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

[BlackDragonKing]

Is there anyone, in all of fiction, more unlikable than Smug!Greg?

Sosuke Aizen, Sasuke Uchiha, Rayne from Least I Could Do, Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Eragon, Anakin Skywalker, Jar-Jar Binks.

Just off the top of my head, but it's not illustrious company to look down on.

[Friv]

Sosuke Aizen, Sasuke Uchiha, Rayne from Least I Could Do, Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Eragon, Anakin Skywalker, Jar-Jar Binks.

Just off the top of my head, but it's not illustrious company to look down on.

I would actually argue that Jar-Jar is less obnoxious than Greg, as is Anakin in everything but Episode 2.

Otherwise, though, I'll give the list to you.

[Lord Raziere]

Sosuke Aizen, Sasuke Uchiha, Rayne from Least I Could Do, Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Eragon, Anakin Skywalker, Jar-Jar Binks.

Just off the top of my head, but it's not illustrious company to look down on.

dude…..Jar-Jar Binks was awesome…...

[TheLaughingMan]

dude…..Jar-Jar Binks was awesome…...

You take that back.

[Lord Raziere]

*crushes your hopes and dreams with my iron fist*

NO.

[Frogwarrior]

here's how Jayden REALLY wanted to end today's comic

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[raxies94]

Sosuke Aizen, Sasuke Uchiha, Rayne from Least I Could Do, Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Eragon, Anakin Skywalker, Jar-Jar Binks.

Just off the top of my head, but it's not illustrious company to look down on.

I don't know...to me Greg seems at least as unlikeable as all those listed.

[Coidzor]

Mookie found a new way to make SmugGreg more annoying. Does that count?

...Ooo, tempting. Is it a new infinitely more punchable face than the last infinitely punchable one?

[Traab]

Sosuke Aizen, Sasuke Uchiha, Rayne from Least I Could Do, Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Eragon, Anakin Skywalker, Jar-Jar Binks.

Just off the top of my head, but it's not illustrious company to look down on.

You know, id stipulate that sasuke is only more annoying than smurg in fanfiction when the author grotesquely exaggerates his behavior.

Anakin is not even close to as annoying in episode 1, but 2? Oh hell yes. No, please annie, keep whining about sand in your clothes, that'll land padmes panties on the floor in no time. Jar jar was just stupid, Eragorn needs to be punchy mcstonefisted in the jewels even more than dominic. I like Rayne, and I dont care who knows it. I know nothing of twilight but those names and id like to keep it that way.

[Helanna]

Sosuke Aizen, Sasuke Uchiha, Rayne from Least I Could Do, Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Eragon, Anakin Skywalker, Jar-Jar Binks.

Just off the top of my head, but it's not illustrious company to look down on.

I might agree with Eragon, but I'd still rank Greg as worse than everyone else on that list. In my opinion, Bella and Edward are far too bland to dislike this much, Sasuke is just kind of annoying and whiny, and Jar-Jar is just more 'mildly irritating' (to me) than soul-crushingly awful.

Plus, Greg has the added hatred of being totally derailed. Hey, remember when he was just a crippled boy who wanted to help people? It is really, really hard to believe that this Greg is the same as the one in today's comic.

[Nerd-o-rama]

I like Rayne, and I dont care who knows it.

I want it on the record that Traab's signature is not applicable to this post.

[M84]

Sosuke Aizen, Sasuke Uchiha, Rayne from Least I Could Do, Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Eragon, Anakin Skywalker, Jar-Jar Binks.

Just off the top of my head, but it's not illustrious company to look down on.

The difference is that those characters come from works that have redeeming qualities to make up for their awfulness, like other characters that are actually interesting, pretty artwork, decent heartwrenching storytelling, etc.

DD sorely lacks any of those. And Greg is still the worst part of the strip.

[Trazoi]

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So yes, SmugGreg is still blatantly Mookie. Seriously, it's the only way this makes even a tiny bit of sense. "GET MARRIED NOW, MY PRETTIES! ROCK ON."

[colonelslime]

@M84: Twillight has no redeeming qualities. Neither does Eragon. I'm going to have to side with BDK for those two.

Also,


AHH LUNA'S EATING HIS FACE

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Edit: Curse you, Ninja Eagle!

But seriously, DD kissing freaks me out. Their snouts look like they're fitting together like pieces is a jigsaw puzzle or a tangram.

[Feddlefew]

....

They all have the same face.

[Toast1862]

Greg? What Greg? I see only a banana.

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[colonelslime]

Greg? What Greg? I see only a banana.

*Snipped awesomeness*

Banana sure is an awesome character. I'd read a comic about him any day.

I like the tusk-wounds too. It's nice to see consistency in narrative elements.

@Feedlefew V: Buried into Dominic's other cheek, I'd imagine. It's hard to be sure, give the non-euclidean nature of the kiss.

[Feddlefew]

Where is Luna's other tusk supposed to be, exactly?

[BlackDragonKing]

The difference is that those characters come from works that have redeeming qualities to make up for their awfulness, like other characters that are actually interesting, pretty artwork, decent heartwrenching storytelling, etc.

DD sorely lacks any of those. And Greg is still the worst part of the strip.

Twilight and the Star Wars Prequels exist in a void of negative quality that Dominic Deegan sometimes sees through the bottom of its boat, like the shadow of an unimaginable leviathan you glimpse far below the surface of the lake just for an instant. They can see each other sometimes, but Dominic Deegan remains so far above them there is no interaction.

Eragon's also worse, but it's a very similar kind of badness.

Bleach is Dominic Deegan if it had good art and made ridiculous amounts of money. With the quality of the writing sometimes, it interests me that nobody can recall ever seeing Mookie and Tite Kubo in the same room...

[colonelslime]

Twilight and the Star Wars Prequels exist in a void of negative quality that Dominic Deegan sometimes sees through the bottom of its boat, like the shadow of an unimaginable leviathan you glimpse far below the surface of the lake just for an instant. They can see each other sometimes, but Dominic Deegan remains so far above them there is no interaction.

Eragon's also worse, but it's a very similar kind of badness.

Bleach is Dominic Deegan if it had good art and made ridiculous amounts of money. With the quality of the writing sometimes, it interests me that nobody can recall ever seeing Mookie and Tite Kubo in the same room...

Agreed on all counts. I only gave Anakin and Jar-Jar Binks a pass because the Star Wars franchise as a whole is not bad, and some extended universe stuff that came out of the prequels is pretty cool.

[Toast1862]

Twilight and the Star Wars Prequels exist in a void of negative quality that Dominic Deegan sometimes sees through the bottom of its boat, like the shadow of an unimaginable leviathan you glimpse far below the surface of the lake just for an instant. They can see each other sometimes, but Dominic Deegan remains so far above them there is no interaction.

Eragon's also worse, but it's a very similar kind of badness.

Bleach is Dominic Deegan if it had good art and made ridiculous amounts of money. With the quality of the writing sometimes, it interests me that nobody can recall ever seeing Mookie and Tite Kubo in the same room...

Twilight is similar *to dominic deegan* in that, at first glance, it seems like harmless junk. There's nothing good in it, but there's nothing harmful. Right?

But then you start finding out about tubdead and black people turning white when they become vampires and the jocks and that women aren't real women if they can't have babies and you look at it closely and a single eye stares back in the dark.

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[colonelslime]

Twilight is similar in that, at first glance, it seems like harmless junk. There's nothing good in it, but there's nothing harmful. Right?

But then you start finding out about tubdead and black people turning white when they become vampires and the jocks and that women aren't real women if they can't have babies and you look at it closely and a single eye stares back in the dark.

Don't forget "stalking and possessive behaviour is love". Oh, and vampire c-section. And native american werewolves.

[Trazoi]

I haven't read Twilight, but I do get Star Wars Prequel vibes from current Dominic Deegan's writing, with the messed up idiot plots and the barely-qualifies-as-protagonists with questionable moral values. I'll grant Mookie can write better romance than George Lucas (which isn't saying much - a waffle iron could write better romance than Lucas).

[Toast1862]

Don't forget "stalking and possessive behaviour is love". Oh, and vampire c-section. And native american werewolves.

Don't forget the pedophilia!! And that's just the start-- don't look too closely at Bella as a character or the slime rot will get in your eye.

[colonelslime]

Don't forget the pedophilia!! And that's just the start-- don't look too closely at Bella as a character or the slime rot will get in your eye.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that JacobxBella's Daughter thing. I might have deliberately expunged it from my memory.

When you realize that Stephanie Meyer says that Bella is based on her....

[Toast1862]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that JacobxBella's Daughter thing. I might have deliberately expunged it from my memory.

When you realize that Stephanie Meyer says that Bella is based on her....

There's also another werewolf that claimed a toddler as his wife without consent-- ahem, I mean, imprinted, which is like totally romantic and destined and stuff, onto a toddler. *gag*

[colonelslime]

There's also another werewolf that claimed a toddler as his wife without consent-- ahem, I mean, imprinted, which is like totally romantic and destined and stuff, onto a toddler. *gag*

Yeah, and Bella is totally cool with Jacob imprinting on her daughter. That's the guys she was romantically involved with. Awesome parenting, Bella!

(I had also forgotten that Meyer actually included an imprinting as an example/explanation (examplanantion?) of imprinting, so that you think it's all the more romantic when Jacob does it. When you realize that that was her solution to not going with the non-stalker fans preferred...)

See people, this is why you don't say Twilight has redeeming qualities. It forces people like me and Toast to prove you wrong, since I'm sure she has friends who inexplicably liked the books, requiring a thorough dissection to reveal to them the error of their views.

[M84]

I said they had redeeming qualities. I didn't say they were good.

Twilight and Eragon have some interesting side characters, like Murtagh in Eragon. They're still highly flawed works though. Twilight is basically everything wrong with the supernatural romance genre. Eragon is the same thing for the fantasy genre.

The Star Wars Prequels weren't great, but they had some genuinely heartwrenching moments. And I enjoyed the Anakin vs. Obiwan duel -- the only reason I watched the Prequels was to see the buildup to that moment.

Least I Could Do has a pretty annoying protagonist, but the parts of the strip that don't focus on him tend to be okay. And I like his interactions with his niece. The artwork also looks like there's some actual effort put into it too.

Bleach and Naruto are definitely hit or miss for me. But at least there ARE hits.

I honestly can't think of anything I non-ironically enjoy about DD anymore. I think I reached that point around the time of "Facebath". And that's the real reason I hate Smug!Greg more than anyone else on the list. His very presence brings DD down to "Star Wars Holiday Special" bad.

[Trazoi]

Ugh, I just read the newspost. I'm not going to post it here because it's annoying, even though it would break up the Twilight derail.

But really Mookie, Dom and Luna are okay with an impromptu wedding forced on them all of a sudden? Silly me, of course they are, because you're there in SmugGreg form forcing them to be.

Despite not caring about the characters, I can't get over how Mookie keeps making them more and more like his own doll set. They're going to be having tea parties with Raggedy Ann next.

[Zaq]

I reiterate that I would rather have this than a Lynn Johnston-style wedding arc any day of the week. That's the one good thing I'm taking away from this.