Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XXXV: DJ Callan Turns the Tables

[Johnny Blade]

Are you referring to this?

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Yes. I actually wonder how he arrived at the conclusion that this is an improvement.

[Zaq]

That's a hell of a derp-face Quilt's got in p.4.

I still don't see why scrying oneself is such a big deal. We've seen Lord Dominus do it before, haven't we? Can we at least get some explanation about why it's creepy? Or do we have to wait several years and then have an arc about how scrying oneself is like a fertility clinic with plastic surgery?

[TheArsenal]

Except for being filler that could fit into two god-dam panels and being horribly drawn and confusing magic rules its pretty standard. nothing else to say really.

[Zaq]

You know what makes this comic really stand out? Mookie drew not two, not three, but four each of legs and feet. That's way above average and is actually quite remarkable.

. . . I actually can't tell if I'm being sardonic or not. If you figure it out, let me know.

[AgentofOdd]

Luna knows enough about scrying to manipulate what a person ends up seeing, but she can't scry herself? Oookay...

[Castel]

Luna knows enough about scrying to manipulate what a person ends up seeing, but she can't scry herself? Oookay...

She's just applying Acibeck's principle to the chaotic scry externally.

[Welf]

I like today's comic. It has bubbles. And bubbles remind me of ponies. I like ponies. Derpy Hooves for President!
And else? No, there's nothing.

[TheArsenal]

I like today's comic. It has bubbles.

****ing Bubbles!

[rocketpony]

1. I could give Mookie the benefit of the doubt, but at this point I'll just assume the worst and say it's something Dominic could do to avoid detection all the time but never will because the plot doesn't demand it.

You forget that Dominic is, in fact, supremely arrogant. He doesn't go through magic proxies because, come on, that's for people who don't know what they're doing. Like anti-virus software.

I still don't see why scrying oneself is such a big deal.

It's a joke about something I'm not sure how explicit I can be in the forums.

Luna knows enough about scrying to manipulate what a person ends up seeing, but she can't scry herself? Oookay...

We all know Luna is actually an archmage. Or she would be, but all the circles are full.
HYPOTHESIS: there exists somewhere a circle of second-string archmagi, who don't limit themselves to "one mage of each race that we recognize." One-on-one, they can't match the circle kids, but two-on-one, yes, and twenty-on-one, definitely, and untold-thousands-on-one, which is the way they'd fight if they had to, well, it's a good thing that archmagi don't like fighting.

[Mr. McGician]

Mookie isn't even bothering to make up rules on the spot any more. Now he's just stringing together sentences in the desperate hope that we'll buy whatever rule-breaking nonsense they're doing.

[Traab]

Am I the only one who sees this latest comic as the most obvious lead in to a weekend cliffhangar ever? Its just setting it up so blatantly to have something big happen that the drama is already destroyed before it can even happen!

[Palmer]

Did you know Urik was EVIL? Here, let me put his giant, ominous head in the background incase you weren't sure.

[Traab]

Question about Quilt, wasnt jacob building him to try and create his own acibek type golem body or something like that? I vaguely recall rillian being pissed off about it way way WAY back in the story.

[M84]

Question about Quilt, wasnt jacob building him to try and create his own acibek type golem body or something like that? I vaguely recall rillian being pissed off about it way way WAY back in the story.

It's never really explained why Jacob built Quilt in the first place. Honestly, I'll be happier if it remains unexplained, since attempts to explain things in DD always cause me headaches. I'd be satisfied if the only reason he did was to prove that it could be done.

[Welf]

I always got a certain Nietzsche vibe from early Jacob. He explicitly cut all ties to his family and the rest of the world in VoD to achieve ultimate freedom and power. I thought that Quilt was his attempt to create a "superior being" that was unaffected by any kind of cultural imprinting. One of the things I really liked about early DD and Jacob was that he was consequent with his concept and let the possibility open that Quilt could become a nice guy, instead of programming him to become stereotypical evil.
I wonder if it takes more than 5 minutes will somebody points out all the logical problems with that impression.

[TheArsenal]

I always got a certain Nietzsche vibe from early Jacob. He explicitly cut all ties to his family and the rest of the world in VoD to achieve ultimate freedom and power. I thought that Quilt was his attempt to create a "superior being" that was unaffected by any kind of cultural imprinting. One of the things I really liked about early DD and Jacob was that he was consequent with his concept and let the possibility open that Quilt could become a nice guy, instead of programming him to become stereotypical evil.
I wonder if it takes more than 5 minutes will somebody points out all the logical problems with that impression.

Actually that sounds pretty good....And leads to another sinister idea: What if Quilt isn't? What if he is merely a sleeper agent? Or Just a Prototype for something else? What if there is something higher for this laughing Quilt?

(Started watching Paranoia Agent)

Well too bad cause death isnt Zombies.


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Or what if he gets his powers from chained up souls? Or Concoiusnesses? And each one is suffering. And the Scrying on Pam is one of the Conciousnesses scrying on whom he loved (In an insane way).

[AgentofOdd]

HYPOTHESIS: there exists somewhere a circle of second-string archmagi, who don't limit themselves to "one mage of each race that we recognize." One-on-one, they can't match the circle kids, but two-on-one, yes, and twenty-on-one, definitely, and untold-thousands-on-one, which is the way they'd fight if they had to, well, it's a good thing that archmagi don't like fighting.

Oh, I like this idea. It'll be nice to see a legion of second rate archmages wipe out the smug Miranda type ones. Probably with a rationale that the Mirandas are incapable to judging and tackling dire situations, but hell, I'd take Mookie's trademark we kill you for the evluz.

[Garland]

This... this isn't an update. This is a not-update. It does the opposite of updating. There should be a new, stronger word for this.






and that's terrible.

you're hurting me here, Terracciano!

[ninja_penguin]

Is it too late to dub quit's crystal bubbles as Scrynet?

[Khosan]

and that's terrible.

you're hurting me here, Terracciano!

Terraciano wasted four weeks. That's as many as 28 days. And that's terrible.

[Trazoi]

This... this isn't an update. This is a not-update. It does the opposite of updating. There should be a new, stronger word for this.

Are you talking about Wednesday's not-update, or Thursday's not-update?
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The comic is doing a sterling job at not updating.

[Zaq]

I'm sorry, was there an update? I guess I must have missed it, given that NOTHING AT ALL HAS HAPPENED.

This is practically a clip show.

[Johnny Blade]

Any other webcomic, I'd say that Quilt's going to die really soon after something like that.

But this is Dominic Deegan, so it's nothing but testament to Mookie's adamant refusal to put any visible effort into this subplot.

[Garland]

Are you talking about Wednesday's not-update, or Thursday's not-update?
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The comic is doing a sterling job at not updating.

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SHOCK / DISBELIEF

Ok, he has to do it on purpose. The rate at which this story moves forward is so low, it'll revert time and start flowing backwards.

[Welf]

Hehe, bubble thoughts, that's so funny, totally worth its own strip. Oh look, fluff, that's so funny, totally worth its own strip.

[Coidzor]

...Ok, the fact that Luna "needs a man" in order to take part in scrying just made things take a turn for the creepy.

[Johnny Blade]

The upside, though - no terrible innuendo.

[Darkmyst]

So. Bubbles. Yeah. You were right yesterday Welf; we should be talking about Derpy instead of the strip. Much more interesting.

[TheArsenal]

Id be very angry if I cared.

Mookie needs a guy to tell him "THIS ISN"T FUNNY!" *Kicks over Laptop*

Mookie REALLY needs an editor.

[M84]

This is not a clip show. Clip shows usually at least have interesting framing devices that still move the plot forward.

This? This is not interesting at all. The scenes shown in the bubbles aren't relevant. This is not an update. This is an anti-update.

Ugh, today's pun hurts. It hurts as bad as the time I caught Mortal Kombat Annihilation on TV and made the mistake of watching the whole thing.