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The whole concept and execution of the Heart of Magic is probably more influenced by Full Metal Alchemist. There the source of all alchemy is called Truth, and if you see into the door of truth you gain great knowledge at an equally great cost. It wasn't long after FMA: Brotherhood finished its US release that we learned the King in Dominic Deegan saw the heart of magic and lost his sight as a result, and just like in Full Metal the source of magic is represented by a big door with great knowledge behind it. I will say though, I'm interested to see what Mookie does with characters he doesn't blatantly adore from the start. So much of Dominic Deegan was influenced by his love of Dominic and character arcs would shift to accommodate it.
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I'm willing to bet that in true Dominic Deegan fashion, Dominic himself will be forgotten to time. A small, nerdy footnote in the grand story of the other more jockish heroes. So Snout seeing Dominic's name in a page he got from the wind is like when you see a car commercial and suddenly begin to notice the same car ads everywhere. The pacing is severely hurt by not being 8 panels, 5 days a week.
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Jul 16, 2019 03:04
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SardonicTyrant posted:Put me down for "Dominic Deegan is alive in some way" I’m gonna raise you that Dominic is technically dead, but when he saw “everything” once he lost his magic he saw something that made him want to puppetmaster Snout and that dead woman together.
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Jul 16, 2019 13:38
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Oh that was never a question, the inktober he references was mostly made up of blood (or ink as he puts it, in one the ink is red and she’s rising from a tub) covered witches. I prefer the snouts to that profile of the witch (but not Snout’s snout).
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Jul 19, 2019 15:19
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Is his art getting worse or is it just because he's attempting to go outside of his comfort zone of side view talking heads? If I had to guess, he’s taking his original style, which heavily cribbed from the worst parts of anime, and trying to apply more detail on top. You can still see the framework of the snout but now he’s trying to add a bunch of anatomy on top without studying structure first. Doing a silent story was kind of a bad idea since it relies solely on your art, and this is Dominic Deegan.
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Jul 22, 2019 18:03
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Guess I should've known by "silent story" he meant no text bubbles. Less Journey and more The Quiet Man.SupSuper posted:The face close-ups are really bad. 
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Jul 24, 2019 17:25
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At this point does the story really need to be silent? Could you not, say, trim all the fat that's used to convey they aren't talking and then put speech bubbles around the text without losing any information? and a lil friend. 
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Jul 26, 2019 00:21
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SupSuper posted:Or he could've just skipped all the words: This was my other train of thought, and it's such a marked improvement that shaves off pages of useless comic while adding a sense of mystery and suspense. Dominic Deegan as a whole is a testament to why you should never go with your first draft.
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Jul 27, 2019 00:21
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Love stripping down and laying stock still on my hardwood floor with no cushion or cover to speak of. As I always do. This is gonna be a magical journey.
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Jul 31, 2019 13:03
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SardonicTyrant posted:Surprised no one has said this yet, but anyone want to take bets that they bone? There's no reality where they don't bone. I assume that'll be the moment Mookie gives Snout the horrifying monster dick he should have. Rather than this salaryman penis surrounded by misshapen animal parts.
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Aug 1, 2019 13:19
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The Legacy of Dominic Deegan: Not So Clothes Minded
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Aug 2, 2019 03:14
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I can kinda understand being frustrated with the pacing here, in 8 panels we see Snout carrying out one action (2 if you count waking up, which only takes 1 panel compared to the 7 it takes to open his diary). In a book you wouldn’t really notice since the next page is right there, but this page has to hold readers’ attention for 2 days. I vaguely remember it being assumed Mookie dragged things out for his Friday cliffhangers, and that’s why there were pages where things moved so slow, but I think he’s just not that great at pacing for webcomics.
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Aug 2, 2019 18:45
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Ague Proof posted:Didn't he brag about always writing for the current comic without ever thinking of what would happen in the next one? Because otherwise it would be boring for him? He did. I’m willing to bet it’s cause cause Akira Toriyama famously doesn’t script ahead, and since everyone loves DBZ they will love Dominic Deegan too  (Akira Toriyama has editors)
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Aug 2, 2019 20:37
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Tesseraction posted:You know I didn't know that Akira Toriyama worked this way and now Mookie's entire arc as a webcomic artist suddenly makes so much sense. He even copies Toriyama's thing of starting off as a gag a day type and ending up in a dramatic fight for the universe. It's kinda funny that a lot of elements of classic Dominic Deegan translate to Dragonball elements. Sigfried -> Vegeta (But instead of realizing the story potential and fan appeal in Sigfried Mookie cannabalized his character cause he didn't like him) March Across Maltak -> Namek Saga Supergreg -> Great Saiyaman And of course, Legacy of Dominic Deegan is Dragonball GT
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Aug 3, 2019 19:12
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If on Friday you thought "drat, I really hope he isn't about to throw a bunch of words at us to recap what we just saw." Well...
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Aug 4, 2019 13:13
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SardonicTyrant posted::tenbux: The last or last-ish panel will have dialogue as a joke. He already did this in the original wild edge story though.  Bort never spoke again. I vaguely remember Mookie saying it was just a one-off joke and Bort actually can't speak. By the way, none of Bort's "Can haz cheezburger" signage has aged well.
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Aug 4, 2019 15:22
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Ague Proof posted:He did speak again. Whoa, I totally forgot Bort was inexplicably there for the final battle (Even though I had just gone back to remind myself how Dominic lost his
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Aug 4, 2019 16:33
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Drunk Theory posted:As I recall, editing in dick-punch dwarf actually increased the threat Dominic faced at that point. The eldritch end boss was that lame. Yeah but that was by design. 
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Aug 4, 2019 22:18
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I'm glad we can focus on the real reason we're all here. Speaking of which: I'm not gonna lie to you; I already peeked at Friday's comic and we're going nowhere fast. It's only 4 panels.
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Aug 7, 2019 00:14
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Tesseraction posted:Oh my god I thought he'd just not been buffering it but I'd not realised his dumbass site honours the /2019/07/ for already-released comics and that you had to move to 2019/08/ for the next ones. I thought the same thing, then I realized "I'm a dumbass, what would I do?" Real Ovaltine of a prize for my efforts.
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Aug 8, 2019 23:53
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Mors Rattus posted:The elbow spikes are really bothering me for some reason. Imagine them catching on poo poo. Rip your fuckin’ skin off! Knowing Dominic Deegan, it's only a matter of time before Snout violently murders something with it. Just like Quilt and Bort before him.
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Aug 9, 2019 03:45
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Very deliberate hit job on the bird by the ship’s pilot.
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Aug 14, 2019 13:53
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Tesseraction posted:Now I think about it shouldn't the bird's body be visible between him and the ship? Look at that bird’s pose and the angle of that panel and you tell me if Mookie could draw that.
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Aug 14, 2019 15:07
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Aug 16, 2019 01:31
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Deegan’s cat, but a distant relative who’s somehow just a catgirl despite this only being 200 years later.
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Aug 16, 2019 04:04
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3 weeks of looking for the ship and the second we get to it not only do we not learn anything new, but the ship went back to where we started. Please...plot something.
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Aug 19, 2019 23:54
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Emrikol posted:I can't wait to find out why the witch wanted this. I bet it’s a fakeout and this is a tractor or healing beam or somesuch. At least something happened for even one page.
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Aug 21, 2019 14:23
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Ague Proof posted:The witch left the house. I was giving Mookie the benefit of the doubt and assuming that the witch didn’t literally ask a total stranger to find a ship with no further context, knowing full well that the pilot wants her dead. It’d be a level of hack writing rare for even Mookie.
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Aug 21, 2019 21:27
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Tesseraction posted:This is what I assumed from the get-go. Which is why I find it hilarious that it blew his house up. Ah Ha, but a tractor beam that violently destroys the surrounding area is exactly the kind of dumb poo poo to expect. And behold!  Wait, no, don't strip the unconscious woman, what're you doing.
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Aug 23, 2019 02:54
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PMush Perfect posted:That moment really summed up DD, didn't it? "Instead of making Dominic better, I'll just make everyone else worse." It's funnier in context, where Dominic is literally showing everyone the terrible thing Sigfried had done to get them to hate him. It was a character assassination both in and out of universe.
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Aug 25, 2019 13:45
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At the very least it helps fill time between some of the contentless updates. Every closeup of Snout is so, bad. And it actually kind of sours what would be a well done, quiet scene in a silent comic.
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Aug 26, 2019 01:37
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I don’t think we’ve ever had a sad moment in DD that wasn’t immediately undercut by a dumb joke or the characters shaking it off.
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Aug 28, 2019 14:41
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No please, don't recap what we just saw, it's so unnecessary for your medium. Please recon- 
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Aug 30, 2019 01:09
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Tesseraction posted:The biggest question to me is how high did he leap into the air to make that pose - surely he should have dived horizontally not upwards like a fuckin' bouncing ball. This really bothered me too, and I finally realized it's just really bad case of conveying motion and space. In the second panel Snout is done bathing and on land putting his pants on, then he sees the paper floating where he just was, so he jumps back in the lake to get it while breaking the poo poo out of the 180 rule.
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Sep 2, 2019 17:50
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Nuns with Guns posted:So did Mookie decide to draw Snout with a dog muzzle to give his main character a visible facial profile, and reduce the number of times people commented on how all the humans look like they're wearing a Mortal Kombat-esque ninja face mask? 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.
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Sep 5, 2019 17:34
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Zerilan posted:if Nintendo can do it with Lucario mookie can do it here Yeah but, Lucario and a lot of other cartoon animals stylize the mouth to make it easier to animate and look more appealing  In other media too the dogs tend to have the snouts that are just tubes with a regular ol cartoon mouth under them while Snout has the weird lil lip flaps on top of a human mouth on top of a Deegan snout. It's like, far from the worst offense DD's ever had but there's so many closeups of Snout looking like an Ubisoft model glitched out.
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Sep 5, 2019 21:56
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Oh my god are we really spending a week’s worth or more of pages watching him make a new shirt.
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Sep 9, 2019 14:16
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Who What Now posted:TBF that's only two pages and then a recap diary page. Imagine Bender’s SOS from Futurama but in webcomic format.
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Sep 10, 2019 17:52
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Mercifully the new shirt saga ended in only a week's worth of pages. Now begins the cave renovation saga.
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