Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLV: Snarkmage of the Tenth Circle
Welcome to the 45th Giant In The Playground thread of Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, where we discuss Michael "Mookie" Terraciano's webcomic.
For those that think 45 50+ page threads dedicated to a single webcomic means the series is good... prepare to be disappointed. A lot of us think otherwise. Why then do we insist on discussing so extensively a webcomic most of us mock incessantly? Because we find the exact nature of the badness so entertaining to discuss. Whether it's the ham-fisted insertions of Mookie's interests regardless of how such things don't make sense in the milieu it purports to be in, the complete lack of concern for the heroes due to either their blandness, jerkishness, Sueness, or blatant character shields, the fall of so many interesting villains into lame duck weaklings, the habitual retconning of lore despite things making more sense beforehand, or simply because the comics lends itself so much for entertaining remixes, we find ways to amuse ourselves.
For any poor, curious soul wondering what's this all about and deciding to see for yourself, starting with the first comic in the series, know that it never improves on any point. The art becomes cleaner but lazier and overall doesn't change; the writing flails around from comedic to dramatic without understanding how either genre works, and the whole work gives you a disturbingly unfiltered look at its creator's naked id. Of all these things, Mookie is blissfully unaware.
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?
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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Pay close attention, you may notice a little surprise.
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's One Panel (Sn)Arcs
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The adventures of Stunt Bro and Hella Jayden.
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In this arc we see the fall of the archmages. While yes, they are intentionally trying to lose while fighting mind control. However, we call bull due to the scale of how badly they are doing. If they are fighting mind control so well to be this tactically incompetent, they might as well just commit suicide. However, in latest episode, TIM makes his dramatic reappearance. Here's hoping he ends up killing a named longstanding character.
Due to the sheer scale of this opening, I will be splitting the first posts into two, putting Curly's DD analyses in the next post.
If anything needs to be added to the first post, more Curly Analysis, more pictures that we want chronicled, new notable snark web pages, etc, PM me and I will edit accordingly.
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Why are you guys combining DD and Logic anyway?
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In the hope that we can neutralize DD in the same way that a base neutralizes an acid?
Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLV: Snarkmage of the Tenth Circle
Due to the length of the first thread page, we will be splitting this in two.
Will the next thread starter remember to include this second post, please.
Curly's Dominic Deegan Analyses:
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I'm back.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, help yourself to some popcorn, and welcome to the next episode of
Analysing Dominus Deegan
The Golden Age*
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A Frail Hope of Adequate Enjoyment 21/05/2002 - 17/07/2002 Arcs covered: Oracle for Hire, The Curse The First Signs of Serious Psychological Issues Appear 18/07/2002 - 4/12/2002 Arcs covered: The Curse, Luna, Into the Woods In Which Teh Great Dominus Indulges in Torture and Terrifies Me 5/12/2002 - 21/02/2003 Arcs covered: Into the Woods, Couch Forts and Crying Dominatrix Luna. Oh, and The Dominus is More Feared Than A Necromancer 22/01/2003 - 11/03/2003 Arcs covered: Makeover!, Mob Mentality Thing Are Looking Up 12/03/2003 - 30/04/2003 Arcs covered: Visions of Doom Parts One and Two Siggy Is Iesus. Make of That What You Will 01/05/2003 -23/06/2003 Arcs covered: Visions of Doom Parts Three and Four The Great Dominus Is Officially A Marty Stue an It's THRILLER! THRILLER NIGHT! 24/06/2003 - 19/08/2003 Arcs covered: Visions of Doom Parts Five and Six Character Development! And We Conclude an Arc 20/08/2003 - 10/09/2003 Arcs covered: Visions of Doom Parts Seven and Eight Short Arc Is Short 11/09/2003 - 21/10/2003 Arcs covered: The Party
The Tarnished Age
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Hell Is Meaningless Filler 23/10/2003 - 20/11/2003 Arcs covered: The Ecstasy and the Evil Part One Kink + Dominus Deegan = Eye and Brain Bleach 11/11/2003 - 16/12/2003 Arcs covered: The Ecstasy and the Evil Parts Two and Three Inflatable Boobs and Sex! Occasional Plotting Is Permitted 17/12/2003 - 30/01/2004 Arcs covered: The Ecstasy and the Evil Parts Four and Five Enter: Deus Ex Machina! And Boobs. 31/01/2005 - 19/04/2004 Arcs covered: The Ecstasy and the Evil Parts Six and Seven Mookie Reveals More of His Sexual Fantasies. And Noone Ever Suffers From Any Effects of A Near-Rape. Ever! 20/04/2004 -26/05/2004 Arcs covered: TEatE Parts Eight and Nine
The Silver Age
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The Corruption of Sister Pam. Iocks Are Misogynistic Idiots. 27/05/2004 - 27/08/2004 Arcs covered: Hello Nurse All Hands On Deck! Swirly Thing Alert! 06/09/2004 - 22/10/2004 Arcs covered: The Storm of Souls Parts One and Two Darlings, Can't You Hear My SoS? 25/010/2004 - 28/11/2004 Arcs covered: The Storm of Souls Parts Three and Four Attack of the Pointless Sub-Plots! 29/11/2004 - 06/01/2005 Arcs covered: The Storm of Souls Parts Five and Six Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No! It's SuperGreg! 07/01/2005 - 24/02/2005 Arcs covered: TSoS Parts Seven and Eight Analysing Dominus Deegan The Musical 25/02/2005 - 31/03/2005 Arcs covered: TSoS Parts Nine and Ten Venus Gets Angry, and the Dominus Doesn't Have A Leg To Stand On 01/04/2005 - 05/06/2005 Arcs covered: TSoS Parts Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen
The Bronze Age
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CURSE YOU RUNCIBLE SPOON!I Have Flashbacks to WoT 13/06/2005 - 09/07/2005 Arcs covered: My First Day and Interlude Versions One and Two Contrived Coincidences and Rape Have Broken Me 11/07/2005 - 25/10/2005 Arcs covered: The Battle For Barthis Part One A Hug Makes Me Furious 26/10/2005 - 09/01/2006 Arcs covered: The Battle For Barthis Parts Two and Three A Melna Special: The Explanation 01/01/2006 - 27/01/2006 Arcs covered: The War In Hell Part One This Episode Erupts With Kittens! Well, It Should 30/01/2006 - 06/03/2006 Arcs covered: The War In Hell Parts Two and Three I Dwell on the Paradox That Is Mookie 07/03/2006 - 20/03/2006 Arcs covered: The War In Hell Parts Four and Five Time To 'Save' Szark! 21/03/2006 - 28/05/2006 Arcs covered: The War In Hell Parts Six and Seven[ Assassination and Moustaches 30/05/2006 - 11/07/2006 Arcs covered: The War In Hell Parts Eight and Nine R.I.P. Siggy 12/07/2006 - 01/09/2006 Arcs covered: The War In Hell Parts Ten and Eleven and Interlude: The Best of Dominic Deegan
The Iron Age
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This Comic Is NOT Shakespeare 04/09/2006 - 16/09/2006 Arcs covered: Two Thief Or Not To Thief? Part One If I Want Mafia, I'll Watch Bugsy Malone 17/09/2009 - 14/10/2009 Arcs covered: Two Thief Or Not Two Thief? Parts Two and Three Time To Take the Offensive 15/10/2006 - 18/11/2006 Arcs covered: Two Thief Or Not Two Thief? Parts Four and Five The Break Up 19/11/2006 - 10/12/2006 Arcs covered Two Thief Or Not Two Thief? Parts Six and Seven
The Ice Age
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Boobs. Nothing More. BOOBS!! 11/12/2006 - 15/01/2007 Arcs covered: Wrapped Up and Returned, Class Action Part One Melna. Loves. Her. Rapist. 16/01/2007 - 18/03/2007 Arcs covered: Class Action Parts Two and Three Oh. Geography. 19/03/2007 - 23/05/2007 Arcs covered: Class Action Parts Four, Five, Six, Seven and Eight It's Worse Than I Imagined 24/05/2007 - 21/08/2007 Arcs covered: Snowsong I Drank Too Much 22/08/2007 - 06/12/2007 Arcs covered: Shadow of Siegfried Short, But Not Sweet 07/12/2007 - 23/122007 Arcs covered: Endings and Annoyances My Counters Explode. So do I.Part One and Part Two
01/01/2008 - 24/04/2008 Arcs covered: The Oracle Hunter
The Maltak Marathon 05/01/2009 - 05/02/2010 Arcs covered: THE ENTIRE BLOODY THING IN ONE NIGHT!
This link goes to the collected archive for this particular arc.
The Lost Age
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Boobs, Wonderful Boobs, Marvellous Boobs, Glorious Boobs! Yeah. 08/02/2010 - 29/03/2010 Arcs covered: The Beast, Part One and A Nimmel House Com On Feel The Noize Just Random Noize! 30/03/2010 - 11/06/2010 Arcs covered: The Beast, Part Two and B.Y.O.B. A Lack of Information 14/06/2010 - 21/06/2010 Arcs covered: The Beast, Part Three Crunch Crunch Stunt. 21/06/2010 - 27/08/2010 Arcs covered: Walk the Wild Edge Flowers And A Minor Meltdown 30/08/2010 - 06/09/2010 Arcs covered: THE BEAST! Part Four They Just Lit A Rocket. Rockets Explode! 09/06/2010 - 10/12/2010 Arcs covered: The Court of Karnak It Is A Tale . . . Full of Repetitive Exposition and Non-Jokes, Signifying Nothing 13/12/2010 - 27/12/2010 Arcs covered: THE BEAST! Part Five
The Death of the Age of Innocence The Aborted Recap 03/01/2011 - 04/02/2011 Arcs covered: Altered States
Let the experiment proceed!**
Curly's Beef Or, That's A Lot of Pictures
03/01/2011 - 11/01/2011 Arcs covered: Altered States ('part one'). Still.
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Last time I did this I made it a whole three days into the arc before I ragequit. That was . . . a year ago. I figure that's about long enough to get over my fury.
Oh, and for extra Rage, I was recently diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) meaning that the chances of me becoming pregnant without medical aid is drastically reduced. Issues, let's see him deal with them.
Bring it on.
And now. Oh dear. Let us plunge, wearily, carefully, and mournfully into DOminus Deegan. The experiment continues.
Let us recap the last page I did. IN AN ARC OSTENSIBLY ABOUT LUNA'S MAGICALLY INDUCED INFERTILITY IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DAMNABLE DOMINUS!
One: hate.
Two: If only this Luna was this cool. No traditional Canterlot voice for me.
Oh Gods.
I haven't even properly looked at the dialogue or art yet and the fun has most certainly not been doubled. It's been quartered. Hung, drawn and quartered.
Okaaaaaay.
Luna is sadface because she is infertile. Which, quite frankly, is a very appropriate thing to feel. It's one thing to not want children, it's another thiing to not be able to have children.
And so she's feeling a little weak, needy and in need of comfort.
But because the oh so mighty and wonderful and Godlike MookieSue Twit Dominus is the main character he needs all of the attentions! I WANT ATTENTION AND I WANT IT NOW!
And he has the whole world. Seriously. Pay attention to the lyrics and realise just how much this fits the Dominus.
Oh.
And to tear even more justly (for once) deserved attention away from Luna the Dominus is infertile too!
Now don't get me wrong. Dudes being sterile is as bad as chicks being infertile. But hello! It was Luna's problem first and by making her dragon induced infertility (I still can't get over that) literally mean nothing because the Dominus was already infertile. Oh, and just because you're weak physically (no change there either Mr. Squishy Wizard) doesn't mean you're the 'weak one' in the relationship.
And by the way. A RELATIONSHIP IS MEANT TO BE EQUAL AND IF IT ISN'T SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG. Oh my God is there nothing right at all about this individual strip?! Um. No. Not really.
Then again, Luna's being very . . .tolerable over her fiancé's wangst. You know what. I bet he's lying. About everything.
Because he can't bare to be a secondary character in his own strip. Even though he'd been gone for a whole out-of-universe year. A year about Z-graders who died three years ago out-of-universe. And yet his fiancée isn't allowed to cope with an incredibly traumatic death and sudden infertility by magic dragon!
P.S. Physical handicaps do not a flawed character make. The Dominus is still the ultimate Mary Sue. If only these physical handicaps had any effect on the plot at all. Oh what I wouldn't give for a badass handicapped person around here.
Don't you even get me started on the {{Newspost}}. I don't want "[s]appy romance and sweet nothings". I WANT THIS ONGOING (FOR FOUR YEARS) ARC OVER THE DREAD SNUGGLYTHULU TO BE RESOLVED. I WANT SOMETHING TO HAPPEN. Just once! Oh, and if the Mookie=Dominus thing was strong enough as it is, Mookie is getting married at the same time as the Dominus.
How appalling. Isn't this place in Quiral? When they live in Barthis? Just a thought. And a few other thoughts.
But seriously Dominus, you're dying or close enough to it. Let go of your prejudices you sanctimonious little so and so! And please stop looking so oddly feminine, it's terribly distracting!
And why can't doctors act like doctors? As in: professionally. This guy all but did a spit take, and you just know he would have if he'd had any water around. But he does kind of get it together. Enough to actually make some relatively sound advice. White magic is the Universal Cure For Everything, well except sterility, but you know, at least that'll cure him.
And then even though I'm pretty sure Luna wants babies the DOminus refuses to even think about getting his Suddenly Sterility fixed. OR EVEN LOOKED AT.
SELFISH LITTLE MONSTER. But we all knew he was one anyway. Seriously. If nothing else he could let the specialist have a look at him.
What's wrong with that?!
NOTHING!
You have no religious or ethical problems with alterists that I know of! Certainly your brother doesn't. Although that alterist was a hairdresser so whut.
Point is, you've had this grudge for literally no reason and never even bothered to explain it. Or did you. No. NEVER! Next page and my initial impressions. Mainly that the art is really bad, almost every Luna face is Stoned Gassy Toddler'd, the Dominus has got no facial features whatsoever and his hand is deformed again.
I'm also a bit disturbed by the fact that Luna's acting almost like a reasonable adult, up to and including forcing the DOminus to get over himself and go to the doctor's to sort out their problem. And that last panel would totally happen in real life so I can't find too much to complain about.
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WHAT KIND OF HERO SPOUTS HATE SPEECH LIKE THAT?! OBVIOUSLY ONE WITH FLAWS BUT WE ALL KNOW THE DOMINUS IS PERFECT IN EVERY WAY AND HAS ABSOLUTELY NO FLAWS WHATSOEVER SO THIS MEANS THAT HIS OPINION IS ABSOLUTE!
If it weren't for the fact that alterism seems to be a job, and thus a subset of magic I'd call him racist. Is it possible to be jobist? Well it is now! So not only does the Dominus endorses the complete violation of minds, excuses rape (no, I will never get over this, and neither should you), endorses violence, manipulation of others' fates, does nothing to stop the world destroying monstrosity, is insanely prejudiced in general, endorses, practises and profits from nepotism and all those other sins we have categorises over the course of this webcomic.
Now all of these would be fascinating if they were intended and acknowledged as flaws that the character must try to overcome. Or revels in unrepentantly (like Carcer from Night Watch or theMaster), or refuses accept his flaws even though it's so blatant that all others are repulsed by him/her (like a certain Judge Claude Frollo), but instead everyone sees the Dominus as a pure, speshul snowflake who can do no wrong~.
And worst of all: THE DOMINUS STOLE THE DOCTOR'S SCARF! Heresy!
{{Newspost:}} Yeah, if by "reconciled" you mean: 'had the founder and creator of the entire school of necromancy make sweet, sweet love to the DOminus' already overblown ego'. And by "alliterative slang" you mean 'hate speech'. And seriously? Only two pieces of "alliterative slang"? Not very imaginative is he?
Let me try.
Amoral alterers, deviant designers, cursed changers, cursed crafters, repellent reshapers, demonic designers, professors of putrefaction, malevolent modifiers, villainous variegation, immoral interpolators, immoral interlopers, malevolent modifiers, manipulative modifiers. I could go on. Want me to? Cookie for the best piece of "alliterative slang".
I just spent way too much time essentially inventing hate speech. I feel dirty.
I was just told to "[r]ock on" again by Mookie. This does not please me. Next strip, and my initial impressions.
It really says something when I didn't notice much 'wrong' with the customers until I looked closer. And really? Really Mookie. With unlimited access to plastic surgery/body modification with no consequences and of course women want ginormous boobies (back pain be damned!) and men want a package larger than that of my beloved Goblin King and his crotch (with its own shadow). Talk about magic pants. Hehehe.
But I have to ask: with this power why don't people have wings? Extra arms? Tails? Fangs (ohwait trolls lol)? Seriously though, why, with this kind of magic being fairly accessible are there not more people who deviate from the humanoid norm? Why not optimise your build to your job/desire? Go all D&D on this thing!
At least the dude in p.7 has some imagination.
I'm beginning to think the Dominus is repelled by any deviation from the norm. While thinking about actual surgical operations may be a little squicky, here it's magic and seems painless.
Now, I can see why alterism would be so scary. It's like the freakin' Genesis Project on a personal level! Imagine what would happen if Khan Noonien Singh got his hands on it! Eugenics Wars all over again. Personalised vengeance (well moreso)! You could deform someone to the point where they were barely able to breathe on their own! Literally flay the skin from their flesh, turn them inside out. Come on. Power perversion potential for this magic school is off the charts!
Alterism could be so creepy, but they use it for good and/or recreation. And the Dominus is scared of people looking different.
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And the Dominus really just comes off as nothing more than a scaredy cat whiner. I'm ninety-five percent certain that the Dominus can teleport, and yet he has to walk up steps. Also: man it up! Yeah, it's hard, but it'll be over and done with in about ninety seconds!
{{Newspost}} "I personally don't have any problems with anyone who gets plastic surgery or body modification. I actually respect the people who have the bravery to decide to change their bodies forever." Which is why you're mocking and/or demonising people who choose to do so by insulting their choice and implying anyone who chooses to do so is 'freaky'.
Oh. And be tea dubs.
Sometimes people need body modifications/plastic surgery/things that could be considered them for genuine medical reasons. i.e. mastectomies. Breast enlargement/reductions. Skin grafts/bleachings etc. (perhaps). Nose jobs. Facial reconstructions and so on.
And me myself Mookie? I have six ear piercings. Three pairs per ear, one pair I did myself out of boredom. I'd get a fourth but I think I'm out of lobe and am dithering about getting cartilage pierced. My cousin worked in A&E and the horror stories she told me about botched piercings/infections and so on are kind of off-putting.
I think this means I'm more manly than Mookie and the DOminus. Not that that's hard to be honest. Good gravy it's the next strip. My impressions of it are here.
Look at the thinly veiled satire! Look at Jordan's boobies!Look at Jolie's trout lips! Modifying your body to increase your self-confidence and body image is wrong! You'll look like a freak! Especially if you're a blonde because all blondes want to body mod themselves to such a degree!
Look, can I come out and say that alterism seems to be a mix of plastic surgery, body modding and some sort of surgery? What an unusual mix.
Oh, and the Dominus is judging people based upon their appearances again. Sure, I do this. I do this in the full knowledge that I'm being hypocritical and as such I tend to do it with at least a touch of irony, but I don't think people are evil or wrong or bad because of them. I just tend to derive humour from their clothing/make up/hair or general appearance.
Yes. I am a horrible, horrible person.
And far too judgemental for my own good.
But I try not to be too harsh.
Okay, I lie. I don't intend to - okay. Look. I do it because it's funny and I'm with my friends.
I am truly mean.
I'm a mean girl or something.
But let's talk about the Big Thing: how did Interchangeable Travoria Sister X getting larger knockers traumatise Luna? Seriously. The only things I can think of are pervy. As in, talking about some of them on the forum would likely get me an infraction. Was Luna a late bloomer or something and so she was harshly bullied? That's the most PG thing I can think of, and even then that's stupid because then the implication is that Interchangeable Travoria Sister X got her boobies done specifically to spite Luna.
I would so do that if Luna was my sister.
Look, I'm not a nice person. What else do you want me to admit to?
However, despite the possible molestation/abuse Luna suffered she's still willing to face her fears/doubts unlike the supposed hero. My God. I am starting to unhate her. (Unhate: the process of losing one's hate for something)
I have found a new wonderful character: Miss Caledonia.
Why is it that most of my personal favourite characters have black hair? Siggy, Jacob, Miss Caledonia . . . There's a pattern here.
I think for Miss Caledonia it's the fact that she utterly trolled the DOminus. You just know she was lurking in her office, listening at the door trying to come up with a way to scare them.
And I really hate the way Mookie 'writes' shouting. It's just so messy.
{{Newspost}} Okay. I can't snark this because it's about preventing human trafficking which I believe is a worthwhile cause and that the idea mentioned was rather inventive.
Good Heavens. I ended on a rather positive note for once!
Final thoughts?
I'm only doing a week this time because the 'annotate strip, analyse and write about strip' method is fairly intensive and I've been at it for about three hours including breaks and food and so on.
Call this my special surprise for you guys, and after this the pics will be for something spectacularly stupid. Or just pointing out a few things.
Unless I totally renege on this.
Which I very well may do.
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Best. Panel. Ever. After Punchy McStonefist.
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Aw, you picked the title I don't get the reference to.
So last time, on Snarkageddon:
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Think about it, would luna REALLY need time to be "chargin her lazerz" just to launch a fireball?
Yes. Callanian battles are attuned to Callan's own people: Predictable to the point of complete stupidity. You see, modern Callan residents have only known their relatively peaceful homeland and don't really know the first thing about fighting. What they do know has been passed down from their ancestors; fighting folk, the remnants of Callan's imperialist past.
What battle stories fathers told to their sons became fairytales, answers to the grandchildren asking about Grandpa's adventuring days. King DJ, who had been actively expunging the Callan records of wrongdoings otherwise, actively encouraged the new generation's warped viewpoint on warfare: That it was neat and romantic, that it fell into distinct acts performed with precise blows.
Today, guerilla warfare is almost a complete unknown, as battles are little more than deadly plays to the average Callanian. However, they don't resent their fate. There is no death more honorable to a Callan household than to have one of their own burn up in a dance of blinding lights, and hopefully one day be admitted as a legend in their own right.
Luna would need time because the script demanded it. The gasps of the audience, the sweat on their pores, it would almost make such a risky move worth it. But not a second longer than that, for if the hero were to fall and the villain succeed, the dance would be ruined. The King does not keep a record of the dishonorable. Callan does not keep a record of the losers.
To fall out of step is to be forgotten.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLV: Snarkmage of the Tenth Circle
Thread #45. Take that, pony thread!
Hhaving TIM do something is the last glimmer of hope I have for DD ever getting back on track. It looks like it's setting up TIM to kill or maim a Deeganite to show he means business and taking the necklace back to the King - which is great, it's just the sort of thing the comic need to get it back towards something approximating a plot. I'll accept an alternative if it gives the villains a threat boost and bloodies the Deegans nose. However if TIM is ineffectual and the Deegans retain that necklace, then I doubt DD can ever imrpove. There will be no point pretending this plot with the king is any threat to anything; might as well end the comic now.
It's almost time for Mookie to reveal what his post-Deegan comic plans are. I'm hope he goes with his superhero comic proposal.
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So, TIM is back. How long till Mookie manages to derail the killing machine with no motive?
Am I the only one who has a sliver of hope that TIM might actually win here? Sure, he might do something stupid like transform into Leela-TIM again, but he could still rip someone to shreds and abscond with the trinket.
...I mean, TIM's the big end-of-year cliffhanger, setting up 2012. Mookie isn't going to make him lose embarassingly straight up, right?
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Am I the only one who has a sliver of hope that TIM might actually win here? Sure, he might do something stupid like transform into Leela-TIM again, but he could still rip someone to shreds and abscond with the trinket.
...I mean, TIM's the big end-of-year cliffhanger, setting up 2012. Mookie isn't going to make him lose embarassingly straight up, right?
Well, he's already been more effective than Archmantis, as he's actually hurt someone. Also, I think there just has to be a reason for TIM to be here. I don't think even Mookie is terrible enough to throw another villain into the battle for no reason, only for that villain to get curbstomped as quickly as the last one.
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My honest bet is that TIM will lose embarassingly, and at the same time give Greg back his white magic. The fact that Greg is near the battle and TIM shows up just gives me that gut instinct.
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I still trying to figure out why Bumper has the necklace in the first place.
I mean, yeah, he's a skilled pickpocket and he probably could get hold of it if he wanted to..... but why would he? He's the "good" guy of the duo and has been all but redeemed as anything BUT a criminal over the last year, helping out the Deegans and generally being nice to orphans, and then one day his best friend turns up with a valuable trinket and says "Hey, this is really important, and an Archmage is trying to steal it."
Then an Archmage - not that Bumper knows what one looks like, since he's just an ordinary guy and it is never specifically introduced as such - shows up and.... Bumper steals his best friend's necklace right out of his hand.
Umm.... Okay.... But he must have done that during the smokescreen created between the beams and Luna's shield spell, any point after that and Stunt was out of reach. Bumper must have stole the necklace before he knew that the Archmage was able to break through the spell - while no one was looking, from his best friend.
Why would he do that? Is it some kind of paranoid pathological reaction where every single day he just takes stuff from his friends 'just in case' some thing unforeseen happens? How often do they play out the scene of Bumper and Dominic walking down the street, passing by Mayor Pam on the pavement and suddenly Bumper goes: "Phew, that was close! Here, have your wallet and wristwatch back; you can never be too sure about this stuff, am I right?"
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My honest bet is that TIM will lose embarassingly, and at the same time give Greg back his white magic. The fact that Greg is near the battle and TIM shows up just gives me that gut instinct.
That would be my guess too.
I'll also bet that all of the above will happen in less than 5 days.
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Well, they're near a Deegan beacon, meaning that all the characters in the comic should pop up soon. Nimmel'll probably get a chance to show TIM who the "Big Dog" is since that's unresolved.
TIM might get killed by a snowball to the head. That's dumb enough to happen.
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TIM might get killed by a snowballfalling trout to the head. That's dumb enough to happen.
Fixed it for you.
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My honest bet is that TIM will lose embarassingly, and at the same time give Greg back his white magic. The fact that Greg is near the battle and TIM shows up just gives me that gut instinct.
Oh, absolutely! Someone needs to quick-heal Bumper, after all.
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Oh, absolutely! Someone needs to quick-heal Bumper, after all.
TIM will eviscerate Greg with his gauntlet on Friday. Twist! It was his white magic gauntlet. TIM put his gloves on the wrong way that morning. Not only is he healed (on Monday), we also get to see Supergreg again, who will instantly heal Bumper.
Mookie seems proud of Supergreg and we all know how much he likes bringing up terrible things he's done. He changed the name of that arc from the acceptable 'Snowsong' to 'Supergreg' in print.
Gentlefolk, learn from Zaq's example, and his suffering. Remember, seven out of eleven players who use truenamer lose their ability to taste ice cream.
When you ask a question, and I respond with something about the Truenamer, it might be because I think it's the best answer. More likely, though, is that I'm saying it because no one else will.
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I think TIM will escape with the necklace, just so it will allow Team Deegan to come together to devise one final plan to defeat DJ and the Beast. You know, just like they came together in Storm of Souls, War in Hell, Maltak, and every other arc in this predictable and stupid comic.
I could forgive Mookie for being repetitive but he has gotten worse with each arc. His villains become dumber, the Deegans get even more Mookie Sue-ish, and the conflicts have become boring beam spam interrupted by emo. This latest arc is just the culmination of ten years of suckiness!
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Mookie seems proud of Supergreg and we all know how much he likes bringing up terrible things he's done. He changed the name of that arc from the acceptable 'Snowsong' to 'Supergreg' in print.
Mookie-Logic™ dictates (objective events in parenthesis):
>(Supergreg was the most memorable part of Snowsong).
>>Random plot twists must be really popular!
>>> I should just fill the rest of my comic with bizarre plot twists, the fans will love it!
>>>>(Comic spawns much discussion after change in direction).
>>>>>In celebration of my best arc ever, I'll re-release it as a special treat for the fans, and Supergreg can be the star! :D
So you see, it was not a blatant snark-baiting, he was just looking out for his loyal and metal-loving fanbase, so they could rock on/geek out forever with a cool new old paperback!
Teehee.
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Am I the only one who has a sliver of hope that TIM might actually win here? Sure, he might do something stupid like transform into Leela-TIM again, but he could still rip someone to shreds and abscond with the trinket.
In an infinite universe, everything is possible.
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...I mean, TIM's the big end-of-year cliffhanger, setting up 2012. Mookie isn't going to make him lose embarassingly straight up, right?
That is already possible in a very finite universe.
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Am I the only one who has a sliver of hope that TIM might actually win here? Sure, he might do something stupid like transform into Leela-TIM again, but he could still rip someone to shreds and abscond with the trinket.
...I mean, TIM's the big end-of-year cliffhanger, setting up 2012. Mookie isn't going to make him lose embarassingly straight up, right?
Im sorry, but no, I still forsee mantis mage being canonballed into TIM by the fireballbeam attack, which brings the full party to bumpers side. Now, if mookie manages to totally reverse gregs magic loss, that is still a question. I mean, this has to be the longest term "negative" consequence of the comic. Doms leg doesnt count as it only means something when he tries to dance.
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