Star Power VI: Shooting Stars (VORP VORP VORP)

[PraetorDragoon]

It’ll be either bird wings, shark teeth, or back tentacles. Or all three.

Winged, toothed, tentacled black hammer?

[Zaq]

It’ll probably be something involving armor. Mookie thinks armor is inherently awe-inspiring.

[Celestia]

It’ll probably be something involving armor. Mookie thinks armor is inherently awe-inspiring.

On that count, he's not wrong. Armor is inherently cool.

[Gez]

Okay, so... They are gonna bang in the next page, right? I can't read this page any other way.

[PraetorDragoon]

Okay, so... They are gonna bang in the next page, right? I can't read this page any other way.

The imgur link appears to be broken.

I am not sure if I want to see Mookie drawing that.

[Gez]

The imgur link appears to be broken.

I am not sure if I want to see Mookie drawing that.

It's the forum, I forgot that it breaks any and all imgur links. Which is why so many avatars, mine included, don't work.

Mookie's latest offering shows Starpower and Whatshisname being evenly matched, trading blow for blow, and ending up looking at each other, exhausted.

[random11]

All I can think of is this.

[Celestia]

All I can think of is this.

Knowing Mookie, I absolutely would not be surprised if he unironically listed that as an influence as if it was something to be proud of.

[Kato]

Okay, I might be getting soft but I will give him he's at least trying to make this look exciting. You can of course argue about how well he's doing at it but he seems to be putting some effort into it. Good on him?

[PraetorDragoon]

I just wish there was a reason for this fight other than "angry dude likes to fight". I do agree the art is decent. It has angles!

[Zaq]

Where did that mountain come from? Did Dominic drive it there? Or is it basically an Inappropriate Wall?

[Welf]

At least now we know how featureless plains are created. It's when a Star Powered Sentinel and a proto-demon-orc warlord fight for no reason and crash into the hills and mountains until they are sand.
Maybe this is the origin story of Maltak!

[Celestia]

At least now we know how featureless plains are created. It's when a Star Powered Sentinel and a proto-demon-orc warlord fight for no reason and crash into the hills and mountains until they are sand.
Maybe this is the origin story of Maltak!

The orcs are the descendants of Danica and hammer dude. *nods*

[PraetorDragoon]

The orcs are the descendants of Danica and hammer dude. *nods*

That does explain their violent vegetarianism.

[Zaq]

“Hurt me more, Snake!”

[Traab]

So im picturing final battle between naruto and sasuke (PROBABLY without the arm part) where these two just get progressively more and more battered until they are basically barely able to swing their fists then they collapse and have some sort of discussion to settle whatever the heck this nonsense was about. Of course, its just as likely to get a poochy ending. "After the fight, mystery hammer floated to space and vanished, never to be seen or heard from again. Danica had a lot of explaining to do about the damage she took."

[Celestia]

Is Danica bizarrely closing her eyes in panel 3, or did she contract Young Blood's Disease?

[Vinyadan]

Is Danica bizarrely closing her eyes in panel 3, or did she contract Young Blood's Disease?

[Kato]

So... I guess we're meant to feel sorry for the guy who lures in people to beat them up now? Great

[faustin]

So the "winner" of the game, rather than a tyrant or powerful warlord, is a pathetic squat living in a desert with no better things to do than luring opponents from other worlds.
Another example of stupid evil in Mookieverse, because baddies cannot be logical, pragmatic or successful.

[Vinyadan]

I mean, can't you tell that he's speaking like someone who knew a different way to live?

No?

Me neither.

Besides, what is "this place"? This guy sends messages into deep space to look for challengers!

[Kornaki]

Maybe he's not the winner of the game? Maybe he's the loser, and he's been banished to the wastelands, and he has to prove himself by killing alien Invaders or something? Let's give it a shot.


Alternatively, he's telling the truth very literally, and he killed everyone else to take the planet. Then he got bored and wanted some sort of sapient contact again.

[PraetorDragoon]

Maybe he's not the winner of the game? Maybe he's the loser, and he's been banished to the wastelands, and he has to prove himself by killing alien Invaders or something? Let's give it a shot.


Alternatively, he's telling the truth very literally, and he killed everyone else to take the planet. Then he got bored and wanted some sort of sapient contact again.

Wasn't that our first guess, that the world was ruined because McHammer got angry?

[Kwatsu]

I mean, can't you tell that he's speaking like someone who knew a different way to live?

No?

Me neither.

“Take the taken thing you’ve taken with your take-y strength! That’s how it’s always been done here!”

“Gosh, it sounds like you knew a different way to live!”

“You’re right!”

Though to be fair, they’ve just given each other a serious beating. This might be the head injuries talking.

(Also, all those “takes” and the Maltak vibe—are we back to the Test of Taking? Ewww.)

[Traab]

Oh great, now the berserker is a philosopher and we get to learn about his sorrowful past. I already sympathize with him, see the sympathy rolling off me?

[PraetorDragoon]

Oh great, now the berserker is a philosopher and we get to learn about his sorrowful past. I already sympathize with him, see the sympathy rolling off me?

I can smell the investment in this storyline from a mile away.

[Traab]

I can smell the investment in this storyline from a mile away.

Thats not the investment you are smelling, its the storyline.

[PraetorDragoon]

Thats not the investment you are smelling, its the storyline.

No, that is thing you can smell from ten miles away.

[Zaq]

Don’cha love Mookie’s pacing? There’s only four pages left in the “issue.” We’ll get this berk’s philosophy, his sob story, Danica’s magnanimous acceptance and forgiveness of the same, and probably something about Danica flying back to SSSSSSSSS (or else some vague non-sequitur a la Psy-Cop or The Ranting Contessa), all in about four pages. Five if you count this one.

We had three pages of general scene-setting, which is more or less fine in and of itself. About two pages of introduction to Karudak the not-orc on not-Maltak. Fourteen pages of tension-free, questionably drawn fighting. And now this.

[Vinyadan]

By the way, is Psy-Cop actually Dominic? He has the hair, and the super powers, and keeps talking about the mind.