Dominic Deegan, Mk. XLVII: A Flat World From Recycled Scrap

[Oracle_Hunter]

Apparently Barthis is exactly midway between Callan's capitol and Maltak.

Hy knew it!

[Traab]

How tiny is this world that they can tell which country the bomb is headed for just by its general direction? Or did he do some superfast magical trajectory calculations?

No, you dont get it, Callan is in the geographical center of the world. Every other nation is a perfect compass point away from where the walking castle monstrosity is standing. Therefore if the blight bomb goes east, it hits maltak, if it goes west, it hits elfington, if it goes south it hits the furries, if it goes north it hits the wild edge. Barthis just happens to be on the road to maltak. Thank god nerco boy was hanging out there to remind us death isnt zombies.

[random11]

No, you dont get it, Callan is in the geographical center of the world. Every other nation is a perfect compass point away from where the walking castle monstrosity is standing. Therefore if the blight bomb goes east, it hits maltak, if it goes west, it hits elfington, if it goes south it hits the furries, if it goes north it hits the wild edge. Barthis just happens to be on the road to maltak. Thank god nerco boy was hanging out there to remind us death isnt zombies.

My theory is that the only places that exist, are places that we are supposed to care about.
Since this is a country sized bomb, and Maltak is the only big place besides Callan, it's really the only place it can go to.

Besides, what other way is there to add the orc characters to the "everyone contributes" ending?

[Traab]

My theory is that the only places that exist, are places that we are supposed to care about.
Since this is a country sized bomb, and Maltak is the only big place besides Callan, it's really the only place it can go to.

Besides, what other way is there to add the orc characters to the "everyone contributes" ending?

Yeah, somehow, even though all the magic is gone from the place, they will summon the swarms of nakta and bikta needed to pull a holy from the ff7 meteor destruction cinematic. Or jacob will hover in mid air and take it on the chin to show he can handle mega blight and snuggly corruption with his awesome deegan manliness.

[random11]

Yeah, somehow, even though all the magic is gone from the place, they will summon the swarms of nakta and bikta needed to pull a holy from the ff7 meteor destruction cinematic. Or jacob will hover in mid air and take it on the chin to show he can handle mega blight and snuggly corruption with his awesome deegan manliness.

Here is my prediction:

Since the orcs are... well... orcs, they cannot do anything without the direct help of a Deegan.
Orcs will be supportive role only, buffing Luna with the nakta and Jacob with the Bitka (or is it the other way around?)
With their power combined, Luna and Jacob will beat whatever it is this blight bomb is supposed to do, and the readers will feel slightly more nauseated than usual.

[Welf]

That beak in panel 7, I can't unsee it.

[Traab]

That beak in panel 7, I can't unsee it.

Thats not a beak, its a second mouth.

[random11]

Flashback time!

Jacob is the boy who will bring balance to the dead

[Mr. McGician]

Are we supposed to know who that old wise orc is? Because I don't.

And what's with the brackets around the speech?

[Oracle_Hunter]

Are we supposed to know who that old wise orc is? Because I don't.

And what's with the brackets around the speech?

Man, I have no idea who beardy McOrc is, but the brackets are Mookie's way of showing they're speaking in Orcish.

* * *

I, for one, am glad that a Deegan is around is solve further problems for the Orcs. It'd be a shame if the Orcs could ever figure out something for themselves

[Traab]

Isnt that angry orc guy? The one who punched astral dom in the head?

[Trazoi]

No, it's Adrak Bulgak or whatever, brother of Bulgak Adrak, son of Outrage Chief. The sickly orc who bonded with Jacob in Orc Purgatory. That's how he looks when he's not sickly.

With Jacob turning into a mega Deegan, I'm sure it's not long before Greg joins in somehow.

[Johnny Blade]

Ah, the wisdom these primitive people possess. So close to nature, they are; connected to it, you could even say. We can learn so much from them if we only listen, listen to their ululations as they dance under the moonlight.



Unngh.

Man, I have no idea who beardy McOrc is, but the brackets are Mookie's way of showing they're speaking in Orcish.

It's Adrak Bulgak, brother of Bulgak Adrak. Jacob killed him at some point, when he was a racist for reasons of villainy.

EDIT: Too late.

[AgentofOdd]

Flashback time!

Jacob is the boy who will bring balance to the dead

Merge this with the strip from yesterday and we might have a half decent strip.

Jacob: "Time to test what I really learned about death in Maltak."
Orc Teacher: Life and death are like one mmaaannnn. Oh, and believe in yourself.
(Jacob shoots an irritated 4th wall breaking glance at the recollection.)

[Mewtarthio]

"Nature is balance. Blight is imbalance. Blight is natural. Undeath is unnatural. You have wielded the blighted powers of undeath, and so you are close to nature. I actually have no idea what I'm saying; good luck figuring it out on your own."

Is that the gist of Adrak's speech?

[Rhapsh]

Is that the gist of Adrak's speech?

Pretty much yes.

And on that note. Akta and Nakta Mookie, really? Let's ignore the fact that the brackets indicate he is speaking orcish, and that you just included two random "orc words" in what should all be orcish. Instead let's revisit how badly sounding those two words are.

[Neoriceisgood]

Dominic Deegan would've been a much better comic if it was called Snominic Sneegan.



In other news, am I the only one who constantly has to look at the newspost to see who the hell characters in any given page are?

[T-O-E]

Believe in the Mookie who believes in you! Because what Deegans really need is an ego boost.

^@Neoriceisgood: Is it bad that I seem to never have that problem? In any other comic, it would be a good thing, but in Deegan...

Ah, the wisdom these primitive people possess. So close to nature, they are; connected to it, you could even say. We can learn so much from them if we only listen, listen to their ululations as they dance under the moonlight.



Unngh.

A white man will lead them.

EDIT: I've been catching up with the SA thread now that the paywall's down, and it seems we missed this newspost. As always, it gets worse.

On 2013 resolutions...
January 2, 2013 Posted by Mookie

For those of you interested in my everyday life, here are some of the resolutions I've made for 2013:

- Get myself in shape. I'm getting older and I need to properly maintain what I've got.
- Take more photographs. My deviantArt gallery has been somewhat neglected and I mean to fix that.
- Find a spot to do more stargazing. I was a hungry "astronomer" in 2011 but slacked off quite a bit in 2012. I need to put my eyes back on the stars.
- Keep up answering emails, but get better at replying to messages on Facebook and Twitter.

And finally, here's a little "art project" I'm doing. I shaved my head and all my facial hair when 2013 hit. Now I'm going to let it all grow back, taking a photo of myself once-a-day for the whole year. The only things I'll be shaving are my neck (cuz nobody likes a neck-beard) and my moustache (cuz my wife hates kissing a moustache). Some may say I'll be growing an amish beard. Me? I'll be calling it my Uncle Iroh beard.
(If you don't know who Uncle Iroh is, go watch Avatar: The Last Airbender. You'll thank me.)
(If you don't like Uncle Iroh, then I don't know what to say to you.)
(If you didn't cry like a baby when Uncle Iroh sang "Leaves From The Vine," then you may not have a soul.)

That's all from me for now.
Rock on and geek out.

The Face of God really is a Sozin's comet ripoff. You can't make this stuff up.

Adrak's nonsense waffle in today's comic even sounds like Mookie trying to imitate Iroh's dialogues about balance and self-confidence. And failing spectacularly.

Oh my God, Adrak's criticism of "warped necromancy" even reminds me of Iroh's morally superior emotion based firebending as opposed to his nation's corrupted, hate based version.

I'm now reading this drivel in Iroh's voice. This is awful. I hate this comic.

[Traab]

Pretty much yes.

And on that note. Akta and Nakta Mookie, really? Let's ignore the fact that the brackets indicate he is speaking orcish, and that you just included two random "orc words" in what should all be orcish. Instead let's revisit how badly sounding those two words are.

Those are proper nouns. Objecting to that is like objecting to the word Maltak being included as "orc speech" Im all for picking apart ****ty writing, and there is a lot of it here, but I think we can give him a pass on not providing us with an english version of the words for their kind of magic.

[T-O-E]

Those are proper nouns. Objecting to that is like objecting to the word Maltak being included as "orc speech" Im all for picking apart ****ty writing, and there is a lot of it here, but I think we can give him a pass on not providing us with an english version of the words for their kind of magic.

I agree with you. There probably isn't an English equivalent.

Maybe "positive energy" and "negative energy".

[Wraith]

A white man will lead them.

I spotted that immediately, too. It's Orcish magic, unknown outside of Maltak for hundreds of years, but the ONLY person who can get it right is a Deegan who heard about it a few weeks ago.

That's just..... bad.

I agree with you. There probably isn't an English equivalent.

Maybe "positive energy" and "negative energy".

Given the contexts as they have been presented - both are natural, in balance and exist in all things - and given what mages can actually do with them, I have interpreted Akta and Nakta to be pretty much the same as White and Black Magic.

Compare Gregory buffing up the jock team the Orcs being made big and burly with Akta, and then compare Dominic getting boosted with Black Magic - or Jacobs misuse of Necromancy - with the murderous use of Nakta. They even looks the same when in use, having white and black auras, respectively.

Not that any of that means anything; Dominic Deegan not being well known for things actually looking like what they're supposed to be, and all.....

[AgentofOdd]

I spotted that immediately, too. It's Orcish magic, unknown outside of Maltak for hundreds of years, but the ONLY person who can get it right is a Deegan who heard about it a few weeks ago.

That's just..... bad.

And the reason the Deegan is a superior mage is because he dedicated his life to learning an "unnatural" magic in a dispassionate amoral manner. Basically he's better because he didn't follow the orcish ideals of balance, nature and whatnot and learned everything about necromancy, both the bad and the (eventual) good. At this point, I can only assume not even Mookie believes in the whole orcs are superior marlarky.

[Trazoi]

And naturally Jacob who dedicated his whole life to understanding all there is about death magic knew nothing about the Nakta until he stumbled into Maltak.

[Rhapsh]

Those are proper nouns.

You know what, you are completely correct. Complaint retracted in earnest, sorry Mookie my bad.

Now that said, if undeath and necromancy are unbalanced, and if Jacob is going to balance his necromancy to be more in tune with natural life/death cycles. Does that mean this whole thing is so he can basically cross class into druid?

[random11]

Sneaky

Future

Is panel 7 a flashback to his recent failure, or is it now, and Jayden just appeared out of nowhere?

Also, as things are going now, seems like we can forget about complex theories and predictions, since apparently what Jacob needed is just to believe in himself.

[Acanous]

pretty sure it's a flashback, he's facing a different direction and I don't see clouds in the background.

[Mewtarthio]

There, you see! The trick to defeating the Blight is self-confidence! Remember, it's more afraid of you than you are of it.

Also, is it just me, or did Mookie manage to establish "tension," then resolve it in literally the very next panel? That's got to be a record, even for him.

[Mr. McGician]

So after throwing a bunch of nonsensical mumble jumble at us, Mookie gives up even trying to explain anything and just gives us "Deegan suddenly gets stronger and saves the day." Why am I not surprised

[Humbug]

NOTHING trumps the power of confidence and the power of love!


Barfs

[Trazoi]

No you see last time Jacob had too much confidence, now he has just the right amount. It's all about balance.

Also is Jacob anywhere near the sludge comet or doesn't it matter?