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2012-05-10, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
In a year we'll have an arc which explains how Mantismage's gay lover pushed Mantismage's mouth down into the knife's trajectory.
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2012-05-10, 10:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
The world becomes a featureless white void. Nothing exists save for the two figures at its center: Mookie kneeling over the dying form of Dramatic Tension.
Tension coughs, then looks at Mookie. "But... why? I only wanted to improve your story..."
Mookie's voice is soft and mournful. "Your intentions were pure, my brother. But your actions threatened the safety of those I love."
"You have grown too attached to your characters!" Another cough, harsher than the last. "A tale does not have meaning unless there is suffering!" Tension falls into violent spasm.
"Yes. And now, that suffering will be your own." Tension grows still. "Per quanto sia penoso il trapasso, lieto sarà il tuo sonno. Requiescat in pace."
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2012-05-10, 10:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
I.... I cant believe it. Stunt stabbed the archmage. But yes, I too am expecting the whole this type of scene.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-05-10, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
You just compared Mookie to Ezio Auditore. Why must you taint my love of the Assassin's Creed games?
MantisMage's stupidity, and the stupidity of the other Archmages who are acting like attack dogs instead of people on par with Miranda, could be justified if they are being mind controlled. Maybe King DJ can't let them be too intelligent without risking the control breaking.
And it's not like he'd lose anything if they died. Just potential enemies.Last edited by M84; 2012-05-10 at 11:14 AM.
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2012-05-10, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
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2012-05-10, 05:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
I honestly don't know I feel about this update. On the one hand this entire situation with the "renegade" archmages is completely riduculous. To make it worse we've just seen Stuntbro potentially kill an archmage with just a knife. Is that really how you write off a person for whom reality is only so much cotton candy?
On the other hand I want to say that this scene is pretty funny, and I enjoyed it more than I should have. But I know that crediting Mookie for his writing is wrong. The guy just assimilates new ideas into his story without really analyzing and understanding what made those moments special. I'm only tangentially away of Fred Perry's "Gold Digger" comic but I do know that it is more tounge-in-cheek with it's story than DD has been trying to be in recent years.
If I had to guess Mookie is referencing some one shot villian that showed up looking intimidating and got the same treatment that that one mook did in "Raiders of the lost ark".
We'll see how he intends to ramp up the tension for friday's update but the amount of energy I'm willing to expend over it is decreasing by the minute.
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2012-05-10, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
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2012-05-10, 06:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
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2012-05-10, 08:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
Perhaps, but then controlling them must not have been to hard otherwise the King is getting a very poor return on the energy he invested to take their minds. The fact that DJ Callan was an Archmage and that made him scary, yet Archmages are actually total scrubs and easily thwarted and tricked or mind controlled, it just, I dunno, it doesn't work for me. It just makes me think there was never any point to them and they could've just been big monsters the king summoned himself.
If Ignorance is bliss, I'll take suffering any day.
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2012-05-10, 09:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
I bet 100 internet bucks that MantisMage will spring back. It's pretty much a given if you look at Mookie's newspost. Now the question is what's the most tension-breaking and anti-climatic way for Mantis to really die this time around?
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2012-05-10, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
Last edited by Trazoi; 2012-05-10 at 09:08 PM.
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2012-05-10, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
Yeah...that stuff happend too. I can definately see some of that "Animesque" style in his work just like Mookie but honestly mookie isn't so much copying the anime style as he is just being a lazy artist. I only really know about Gold Digger and some other webcomic he puts out. His style is definately something different, but I met the guy at a con in Virginia a few years back and he seemed pleasant enough.
Yeah, Gold Digger is a western comic, just has that same idea of "Cartoon meets anime" style.Last edited by Veridis Quo; 2012-05-10 at 10:04 PM.
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2012-05-11, 01:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
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Mookie gives a sly wink to everyone who points out that Dom should be archmage bug-food. Turns out all of them are only partly mind controlled and deliberately committing suicide-by-Deegan instead. I love how Mookie thinks that's a more believable explanation, and that totally makes up for why King Dave hasn't squashed the daft lazy seer yet.
And what's up with all the archmages calling their attacker "The Archmage of the Fifth Circle"? Either it's King Dave, Miranda, or some weird third party Dom wouldn't know about. If they actually gave a damn about Dom they'd just say which one they mean - it's much shorter that way. Instead I love how everyone from Luana to the archmages loves being obtusely cryptic just to mess with him, because they know that's the only acceptable way to antagonise a Deegan.Last edited by Trazoi; 2012-05-11 at 01:19 AM.
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2012-05-11, 01:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
So the new pattern for defeating enemies will be as follows:
1) Have archmage show up and immediately cause non mortal, non lethal damage.
2) Injure a cast member that Mookie feels will cause the most reaction from the audience. For maximum effect have the character say or do something that will immediately cause the reader to shift interest back to them. For added effect have this event be as emotionally charged as possible. (Ex. Stunt visits his Mother's grave, Katya professes her love for Milov but insists that Nimmel remain her friend)
3) Have archmage directly warn their would-be-victim of their current situation of being mind controlled. Then have them cryptically alude to the archmage of the 5th circle thus creating the contrived situation where the cast will assume that Momgan has gone rogue.
SpoilerI mean look at it; Only Nimmel is aware that momgan is supposedly "dead" so when Dominic inevitably defeats Jimminy Cricket here and assembles everyone else who will be unsuccessfully attacked by an archmage they can blame his mother who is the current archmage of the 5th circle and he can make them see the truth about how it is the King. But I digress...
4)??????
5) Have archmage activate their "hey, I know I'm supposed to be a reality bending super mage. But here is this handy kill me switch. All I need you to do is flip it and we can resolve this encounter" spell and leave the fate of whoever does so for a later date.
6) Shift focus to next group of characters who haven't had enough screen time and repeat steps 1-5
My next bet is on Luna and Rachel being the next targets. Any takers?
Edit: The only exception I see to this is the first time Masturel attacked the Ruins of Eldorado. Only because Mookie had not implemented this model by that point in the story. That has since been changed.Last edited by Veridis Quo; 2012-05-11 at 01:51 AM.
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2012-05-11, 02:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
The most recent update shows that controlling them isn't that easy -- they are deliberately holding back as much as possible while trying to warn their would-be victims of what's happening.
It's also an easy way for Mookie to establish that King DJ is a threat despite him never really doing much on-panel. It's not that the other Archmages are wimps -- DJ is just that powerful. Which still begs the question why he doesn't just kill Dominic personally. Unless this is one of those irritating villain schemes that require the hero to be alive.
OhlordwhyamidefendingMookiewriting...
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2012-05-11, 02:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
This is the only theory that almost explains DJ actions, but it still falls flat because it's so obvious. Dominic has given himself away multiple times so DJ has to know Dom's up to something (plus y'know, the whole DJ being a seer too). So the only reason DJ could have to let Dom run free is that he's vital to the plan somehow. Except it's so obvious Dominic should see that. The only reason Dom hasn't is he's so amazingly lazy and dense.
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2012-05-11, 06:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
In relation to the newspost:
I hate metal
I hate the sound of metal
I hate the IDEA of metal
I hate the description of things that are "metal".
I hate.
Hate hate hate hate hate.
And also I hate mookie. My hate of metal does play into that somewhat.
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2012-05-11, 07:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-11, 08:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-11, 08:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-11, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-05-11, 08:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
No no, I got it.
DJ Callan is using a Batman Gambit to get the Archmagi out of the way.
SpoilerWhat we know so far:
- DJ Callan can mind control the Archmagi
- This Mind Control is weaksauce
- Archmagi are LG in the most self-sacrificing fashion
So what does he do? He gives each Archmage the orders "kill some innocents" knowing that his mind control will not be sufficient to do the job. However, this puts the LG Archmagi in a situation where they have just enough control to arrange their suicides but not enough to stop from killing innocents. So, predictably, each of them decides to suicide rather than kill innocents, removing them from the picture when DJ Callan goes to enact his Real Plan.
He doesn't use the Mind Control to keep the Archmagi at bay while killing Dominic because it will take all his control to out-Seer Dominic and he doesn't want to have a bunch of wild cards hanging around while he does it. Also, he can't mind control Miranda because he hasn't spent as much time with her as he has with the Alien Mages -- he implanted these mind control hooks over years. He has some other Sinister Plan for Miranda that likely involves her "power fluctuations" in some fashion.
Manta Mage was sent to kill Rillian with similar instructions. DJ Callan did not anticipate that the First Necromancer wouldn't actually try to fight Manta Mage so the Suicide Protocol never was activated.
Of course, this ignores Mookie's inability to plan things out in advance, and his comically bad sense of drama. But it could work.Lead Designer for Oracle Hunter GamesToday a Blog, Tomorrow a Business!
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2012-05-11, 09:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
There are a number of explanations of what's going on right now. The main problem with them is that what's going on right now is still boring. We haven't had a serious threat in two and half years of strips, and now the comic's most powerful beings are appearing in front of the heros, not all together but one-by-one, making the process as slow and predictable as possible, and killing themselves. It could work in any other story, but not here.
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2012-05-11, 02:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
My next bet is on Luna and Rachel being the next targets. Any takers?
That scenario involves all the DD elements: Luna crying and being saved by a man (again), stupid humor (please, no more!), and absolutely no tension (yawn).
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2012-05-11, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-11, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
I would like to include a slight change. Donovan throws himself into the path of a lethal shot from his wife, saving lunas life. He cracks some corny joke, with tons of ... to denote that he is struggling to speak as he passes out, and that will break mommas mind control. He wont die of course, but there will be a whole half strip of tension when everyone thinks that he will, (because we have no pattern recognition AT ALL)
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-05-11, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
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Originally Posted by The Lost Eyeball
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2012-05-11, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
Ya, see, I totally understand they the archmages are trying to hold back, but my question is why in the world the King would send the archmages on assassination missions if they aren't fully mind-controlled? At least with Bintu (manta-mage). We can see that he loses self-control roughly one minute after appearing in front of DomiStunt, so it doesn't seem like it's impossible for full control to be established; so why does he keep sending the archmages off half-baked?
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2012-05-11, 08:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
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2012-05-11, 08:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLIV: Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden
Because either way he wins. If the archmages kill the deegans crew, then that threat is removed. If the deegans kill the archmages, thats one less group of people with the power to oppose him. If some deegans and mages both die, then both sides are weakened, and may be unwilling to work together. Even if the absolute worst had occured, and the deegans through the magical might of marysueishness had freed the mages from mind control, he still wouldnt have been any worse off. So dj could not lose with this plan.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."