Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
skeleton warrior
Nov 12, 2016


Trapezium Dave posted:

It turns out The Real Luna Challenges were the friends we made on the way.



This fast forward through plots and unearned successes has been brought to you by Monster Energy Drinks

Have sex with a bog witch and Unleash The Monster In You

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Emrikol
Oct 1, 2015
We're going to see them defeat their metaphorical uppercase Challenges when we don't even know what their real-world lowercase challenges are.

Riot Bus
Jan 8, 2020
It actually kind of depresses me that Mookie was going to make the dwarves a fresh setting and story, and then was just like... Oh wait, I can just mush this concept into my existing world, why spend the effort trying something completely new after decades of Deegan! Technically, I can make anything into Deegan!

Like Star Power WAS an original setting and everything so maybe he felt satisfied with that, but it's like... Idk. It feels like he's so hidebound to his "greatest hit". It would have been interesting to see him set up a new setting that didn't have all this baggage.

Cloacamazing!
Apr 18, 2018

Too cute to be evil

Pulsarcat posted:

Hahahaha, wait, is it going to turn out that the reason they all had black eyes is because they have unresolved trauma and issues?
And the challenges are them having to overcome them?

Ahahahahaha

Snout is just going to poke one of the symbol things, then there'll be a speech bubble where Arudak nottalks about his sad backstory. Then he will nottalk about how awesome Snout is and they will hug. Rinse and repeat for the other two.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

What unresolved trauma or issues does Idiota even have anyway? She's the companion that's been with Snout the longest yet we don't even know anything about her, much less her motivation.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

I like how the way he's drawn it makes it look like the women are suddenly holding hands in the last panel.

GreenMetalSun
Oct 12, 2012

Mx. posted:

Bruh

Alright so this gonna end next week or not? I figure we get special effects of all the magic flowing out and coming back and then a splash of them all in the magic and then it's over and we cut to the dwarves

Mookie said he'd be bringing the dwarves in in a few months, so it's entirely possible we get up to 100 more Snout comics, depending. Though I don't think it will be this many.

YF-23
Feb 17, 2011

My god, it's full of cat!


Tesseraction posted:

I like how the way he's drawn it makes it look like the women are suddenly holding hands in the last panel.

That's because they are holding hands.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

I mean that is the other possibility but their arms are at the wrong angles for it! And Kaianda looks like she's doing the default_error_no_animation pose.

a cartoon duck
Sep 5, 2011

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Everyone else here gets a pass to forget Star Power but me. I am forever self cursed to remember every detail of it

remember when terraciano drew one issue of star power and it irreparably tanked the comic's reader numbers

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!


a cartoon duck posted:

remember when terraciano drew one issue of star power and it irreparably tanked the comic's reader numbers

good times

Joe Slowboat
Nov 9, 2016

Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements



Happy Landfill posted:

the challenges was inside friends all along

Incredible, our favorite character is back.

And you just know that he’s not going to actually solve or deal with the ‘challenges’ each friend faces, right? Instead this is just confirmation that Snout’s friend who have more or less literally dragged him around the entire story and done everything for him, are actually the ones who have been holding him back because he’s so kind and supportive of them with their challenges.

It’s amazing how whiny this framing is! It’s the “ugh, my friends have all this trauma and these messy emotions and expect me to support them and it’s holding me back” sentiment, presented as if it makes Snout heroic to have… repeatedly been a little poo poo about that, and run off to gently caress a bog hag while his friends were at their lowest point?

A mindset that understands any challenges Snout faces as just normal things to be upset about or deal with, but if his friends’ problems impinge on him, then he’s a martyr for helping.

I hate Snout. I want Challenges T. Symbol to eat him.

Eight-Six
Oct 26, 2007

i hate that i'm doing mooks' work but i bet this is representative of snout helping each of them overcome their personal challenges and why he was able to guide them through the darkness of the dream world

yes it's saying he already helped them earlier in the comic and together they overcame Challenges and that's why they're with him today

no i don't believe anything has really been resolved or tied up for anyone or anything

glad to see my friend challenges t. symbol one more time

Riot Bus posted:

It actually kind of depresses me that Mookie was going to make the dwarves a fresh setting and story, and then was just like... Oh wait, I can just mush this concept into my existing world, why spend the effort trying something completely new after decades of Deegan! Technically, I can make anything into Deegan!

Like Star Power WAS an original setting and everything so maybe he felt satisfied with that, but it's like... Idk. It feels like he's so hidebound to his "greatest hit". It would have been interesting to see him set up a new setting that didn't have all this baggage.

i wish it could depress me. if i had any faith in mooks as a person who is capable of developing artistic talent, it would depress me. but there's no way. there's no way and it's going to be a boring slog that we're desperate to make fun of until an unmistakably good-intentioned-but-ill-understood plot point comes rocketing in out of nowhere and then it's party time

DeadBonesBrook
May 31, 2011

How do you do, fellow Regis?
Am I the only one excited for dwarf porn?

I mean, it has to be more interesting than the Legacy has been the past few months.

PoptartsNinja
May 9, 2008

He is still almost definitely not a spy


Soiled Meat
Does it really, though?

"Funny Dwarves" is about as generic as it gets.

Eight-Six
Oct 26, 2007

DeadBonesBrook posted:

Am I the only one excited for dwarf porn?

I mean, it has to be more interesting than the Legacy has been the past few months.

DD is more interesting than legacy because objectively hilarious(ly bad) things happened, legacy is more interesting than DD because while we saw the wheels coming off early we didn't think we'd be opening a time-capsule to 1990s white americana

i'm not sure legacy would have been half as hilarious if mooks hadn't decided to do the whole deaf/silent thing and went at us with words from the start

Douche Wolf 89
Dec 9, 2010

🍉🐺8️⃣9️⃣
snout is going to have to kill his friends (except arudak for some reason)

Emrikol
Oct 1, 2015

Joe Slowboat posted:

And you just know that he’s not going to actually solve or deal with the ‘challenges’ each friend faces, right? Instead this is just confirmation that Snout’s friend who have more or less literally dragged him around the entire story and done everything for him, are actually the ones who have been holding him back because he’s so kind and supportive of them with their challenges.

See, that's what I thought, too, but I was holding back on saying it because I wanted to wait a page to see how he handles it for fear of affecting the outcome.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

If he had any guts he'd end this in an orgy with the four of them

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Codependent Poster posted:

If he had any guts he'd end this in an orgy with the four of them

The scene ends with Arudak winking at the Snout saying "it was good, but orc women do it better."

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.
Snout is going to rotate the "challenges" symbol 45 degrees, making it the "freedom" symbol. Assuming Mookie remembers there are other symbols.



Also lmao at Snout's face during his "young Simba" phase.

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse
Arudak's wife is going to come out of the symbol and tell him to move the gently caress on

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
draw the loving faces come on man.

jesus loving christ.

I use AI to do half my comic, and I'm even galled by this poo poo. It's black and white! You barely draw anything! What do you enjoy about this. (THERE'S NO QUESTION MARK, BECAUSE I'M NOT ASKING, I'M MAKING AN ACCUSATION.)

rudecyrus
Nov 6, 2009

fuck you trolls
CHAPTER 36: I DO

Who's ready for a wedding arc??


Luanians aren't big on elaborate designs because Mookie can't draw them.


My god, how long has Miranda worn that sweater? And Dadgan looks exactly like Greg, too.


lol, the in-laws are assholes! To be fair, seeing Donovan tormented like this brings a smile to my face.


The entire Deegan clan consists of petty, snobby, manipulative people who like using their powers to gently caress with others. Make of that what you will.

"She made him feel bad. A lot." Masterful writing.


Look, we know they get married so there's no point to this flashback. The Beast? The King? Hello?


Do you think this is based off of Mookie's own experiences with his in-laws?


Insert laugh track.


NOBODY
loving
CARES


Hey, yeah, maybe you should put the wedding on hold until after dealing with the world-ending threat? Maybe?


The event Dominic saw was so traumatic and horrifying he had an immediate, visceral reaction. Naturally, he jokes about it.


is he sucking on her tusk


gooey sappy romance cuz mookie got married


this is what it looks like when people cry... right?


gently caress OFF GREG


With that out of the way, get ready for FILLER!










TIM's back. Again. Mookie can't let this character go, can he?

And since Mookie can't be bothered to build up a backlog when he's busy, we get this garbage:










Eat my entire rear end, Mookie.

Next time: Jayden goes on a pilgrimage

rudecyrus fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jul 15, 2023

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

Boba Pearl posted:

draw the loving faces come on man.

No the loving faces are for later.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Mary Sues getting what they want with no effort. Bad puns glitter in the dark near dramatic moments. All those moments will be lost in time, like bandwidth wasted on terrible comics. Time to Desert to Die

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
Sobbing Luna. My God.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

rudecyrus posted:


gently caress OFF GREG
I still can't get over that Mookie's process must have gone that Jayden breaking her vow of silence for the wedding will make this moment more powerful, but then continued to that it would be even more powerful if he completely fucks that up.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003

rudecyrus posted:


The event Dominic saw was so traumatic and horrifying he had an immediate, visceral reaction. Naturally, he jokes about it.

FlocksOfMice
Feb 3, 2009
this marriage arc was so boring i couldn't make it halfway through. this is nothing. wow.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007


which orc is that

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Synthbuttrange posted:

which orc is that

The one in Hell

Breadmaster
Jun 14, 2010

I thought he exploded

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Breadmaster posted:

I thought he exploded

Yes and he was reborn as a flower

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Looking at this story and knowing the context behind Jayden, and man, Greg ruining the moment of her finally speaking again really makes it feel like Mookie never forgave Jayden/the woman she was based on, huh? Somebody ITT brought up before that Mookie doesn't believe in true redemption because he writes "bad" characters like Arudak as being tricked into joining an evil group. Compare it to how Mookie keeps making GBS threads on Jayden, someone who made a bad decision at the time, and has her pay for her "sins."

yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012

rudecyrus posted:


NOBODY
loving
CARES

this is just mookie's wedding, right? in panel two? The one "with a little flair and personality"?

yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012

Boba Pearl posted:

I use AI to do half my comic, and I'm even galled by this poo poo.

well i would put deciding not to draw faces for figures in the distance above that

Cloacamazing!
Apr 18, 2018

Too cute to be evil

amigolupus posted:

Looking at this story and knowing the context behind Jayden, and man, Greg ruining the moment of her finally speaking again really makes it feel like Mookie never forgave Jayden/the woman she was based on, huh? Somebody ITT brought up before that Mookie doesn't believe in true redemption because he writes "bad" characters like Arudak as being tricked into joining an evil group. Compare it to how Mookie keeps making GBS threads on Jayden, someone who made a bad decision at the time, and has her pay for her "sins."

Yeah, if he actually wanted to redeem Jayden, Siggy would have seduced her or tricked her into sleeping with him, or maybe she had to sleep him because some Callanian Knight tradition demanded they must have sex or be executed or whatever. Something that made it not actually her fault, you see, just circumstances and evil people and her being the victim of it. Since it's written as her making the conscious decision to cheat on Milov with his best friend (which, don't get me wrong, is a lovely thing to do), she is a bad person now and forever, will never find redemption or forgiveness and deserves all bad things that happen to her, including Milov killing her in a fit of jealous rage.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos

yeah actually they will posted:

well i would put deciding not to draw faces for figures in the distance above that

Not in the way you're probably thinking, it's more like a 3D model filter with model sets I place, purchase, and make myself. The AI just traces it and colors for me.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Powerful Katrinka
Oct 11, 2021

an admin fat fingered a permaban and all i got was this lousy av

rudecyrus posted:

lmfao i had to look this up

what the loving gently caress?

Jesus, spoiler that poo poo

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply