Dominic Deegan, Mk. XLIX: I Finally Found My Keys!

[Mogotoo]

Hope I didn't snatch this thread-making from anyone who really wanted to do it. Also willing to change the thread title. There were a lot of really good ideas in the last thread.

Anyway, here we talk about Dominic Deegan. I, for one, am a new reader, starting an archive binge at the end of October 2012. I enjoyed it. Really. The universe's magic system had a lot of things I didn't see in other media, and the overarching plots interested me. I thought it was good.

And then you guys came along. Or rather, I came along here. Here the Snarkers-some horrifying fusion of Fan and Hater-take the comic strip by strip and point out all the mistakes made. The plot inconsistencies, the poor art, the annoying characters, things that I just ignored as I zoomed through 11 years of a comic that is (by the way), in it's final months.

They say that staying around here will ruin reading Dominic Deegan for you. I can attest to that. Not that I mind.

The following was copy-pasted from the previous thread.

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.
Thread XXXVIII - August 7, 2011 to September 14, 2011 - 51 pages. Dominic pulls out some old tricks and some new ones, we're all totally confused, and then we're smacked with a one-two punch of Smug and Great.
Thread XXXIX - September 15, 2011 to October 19, 2011 - 50 pages. Luna and Greg go to an art gallery, some stuff with battlecasters happens, somehow we manage to draw this out for fifty pages.
Thread XL - October 19, 2011 to November 22, 2011 - 50 pages. The budding love between Gregory and some battlecaster whose name nobody cares about and the union between a toast and a lizard showed us that love conquers all. A guitar will do just as well, though.
Thread XLI- 22nd November, 2011 to December 22nd, 2011 - 50 pages. Some guy grows a moustache in the finest example of character development so far. Luna blubbers away because she loves Dominic -who deigns to tolerate her display- so much, showing how far the author thinks she's come as a character. Mookie and Luna get married, the latter against her will and a tiny explosion signals the end times.
Thread XLII - 22nd December 2011 to 6th February 2012 - 50 pages. The Infernomancer is back! The King's nefarious plan is going to fruition! This cannot stand, so the plot is thwarted by instead deciding to follow Jayden's quest of redemption for the sin of having cheated on her violent, emotion-crazed beastman of a boyfriend. Because it's totally what's important.
Thread XLIII - 6th February 2012 to 20th March 2012 - 50 pages. Still on the adventures of Stunt in the desert. Uh, what? Jayden who? Who said anything about Jayden?
Thread XLIV 20th March 2012 to 18th May 2012. You'd think archmages, who are recognized as the most powerful mortal movers and shakers of the known universe, would be such pathetic combatants?
Thread XLV: 18th May 2012 to 24 July 2012. 'Splosions, 'splosions everywhere, and Nimmel's in the air. 'Splosions, 'splosions everywhere, and only dead Bumper (and not of explosion either!).
Thread XLVI: July 24th 2012 to October 18th 2012. Most notable here is how long it took us to fill 50 pages this time. That is mainly because during these months Mookie mainly filled his pages with white noise in white voids. Then there was a flashback revealing the king to be behind everything bad and trying to help his eyeballs eat most of the world so Callan could keep the magic star (because he is racist), Mookie jumped on the zombie bandwagon, Dominic surrendered himself to stop it, Celesto was a bird (again) and trust me, this wouldn't make more sense if it was explained in detail.
Thread XLVII: October 18th to January 28th 2013. This thread took even longer to fill then the previous. The comic keeps setting up the grand final, but nothing really happens. The parade of former minor roles who return continues.
Thread XLVIII: January 23rd to April 2 2013. Weeeee are sloooowly kiiiiilling off chaaaaaracteeeers. Meanwhile, Dominic is not-suffering from Mindbreak, and the King is outmatched by a thug and one swordsman. Grand finale, folks!

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 (and Lord Raziere)'s One Panel (Sn)Arcs

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The adventures of Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden.

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Curly's Dominic Deegan Analyses

[Lord Raziere]

hey, does anyone have any problem with me completing the one panel (sn)arcs?

y'know, just for the sake of completeness, to sum up the comic.

[SaintRidley]

The Snark Thread is dead! Long live the Snark Thread!


I wouldn't mind seeing them updated, Raz.

[guttering flame]

Hat off to Mookie. The new April updates reached a new level of stupid. Some comics finish off in a whimper but not Dominic Deegan!

[AgentofOdd]

The sneaky link.
The future link.
Oh no! We're going to lose the Treasure that we didn't really have and it was actually in the hands of the Enemy and we don't really need it for anything specific anyway!

Curses!

HeadOn, apply directly to magical tumor. Course I shouldn't be too hard on Celestro. Considering how little faith he'd have with Dominic, it stands to reason he'd consider a desperate suicide attack his only option.

[Ninjadeadbeard]

I swear that picture gets better every time I see it.

[Johnny Blade]

The writing of those last updates has been way beyond what I hoped the finale would be, but I think we shouldn't forget about the art, either.

Which is why I made this:

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Just look at the relative sizes of everything changing constantly.

Also, the Beast lost its teeth and didn't magic them back for whatever reason. And the platforms are simply not present in the first shot of the Elemecca; they appeared only when they were needed.

EDIT: Celesto is tiny in that last one.

[Cavelcade]

Maybe he used a connection.

I like how the beast used to be able to take out a fully charged Dominic as a side effect of just...existing. Those were pretty good times.

I am glad Mookie is maintaining the same standard, this makes me very happy indeed.

[Traab]

I like how the beast used to be able to take out a fully charged Dominic as a side effect of just...existing. Those were pretty good times.

I am glad Mookie is maintaining the same standard, this makes me very happy indeed.

Too be fair, its been on a sliding scale of power from the start. Their first meeting dom did pretty damn well against it. It was mainly due to him trying to free celesto that he had to do something like power himself up with black magic, (Which freaking wrecked the beast) But then the beast started getting powerful, which brought in the mind breakingly awful contrived methods of victory for dommy boy.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Good title choice. It'd flow better without the "finally", but I won't nitpick.

[Welf]

First!

The writing of those last updates has been way beyond what I hoped the finale would be, but I think we shouldn't forget about the art, either.

Which is why I made this:

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Just look at the relative sizes of everything changing constantly.

Also, the Beast lost its teeth and didn't magic them back for whatever reason. And the platforms are simply not present in the first shot of the Elemecca; they appeared only when they were needed.

EDIT: Celesto is tiny in that last one.

I thought they were below the Elemecca, so the view from below wouldn't show. I assumed while they approached from above, there is a detour and the had to take a turn to get to the actual entrance.

[MReav]

Hey guys, I saw this years ago, but I figured I'd share it.

It's The Bard's Song by Blind Guardian, except with Mookie-style art.

I wonder if he provided the art for it, or if the artist actually is Mookie.

[Winds]

I thought they were below the Elemecca, so the view from below wouldn't show. I assumed while they approached from above, there is a detour and the had to take a turn to get to the actual entrance.

Yeah...but assuming that much movement offscreen to reach this point isn't any better than platforms appearing out of nowhere.

[Kaerou]

Oh no, the lost treasure we're going to lose it!

if only I had magic or something!

[Helanna]

Hey guys, I saw this years ago, but I figured I'd share it.

It's The Bard's Song by Blind Guardian, except with Mookie-style art.

I wonder if he provided the art for it, or if the artist actually is Mookie.

Man, I like that song, and I only got about thirty seconds in before deciding it wasn't worth it.

But it can't be Mookie, the artist didn't use markers to color it.

[Traab]

Oh no, the lost treasure we're going to lose it!

if only I had magic or something!

Whats he going to do? SEE it fall into the vast emptiness of the nether? Or wherever the hell things go when dropped off a floating platform somewhere around the elmecca.

[Zaq]

I'm a day late for this, but look at Monday's strip again. Panel 2. Can you look at that and not think that Celesto's interrupting a game of Breakout, or Pong, or any of those other identical ball-and-paddle games from the 80s? Because that's all I can see. . . . The TRUTH!

[T-O-E]

So why is Celesto always growing wings or finding some way to fly? Is Mookie trying to say that chaos is freedom or that chaos is the pursuit of freedom? Maybe just metal.

The universe's magic system had a lot of things I didn't see in other media,

Such as?

[Neoriceisgood]

So why is Celesto always growing wings or finding some way to fly? Is Mookie trying to say that chaos is freedom or that chaos is the pursuit of freedom? Maybe just metal.

Just metal.

[Mogotoo]

Such as?

Well, um, the set of ten elements for one. The standard Greek elements, but there were also the metaphysical and spiritual elements. And the rules of second sight.

I dunno anymore. The fact you'd even ask in the first place gives me the feeling that I'm being ignorant of something.

[Cen]

And the rules of second sight.

huh? Am I missing something? what rules?

[Trazoi]

I'm a day late for this, but look at Monday's strip again. Panel 2. Can you look at that and not think that Celesto's interrupting a game of Breakout, or Pong, or any of those other identical ball-and-paddle games from the 80s? Because that's all I can see. . . . The TRUTH!

Yesterday I was making an animated edit that was exactly this but I scrapped it when it was taking too long. It's like they're in Arcade Land.

[Oracle_Hunter]

hey, does anyone have any problem with me completing the one panel (sn)arcs?

y'know, just for the sake of completeness, to sum up the comic.

Snark Art never needs permission.

By all means bring the One Panel Arcs up to date. And feel free to finish The Unsuckening while you're at it

[SaintRidley]

Well, um, the set of ten elements for one. The standard Greek elements, but there were also the metaphysical and spiritual elements. And the rules of second sight.

I dunno anymore. The fact you'd even ask in the first place gives me the feeling that I'm being ignorant of something.

I think in part the asking was because we are attentive to the fact (small chance as it might be) that we might be missing something. In this case, that Mookie's incoherent and nonexistent magic system might in some way make sense to someone somewhere.

[Mogotoo]

huh? Am I missing something? what rules?

I think I said that wrong. I was thinking more about the prevalance of psychomancy, if that term makes sense.

I think in part the asking was because we are attentive to the fact (small chance as it might be) that we're missing something. In this case, that Mookie's incoherent and nonexistent magic system might in some way make sense to someone somewhere.

Oh, there's things that aren't really explained. Like what exactly white and black magic are or how they fit into the ten planes. And the ten elements themselves aren't ever really explored. I just liked the idea of ten elements, that's all.

[NEO|Phyte]

The only one of the 10 elements that matters is Beam. Mmmmaybe Law so you can apply Acibek's principle to Beam.

[Mogotoo]

The sneaky link.
The future link.

*Whew*. That was a close call and could have easily killed me, but I managed to catch the Treasure. Now we can

[Domino Quartz]

The sneaky link.
The future link.

*Whew*. That was a close call and could have easily killed me, but I managed to catch the Treasure. Now we can

Um, your "Future" link is wrong.

[random11]

The sneaky link.
The future link.

*Whew*. That was a close call and could have easily killed me, but I managed to catch the Treasure. Now we can

It's a good thing Dominic is in such a great shape, and without any physical conditions that can restrict him, because even when being thrown, that catch during flight and land could have been tough for someone with, say, fragile bones.


I find that despite all the events recently, it's so chaotic and weird, I hardly have any snark material.

[Mr. McGician]

Yesterday I was making an animated edit that was exactly this but I scrapped it when it was taking too long. It's like they're in Arcade Land.

And speaking of which, this newest update brings us into Super Mario World.