wouldn't have any recent experience with fishing but dude apparently does not know how casting a line works.

Also the lovely timing of the panels where in panel 1 the in-water fisherman is casting a line and Snout is watching, to panel 2 some time later when Snout is trying it himself, to panel 3 where the other fisherman has apparently packed up for the day? Only to see an idiot hook himself in the tail.

Regardless, that guy in the water has absolutely minuscule lines of water displacement compared to what he would actually on such calm waters.

Emrikol
Oct 1, 2015
I wonder how long we're going to be doing this. After spending a month flying over a lake, anything is possible.

You know, initially I was going to say that these comic antics are an improvement, but they mostly just reaffirms how hapless Snout is. The comedy is always about Snout trying some trivial task and failing at it, and it just highlights that he never succeeds at anything. Once again, Snout tries to do a thing, and his foolishness is immediately rewarded with painful failure.

Emrikol fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Apr 25, 2022

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Tesseraction posted:

Regardless, that guy in the water has absolutely minuscule lines of water displacement compared to what he would actually on such calm waters.

it's not water. it's cum. the lake is made of cum

Eight-Six
Oct 26, 2007

digging up this days-old quote because drat if it isn't exactly what I'm feeling

Pulsarcat posted:

We've been in this damned town for nearly half a year now, so somewhat over 60 strips I think.

And we learned everything we know about it literally the moment it was shown, that it's a fishing town, that's it.
Nothing about the town has had any impact on the story, no characters we've met are tied too it in anyway other than "lives near it".

So why the hell would anyone reading this want the story to spend any more time here?

At least when Mookie kept putting himself into Dominic Deegan you sometimes would get weird poo poo like magical Heavy metal.
But now that he's a boring middle aged man, you get poo poo like "I want to take a vacation too a cottage and maybe get some fishing in while I'm there".

Emrikol
Oct 1, 2015
This is my routine reminder that we have no explanation within the fiction as to why they came here. The obvious reason was that Mookie needed to get them away from the library ASAP, but he's made no explanation in-story other than "Arudak wants to talk to a chandak he knows". We don't know what it was that he said to her, because Snout is deaf.

Libra
Jan 5, 2011

Not only am I unclear on what the party is supposed to be doing right now, I'm also unclear on why they're a party in the first place. This is like a ghost or a shadow of a story. It has the partial skeleton of a generic hero's journey tale, but they're all vestigial bones that don't connect.

Cemetry Gator
Apr 3, 2007

Do you find something comical about my appearance when I'm driving my automobile?

Libra posted:

Not only am I unclear on what the party is supposed to be doing right now, I'm also unclear on why they're a party in the first place. This is like a ghost or a shadow of a story. It has the partial skeleton of a generic hero's journey tale, but they're all vestigial bones that don't connect.

There's Snout. He's deaf.

Then there's the witch who writes things?
Then there's Oedipal sex witch, but not always?
Then there's Accidental Nazi orc?
Then there's Orc who's also sleeping with Oedipal sex witch?
Then there's Garbo - the magical space alien that only Snout can see who causes lots of comic hijinks. Oh that Garbo. He's kind of the breakout character.

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Libra posted:

Not only am I unclear on what the party is supposed to be doing right now, I'm also unclear on why they're a party in the first place. This is like a ghost or a shadow of a story. It has the partial skeleton of a generic hero's journey tale, but they're all vestigial bones that don't connect.

The rest of the party is just T-posing in a dark shack somewhere because they're not on screen at the moment.

Douche Wolf 89
Dec 9, 2010

🍉🐺8️⃣9️⃣
mookie sourcing ideas from a book of cartoon cliches "should this happen to the one who gets erections, or the reformed nazi"

a cartoon duck
Sep 5, 2011

Cemetry Gator posted:

Then there's the witch who writes things?
Then there's Oedipal sex witch, but not always?

thought you meant the same character for a second

Vox Valentine
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0BlM70n4Yk&t=227s

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

FATAL & Friends
Walls of Text
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2014-2018

I miss Orb Made Of Smaller Orbs.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Cemetry Gator posted:

Then there's Garbo - the magical space alien that only Snout can see who causes lots of comic hijinks. Oh that Garbo. He's kind of the breakout character.

I thought her name was like Caianda or something

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Mors Rattus posted:

I miss Orb Made Of Smaller Orbs.

poo poo, me too.

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.

That’s a fly fishing set up and trawling lines. You wouldn’t use those on a lake. That’s for river fishing. You need a spin caster to get the right distance on a lake otherwise you just end up in the shallows all the time

RoboChrist 9000
Dec 14, 2006

Mater Dolorosa

Mors Rattus posted:

I miss Orb Made Of Smaller Orbs.

So do I, but they're too good for this comic and you and I both know it.

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.

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

That’s a fly fishing set up and trawling lines. You wouldn’t use those on a lake. That’s for river fishing. You need a spin caster to get the right distance on a lake otherwise you just end up in the shallows all the time

But but but he retweeted someone praising his accuracy

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!


Billy Gnosis posted:

But but but he retweeted someone praising his accuracy

torn between a lol and just an increasingly angry howl of disgust at this whole endeavour

worm girl
Feb 12, 2022

Can you hear it too?
I can't believe nobody's made an edit where the hook gets caught on his boner.

Emrikol
Oct 1, 2015

worm girl posted:

I can't believe nobody's made an edit where the hook gets caught on his boner.

If the comic went full Olgaf-style sex gags, it'd better than what it is. It would be improved by going all-in on pretty much anything.

Like, god, just do something.

Emrikol fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Apr 26, 2022

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

remember the incredibly graphic poorly-drawn pornography

it was better than this

skeleton warrior
Nov 12, 2016


lol no it absolutely wasn’t

it was novel, and it promised great horrors, so we got super excited about it, but it absolutely was not “better” than this, and ended up being the same stupid, pointless drek

Vox Valentine
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Tourism continues. Will they make a man out of Snout? Nope.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
Oh gently caress those aren't shoes those are his feet, oh what the hell.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

To walk the path of Dominic Deegan you must learn the lesson of how to gently caress off on holiday and not give a poo poo about your friends.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Hostile V posted:

Tourism continues. Will they make a man out of Snout? Nope.



Haha that lady in the second panel has like a broken leg or is missing half of it. Look at where her knee is then look at the rest of her leg. It's like thigh to knee to foot.

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
I can't believe it took this long for Mookie to start watching Avatar the Last Airbender

Bismuth
Jun 11, 2010

by Azathoth
Hell Gem

Codependent Poster posted:

Haha that lady in the second panel has like a broken leg or is missing half of it. Look at where her knee is then look at the rest of her leg. It's like thigh to knee to foot.

what, shes just



also does snout have toenails or just like, a groove?

YF-23
Feb 17, 2011

My god, it's full of cat!


Everyone else continues to also be Snout.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Boba Pearl posted:

Oh gently caress those aren't shoes those are his feet, oh what the hell.

Lol

Bismuth
Jun 11, 2010

by Azathoth
Hell Gem
Are they wearing shoeless waders?

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Gonna be honest, having someone do martial arts with closed eyes feels like an ethnic stereotype to me. I don't think he's consciously Doing A Racism though.

Crespolini
Mar 9, 2014

Next time I see someone doing tai-chi in the park, I'm going to kick their rear end

FlocksOfMice
Feb 3, 2009
I like that because Mookie didn't want to have to draw it differently twice, Snout is just immediately able to do the stance as well as the orc is doing it. Mastery through authorial laziness.

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EthanSteele
Nov 18, 2007

I can hear you

Tesseraction posted:

Gonna be honest, having someone do martial arts with closed eyes feels like an ethnic stereotype to me. I don't think he's consciously Doing A Racism though.

It is following wet rice farming so I think he is consciously doing an orientalism.

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