Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XXXVIII: This Show Blew My Boogeyman

[Fawkes]

This is the thirty-eighth thread of our ongoing mocking of- wait. Thirty-eight threads? Jesus. I... I need to go lie down.

Dominic Deegan.

Snark Chronology (Snarkhronology)

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Thread I - Oct 31 2006 to Aug 9 2007 - 77 pages, the first half of which actually contained praise yet. Then Snowsong came about...
Thread II - Aug 8 2007 to Jun 10 2008 - the epic one, 301 pages, OVER NINE THOUSAAAND posts. Here the foundations of Domiology - our snarky fanon - were created.
Thread III - 10 Jun 2008 to Aug 12 2008 - 63 pages of snarky goodness, first one to contain the archives in the first post.
Thread IV - Aug 12 2008 to Sept 20 2008 - 50 pages, the one that carried us through the first half of the horrid Vacation Arc and brought the first actual fans into our threads (of course, their resolve starts to falter by now )
Thread V - Sept 20 2008 to Oct 18 2008 - 50 pages, the Vacation Arc continues to our unimaginable horror.
Thread VI - Oct 18 2008 to Nov 11 2008 - 50 pages, the final part of the vacation. So much to be learnt about walls and limbs; knowledge that Mookie, unfortunately, shall never possess.
Thread VII - 10 Nov 2008 to Dec 1 2008 - 50 pages, finally the Plot Creature caught up - but what has Mookie done to Celesto and TIM?
Thread VIII - Dec 1 2008 to Dec 23 2008 - 51 pages, wherein Dex rises from the dead and we are introduced to Sn'gl'euth'u, the cutest extradimensional Lovecraftian being since Hello Cthulhu.
Thread IX - Dec 23 2008 to Feb 20 2009 - 50 pages, which taught us that orcs not only have despicable traditions, they are also completely insane.
Thread X - Feb 20 2009 to Apr 5 2009 - 50 pages, which taught us that orcs are not only completely insane, they are actually crazy enough to make Cthulhu roll Sanity checks!
Thread XI - Apr 5 2009 to May 1 2009 - 51 pages, in which the orcs are at their height of insanity (going one step beyond), Luna is the designated Messiah of Everything and that tusks make you speshul.
Thread XII - May 1 2009 to Jun 6 2009 - 50 pages, where the orcs, after reaching the height of insanity previously, find ways to fly to entirely new planes of mind-crushing madness, sufficient to warp their plain to the size of a backyard and time to freeze, as nothing interesting happens at all.
Thread XIII - Jun 6 2009 to July 9 2009 - 50 pages, where the orcs continue to plumb the bottomless depths of inanity. Oh, and insanity too. Meanwhile, Luna discovers a new Sue power: inflicting the worst monologues ever on hapless readers. Also, Jacob is evil.
Thread XIV - July 9 2009 to Aug 6 2009 - 50 pages, where we are still occupied with Orcs. Orcs. Orcs, everywhere! Oh gods, is this arc not going to end ever?! I repent, Mookie! I repent! Just make it stop! Make it stooooop!
Thread XV - Aug 6 2009 to Sept 7 2009 - 50 pages, with Orcs, who do Orc things and KILL THEM, KILL ALL THE ORCS, EXTERMINATE THEM, SO THIS HORROR CAN END!
Thread XVI - Sept 7 2009 to Sept 26 2009 - 50 pages. Do I have to tell you what it was about at this point anymore? You have three guesses. And the first two don't count.
Thread XVII - Sept 26 2009 to Oct 20 2009 - 51 pages. The Orcs are still insane, and in this thread, they managed to temporarily infect us. Among the results are a debate about relativism and many pictures of various cute, funny, and weird animals. There also was a decapitation. It was metal.
Thread XVIII - Oct 20 2009 to Nov 19 2009 - 50 pages, in which the March Through Maltak continues against logic, reason, good taste and sanity. Also including attempts at a non-lethal battle and awesome plot twists(Dominic fixes everything!)
Thread XIX - Nov 19 2009 to Dec 15 2009 - 50 pages. The Battle At the Bikta Sanctuary is trudging along, with consistency and logic being casualties.
Thread XX - Dec 15 2009 to Jan 14 2010 - 50 pages, where many lessons are learned: Never trust a bard, rain solves everything, and a stunning revelation by a necromancer so important it's the next thread title.
Thread XXI - Jan 14 2010 to Feb 25 2010 - 51 pages. Now that events have been set into motion that may affect the destiny of the entire world, we get to see Nimmel and his crazy college shenanigans!
Thread XXII - Feb 25 2010 to Mar 31 2010 - 51 pages, where Nimmel fully ascends into the First Caste, donning the Mantle of Sue that he might make us all immune to boobs.
Thread XXIII - March 31 2010 to May 9 2010 - 50 pages. After Talking to one tentacled creature about another, Mamma Deegan returns home, and Greg starts a band.
Thread XXIV - May 9, 2010 to June 9, 2010 - 50 pages. Greg's band is so meh it's un-****ing believable.
Thread XXV - June 9, 2010 to July 22, 2010 - 51 pages. The strange ecology of the Wild Edge Territory, and the stranger behavior of the Callanians living there. If there's a keyword, it's "random". Also, inappropriate names for creatures.
Thread XXVI - July 22, 2010 to Sept. 6 2010 - 50 pages. Stunt's stunts in the Wild Edge show a stunting of character and such stunted emotional capacity that he probably suffers from stunt. Also, Celesto meditates naked.
Thread XXVII - Sept. 6, 2010 to Oct. 6, 2010 - 50 pages. The comic goes to hell. Again. Siegfried returns and shouts a lot.
Thread XXVIII - Oct. 6, 2010 to Oct. 27, 2010 - 50 pages. Curly has exploded at the end of the War in Hell just like a soul. Now, on to a trial.
Thread XXVIIIS - Nov. 6, 2010 to Nov. 7, 2010 - 1 page. Wherein a true fan who has made it as far as Storm of Souls, makes a thread.
Thread XXIX - Oct. 27 2010 to Dec. 2, 2010 - 50 pages. The "trial" is just a veiled excuse to have Bulgak grow wings on his head and look into goalposts that show him important events in his past.
Thread XXX - Dec. 2, 2010 to January 1, 2011 - 51 pages. Bulgak goes boom. Filler. Then nothing happens except Curly's marathon readthrough of Maltak.
Thread XXXI - Jan. 1, 2011 to January 21, 2011 - 50 pages. Dominic and Luna finally show up, and then we get an arc about plastic surgery.
Thread XXXII - Jan. 22, 2011 to Feb. 18, 2011 - 50 Pages. Luna is great. So great. Also: Snuggly joins the Loony Toons.
Thread XXXIII - Feb. 19, 2011 to Mar. 24, 2011 - 50 pages. Snuggly is allergic to shellfish. Facebath returns to sing songs about how Luna is so great.
Thread XXXIV - Mar. 24, 2011 to April 19, 2011 - 50 pages. Snuggly kills an all-powerful archmage and no one is too concerned about it. Also, we met King DJ.
Thread XXXV - April 19, 2011 to May 23, 2011 - 50 pages. Dominic must find Celesto for no reason in particular. The Battlecasters are spying on all Second Sight, everywhere.
Thread XXXVI - May 24, 2011 to June 24, 2011 - 50 pages. Dominic visits his old friend Szark. Together, they uncover the dark secret of two teenagers who, brace yourself, are trapped in a vicious cycle of bullying. Holy moly! The world-destroying abomination is assumed to still be relevant, but not even Dominic knows why.
Thread XXXVII - June 24, 2011 to August 7, 2011 - 50 pages. Dominic strips naked and drives a small child insane while Szark prevents anyone from helping the kid.

And our sister threads:
Strip Slays, the best thread ever
Strip Slays 2: the best thread strikes back
Strip Slays 3 - Someone Is Going To Slay For This Outrage.
Strip Slays 4: A Slay On Words.
If the madness of this thread does not suffice to bring your SAN rating down, those will. For sure.
[DD Snark]Maltak: The Unsuckening - Art by Domochevsky, Writing by Oracle_Hunter, edited by us. A parody of the longest arc done in the style of Hiimdaisy's comic strips, now with snazzy new (non-sucky) link!
Dominic Deegan - The Second Coming - the now dead Dominic Deegan rewrite, where everyone could contribute! Assuming it was still alive.

For more information, check out the Encyclopedia Dominica, our all-encompassing archive of knowledge! It's a wiki!

If you're wondering why we snark, check out Why We Snark on the wiki!

For further reading, there's The Descent of Man (into Madness and Mookie) by Johnny Blade.

And there is also the Dominic Deegan game: Punchy's Brilliant Adventure: Ley Line Scramble, courtesy of TamerBill!

MORE FUN STUFF:

Snarky Flowcharts (Flowsnarks)

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Turcano's Chart of Arc Hope
Helanna's Chart of Thread Trends

guttering_flame's Cycle of Life and Death (Spoiler: It All Leads to Maltak)

Snark Art (Snart)

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Dominic Deegan's art is garbage. However, some people may at times believe, possible after being exposed to it for way too long a time, that it's not that bad.
Well, here's something to guide the lost souls back to the light.

Domo's Beef:

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Domo's Reenvisioning (of the Melna vs Taran fight scene and Luna's entrance at the Bikta camp):

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Silverblood

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Pay close attention, you may notice a little surprise.

Garland

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BEHOLD! MUSTACHE!


SNARKSERVICE

Maltak: The Unsuckening

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8 out of Unknown parts done so far.

Domo's commentary on werewolf society:

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TamerBill's animations:

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Big Stuff
Dominic Deegan: The Animated Series
Battle For Barthis 2
Magical Nerd Lyrical Nimmeloha

Little Stuff
Power-Walking With Nimmel Fenix
Dominic Dansen: Oracle for Hire
Young Men's Chibi Association
Hell Is Other Panels

Joro's good old days:

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In an alternate universe, Dominic Deegan: Surly Jerk With a Fish on His Head is a well regarded webcomic.

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Crud, I think I drew his nose off center.

Jacob used to be somewhat cool. What happened? Curse you, Maltak.

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Glass Mouse:

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Averagejoe's One Panel (Sn)Arcs

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[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Someone tell Averagejoe to update his one-panel (sn)arcs! Because that thing makes me laugh so hard every time, you don't even know.

[Zaq]

I wonder . . . would it be worthwhile to include instructions for how to find Sneaky Gate/Future Link to the main post? Or that that be a secret art, known only to the initiated?

[engineer-errant]

I wonder . . . would it be worthwhile to include instructions for how to find Sneaky Gate/Future Link to the main post? Or that that be a secret art, known only to the initiated?

I don't think it would be. It's pretty easy to figure out from the posted links, and if they still have trouble they can ask like they did in the last thread.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I don't think it would be. It's pretty easy to figure out from the posted links, and if they still have trouble they can ask like they did in the last thread.

I can't figure out Fan Art links though.

[Palmer]

I can't figure out Fan Art links though.

Fanarts tend to be saved in jpeg.



Also, I was looking through the image index and was wondering, does anyone know when this shows up? It comes so close to ripping off the triforce it's not even funny, and I'm wondering how it ties into the expansive and richly detailed world of Dominic Deegan.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Fanarts tend to be saved in jpeg.



Also, I was looking through the image index and was wondering, does anyone know when this shows up? It comes so close to ripping off the triforce it's not even funny, and I'm wondering how it ties into the expansive and richly detailed world of Dominic Deegan.

It was the sigils Miranda put up for the three dead students after TIM attacked the school.

[T-O-E]

Ah yes, the pretentious, ridiculous and impersonal towers Miranda erected to one-up the more heart-felt devotions.

[Palmer]

Oh yeah, I kinda sorta remember that. Considering I skipped past that part in Storm of Souls.


Man, there's all sorts of weird crap in this index. Who can guess how the issues of crime magazine with dead women on the cover tie into DD? There's even characters who haven't shown up before, like more mongrels. Some guy named Cromby too, who looks like Sigfried and Dex had a child. There's also this one girl who looks like she just fell off the Jem bandwagon. There's a whole story here and it's so much more interesting than what's currently going on.


Edit: Mookie raised $7,300 at one point.

[Welf]

This is a new thread. I write words in it. You currently read them.

Edit: Mookie raised $7,300 at one point.

According to file data it was October 29th 2004. That was a long time ago. This was the update of back then. Crazy times. Actual villains with resources we see, competent NPCs, a background story, plot.

[Coidzor]

According to file data it was October 29th 2004. That was a long time ago. This was the update of back then. Crazy times. Actual villains with resources we see, competent NPCs, a background story, plot.

I remember even enjoying it! Back when I was in highschool or possibly the end of middleschool or something.

God I feel old now.

[Palmer]

I'm finding stuff all over the place. Here's the
sneaky gate
Future Link



It's great that Dom's helping Chance in spirit. God knows he couldn't-


This is Soul Eater.

This is Soul Eater.

[guttering flame]

I'm finding stuff all over the place. Here's the
sneaky gate
Future Link



It's great that Dom's helping Chance in spirit. God knows he couldn't-


This is Soul Eater.

This is Soul Eater.

This is a load of crab

[Trazoi]

So by "the man responsible for this", Dominic means Mookie, right?

@Palmer: I don't know Soul Eater, so how so? The cliche tentacle monster things or the Naked Dominic in the Rapier channelling the Spirit of Crawdad malarkey?

Dominikudigan:

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[Castel]

The power of Lobsters is actually not enough to help Chance.

[random11]

Dominic, can you please spend just a second of your time and a tiny amount of mental strength to put a shirt on?

I promise I won't see it as inconsistency, my mental health is more important.

(Mostly mental health damage from knowing he appears naked in front of a kid, that reminds me too much of really bad and awkward mangas...)

[Palmer]

So by "the man responsible for this", Dominic means Mookie, right?

@Palmer: I don't know Soul Eater, so how so? The cliche tentacle monster things or the Naked Dominic in the Rapier channelling the Spirit of Crawdad malarkey?

Naked Dominic in rapier. In Soul Eater they'd turn into weapons to fight, and in they'd always show up as naked Dominics people on the sword's flat side.
Were there crustaceans? I don't know. They did channel the power of zebra deers at one point.

[Rappy]

Were there crustaceans? I don't know.

Not that I recall, but there were cephalopods.

[Trazoi]

Dominic, can you please spend just a second of your time and a tiny amount of mental strength to put a shirt on?

Pants would be a good idea too.

And of course "Naked Dom" still has his glasses, because they're more important for a seer to have in the psycho-plane than underpants.

[M84]

This arc couldn't possibly be ripping off Soul Eater. It would be much better if it was a ripoff of Soul Eater.

[Zaq]

I . . . can't decide. Is the plot moving or not?

[Darkmyst]

I . . . can't decide. Is the plot moving or not?

Sort of? Maybe? Do you count ungainly flailing in a non-forward direction as "movement"?

Everything about today's offering makes my brain bleed. Particularly Dom reflecting in the flat blade of a sword which does not actually possess one.

[Trazoi]

I . . . can't decide. Is the plot moving or not?

I think the plot popped it's head round the corner a week or two ago, but now it's fleeing from the scene as fast as possible. Does that count?

Edit: i.e. basically what Darkmyst wrote.

[Gez]

Is it just me or are Chance and Dom talking about politics in Dominikudigan? Despite all the budget cuts, Chance cannot stop the reforms. The corrupt Dominic, of course, is trying to attack the supporters of his opponent, "the good man" who could foil his devious plans.

[Welf]

Dominic has the right strategy. Chance is a 14-16 year old child in a fantasy setting who fights a evil wizard with his sword. His victory is inevitable. All he needs are cryptic and very general advices from a old teacher.

By the way: Isn't that the subversion of an subversion? DD was made in the intent to give the oracle the main spot instead of just being a side character who helps the hero. Now Dominic is incapable of doing something himself and can only give advice to the hero who does the real work. And Chance is a pretty classic youth literature hero; he fights with a sword, he is a child prodigy at it, his arch-enemy is a evil mage, and he needs to learn the importance of having friends. He even has a potential clumsy sidekick he can team up after the arc.

[random11]

By the way: Isn't that the subversion of an subversion? DD was made in the intent to give the oracle the main spot instead of just being a side character who helps the hero. Now Dominic is incapable of doing something himself and can only give advice to the hero who does the real work. And Chance is a pretty classic youth literature hero; he fights with a sword, he is a child prodigy at it, his arch-enemy is a evil mage, and he needs to learn the importance of having friends. He even has a potential clumsy sidekick he can team up after the arc.

I prefer it this way since it is much better than the alternative of "my magic can do everything", not to mention ignored physical disabilities where "fragile bones" are translated to One-Piece type of stamina and durability.

So by all means, Dominic SHOULD rely on others to do the actual fight scenes. That will not make him less the focus of the comic as long as the emphasis will be on finding the right information.

Unfortunately, especially in this arc all information gathering is either by instant magic powder from new and unexplained magic, or a failed diplomacy checks due to stupidity to drag the plot.

[Trazoi]

Is it just me or are Chance and Dom talking about politics in Dominikudigan? Despite all the budget cuts, Chance cannot stop the reforms. The corrupt Dominic, of course, is trying to attack the supporters of his opponent, "the good man" who could foil his devious plans.

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DOMINIC DEEGAN 2012
SEE THE TRUTH!

By the way: Isn't that the subversion of an subversion? DD was made in the intent to give the oracle the main spot instead of just being a side character who helps the hero. Now Dominic is incapable of doing something himself and can only give advice to the hero who does the real work. And Chance is a pretty classic youth literature hero; he fights with a sword, he is a child prodigy at it, his arch-enemy is a evil mage, and he needs to learn the importance of having friends. He even has a potential clumsy sidekick he can team up after the arc.

Needs a hot elf love interest.

[mwchase]

Needs a hot elf love interest.

Taz MaDara?

... I'm sorry.

[T-O-E]

Dominikudigan:

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Celesto is a "good man" ala Bulgak? Dominikudigan is so deep.

[Johnny Blade]

I think we'll have one glorious comic full of complete nonsense this week at least, but today, Dominikudigan's powermongering is more interesting than the actual comic.