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Thread: Star Power V: The Final Yawntier
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2015-11-09, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well... everyone who has ever seen a clichee hentai knows where this is going I will admit I like the night sky bikini design, though. So... from the desert to the sea. Yay?
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2015-11-11, 04:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, they got smarter. But it's funny how all sapient beings around a member of the Chief Race start doing stupidities until the Chief tells them otherwise.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2015-11-11, 06:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Maybe rookie just wanted to shoot things up. Thanks to bearded Chief-race the psychopath will be alive to fight another 7 issues. Joy.
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2015-11-11, 06:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Heh, now im getting this mental image of finding out the countess has woken up about a dozen times and broken her restraints only to get gassed again. They just cant seem to manage to find a way to contain her while staying within galactic empire prisoner standards. Or at least to keep her asleep till she actually heals.
"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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2015-11-11, 07:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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This gave me Titan AE flashbacks!
Oh intelligent guards never expected that!
Of course she's probably immune to the gas and will promptly get up and break out whilst they're waiting for the Psi-Cops or they're actually Void Angels come to rescue her...
Yes its got to the stage where I'm wondering what they're going to pull next!
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2015-11-11, 07:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-12, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm torn about this page. On the one hand, it's a little bit refreshing to see someone with a glimmer of competence in this universe. On the other hand, it's so incredibly like Mookie to throw in this "twisty cliffhanger" on the last page of the last issue, and then to have him torpedo it on the very first page of the new issue. I won't say I'm disappointed that we won't necessarily see the Countess again (she wasn't a very interesting villain, and that's doubly true when she doesn't have her massive robot army), at least in the context that the last issue kind of hinted, but it really throws Mookie's cheap dramatic tricks into a harsh light, revealing them for the cheap tricks they are.
Which I guess is nothing new. But it's what we've got.In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was Suck: A Guide to Truenamers
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2015-11-12, 05:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Plus he comes off as just so proud of the twist. Or is that, proud of the guards who did exactly what he wanted them to do and so wrote their dialogue that way. That being said, its actually pretty uniform across the board for him. The galactic defense people have been pretty on the ball when it comes to their jobs. Yeah Bill broke free, but lets face it, it took a secret ai ship to pull it off that bill had managed to keep secret for all this time until just NOW he decided to indulge his EEEEEVUUULZZ and waste time beating guards to death and comas instead of escaping. But in general, the galactic crews are good at their jobs. Its the bad guys who tend to suck. Even the supernova dragon lords ambush wasnt so much a galactic fail as it was a freaking overwhelming attack with massive number and gear superiority that was totally unexpected.
"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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2015-11-14, 03:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Good writer: The guards are smart and the safety protocols are good, but the villain somehow outsmarts them, forcing the heroes to chase and capture him again.
Lazy writer: The guards are stupid and the villain escapes easily, forcing the heroes to capture him again.
Writer with no idea what he is doing: The guards are smart and manage to prevent escape, leaving the hero to do something completely different, and making the entire scene pointless.
Also, update.Last edited by random11; 2015-11-14 at 03:54 AM.
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2015-11-14, 07:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-17, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Get yourselves some Mookie! I suggest you skip the first 20-30 minutes.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2015-11-17, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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That last panel is some serious foreshadowing
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2015-11-18, 08:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Sorry that I don't remember where this quote comes from. Anyway, in the last strip we have a nice callback to Michelangelo's Creation of Man in the Sistine Chapel. Frescoes really are water-based paint; because of this, they must be made quickly. That's why we often have very complete preparatory boards. Leonardo liked to paint slowly and to make a lot of adjustments to what he was doing, so he tried using a oil-based paint for his Last Supper in Milan. The result looked awesome, but begun deteriorating very quickly and Leonardo himself had to make the first restoration. The Supper probably looked even more impressive because of the gleam given by oil-based paint.
Sorry for the little art history lesson. Not much to say about the last pages.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2015-11-18, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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And so we get even more foreshadowing of what will happen to the 4 eyed history buff. She is clearly getting more and more desperate to be able to help (meaning solve the mystery) I really am starting to become convinced that she will take the corrupted star power, though it may not be visibly corrupted at first, in an attempt to help more, which elads us to the eventually evil star power through the slippery slope effect. Or, because its mookie, "/snap RAWR! I R EVIL SUDDENLY! What a tweest!"
"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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2015-11-18, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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But an evil Starpower would be a cool thing, if only because it would actually challenge Danica. It might not be very new, but I approve of the idea.
Also: So... every species has their version of "Creation of Man"? Sure, why not...
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2015-11-20, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Huh, no opinion on the psy op? Again, I... kind of like it. I guess Mookie again somewhat simplifies y suggesting all species more or less think alike but, well, I'm willing to let it slide. This could be interesting.
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2015-11-20, 11:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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These are the moments in which you start wondering what machinations Mookie's plotting. Whatever may happen later, we now again know we have no idea of what he'll pull out next. The thrill!
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2015-11-20, 01:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-20, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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I just wonder how long it took to modify a straight jacket to fit someone with such screwed up anatomy.
"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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2015-11-20, 09:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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A more competent webcomic might note that certain traits are oddly universal -- a "first contact" specialist from an interstellar empire might very well see Superior Alien Race Syndrome all the time
No, the reason I'm not chatty is because this looks like another Neverending Vacation Arc in which Mookie indulges in World Bungling that neither advances nor serves the plot. At first it might seem like all these threads are going to be tied together in some massive plot point but the actual result is less than compelling
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2015-11-21, 06:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, broadly speaking Mookie is just not very good at doing world building in an interesting way. It's a hard thing to do and it's probably the weakest part of his writing. Oddly, I don't think he agrees with this assessment, which is why he never gets any better at it and is unlikely to in the future. He's such a weird artist in that regard, there are few I know at any level of fame who are ever happy with what they do in the same way he is.
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2015-11-23, 07:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Today, the Deeganverse strikes back.
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2015-11-23, 08:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ugh, why do I get the feeling that this is going to be a rant/exposition on her species and/or goals given out for no reason other than the flimsy justification of, "Oh, so humans are violent? Lets hear them understand THIS!"
"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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2015-11-23, 09:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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This "humans are the worst" bit if getting ridiculous. Didn't we have other genocidal species?
Honestly, come up with a new joke, Mookie.
In a better comic what comes might be interesting, here... oh well, I've not entirely given up hope yet.
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2015-11-23, 09:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Probably, but none of them were allowed to join the federation. Im pretty sure the implication is that while other races had their own wars and such, it was sufficiently ancient history that it wasnt a part of their culture long before the federation showed up to give them an invite. Meanwhile humans were still struggling to rise above that sort of behavior and unify when first contact happened.
"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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2015-11-25, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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That still seems stupidly unlikely. To me it's just Mookie to spread this "Humans are terrible" story over and over and over. Also, "humans are special". Well, unless it's just our "hat" in this universe. But violence doesn't seem such a predominant trait among our main humans.
So... also, tropical island, yay. I guess we will meet the tentacle monster?
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2015-11-26, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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