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Trapezium Dave posted:Guess who is the best friend of all time.
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Idiota couldn't write a note because Mookie doesn't actually think she's really named Idiota, and Snout never told her he named her 'Ink Witch', and she has no background from before this comic, so she has no way to sign a note in such a way the audience could understand it as being from her. Never mind that she's a loving witch of ink so she could have been included in the note-giving by just giving her a scene of ink-writing. Hell, you could have her let Snout read the note from Araduk and then have her use it as the material for her own note written on the spot. Instead we get a heartfelt touching note from... some guy who just met Snout literally today. Because at least 'Jacob' has an initial. I wish Mookie would find something else to do with his time. He's abysmally bad at comic writing and is never, ever going to improve.
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May 17, 2023 07:34
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Trapezium Dave posted:Guess who is the best friend of all time. gently caress you, Mookie.
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May 17, 2023 07:58
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YF-23 posted:I am going to post today's blog post because it relates to mookie's storytelling: On something that infuriates me less than the newest comic, I love how Mookie will inevitably take a good concept and Ram This poo poo Into The Ground. Your character does not need a thirty page long dramatic backstory and certainly doesn't need to talk about it all the time. --> The only good characters are completely blank slates that pop up into existence right as the plot starts! You don't need to storyboard every little details of your story before beginning to tell it, NaNoWriMo exists to tell people to Just Write Something. --> Plan every single page as you draw it, having no concept where the plot is going at any time except for some vague "There will be sex scenes"! Not every story needs to revolve around saving the world, small-scale stories can be interesting too. --> Okay so there's this dude and he's looking for a book and this is somehow relevant to world peace. Dominic takes a year-long cruise where nothing happens, this is also somehow relevant to world peace. Power is not the only thing that's important. --> Snout is an uwu soft boy. It's possible to have heroes that have done morally questionable things. --> loving Heroic Rapist (but also it's actually totally fine that he did this, everybody agrees, even his victim who is now in love with him, proving that it wasn't actually that bad.)
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May 17, 2023 08:09
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Joe Slowboat posted:To be perfectly fair, Arudak is the one person Snout genuinely helped in a proactive way, by getting him the back pain potion that instantly de-aged him twenty years and made him a protagonist. Is this the dumbest reason for a heel-face turn in history? We go now to a panel of people who've been beaten over the head then forced to read only 2000s-era webcomics.
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May 17, 2023 10:09
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i love the blog post and blog comic because mookie is terrible at writing and NEVER edits a sentence. he would be struggling for a b grade in high school english these days.mookie posted:"My Favorite Characters to Roleplay it takes him 7 sentences to advance the idea past the info in the title! the newest comic clearly was never read aloud to check for awkward structure and pauses. I SEE HIM NOW, THANKS TO YOU, A CHANGED MAN. it's so awkward
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May 17, 2023 10:09
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Tesseraction posted:Is this the dumbest reason for a heel-face turn in history?
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May 17, 2023 10:39
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SubG posted:It used to be true that the pages were Arudak's and the Ink Witches stole them because he was being difficult, but now it's Arudak who stole them apparently. Mookie changed it when Jacob was introduced. Arudak stole the pages from him, then the witches stole them from Arudak.
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May 17, 2023 11:07
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Joe Slowboat posted:To be perfectly fair, Arudak is the one person Snout genuinely helped in a proactive way, by getting him the back pain potion that instantly de-aged him twenty years and made him a protagonist. This part gets a bit odd when you consider that Snout didn't have any reason at all to think that it would work. The entire gag establishing the potion-seller was that Snout saw a potion to restore healing loss and immediately drank it, then ran off in panicked disgust at the offensive taste, with the last panel revealing the discarded bottle's "do not drink" instruction on the label. Emrikol fucked around with this message at 13:45 on May 17, 2023 |
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May 17, 2023 13:41
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:i love the blog post and blog comic because mookie is terrible at writing and NEVER edits a sentence. he would be struggling for a b grade in high school english these days. His writing is very stilted with often very simple sentence structures, coming across childishly. He doesn't really develop ideas. He just talks about a topic for a couple of sentences and then moves on. The whole thing feels like a five paragraph essay as opposed to something he seriously felt motivated to write. This is an opportunity to build a connection. Tell me a story about a time where someone just took an interesting character with an interesting back story and made it boring and terrible to play because they were so stuck in the world they created that they couldn't interact with other people's visions. That same childishness carries over to his plot. Everybody wants to make everybody feel good. Nobody has conflicting needs or wants. The good guys don't make mistakes. And when conflict rears its ugly head, Snout feels badly and everyone talks it through rationally and leaves Snout a letter about how much they love him. Nobody does anything on camera because Snout is deaf and Mookie can't figure out how to work around his no dialog rule, so he just has everyone write a letter.
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May 17, 2023 13:41
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In 20+ years of GMing tabletop games and hundreds of different groups, I would say short, simple backstories are the norm. Probably a handful of paragraphs at most. Mookie's either in the majority or I have some kind of insane personal bias. I can honestly say that literally no one has ever turned in a 30+ page backstory to me (though it's probably happened once or twice, it's a big hobby). Especially for a level 1 character.
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May 17, 2023 14:02
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Trapezium Dave posted:Guess who is the best friend of all time. 
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May 17, 2023 14:13
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I couldn't imagine this comic getting any more pathetic and yet here we are!
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May 17, 2023 21:48
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"I like when characters don't have elaborate backstories" says the guy who kept stapling anime cliche after anime cliche to his pet D&D character's history
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May 17, 2023 23:05
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Wow, it's completely a surprise that Mookie is so solipsistic as to believe that a D&D character of his own devising has had no noteworthy or formative experiences and won't until Mookie observes them happening.
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May 18, 2023 05:59
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The thing about 'normal' people as your heroes is that it can totally work but only if the story changes them immensely. Like, that's the whole deal about Frodo's ending. How has Snout changed from the beginning of this story?
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May 18, 2023 06:51
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He became pretty but that's probably not diegetic
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May 18, 2023 07:10
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Pyrotoad posted:The thing about 'normal' people as your heroes is that it can totally work but only if the story changes them immensely. Like, that's the whole deal about Frodo's ending. The way he's drawn has changed a lot!
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May 18, 2023 07:10
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He started off independent and he became incapable
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May 18, 2023 07:11
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Yeah the original Snout responded to his whole house getting demolished by making an action plan of what he had to do and went about it. Versus now where every minor setback requires going off to sulk and multiple head pats.
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May 18, 2023 07:59
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Trapezium Dave posted:Yeah the original Snout responded to his whole house getting demolished by making an action plan of what he had to do and went about it. Versus now where every minor setback requires going off to sulk and multiple head pats. And a nap where he either gets told where he needs to go next, or dumb naked bullshit that means nothing/repeats information he already had.
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May 18, 2023 08:39
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Maybe he got bit by a vampire because he seems to have gotten progressively more allergic to stakes.
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May 18, 2023 09:15
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SubG posted:Maybe he got bit by a vampire because he seems to have gotten progressively more allergic to stakes. Well, Mookie does like to remind us he's vegan, so maybe he got confused.
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Mx. posted:He started off independent and he became incapable Trapezium Dave posted:Yeah the original Snout responded to his whole house getting demolished by making an action plan of what he had to do and went about it. Versus now where every minor setback requires going off to sulk and multiple head pats. I'll grant this much: Snout did competently gather materials and make himself a new shirt. Sewing and crude tailoring are the one thing Snout has repeatedly been shown to actually be passable at, and of course it's the one thing that's absolutely never been plot-relevant. Unfortunately, after the shirt things went right back to the default state. His search for a new home began and ended with a cave that just happened to be directly behind him, then the Ink Witch's Pagefinder showed up so he didn't have to search for the pages on his own anymore, and then it was revealed to be the Ink Witch herself all along and she joined him as he was leaving so he didn't have to look for her. Emrikol fucked around with this message at 15:47 on May 18, 2023 |
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May 18, 2023 10:43
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Emrikol posted:a cave that just happened to be directly behind him, Ah, so snout is the new crone of maltak
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CHAPTER 26: THE MARCH ACROSS MALTAK, Part 9: MOVING MOUNTAINS What's happened in Legacy? Nothing? Okay, time for DD.  Luna's dying, Kiya and Reinholdt are having a moment, only to be interrupted by Neilen.  poo poo, 12 panels this time! Mookie's getting ambitious! Death from above AGAIN, Kiya gets the killing blow. I didn't recognize it was Kiya at first because her look keeps changing.  Those are some motion lines.   Of course, no one's harmed by the mountain suddenly erupting out of the ground.   A character learning to let go of old hatreds and move on with life isn't a bad arc, but it's ruined by everything surrounding it. I'll have more to say at the end of this chapter.  Good throw, Reinholdt, even though you should be dead because you were impaled through the heart.  RIP Spirit Father, you were a ridiculous caricature until the end.  All it took was a bit of rain for the clans to forget their differences! Yay. The last panel is garbage, gently caress that poo poo.  Azazia coming in from the side and yelling "HRRRARGK" is a joke at this point. Stonewater's too busy having an orgasm, it's up to Melna. It looks like she'll have to kill Azazia after all...  Or not! She simply rips out the corruption (and exposes Azazia's breasts, natch).  Ah, she followed Dominic's advice. In a better comic, Melna would come up with the solution on her own, but Mookie's an utter hack who can't have the side characters think for themselves, so Dom's infallible wisdom saves the day. Again. And that's the end of this short part. You can tell Mookie wanted to get this over with. Next time: All hail our
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I'm suddenly remembering being 13-14 and thinking Death From Above was one of the funniest things ever
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Happy Landfill posted:I'm suddenly remembering being 13-14 and thinking Death From Above was one of the funniest things ever You have my pity.
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May 19, 2023 01:57
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Samovar posted:You have my pity. In fairness this was smack-dab in the middle of MONKEY-CHEESE-SPORK humor. We were all afflicted.
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May 19, 2023 02:23
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Is anyone else unable to see the comics?
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May 19, 2023 02:27
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Invisible Clergy posted:Is anyone else unable to see the comics? lord i wish
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May 19, 2023 02:48
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I love the panel of the mountain Also the death--from above is funny by the standards of an early 00 webcomic, humor always ages the most poorly and of all of the garbage that was--that was fine within its context for the time, I'll give Mookie this one concession.
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May 19, 2023 04:44
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May 19, 2023 06:21
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It's up now, it's just more loving glomping
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May 19, 2023 06:25
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Goddammit Snout! Can't you see Arudack is still sore from his slap fight? Snout is the real villain of this story.
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May 19, 2023 09:00
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 *glomps u* ^_^
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May 19, 2023 10:09
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Poor Arudak got an RSI from all those affirmation letters to Snout.
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May 19, 2023 10:23
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That jerk Mhorg slaps HARD! gently caress!
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There's something about that panel three pose which has shown up every so often, the holding your hands crossed close to the chest out of joy, that just annoys me. I don't remember if mookie's drawn it for anyone other than orcs so it might be supposed to be a cultural gesture? But it looks weird and unnatural in a way that I can't quite put my finger on.
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YF-23 posted:There's something about that panel three pose which has shown up every so often, the holding your hands crossed close to the chest out of joy, that just annoys me. I don't remember if mookie's drawn it for anyone other than orcs so it might be supposed to be a cultural gesture? But it looks weird and unnatural in a way that I can't quite put my finger on. i think he copied a "happy" pose from a how to draw anime pose, but removed the schoolbooks or whatever prop. that's it
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