Thread 1
Welcome to the second thread dedicated to The Legacy of Dominic Deegan, the sequel/continuation to playground legend Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire.
Six years had passed since the original run of Dominic Deegan, a webcomic in which Michael Terracciano, in art Mookie, wrote and drew the strongly anime-influenced adventures of Dominic Deegan, a mysanthropic Oracle who is smart, smug, deceptive, manipulative, always right and always good. Starting out as a rather minor, if undoubtedly capable, seer in a backwater village, Dominic was later called to greatness by the evolution of his family: his brothers, both revealed to be immensely powerful mages, one as a healer, the other as an evil necromancer; his father, a pink-wearing rockstar and swordman extraordinaire; and his mother, Miranda, an archmage recognised across multiple dimensions and the director of a school of magic whose power is best described as the fantasy equivalent of a carrier strike group (later, she will get another massive powerup).
Of course, being praeternaturally smart, Dominic gets to become a professor at his Mom's university. He also marries Luna, a suicide survivor shunned because of her fangs. As the comic scope gets wider and their social standing increases, both Luna and Dominic reveal themselves to be prophesied messiahs, respectively for saving the land of the Orcs and for stopping a recurrent transdimensional cataclysm.
The result of this power increase is a move from subtler plans towards blunt force, generating what has been known as Hulksiah, who will Smash Puny Sins (it also was an antecedent to Mookie's later Star Power, who, plotwise, is just a very strong, invulnerable girl that shoots laser beams).
These final years had some serious problems. However, the comic in general, while naive, is also charming, because it's hyper-personal. There is almost no filter between DD and its dreamy-eyed, overly enthusiastic author, Mookie; DD himself was born as an RP character of Mookie's. So we have these extremely idealised figures of family, love, and friendship, and all challenges ultimately are there to show that family, love, and friendship conquer all. We also have DD as an idealised teacher, a position in which being a know-it-all actually means being at the service of someone. Overall, through the comic, it's Mookie's various feelings that get their win.
Anyway, getting stronger and stronger, and faced by increasingly limited challenges, Dominic undergoes a series of comically exaggerated traumas and breakdowns. There was a strip in which Dominic reacted in horror to some porn he was provided with for a semen exam. Altered Ass, it was called -- its stars had been grotesquely modified by magic.
Alas, that's where we are now, reading Altered Ass. The Legacy of Dominic Deegan took its crude art style and, apparently, went for outright explicitly pornographic depictions of sexual acts between demihumans. The latest strip took pains to put aroused genitals in the center (and it's why I'm not adding a link). But it couldn't manage, for example, to show a face in correct perspective. The result is so disgusting, that I'll probably stop reading the comic. The Legacy never had an interesting plot or characters or dialogues. It has been an exercise in self-indulgence. And now it's a bridge too far.
Arguably.
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