Ague Proof posted:His art stagnated and he saw no need to improve. One of the major themes of Dominic Deegan was coding passivity as heroic and effort as villainous. Yeah, the heroes are all just naturally talented at what they do, while working to achieve their power is something only villains do. The only Deegan who isn't purely good is the one who actively trained in a type of magic even. Pretty sure that same theme extends to Star Power.
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He says this while the nudity in the latest comic is only there for the sole reason of having an excuse to write that post.
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Also I'm guessing we'll see a trend in this nudity of men becoming nude by choice while women are stripped down against their will.
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TheHan posted:Ah Ha, but a tractor beam that violently destroys the surrounding area is exactly the kind of dumb poo poo to expect. And behold! Zerilan posted:Also I'm guessing we'll see a trend in this nudity of men becoming nude by choice while women are stripped down against their will.
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PoptartsNinja posted:While I know this is setting up something benign or self-congratulatory, I can't help but see it as an alternate intro for Stimpire.text Dominic was subjected to the worst kind of dick punching.
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TheHan posted:Well he absolutely didn’t stop to consider that you can’t just put a human shaped mouth under a dog’s nose and lips. I’m half expecting there to be a dog mouth just above his human mouth and that’s why it looks so off. if Nintendo can do it with Lucario mookie can do it here
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Sep 5, 2019 19:36
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It's closer to Baby's Day Out than Mr. Bean.
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Nov 13, 2019 20:12
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Fister Roboto posted:He has a magic harp It will be a magic electric guitar because Mookie hasnt shoehorned in his desire to be "metal" in the comic yet.
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Nov 23, 2019 19:32
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Who What Now posted:He did that in DD already I know, not even just with the maestro but also the really terrible smug metalhead Greg in the later arcs. It's a well I think he'll dive right down into given any opportunity.
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Mors Rattus posted:You know what's really bothering me? DD started out in a rural hick town where everyone but Dominic was incredibly stupid and alternated between calling him a nerd and needing his help for literally everything. When he moved out he rained burning books on them. Every non-human race in DD was basically a noble savage archetype. Pretty sure the reason Mongreltown is treated like this here is just because now they're the current "default" race that his protagonist has to be shown to be better and smarter than the rest of them.
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The Little Death posted:Right, but this isn't "dumb jocks don't read fantasy like I do", this is Snout meeting his people for the first time, and they're like Eloi in the time machine. The joke with a disused book store with illiterate spelling is "lol, they think they're people" Yeah, but Mookie's weird biases like that infest every element of his work, even when it's not intentionally blatant like at the start of DD.
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Mar 6, 2020 16:16
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Mookie's attitude on sex and female sexual agency still feels like a comic strip version of Ernest Cline's "nerd porn auteur" poo poo.
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Invisible Clergy posted:What? We do. They were called "action books" because Mookie is a dweeb. Greg drew doujins of himself as "Supergreg." In a different arc, Luna gives Dominic an issue of some superhero he likes, but the character had been rebooted as an edgy 90s antihero so it was a bad gift actually because women can't do anything right in deeganland due to their inferior lady brains. iirc she apologizes for it so profusely too as if she had written it herself
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The Little Death posted:In point of fact she buys him like a collected omnibus of his favorite heman type "action book", and only on the last page is an ad for a rebooted series that's all gritty 90's. This causes Dominic sadness (the last page that is) and then Luna rants for 8 panels about how thoughtless she was not to read every goddamn page of the comic to make sure it didn't harm Dominic's fragile constitution. Ok at this point it's so dumb that I would think you're bullshitting if I didn't vaguely remember it.
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Yeah, neither of those strips have Greg so they're not even close to bottom of the barrel character writing by the series standard. Also they don't have Jayden or Snowsong or rear end-in-air-corpse woman so they aren't even close to the worst example of the comic's treatment or women.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I tried and I got like a week of strips in before giving up, Mookie's writing is intolerable. And the start of it is probably the "bright" point, before he starts trying to make it more serious.
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PetraCore posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he also a minor? Everything about that scene is horrible but I dimly remember interpreting it as a situation where he was also raped-by-proxy in being forced to have sex with her or she'd be killed, but Mookie's so tone-deaf it's treated as a heroic thing he did instead of something deeply hosed up that doesn't even make a ton of situational sense. It was also talked about in the middle of an arc about how Orcs are actually really noble and Siegfried was evil for being racist towards them.
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Apr 9, 2020 20:32
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Time cube had a lot more substance and coherence than this.
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Heliotrope posted:Someone posted this Their tweets are protected now, what was it?
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maltesh posted:I'm wondering why Snout ran after drinking the non-edible potion, and is still running. His only actual character trait is that he's really loving stupid.
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Invisible Clergy posted:Oh, that's neat. Definitely gonna bookmark that in my good webcomics to read later folder. Thanks. For being primarily TTRPG rulebooks, pretty much all of Stolze's books have a lot of segments that function as pretty good narrative fiction advice.
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May 29, 2020 20:30
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Kinda jealous. I have all the books for UA2 and UA3 but have never actually gotten a campaign going of either.
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May 29, 2020 21:58
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There's also no convincing personal reason for Snout to care about any of this. There's no personal stake in the legacy or the dream realms or whatever. He just saw a scrap of paper with Dominic's name on it, and became fixated on it for no other reason than because Dom is important to Mookie he must be important to everyone else.
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Safari Disco Lion posted:The Ink Witch fits, like, every possible definition of a narcissistic, manipulative fake "best friend" type using Snout for her own ends. Snout has basically no understanding or context for the outside world and real relationships, she's hosed him over a bunch of times while begging him to help her, there's a TON of evidence that she has some nefarious scheme in mind for whatever the gently caress they're searching for, alienates anyone who's genuinely kind to Snout and helps him out, possibly used her tits to manipulate him as well, and pulls the "I just hope you can still trust me" card. Everything about her is awful. Yeah I didnt' even think about it right away but this is literally the first time she saw him after the "hope you can still trust me." DD though was filled to the loving brim though with protagonists being unintentionally written as emotionally manipulative.
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She did it to Celesto too.
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Especially as has been pointed out going by the symbols on her divinations it's like basically the equivalent of a death tarot card, so just angrily pushing it in someone's face could definitely be seen as a threat.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:In related news, today's retrospective page of Octopus Pie is a masterclass on communicating emotion without dialogue. You might need some context to get it, but you can see on the main character's face the hurt and isolation she feels, as her ex's oblivious, unimportant babbling drones on. Culminating in an outburst of emotion she can't control with absolutely perfect representative imagery of her lizard brain approving. Thanks for reminding me to start checking on OP reruns so I can binge the whole thing again once the retrospective finishes.
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YF-23 posted:He's looking at what he wrote and gets angry at himself for giving up and erases it as an act of defiance. The real question is why he wrote it to begin with. Because he has no internal thought process.
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The Little Death posted:The thing that I notice the most about the origin story is the whole interaction with her professor. It goes away fast but the whole interaction of her fixating on an ordinary star and having her outcast nerd powers determine that it's special even when the stuffed shirt professor she apparently hates can't just strikes me a so.... Mookie. Mookie is still very bitter about his teachers telling him to pay attention to the actual material in class and not just reading about whatever he personally finds interesting.
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The problem with Star Power is really the only thing that makes conflicts last longer than a couple pages in DD is that Dominic, for all the other ways he's a lovely powerful author insert, isn't supposed to be a direct fighter. A lot of conflicts still end with him just overpowering them in the mind realm or whatever once Mookie writes himself into a corner, but he still has to get things to that point. Dominic can't just walk up and punch out the bad guys effortlessly, but Star Power can, and does. The one limitation that forces him to at least attempt an illusion of tension is gone.
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TheHan posted:Shameful admission: I still can't bring myself to read the dialogue, it's like visual teflon. I didn't realize he outright said there was no threat, lmao. In way it's an appropriate bookend for the series. Basically all her forces were barely a match for the two ships galactic defense or whatever was able to get there in time, so there was 0 chance of her doing anything more than barely surviving that fight and being finished off by the next ship.
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Kavak posted:
Nausicaa was my immediate thought when seeing it.
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This discussion made me remember a bit kinda skimmed over before that follows another Mookie writing trend. Tragic backgrounds, self-inflicted or not, are typically a trait of villains in Mookies work while heroes are pretty privileged people. Blue badlady's species being wiped out was shown side by side with Danica's childhood, whose biggest struggle shown was "what if when I'm older I can't go literally everywhere I want?"
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It's just the equivalent to how Dominic/Luna/Greg would never kill anyone in DD, but someone like Celesto would always show up afterwards to gruesomely finish the job, usually right before or after we would find out the person is even more cartoonishly evil than we thought just to make sure no one would mourn the dead.
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The way she's acting about history that we're supposed to be annoyed about his how Danica/Professor woman act all the time about astronomy.
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The Little Death posted:I think Mookie's politics are very much in the "well-intentioned but extremely naive" space. I"m thinking in particular of something that will come up in the most recent issue of starpower involving the history of the purple stick people who are all criminals (but curiously are not described as inherently violent the way humans are by those little blub descriptions). He also has a lot of internalized baggage and looks at a lot of things through jock vs nerd or madonna/whore complexes.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:You should have known…? That’s she’d want to celebrate at a bar? Is it torture to watch your friend enjoy herself dancing while you get to drink and unwind with friends? Does Mookie, therefore also Danica, just hate bars? Mookie's a huge beer snob who hates people that drink for the sake of getting drunk, so yes.
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Cat Mattress posted:I thought about this post when I caught up on Dumbing of Age and read this strip. DoA I only really know through willis's stuff being posted when I was following the GBS bad webcomics thread, but I'm having a hard time even parsing some of the dialogue skimming through it
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Who What Now posted:Mookie sending Snout to a cabin because he himself is also going to a cabin is the quintessential Mookie. Dominic Deegan would drop everything at the drop of a hat to showcase Mookie's latest fad interest, like maple candy. Example I think that sticks out the most to me will always be Luna suddenly being a beer snob.
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