Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XXVII: God Has Nothing to do With This

[Rappy]

*Sigh* Well, the feeling of adequacy from the comic was good while it lasted...now we appear to be once more entering the cut bonus material from the Never-Ending Arc: Bulgak and Loxo go to Hell Castle.

[Glass Mouse]

Hi everyone, first ever post on GitP forums, just for you guys!

I've been reading Dominic Deegan for nearly 2 years, and I still love it. I've been reading these snark laden threads for nearly the entire time, and I love them as well!

Hi Bobby, and welcome to the thread! As has already been said, it's good to see a genuine fan around these parts

On tomorrow's comic, I actually liked it. The last panel is appropriately creepy for a hell arc. It's always fun to see the calm characters lose it.
It even makes sense that they're there. Okay, so we don't know what they'll do when they catch up, but they were following Karnak and lost the trail when they were swallowed by the gooey plot hole. Logical.

However, I would've liked to see a "damn, hell heals all our wounds, so we only feel the pain, but never die, that sucks," kinda speech. I mean, for ONCE the story is in a place where insta-heal could actually be justified, and he doesn't even bother.

[M84]

Heyall,

So the strip got less interesting the moment it shifted away from Siggy and back to the orc? Huge surprise.

[Humbug]

So is Loxo going to turn into a Soul Eater?

[Rappy]

So is Loxo going to turn into a Soul Eater?

One can hope. Then if we're lucky, she'll get permanently sealed into her weapon form, at which point Bulgak tosses her off a cliff, never to be seen aga-

Wait, sorry, wrong Soul Eater.

[Zaq]

"A feeding pit. Souls condemned to be harvested and consumed by Hell's denizens, where they then spend an eternity inside one of their very unpleasant digestive tracts."

[averagejoe]

...okay? Is anyone trying to do anything in this arc, or are they just randomly walking around until they bump into something?

I think that's pretty much what they're doing. I have been so bored by this. My only consolation is that this won't go on so long as Maltak. I hope.

[TheLaughingMan]

On tomorrow's comic, I actually liked it. The last panel is appropriately creepy for a hell arc.

...No, that's just Lotso or whoever making the Greg face.

[spectralphoenix]

Why is everyone always eating something in this arc? Seriously, I think the best way to become King of Hell would be to open a chain of affordably priced family restaurants.

[TheLaughingMan]

Why is everyone always eating something in this arc? Seriously, I think the best way to become King of Hell would be to open a chain of affordably priced family restaurants.

I swear to God if eating flesh becomes Mookie's new "thing", I'll need to punch someone.

[colonelslime]

I'm betting it's more that Bulgak and Loxo are turning into Demon Lords. At least, I hope, since that would seem to make a bit of sense and actually be an interesting plot.

[Palmer]

I'm betting it's more that Bulgak and Loxo are turning into Demon Lords. At least, I hope, since that would seem to make a bit of sense and actually be an interesting plot.

...Nah, how about a flashback? That good?

[Trazoi]

I think that's pretty much what they're doing. I have been so bored by this. My only consolation is that this won't go on so long as Maltak. I hope.

This one caused me to headdesk due to the strong implication that Loxo didn't notice the massive pit of screaming souls right in front of her until it was pointed out. Then it's implied she is going to harvest souls to gain power, something she didn't think of doing until this moment.

Is Siggy the only villain with a plan right now, even if his plan is 1) Find Karnak 2) Beat the tar out of Karnak? Is a two-step plan as complex as it gets for Team Not-Dominic?

[guttering flame]

Panel 3: Lady Loxo disapproves of Infernorcmancer's lower tusk.

You've got the angles all wrong. Think infinitysign. (for that matter why is Loxo still clothed? Apparently she was sucked by a flashback too offscreen)

More inappropriate exposition, and what's with all the 'Oh, how familiar'? Not that it's going anywhere.

[averagejoe]

Panel 3: Lady Loxo disapproves of Infernorcmancer's lower tusk.

It's used to it! Wooooooo!

(Totally worth the unnecessary thought I put into that.)

[M84]

Heyall,

Anyone else think that one of them is going to try and push the other into the pit before partaking of the soul buffet?

...Do souls count as meat? If so, would Bulgak be unable to eat them, being a vegan Orc and all that?

[Coidzor]

Loxo was known to Siggy, I believe...

[Lillith]

Yeah I think Siggy was investigating her death or something. Then started the 'Karnak' trend and gave Siggy a vision... why do I remember this?

Edit: *curse curse* Yeah, why do I remember all of this?

[Fishy Fishy]

Karnak karnak karnak! Karnak karnak, karnak karnak karnak. Karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak.

[Castel]

I showed Luna's butt during THE MARCH ACROSS MALTAK and nobody told me I was doing anything wrong, so...

That's because nobody wanted to remember that!
Yes, I realize I, too, am making people remember that now. Misery loves company, and all that
I've gotta stop reading the newsposts...

[Trazoi]

That's because nobody wanted to remember that!
Yes, I realize I, too, am making people remember that now. Misery loves company, and all that
I've gotta stop reading the newsposts...

*reads newspost* But... Loxo is a soul, and she's not naked. Wait, why am I complaining?

[Neoriceisgood]

Mookie's allowed to draw all the butts he wants if he'd actually learn proper anatomy.

[Glass Mouse]

...No, that's just Lotso or whoever making the Greg face.

... To be fair, Greg was pretty creepy in that arc...

[SlyGuyMcFly]

Karnak karnak karnak! Karnak karnak, karnak karnak karnak. Karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak.

Karnak karnak?

Karnak karnak, karnak karnak karnak. Karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak, karnak, karnak, karnak & karnak.

Karnak karnak.

[Welf]

Karnak karnak karnak! Karnak karnak, karnak karnak karnak. Karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak.

Come on, use the spoiler tags if you're predicting the plot. That totally killed the suspense for me.

[Valencia]

Returning from the lurk and speaking of Siggy...

I am having a heck of a time thinking of this fellow screaming KARNAK as Sig. His face is nothing like the old one, and I'm not talking about the fangs and demon eyes. He's not as long of a face nor does he have the chin he once had, he looks too much like a demonized Nimmel (rounder features, small chin, the nose is almost right though (course I'm not sure there's any differences in noses so much))... I'm not sure if this is an art change of style (Siggy looks different because Mookie's style has altered slightly so he lacks his original look) or just an art consistency fail.

Just been buggin' me.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Inspired hath in every holt and heeth...

We do Chaucer in the original, since it's quite readable. We just don't touch him much at all until the university level. Which is a shame. And we don't touch Old English at all in the original unless you're studying it for a Master's Degree.

It's a bit disappointing, honestly.

Lil bit. In Britland ((UK) colleges we at least look at Chaucer and Beowulf even though we don't actually study the latter; and only glance at Chaucer. It depends on the course though.
I think at uni the maiority of English degrees involve looking at OE poetry in translation if nothing else.

I think they'll help a lot. Mostly I use a combination of John Pope's Seven Old English Poems, Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary and the University of Michigan's pages on Old English grammar. But these will help me tremendously.

Then I highly recommend this site. It's an online version of one of the Extremely Recommended books for English at my university. And if you can, try and get A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary ed. J. R. Clark-Hall. You can get a copy dirt-cheap on Amazon. Mine was about £6 second-hand. It's invaluable.
Northvegr has "The Complete Corpus of Old English Poetry" on the page I linked directly to, but there's also some stuff under the Histories section, and of course, there's a lot of ON stuff on the site too. And Boethius, Bede, Tacitus and a few more things.
The link to the Sacred Texts site is very good as well.
And, for gits and shiggles: What If Star Wars was an Icelandic Saga? Yep. The entire thing. In ON/OIcelandic. Best thing about that site is that it posts the Tattuinardoela Saga in English and ON/OIcelandic.

Have fun.

[Deme]

Returning from the lurk and speaking of Siggy...

I am having a heck of a time thinking of this fellow screaming KARNAK as Sig. His face is nothing like the old one, and I'm not talking about the fangs and demon eyes. He's not as long of a face nor does he have the chin he once had, he looks too much like a demonized Nimmel (rounder features, small chin, the nose is almost right though (course I'm not sure there's any differences in noses so much))... I'm not sure if this is an art change of style (Siggy looks different because Mookie's style has altered slightly so he lacks his original look) or just an art consistency fail.

Just been buggin' me.

I like to believe that shortly before his retcon/death, Siggy and Warlord Mustache went into hiding, replacing themselves with imperfect duplicates. This is why the Warlord Mustache we saw got killed: the real Warlord Mustache, of course, could beat up Death. Using his mustache.

They plan to secretely strike against The Dominus FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
They may have also hooked up with Hansi and are travelling the world in the cronecave looking for the Dwarf of lore to add to their anti-Dominus team, hence Dominic's repeated smear tactics against all of them.

Doesn't that sound like a nice story?

[SaintRidley]

I also have the Clark-Hall dictionary. It's a good dictionary, with the minor disappointment of its normalisation of eth and thorn.

I think the extent of the OE poetry we look at in translation here is Beowulf (which we read the first two parts of in high school, read the full poem in university) and Caedmon's Hymn (university). We read Caedmon's in translation, but the West Saxon was presented for sake of comparison.

The Spanish professor who got his bachelor's in Germanic Linguistics got it in Barcelona, so at least Spain looks at things like that in depth.

I did a very rudimentary translation of a Dominic Deegan strip into OE for practice once. It seemed a little amusing, at least.

I've read about Star Wars as an Icelandic saga. I liked the idea a lot.


Also, thank you very much for the links and resources. The more the better.

[Fishy Fishy]

Come on, use the spoiler tags if you're predicting the plot. That totally killed the suspense for me.

Karnak karnak karnak, karnak.

Karnak karnak, karnak karnak karnak. Karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak, karnak, karnak, karnak & karnak.

Karnak karnak? Karnak karnak karnak. Karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak karnak.