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Mookie assumes the audience is brain-dead and needs things to be stated directly
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rudecyrus posted:Mookie
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Mar 26, 2024 03:36
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I think I'm just gonna take a little nap
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Mar 26, 2024 06:53
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Mookie probably thought the Jacob reveal was a huge mic drop even though he's the only necro we've ever met in Legacy besides Arudak.
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Mar 26, 2024 14:42
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Trapezium Dave posted:There might be some shock from the feeling that a page or two is missing due to there being absolutely no transition from the previous page to this one. It reads like Jacob was just waiting there off panel. Given how "curious" and "kind" and blah-de-blah Snout was, I fully expect her to be stealing candies from babies and kicking heads off puppies before the allotted 24 pages are up.
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Mar 26, 2024 16:17
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I'm betting a good chunk of the remaining story is going to be a lore dump of how necromancy is so much softer and kinder these days. If it was a series of vignettes about helping different ghosts pass on at least that would be something, but Mookie can't help but be drawn to Tell over Show.
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Mar 26, 2024 17:23
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While I don't think 'magic was forcibly gentled' is a bad plot point - it could work in the hands of a more competent author, Mookie parading around the 'softer and kinder' thing is weird. Like, no one has a choice. Magic won't work if you aren't kind. Necromancers aren't choosing to be good or do good (and so them being gentler or kinder is meaningless), there's literally no other option - especially since it's implied that if you don't live by magic's moral code, it can turn on you.
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Mar 26, 2024 18:26
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"All right thanks Saritha now I've got to help some deaf idiot go to sleep to see my brother in a dream for some reason. The things I have to fuckin' do I swear."
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Mar 26, 2024 19:06
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GreenMetalSun posted:Like, no one has a choice. Magic won't work if you aren't kind. Necromancers aren't choosing to be good or do good (and so them being gentler or kinder is meaningless), there's literally no other option - especially since it's implied that if you don't live by magic's moral code, it can turn on you. Magic caring about how kind someone is is an extra weird thing because it's demonstrably false. Redactor had zero problems using any of her magic, and she was an evil racist.
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Mar 26, 2024 19:42
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Schubalts posted:Magic caring about how kind someone is is an extra weird thing because it's demonstrably false. Redactor had zero problems using any of her magic, and she was an evil racist. That could be some decent social commentary about how 'kind' doesn't automatically mean 'good' in the right hands.
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Mar 26, 2024 20:13
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Gentle necro-vines in perpetual danger of spontaneously detonating in the kindliest way.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:31
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GreenMetalSun posted:forcibly gentled man this phrase has some real bad vibes
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Mar 26, 2024 22:36
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Mookie hadn't come up with the thing about magic only working for nice people who are Lawful Good even if they use it to be mean so long as they're mean to Chaotic Evil people so it's fine that it doesn't make sense since that's only in Rebel
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Mar 26, 2024 22:38
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Fister Roboto posted:man this phrase has some real bad vibes A friend once told me about the book The Lies of Locke Lamora, which had a process called gentling that was basically giving something a lobotomy, so you're not alone in getting the bad vibes.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:55
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I do like the idea of magic being a capricious force that will turn against you if you don't live up to its ideals of niceness and kindness, and those ideals being completely obtuse and impossible to meet. You could do it like a weird fascist dystopia thing where the ruling force is unknowable Which is not intentionally what Mookie is writing
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Mar 26, 2024 23:20
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Dominic really embodied the early 2000's internet atheist vibe, so it's pretty funny that he ended up creating God.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:24
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Robot Style posted:Dominic really embodied the early 2000's internet atheist vibe, so it's pretty funny that he ended up creating God. Lol yeah
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Mar 26, 2024 23:27
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Fister Roboto posted:man this phrase has some real bad vibes Wasn't my intention, I can edit my post if it's upsetting people.
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Mar 27, 2024 00:26
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lol no, it's fine, but it's very appropriate for mookie's body of work
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Mar 27, 2024 00:58
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It turns out we aren't seeing more of Jacob's tower because it's incredibly boring.
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Mar 27, 2024 04:55
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This is a minor thing, but: It kind of bothers me that they apparently have commercial air flights but no form of personal magical vehicle. Did she just walk all the way to the tower in the middle of nowhere? I don't need Mookie to show exact routes and all the camping gear people carry, but it bugs me how there is nothing in between magical airplane, and walking stick.
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Mar 27, 2024 05:08
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It's absolutely not a minor thing - it's a big part of what makes the world of Legacy seem so artificial. It's like how the cities are just there in a big empty void. Nothing is connected to anywhere else and distance doesn't matter. They used to have horses back in the early days of Deegan but they all died out when they got too hard to draw.
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Mar 27, 2024 05:31
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I have faith that one day he will learn to draw a dress that isn't weirdly bunched up in the crotch Any day now...
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Mar 27, 2024 06:15
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maybe you should go somewhere that's not in the middle of nowhere
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Mar 27, 2024 06:38
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Mass media exists. Newspapers have been seen in this setting numerous times. Libraries too. If I was some kind of psychopomp and wanted to find out where to start, I'd probably hit up the local library and look through history books or - if they also exist - newspaper records to find out about murders and other tragic deaths since those are obvious, easy, leads.
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Mar 27, 2024 06:43
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Why not just try the cemetery
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Mar 27, 2024 06:50
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Just head off to the pub. The last ghost was hanging around for 200 years, it's not like they're getting any deader. Who knows maybe you'll get lucky and meet one on the way. It's not like Jacob is paying her for this.
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Mar 27, 2024 06:53
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I swear there's a moment in every one of Mookie's stories where the protagonist states they're totally clueless while staring into the distance
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Mar 27, 2024 07:11
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Mookie every one of your protags finds themselves in a situation where they don't know what to do, where to go, they just stare at the world around them lost and afraid because they don't know how to function without someone to tell them what to do. Mookie this is in everything you do lately. Mookie, are you okay?
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Mar 27, 2024 07:35
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I was gonna say, he really abuses that exact same beat where his characters act all calm and self-assured...only for the last panel to reveal that they have no idea what they're doing! How wacky! Again and again and again...
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Mar 27, 2024 07:37
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Howard Beale posted:Why not just try the cemetery Eh, I can see the reason for that kinda. Presumably spirits linger where they die, not where their corpse is, when there's issues. So I would imagine cemeteries are probably free of spirits, barring the occasional mourner or gravedigger who dies suddenly with unfinished business while in the graveyard. Like how if you think about it, graveyards are the safest place in a non-magical zombie apocalypse 'cause the zombies aren't going to be able to break through a coffin and up six feet of dirt (they'd also get crushed by the inflow of dirt the moment they broke the coffin) and there's not many humans in the place to attract zombies from outside. Plus all the gravestones and poo poo make it difficult for any zombies that do get in to move around. But yeah. Certainly another possible option. Or a hospital. Like this isn't a particularly difficult task unless they want to present it as "I have so many options I'm paralyzed by who I should help first!" which is not the angle he's going with.
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Mar 27, 2024 07:47
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All of this sounds like work. How about she just looks around all clueless until the plot falls into her lap?
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Mar 27, 2024 08:52
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rudecyrus posted:I swear there's a moment in every one of Mookie's stories where the protagonist states they're totally clueless while staring into the distance This page is literally how the Mookiena story began but with ghosts instead of jazz.
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Mar 27, 2024 08:59
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Maybe she should start making a comic, I hear that's something you can be very successful at even with zero idea what you're doing and zero planning.
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Mar 27, 2024 09:25
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HazCat posted:Maybe she should start making a comic, I hear that's something you can be very successful at even with zero idea what you're doing and zero planning. i recommended reusing art constantly
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Mar 27, 2024 09:38
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Trapezium Dave posted:It turns out we aren't seeing more of Jacob's tower because it's incredibly boring. The expression in the last panel was, after seeing Jacob’s arm, her realizing he was in blackface.
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Mar 27, 2024 09:40
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I know Jacob's whole thing is being a spooky zombie now, but... it looks like his sleeve is straight up bloodied. Which feels kinda wrong.rudecyrus posted:I swear there's a moment in every one of Mookie's stories where the protagonist states they're totally clueless while staring into the distance The man's storytelling has zero subtlety. If a character is privately uncertain or has doubts they will look like they're having an internal breakdown whenever they get a moment to themselves.
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Mar 27, 2024 09:52
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Cloacamazing! posted:All of this sounds like work. How about she just looks around all clueless until the plot falls into her lap? In a Mookie comic?
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Mar 27, 2024 09:54
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Trapezium Dave posted:They used to have horses back in the early days of Deegan but they all died out when they got too hard to draw. Once. He drew a horse once.
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rudecyrus posted:I swear there's a moment in every one of Mookie's stories where the protagonist states they're totally clueless while staring into the distance He’s just writing what he knows!
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