Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLVI: A Tark of the Klones, Electric Boogaloo

[Trazoi]

Newspost makes it even more hillarious. As usual.

Mookie is a big proponent of the "Don't Show, Don't Tell, Spoil It All In The Newspost" style of writing.

[rocketpony]

As long as we're linking, remember when Jacob just waved his hand and all the zombies except the ones that used white magic, which formed a minority of the greater horde, dissolved into ashes?
Given how apparently effortless that was, why couldn't Jacob have just kept sweeping the deck of the trash and riff-raff, clearing the way for the Sacred Knights (tm) and werewoofs to knock down the guys who weren't just being dissolved?
I mean, given that the strength of the zombies appears to be a) numbers and b) they'll bite you if you're close enough, running out to fight them hand-to-hand seems like a non-starter, as strats go.

also what is that little speedo / knee-high ensemble for, look at how he's left his femoral arteries completely exposed.

[elros]

Mookie is a big proponent of the "Don't Show, Don't Tell, Spoil It All In The Newspost" style of writing.

It's clear Mookie just wants to finish up DD. He is his own audience right now, which is why he no longer feels the need to explain things through the comic itself.

[random11]

Nothing like an armor made out of a thin layer of skin and meat for protection.

[Acanous]

man, looks like '05 was his best year.

[Analytica]

I don't really mind the armor, there's something appealingly gory of making vestments out of your enemies and kind of matches Rilians shadowcloak and fatsuit, I guess, so semi-consistent.

What bugs me is how the author not only reveals Jayden is OK, so no tension, but then Jacob's enemies all spontaneously die, reducing tension even further in the very same strip.

Also, getting back to yesterday - Celesto looks so sad, beaten and lonely. He gets away, harms no-one, keeps suffering, bears it, and proceeds do try to do his job. Presumably staying sane didn't exactly become easier by, as someone pointed out, head trauma by MC gang punk rocker/whatever, then sensory deprivation isolation. He would indeed make an awesome protagonist, one you could really feel for...

[Mr. McGician]

The only filled blacks are on Jacob. Everything else is line art.

It's been a while since we've done on of these and you got me curious, so here's a comparison of DD's art throughout its run sampling strips from September 27th (or closest day):
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Edit: 2011 really dipped, didn't it?

Wow, check out the wooden table in 2003! It has texture! It actually looks like wood!

I can't imagine Mookie drawing something like that now.

[Johnny Blade]

Oh wow I'm so excited I hope Jayden's okay this is wooooow!!!


(I'll say though, I'm looking forward to seeing how many people died thanks to Luna's idiocy tomorrow.)

The only filled blacks are on Jacob. Everything else is line art.

It's been a while since we've done on of these and you got me curious, so here's a comparison of DD's art throughout its run sampling strips from September 27th (or closest day):
(warning long image, lots of scrolling!)

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Edit: 2011 really dipped, didn't it?

It's amazing just how little has changed. I swear Mookie could just copy-paste new updates together and nobody would notice.


Seriously:

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[Welf]

Huh, that was strange.

It's what I do. And if I don't link obscure independent comics in foreign languages from the 90s/early 00s, who else will?

The only filled blacks are on Jacob. Everything else is line art.

It's been a while since we've done on of these and you got me curious, so here's a comparison of DD's art throughout its run sampling strips from September 27th (or closest day):
(warning long image, lots of scrolling!)

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Edit: 2011 really dipped, didn't it?

2002 looks rough, then art stayed stable from 2003 to 2006. Then 2007/08 it degenerated, and everybody started to look like Pam/Szark. That stayed, and from 2011 increasingly details got lost.

[random11]

I don't really mind the armor, there's something appealingly gory of making vestments out of your enemies and kind of matches Rilians shadowcloak and fatsuit, I guess, so semi-consistent.

Gory? Maybe.
Useful? No.
I agree it's semi-consistent with Rillians fat suit, but that was used as a disguise, not as a body armor.
Thin layer of flesh provides very little protection (which is what requires an armor in the first place).

If you want both Gore and usefulness, how about a skeleton armor (with a minor risk of looking like Skeletor)? Better yet, how about a nice wall of body parts?

But more than functionality, what bothers me is the complete laziness.
Instead of some cool necromantic spell, we got yet another Deegan with a superhero suit (I especially love the flesh underwear).
Worse, we didn't even get a short scene where Jacob mumbles "Flesh armor" and the bodies materialize around him. The only reason we know what we're looking at, is that it was explained in the news post!

[Welf]

Gory? Maybe.
Useful? No.
I agree it's semi-consistent with Rillians fat suit, but that was used as a disguise, not as a body armor.
Thin layer of flesh provides very little protection (which is what requires an armor in the first place).

If you want both Gore and usefulness, how about a skeleton armor (with a minor risk of looking like Skeletor)? Better yet, how about a nice wall of body parts?

Yes, but a suit of flesh has its advantages: you are less restricted in your movement, so you wear a full body suit and less few agility. This is especially useful to protect your soft and vulnerable underbelly.

[Mewtarthio]

I could buy it if it had some other muscle-related function. Say, Jacob grafts the muscles to his own for a temporary strength boost (conceptually similar to wearing someone's skin to perfectly impersonate them). That still wouldn't explain those silly pauldrons.

Also, is it just me, or does this:

Jacob's undead flesh armor suit is composed of the zombies that swarmed him and Jayden, and even though she was beside him at the time, Jacob did not absorb her skin into his armor.

sound like it wouldn't be all that out-of-place in Axe Cop?

[Mephit]

Thin layer of flesh provides very little protection (which is what requires an armor in the first place).

It's on par with leather armor, I'd say. I honestly have no clue how effective leather armor is, but having dissected a few bodies I can state with certainty you'd need something pretty sharp and -a lot- of force to cut through a layer of muscle.

If anything bothers me, it's that I actually had to read the newspost to realize it was made of flesh.

[Cen]

Someone is up to play in 'Guess where Mookie copied it from'?

[Welf]

Someone is up to play in 'Guess where Mookie copied it from'?

Yes. He copied it from the game 'Legacy of Kain'.

[Kizor]

Oh, come on. That game's sixteen years old. If you need to have ideas nobody's ever had before, you're pretty much stuck on the level of giant lactate-cannons that fire the color green and run on dancing ballpoint pens.

I'd like to be funny and playful in this reply, buthere's a My LIttle Pony video instead.

[random11]

It's on par with leather armor, I'd say. I honestly have no clue how effective leather armor is, but having dissected a few bodies I can state with certainty you'd need something pretty sharp and -a lot- of force to cut through a layer of muscle.

If anything bothers me, it's that I actually had to read the newspost to realize it was made of flesh.

I think processed leather is harder than flesh.
And while it's not that easy to cut through flesh, the regular zombies don't seem to have any problem with real flesh so an extra thin layer isn't much of a protection, especially against super zombies.

Anyway, I agree that the bigger issue was not realizing what it is without the news post.

[Cen]

I'd like to be funny and playful in this reply, buthere's a My LIttle Pony video instead.

Derpy in Kamina's glasses! So... awesome!

[Analytica]

Gory? Maybe.
Useful? No.
I agree it's semi-consistent with Rillians fat suit, but that was used as a disguise, not as a body armor.
Thin layer of flesh provides very little protection (which is what requires an armor in the first place).

If you want both Gore and usefulness, how about a skeleton armor (with a minor risk of looking like Skeletor)? Better yet, how about a nice wall of body parts?

But more than functionality, what bothers me is the complete laziness.
Instead of some cool necromantic spell, we got yet another Deegan with a superhero suit (I especially love the flesh underwear).
Worse, we didn't even get a short scene where Jacob mumbles "Flesh armor" and the bodies materialize around him. The only reason we know what we're looking at, is that it was explained in the news post!

I think I did not see it so much as direct physical protection, as girding yourself with corpses, so that your body symbolically becomes linked to magical death or the like and therefore more easily benefits from protective spells you cast that draws on that. If dead things generate necromantic energies, then placing those dead things onto where you want your necromantic buffing/warding field to be might make sense. Of course, I have no illusions this was what was intended, but...

[Rhapsh]

I think I did not see it so much as direct physical protection, as girding yourself with corpses, so that your body symbolically becomes linked to magical death or the like and therefore more easily benefits from protective spells you cast that draws on that. If dead things generate necromantic energies, then placing those dead things onto where you want your necromantic buffing/warding field to be might make sense. Of course, I have no illusions this was what was intended, but...

Would be nice if that was the intention and that amount of thought went into it. Additionally, it would be nice if the magic system was defined enough that the audience knew magical energies came from things and could say, "o ya necro energy comes from corpses, makes sense."

It would also be nice if all magic didn't come from a comet.

Sure would be nice, but then it wouldn't be Dominic Deegan.

[AgentofOdd]

It's what I do. And if I don't link obscure independent comics in foreign languages from the 90s/early 00s, who else will?

Indeed, tis an odd but important niche I say. :)

As for the comic, I thought Jacob had magic necro vines on his body, but I've been looking at too many cards with plant worshiping death cultists.

[Rappy]

While not about comics in foreign languages, this is a statement about foreign languages.

Nakta's a real word, not just an orcity orc orc word.

It's Sanskrit for "darkness/night".

I somehow doubt Mookie actually researched Sanskrit or anything, though, and it's most likely a coincidence.

[SaintRidley]

While not about comics in foreign languages, this is a statement about foreign languages.

Nakta's a real word, not just an orcity orc orc word.

It's Sanskrit for "darkness/night".

I somehow doubt Mookie actually researched Sanskrit or anything, though, and it's most likely a coincidence.

Just like how Ilka Tuk Tak is perfectly decent Scots (if a little odd syntactically, I'm not entirely sure), for "To gather up every thorn," which is also really weirdly appropriate for a vegetarian orc society.

[Welf]

Sneaky
Future

Jacob ruined forever Y/N?

Sneaky gate

Future link

I press: Y

Also: Annoying Friday Cliffhanger is back, but already in panel 3?

[Johnny Blade]

Even the comic's characters are all "Let's get it over with." at this point.

[Ninjadeadbeard]

Sneaky gate

Future link

Maybe he'll make a resurgence Monday? Maybe?

Panels 4-5: I though that that priestess got transformed into Mama Deegan, like she was some sort of...

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Oh dear.

[Rhapsh]

Panels 4-5: I though that that priestess got transformed into Mama Deegan.

Thank heavens it wasn't just me. I was confused for a good half a minute there.

Also, Mookie. I know you have female friends who have agreed to model topless for your photography. So please, stop drawing breasts like that. It looks so bad in profile.

[random11]

Sneaky gate

Future link

I press: Y

Well, it IS his mother.

Also: Annoying Friday Cliffhanger is back, but already in panel 3?

What cliffhanger? I don't even count it as one.
At least Bumper got to do something heroic before his death, in this case we saw Jayden in maybe half a panel doing nothing special.

Also, I don't count it as a cliffhanger because I dont think any of us really care about Jayden


Edit: And I'm also in the list of confused people about the pristess/Miranda.
In fact, I was sure it's Miranda in panel 4 even AFTER reading the comments here.

[guttering flame]

Am I the only one who thought this:

[Traab]

Wow, panel 4 is one floppy boob profile. Something that size should really be restrained and supported better or they will just tear off one day in the middle of some physical exertion. Like say, while flailing around in a battle to the death against a zombie apocalypse?