Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLI: No Morals! No Quarter! All Brutal!

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Originally Posted by colonelslime

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Well, not the most grostesque display I've seen in my life, but still a rather disconcerting. My guess is Luna will be a bit more eloquent to her true wuv tomorrow. I honestly don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

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Originally Posted by AgentofOdd

Well, not the most grostesque display I've seen in my life, but still a rather disconcerting. My guess is Luna will be a bit more eloquent to her true wuv tomorrow. I honestly don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

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Have you forgotten? It always gets worse!

I can't make it through this one. That goo- I can't stop thinking about it. What kind of horrible disease would cause a person's tear ducts to produce secretions with the viscosity of... honey, by the looks of it. Is it some kind of slime mold trying to escape the sudden change ins salinity? :smalleek:

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Originally Posted by Bobikus

Wouldn't annoy me half as much if Mookie didn't actually think he's making a good female character. (Luna's even worse than a serious version of Kate Beaton's "Strong Female Characters")

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If Dominic was meant to be written as an arrogant selfish controlling prick, and Luna a codependent insecure sadistic freak, with their relationship accurately depicted as twisted and broken, then it would be a much better, more interesting comic with better characters all-round.

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Originally Posted by T-O-E

Panels 5-7 rival Moonface. 7 is just ridiculous. How can someone think that looks acceptable.

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I think she's got the mumps. Careful Dominic, if you catch that it could cause sterility oh wait nevermind.

Ugh. I could've gone without Dominion Ape lactation for a few more years. :yuk:

Hey guys! I brought Salt and lemonjuice to pour onto the wound!

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*SNIFF* December 14, 2011 Posted by Mookie
Today's comic was originally going to have Luna gushing over Dominic in the same manner that he did for her in yesterday's update. I was going to have it mirror a similar moment of gushing to Melna from It's My First Day, but ultimately I didn't think it worked for today's comic.

I think this is funnier. A cry of this magnitude, when your tears are so thick that they obscure your vision and your sobs are so heartfelt that you can't form a coherent sentence, is good for you every now and again. And hopefully it's because of something really happy, like realizing the depth of your love for another person.

And while she doesn't cry as often (or as comically as she's doing today), Luna has had a lot to cry about:
Realizing her mother doesn't love her.
A bout with low self-esteem.
Thinking she's worthless and weak.
Losing her sister.
Realizing how brutally she was almost killed by Urban Eddie.
Betrayed by someone she considered a friend.
A good cry with an old friend.
Discovering an unpleasant truth.

She's come a long way.

That's all from me for now.
Rock... *sniff* ...on!

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Ugh. What I hope happens is that with each update it becomes less happy and more angry sad.

At first it was a kiss
Then its a hug
Then its tears
Then its an angry yell
Then its a punch
Then its a bite
Then its a blood frenzy
Then its an sacrifice


Remebr when lunas Tusks actualy hurt dominic? Yeah.

I get the feeling that Schlega could do horrible implications of fitting word balloons and scenes together this entire week +.

Phew!! Finally finished my archive trawl a few days ago.

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Originally Posted by Nourjan

Phew!! Finally finished my archive trawl a few days ago.

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You have our sympathy.

Dominic Deegan: more than meets the eye!

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http://i.imgur.com/kHkGl.png

robots make any comic better.

Replace dominic with a cheese and luna with an onion and the comic becomes 23% more awesome.

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Originally Posted by Zaq

Have you forgotten? It always gets worse!

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What's most amazing is how it's gone through different stages of badness. First there was the "headdesk" era, then the "boring" era, then the "what is this I don't even" era, and now we seem to be entering the "sappy" era.

Ungh... I have to stop lurking to say this.


I can't even read the second row of panels. It's that bad.

Seriously, Mookie, what you're writing here is an abomination, an assault on the English language that I think is actually worse (in terms of sheer incomprehensibility) than anything I can remember him writing before (Of course, anything worse than this would probably be repressed)

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Originally Posted by Mr. McGician

What's most amazing is how it's gone through different stages of badness. First there was the "headdesk" era, then the "boring" era, then the "what is this I don't even" era, and now we seem to be entering the "sappy" era.

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Do they qualify as eras if they change too fast to really keep track?

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Originally Posted by Glass Mouse

Do they qualify as eras if they change too fast to really keep track?

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They're eras for insects. You know, it almost makes me wonder if this latest comic was written by intestinal parasites. It certainly makes me sick.


EDIT: THis made sense in my head. Somehow. I don't know how anymore.

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Originally Posted by Mr. McGician

What's most amazing is how it's gone through different stages of badness. First there was the "headdesk" era, then the "boring" era, then the "what is this I don't even" era, and now we seem to be entering the "sappy" era.

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This is the era of Bulgak.

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/981/bulgak.png

Slay by Barefoot Monkey.

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Originally Posted by Castel

Ugh. I could've gone without Dominion Ape lactation for a few more years. :yuk:

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Well, if you're interested in lactating and not Dominic Deegan.

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Originally Posted by Sweetie Welf

This is the era of Bulgak.

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/981/bulgak.png

Slay by Barefoot Monkey.

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After this strip, I think that's a better description of this current arc, actually.


Oh wait, that's what you were talking about.

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I still think Luna's got slime mold on her face.

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Originally Posted by Sweetie Welf

This is the era of Bulgak.

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That was last year. Or maybe the year before that. The comic has almost as many Bulgaks as Travoria sisters.

Back in 2010 Curly was doing her traversal of the archives I separated DD into ages:
(note "present" was 2010, back when Dominic was still partying in Maltak.)

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• Golden Age: Start to Visions of Doom. The comic is rough but it's early days, we can forgive that. Dom isn't uber at this stage. Age ends with Greg going Super Sayian as a bad sign of future development.
• Downfall of Golden Age: Ecstasy and Evil. The first WTF arc that started the earliest snarker (way before my time). The power levels are ratcheted up a few notches.
• Silver Age: Hello Nurse, Storm of Souls. It's now more about the super powers and Dom becoming uber. Still decent life signs in the plot. Some people think the comic should have ended here.
• Bronze Age: First Day, Battle for Barthis, War in Hell. The next big plot cycle. There's still some good plot here, but this age features some of the most notorious wall banger moments. It's here that the Keenspot forum turned snarky.
• Iron Age: Two Thief. The last decent plot. The basic rule of DD is every arc past Two Thief is somehow worse in some way.
• Ice Age: Class Action, Snowsong, Shadow of Siegfried, Oracle Hunter. The comic becomes increasingly silly and Dom becomes insufferably superior. Full of wallbangers. Snowsong is the moment when auxillary fan sites like this one turned snarky.
• Dragon Age: Oh Snap, Around the World, Built to Resist. While plot and characterisation was bent in the Ice Age to allow silly plots, this was where it was jettisoned so the comic could float wherever whims would take it.
• Orc (Outr)Age: March Across Maltak. Dragon Age with a plot that turned out to not be a plot. Backgrounds and settings were lost. This arc broke many people.
• Lost Age: A Nimmel House to present. The current age of 2010 (possibly not including current arc). We've now lost the lead characters and nothing seems to have a point.

I'm not sure what to call 2011. Maybe some kind of undead, zombie age. There's a corpse of the plot, but it's a shambling unholy mockery.

I hope nothing important was said in the latest strip, because I just couldn't be bothered to read whatever Luna was saying. Why should I put effort into reading it? Why would Mookie expect me to put more work into reading his comic than he does into writing it?

Oh, but you should. Once you get over the fact that we've got pretty much the same strip three days in a row, the way Luna just kind of breaks down into a blubbering heap of idiocy is actually quite funny, and probably the best we're gonna get for the rest of the year since Mookie is committed to repeating himself until his vacation.

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Originally Posted by Trazoi

Back in 2010 Curly was doing her traversal of the archives I separated DD into ages:
(note "present" was 2010, back when Dominic was still partying in Maltak.)

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• Golden Age: Start to Visions of Doom. The comic is rough but it's early days, we can forgive that. Dom isn't uber at this stage. Age ends with Greg going Super Sayian as a bad sign of future development.
• Downfall of Golden Age: Ecstasy and Evil. The first WTF arc that started the earliest snarker (way before my time). The power levels are ratcheted up a few notches.
• Silver Age: Hello Nurse, Storm of Souls. It's now more about the super powers and Dom becoming uber. Still decent life signs in the plot. Some people think the comic should have ended here.
• Bronze Age: First Day, Battle for Barthis, War in Hell. The next big plot cycle. There's still some good plot here, but this age features some of the most notorious wall banger moments. It's here that the Keenspot forum turned snarky.
• Iron Age: Two Thief. The last decent plot. The basic rule of DD is every arc past Two Thief is somehow worse in some way.
• Ice Age: Class Action, Snowsong, Shadow of Siegfried, Oracle Hunter. The comic becomes increasingly silly and Dom becomes insufferably superior. Full of wallbangers. Snowsong is the moment when auxillary fan sites like this one turned snarky.
• Dragon Age: Oh Snap, Around the World, Built to Resist. While plot and characterisation was bent in the Ice Age to allow silly plots, this was where it was jettisoned so the comic could float wherever whims would take it.
• Orc (Outr)Age: March Across Maltak. Dragon Age with a plot that turned out to not be a plot. Backgrounds and settings were lost. This arc broke many people.
• Lost Age: A Nimmel House to present. The current age of 2010 (possibly not including current arc). We've now lost the lead characters and nothing seems to have a point.

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It's appalling that the vacation arc wasn't called the Beaverage. Simply appalling. :smallmad:

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Originally Posted by Trazoi

I'm not sure what to call 2011. Maybe some kind of undead, zombie age. There's a corpse of the plot, but it's a shambling unholy mockery.

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One name comes to my mind: FoutAge de gueule. Or even foutAge dégueule.

The basic idea was to divide the comic's history into different eras based on the particular emotion that each era elicited from the snarkers. Each new era has the same unpleasant emotions that previous eras had, except now there is a new unpleasant emotion on top of all the others.

The Wallbanger Age (Beginning of Snarkdom to beginning of vacation arc): Characters are derailed, heroes become more and more insufferable, morals are mangled. Primary emotion: Rage.

The Boring Age (Vacation arc to end of 2010): Mookie keeps stalling the plot and giving us pointless side stories. Primary emotion: Boredom.

The What Is This I Don't Even Age (Beginning of 2011 to beginning of December): The plot has returned, except now nothing makes sense. Even more so than before. Primary emotion: Confusion.

The BLUUUARGK Age (Beginning of December to present): Mookie's real-life wedding infects the comic and turns everything excruciatingly gooey and sappy. Primary emotion: Nausea.

Hey guys. My wife just started reading DD from the very beginning for the first time.

This'll be good.

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Originally Posted by Nerd-o-rama

Hey guys. My wife just started reading DD from the very beginning for the first time.

This'll be good.

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Why are you doing this to her? Don't you love her?

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Originally Posted by Mr. McGician

Why are you doing this to her? Don't you love her?

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I love her enough to respect her choices in crappy entertainment. Besides, the good parts of the comic are just to her taste.

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Originally Posted by Mr. McGician

The BLUUUARGK Age (Beginning of December to present): Mookie's real-life wedding infects the comic and turns everything excruciatingly gooey and sappy. Primary emotion: Nausea.

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The comic has been wedding infected all year. Mookie's gooeyness does not inflict nausea upon me. Only more rage.

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Originally Posted by Nerd-o-rama

Besides, the good parts of the comic are just to her taste.

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...the daily update schedule? The adequately legible hand lettering? :smallconfused:

Keep us updated. :smallsmile:

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Originally Posted by Nerd-o-rama

I love her enough to respect her choices in crappy entertainment. Besides, the good parts of the comic are just to her taste.

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If she asks for divorce, I reserve the right to say "I told you".

You know, regardless of the comic's quality, I have been reading it on and off for like six and a half years. I was in the very first "Oracle for Higher" thread on this forum. No matter how much it's gone to ****, or how terrible of a person Mookie is, or how mediocre it was in the first place, it has entertained me for a long, long time. I see no reason to just outright censor something I used to enjoy and now still read out of morbid curiosity from a person I care about.


I might stop her after Storm of Souls, though. Out of mercy.

I see what your plan is, Mr. Nerd-o-rama. You intend to make your wife realize just how terribly love is portrayed by Mookie, to the point where she'll feel that she has to prove that marriage and love are nothing like that, making her work that much harder to make everything about your relationship better.

Yes... a risky but admirable ploy.