My last entry about Dominic Deegan made poor old Mr. Terracciano cry. Good. The sooner he learns that his attitude that you have to say nice things about his comic is bullshit, the better. The sooner he learns that his comic is one of the shittiest on the Internet, the better. Because a grown man cannot daydream through life in this manner. For God's sake, you pathetic little egocentric dickhole, grow some fucking balls and man up! Take pride in your work and do what you haven't done in half a fucking decade: improve yourself.
The gaggle of slack-jawed morons who took it upon themselves to defend Terracciano's shit mentioned a few things to me. They said that Dominic Deegan was very subtle and I would not appreciate how subtle it is! It always implies things rather than stating them outright!
Okay. Sure. Subtle. Doesn't spell it out.
Look at this comic. In it, Deegan goes all spaz and a vision is revealed! No, worse, a plot is revealed! It's all there! What happens in the next comic? Well, Deegan decides he has to explain everything that's going on. In excruciating detail.
Wow. I am amazed by the subtlety going on right there.
Let's be fair, though, it's obviously pretty hard work to produce a Dominic Deegan strip. You've got to get your ugly ass out of bed, spend a few hours basking in the glow of your adoring fans, have lunch, spend fifteen minutes scribbling out some shit that a child could do, then another few hours watching people on your forum talk about how great your comic is, masturbating furiously all the while because it's the closest you'll ever get to a human being truly loving you.
Any man who draws himself getting a standing ovation is the kind of man who does get off to people heaping praise upon him, which is probably why Terracciano ignores criticism of his comic. Not just ignores it, but has deluded himself into thinking that people who think, rightfully, that Dominic Deegan sucks are crackpots. His ego, though gargantuan in its pomposity, is a fragile thing. It must be guarded against reality in all its nefarious forms.
Terracciano said, in a rare forum post from him (since most of his forum posts are to answer adulation or to close threads - which is what he did this time), that I should not "dare claim that [I] know anything about [him]." Which is a laugh and a half, really.
He's claimed, through writing his dire orc rape storyline, to know how a rape victim feels. Considering what a fucking hash he made of it, this is pretty unlikely. I could be wrong, though! There could be a whole host of women, molested as children, who didn't realise until reading Dominic Deegan that actually what happened to them was that they got a good, hard dicking that's made them head-over-heels in love with their studly rapist.
People told me that story was "tragic" rather than creepy. They're right! But not for the reasons they think. It's tragic to think that Terracciano actually believes he did a good job on that story. It's tragic to think he's so far removed from reality, he can't see how terrible it was. It's tragic that I actually read the whole fucking storyline from start to finish.
We start with a rock concert - because nothing screams SERIOUS STORY than a rock concert with elves and magic guitars. Then we move briskly on to the usual way that characters express emotion: violence and shouting. Then we get the whole sordid tale, where Terracciano acts as morbid dungeonmaster to the cursed D&D campaign that Dominic Deegan truly is. He railroads his way into this thing. Every conceivable option is blocked off, his characters have only one way out of this nightmare: rape. This is to make it seem like poor old Stonewater didn't have a choice, apart from letting poor Melna die! Which, as I said, is the better option.
If you ignore the rock concert part, and ignore the fact that Terracciano's art is visually unappealing, and ignore the dialogue that has zero emotional impact, then the basics of the plot are... passable. A good writer, which Terracciano is not, could do it justice if he took some liberties with it. A good artist, which Terracciano is also not, could do it justice and not draw all the characters with the same snoutfaced template.
But it's the next part which is why this orc rape story is so bad. It's everything after the fact. Everyone just kind of excusing it. Dominic getting mad when someone called Stonewater a rapist, even though he actually is. And you're supposed to side with him in that instance! You're meant to cheer him on and go "Stand by your friend, Dominic!" Yes, stand by your friend the rapist. The guy who was supposedly reluctant to go through with it, but managed to get a boner mere seconds after watching two people die in front of him.
It's Melna falling in love, calling him her husband, it's all that. Terracciano, how can you get angry with me for analysing you and finding you as an attention whore? How can you get so mad about me saying I know your type, when you feel you are master and commander of the spectrum of human emotion? How can you say anything in your defence, when you're the one responsible for writing about the rape of a fourteen-year-old girl leading to her wanting to bump uglies with her rapist?
See, there, he shows her as angry (I think that's angry, he really does fucking suck at drawing expressions) that she's in love. Which would be all well and good, except she's still in love. She shouldn't be. Her first memories of this guy are of him jamming his orcdong into her unwilling body and breaking her green hymen. It's not the best start to a relationship. Oh, of course, Terracciano doesn't know this. Mostly because he's stupid, but also because he's got the mad hots for couples. They're going to hook up, it's inevitable. Check out the cast:
Dominic, all boyfriend/girlfriend with Luna. Gregory, likewise with Nurse Pam, who is now Mayor Pam because who wants to make up a new character, ugh. Donovan Deegan has his wife, Miranda. Jayden has Milov, the werewolf who can also cast spells ha ha how original. Stunt has Bumper, Spark has Dejah, everyone's pairin' up like it's the end of the world and they have to repopulate the planet.
The only people who aren't hooked up are incidental characters - and when your main characters are shallow, your background ones are fucking invisible - and bad guys. Those bad guys who are married either get divorced or separated because evil people are incapable of love. Also they are insanely jealous of couples who are together, as evidenced by quite a few plot points over the years.
Why is this? Why does Terracciano couple everyone up? Probably for the same reason he doesn't listen to people pointing out the myriad of flaws in his work: he's deluded. Picture this metaphor, if you will: little Mookie all curled up in the foetal position, fingers in his ears and going "LA LA LA LA LA LA" as loud as he can. That's Terracciano if you try and say "maybe if you tried actually drawing a nose in profile at least once" to him.
Now, picture adorable ickle Mookie dancing around and smiling and being the happiest hack in the whoooole wide world. That's Terracciano if you go "Oh, Mookie, today's comic was great!"
Why's it great? What were the good points? Well, since there are none, nobody can really say. But none of that matters! Terracciano is just craving your adoration. I'd suggest it was because he was beaten as a child, but that's really unlikely on account of the orc rape storyline being so bad he really must have no experience with how a child deals with trauma. So I'm going to hazard a guess and say he's just a lonely, socially-inept dork - which seems to be accurate, judging by how often he enjoys ripping off nerd culture for a cheap joke.
Being a socially-inept dork would go some way to explaining why he got his ass dumped recently, dropped like so much dead weight. Let me just quickly ring up Single Asian Female and see if I can't get a woman's perspective on things!
Yes? Hello? Is that Single Asian Female? Would you consider dating a socially-inept attention whore who has no drive to improve himself and uses the rape of children as a cheap plot device in order to get people to like him?
No, no, he's not Asian.
Really? Well, all right then.
There you have it! Ladies do not want to date a guy as pathetic as Terracciano! Especially not a Single Asian Female!
Terracciano, much as you would love to think that you're some worldly-wise master author who is second only to Tolkein himself when it comes to sweeping fantasy epics, you are about eight levels below some 14-year-old on fanfiction.net who writes stories about Legolas going to Hogwarts and falling in love with Mary-Sue Potter. You are so far below her because her characters who are 14-years-old share secret kisses with effeminate elves up in the Owlery. Your characters who are 14-years-old get raped and enact the rest of their lives in a disgusting pantomime that's deeply offensive on a primal level.
I know you, Terracciano. I can read you like a book. I can analyse you like a telepathic Freud. You are not a man of mystery, you are just some fuckin' schmuck with a terrible webcomic. You're worthless, you contribute nothing to society that cannot be replaced by some piece of crap on ComicGenesis.com drawn in MSPaint, and nobody will ever really love you.
Look at yourself, Michael. You ignore your faults and only listen to people chanting mindless adoration. They don't love you. Fuck, they don't even know you. You're substituting a real relationship with these sycophants. They're parasites, and like all parasites, they're killing you. You'll die alone and unloved, and your comic will be forgotten long before that happens. Stop frittering away your days thinking that your fans are any kind of a substitute for genuine, emotional contact.
Oh, who am I kidding, you're a tosser and you'll never read a word of this because it's not getting you hard. You're pathetic, Terracciano. Die in a fire.
The gaggle of slack-jawed morons who took it upon themselves to defend Terracciano's shit mentioned a few things to me. They said that Dominic Deegan was very subtle and I would not appreciate how subtle it is! It always implies things rather than stating them outright!
Okay. Sure. Subtle. Doesn't spell it out.
Look at this comic. In it, Deegan goes all spaz and a vision is revealed! No, worse, a plot is revealed! It's all there! What happens in the next comic? Well, Deegan decides he has to explain everything that's going on. In excruciating detail.
Wow. I am amazed by the subtlety going on right there.
Let's be fair, though, it's obviously pretty hard work to produce a Dominic Deegan strip. You've got to get your ugly ass out of bed, spend a few hours basking in the glow of your adoring fans, have lunch, spend fifteen minutes scribbling out some shit that a child could do, then another few hours watching people on your forum talk about how great your comic is, masturbating furiously all the while because it's the closest you'll ever get to a human being truly loving you.
Any man who draws himself getting a standing ovation is the kind of man who does get off to people heaping praise upon him, which is probably why Terracciano ignores criticism of his comic. Not just ignores it, but has deluded himself into thinking that people who think, rightfully, that Dominic Deegan sucks are crackpots. His ego, though gargantuan in its pomposity, is a fragile thing. It must be guarded against reality in all its nefarious forms.
Terracciano said, in a rare forum post from him (since most of his forum posts are to answer adulation or to close threads - which is what he did this time), that I should not "dare claim that [I] know anything about [him]." Which is a laugh and a half, really.
He's claimed, through writing his dire orc rape storyline, to know how a rape victim feels. Considering what a fucking hash he made of it, this is pretty unlikely. I could be wrong, though! There could be a whole host of women, molested as children, who didn't realise until reading Dominic Deegan that actually what happened to them was that they got a good, hard dicking that's made them head-over-heels in love with their studly rapist.
People told me that story was "tragic" rather than creepy. They're right! But not for the reasons they think. It's tragic to think that Terracciano actually believes he did a good job on that story. It's tragic to think he's so far removed from reality, he can't see how terrible it was. It's tragic that I actually read the whole fucking storyline from start to finish.
We start with a rock concert - because nothing screams SERIOUS STORY than a rock concert with elves and magic guitars. Then we move briskly on to the usual way that characters express emotion: violence and shouting. Then we get the whole sordid tale, where Terracciano acts as morbid dungeonmaster to the cursed D&D campaign that Dominic Deegan truly is. He railroads his way into this thing. Every conceivable option is blocked off, his characters have only one way out of this nightmare: rape. This is to make it seem like poor old Stonewater didn't have a choice, apart from letting poor Melna die! Which, as I said, is the better option.
If you ignore the rock concert part, and ignore the fact that Terracciano's art is visually unappealing, and ignore the dialogue that has zero emotional impact, then the basics of the plot are... passable. A good writer, which Terracciano is not, could do it justice if he took some liberties with it. A good artist, which Terracciano is also not, could do it justice and not draw all the characters with the same snoutfaced template.
But it's the next part which is why this orc rape story is so bad. It's everything after the fact. Everyone just kind of excusing it. Dominic getting mad when someone called Stonewater a rapist, even though he actually is. And you're supposed to side with him in that instance! You're meant to cheer him on and go "Stand by your friend, Dominic!" Yes, stand by your friend the rapist. The guy who was supposedly reluctant to go through with it, but managed to get a boner mere seconds after watching two people die in front of him.
It's Melna falling in love, calling him her husband, it's all that. Terracciano, how can you get angry with me for analysing you and finding you as an attention whore? How can you get so mad about me saying I know your type, when you feel you are master and commander of the spectrum of human emotion? How can you say anything in your defence, when you're the one responsible for writing about the rape of a fourteen-year-old girl leading to her wanting to bump uglies with her rapist?
See, there, he shows her as angry (I think that's angry, he really does fucking suck at drawing expressions) that she's in love. Which would be all well and good, except she's still in love. She shouldn't be. Her first memories of this guy are of him jamming his orcdong into her unwilling body and breaking her green hymen. It's not the best start to a relationship. Oh, of course, Terracciano doesn't know this. Mostly because he's stupid, but also because he's got the mad hots for couples. They're going to hook up, it's inevitable. Check out the cast:
Dominic, all boyfriend/girlfriend with Luna. Gregory, likewise with Nurse Pam, who is now Mayor Pam because who wants to make up a new character, ugh. Donovan Deegan has his wife, Miranda. Jayden has Milov, the werewolf who can also cast spells ha ha how original. Stunt has Bumper, Spark has Dejah, everyone's pairin' up like it's the end of the world and they have to repopulate the planet.
The only people who aren't hooked up are incidental characters - and when your main characters are shallow, your background ones are fucking invisible - and bad guys. Those bad guys who are married either get divorced or separated because evil people are incapable of love. Also they are insanely jealous of couples who are together, as evidenced by quite a few plot points over the years.
Why is this? Why does Terracciano couple everyone up? Probably for the same reason he doesn't listen to people pointing out the myriad of flaws in his work: he's deluded. Picture this metaphor, if you will: little Mookie all curled up in the foetal position, fingers in his ears and going "LA LA LA LA LA LA" as loud as he can. That's Terracciano if you try and say "maybe if you tried actually drawing a nose in profile at least once" to him.
Now, picture adorable ickle Mookie dancing around and smiling and being the happiest hack in the whoooole wide world. That's Terracciano if you go "Oh, Mookie, today's comic was great!"
Why's it great? What were the good points? Well, since there are none, nobody can really say. But none of that matters! Terracciano is just craving your adoration. I'd suggest it was because he was beaten as a child, but that's really unlikely on account of the orc rape storyline being so bad he really must have no experience with how a child deals with trauma. So I'm going to hazard a guess and say he's just a lonely, socially-inept dork - which seems to be accurate, judging by how often he enjoys ripping off nerd culture for a cheap joke.
Being a socially-inept dork would go some way to explaining why he got his ass dumped recently, dropped like so much dead weight. Let me just quickly ring up Single Asian Female and see if I can't get a woman's perspective on things!
Yes? Hello? Is that Single Asian Female? Would you consider dating a socially-inept attention whore who has no drive to improve himself and uses the rape of children as a cheap plot device in order to get people to like him?
No, no, he's not Asian.
Really? Well, all right then.
There you have it! Ladies do not want to date a guy as pathetic as Terracciano! Especially not a Single Asian Female!
Terracciano, much as you would love to think that you're some worldly-wise master author who is second only to Tolkein himself when it comes to sweeping fantasy epics, you are about eight levels below some 14-year-old on fanfiction.net who writes stories about Legolas going to Hogwarts and falling in love with Mary-Sue Potter. You are so far below her because her characters who are 14-years-old share secret kisses with effeminate elves up in the Owlery. Your characters who are 14-years-old get raped and enact the rest of their lives in a disgusting pantomime that's deeply offensive on a primal level.
I know you, Terracciano. I can read you like a book. I can analyse you like a telepathic Freud. You are not a man of mystery, you are just some fuckin' schmuck with a terrible webcomic. You're worthless, you contribute nothing to society that cannot be replaced by some piece of crap on ComicGenesis.com drawn in MSPaint, and nobody will ever really love you.
Look at yourself, Michael. You ignore your faults and only listen to people chanting mindless adoration. They don't love you. Fuck, they don't even know you. You're substituting a real relationship with these sycophants. They're parasites, and like all parasites, they're killing you. You'll die alone and unloved, and your comic will be forgotten long before that happens. Stop frittering away your days thinking that your fans are any kind of a substitute for genuine, emotional contact.
Oh, who am I kidding, you're a tosser and you'll never read a word of this because it's not getting you hard. You're pathetic, Terracciano. Die in a fire.
109 comments:
- Okay, honestly, how can anyone idolise this creep. I, personally, don't hold much favour for Mookie but this post is fucking ridiculous. Mookie is a whiney little bitch sometimes and very often his story is bland and predictable and often repetative but this blog is just saying "I have free speech, look at me use it! WHEEEEEEE" Not only that but he's already posted this before and since he got such 'good' reception on the orc rape story I guess he figured "Might as well keep pointing that out so I can beat off to people complaining about my posts." Honestly, how can you idolise that, how can you think that is funny? This 'man' constantly complains how the audiences of the web comics he reviews must be complete fucking idiots but anyone who idolises this crap can't be any better, hell, you might as well idolise the mess you made in the toilet this morning. People are fucking morons and this bastard will get what he deserves. I pity any of you that think that this 'man' deserves your adoration or respect. -Sipex
- Wait are you talking about me or Terracciano because I seriously can't tell.
- this shit is funny because you know he will say HEH HES JUST TRYING TO PISS ME OFF/GET ME ANGRY I WONT THO *LOCKS TOPIC* if anyone brings it up. I'm KidDelhi off SA btw and I found it a pretty great summation. Mookie, you shithead, you made a woman fall in love with the man who RAPED HER. it's a cheap shot but how you even had a fucking girlfriend, jesus dude. keep it up Fuego. it's a little vitriolic or whatever but it's funny at times (I loved the line about SEX TO CHILD MOLESTORS) and it saves me from having to read horrible webcomics. since most people who are fans of horrible shit tend to say UGH YOU NEVER READ ARCS X THROUGH Y I can now just point to this blog! also congrats Sipex your post makes no sense :(
- My post refers to people like you, Easter, who gobble up every typed letter which "John" puts on this page. I'm sure you'd probably wet yourself in excitement (although you'd deny it with a passion) if John were to ever acknowledge your presence. "Oh joy! John told me I was so fucking awesome because I agreed with him! Maybe I can have his babies!" Augh, I hate people. -Sipex
- My only comment is that the only way you could have made this post is if you read Mookie's entire archive in great detail. Which, if you hate it so much, shows a rather disturbing degree of masochism on your part. Not that I disagree with pretty much anything you wrote, I just know that the webcomics I hate aren't the ones about which I can generate thousands of words complete with quotes and links. I would rather gloat at my success in pissing him off :D
- " My post refers to people like you, Easter, who gobble up every typed letter which "John" puts on this page. I'm sure you'd probably wet yourself in excitement (although you'd deny it with a passion) if John were to ever acknowledge your presence." Oh, look, more ad hominem rather than attacking the actual points raised. That's a real good way of going about it. Look, if you don't like John, that's cool, but he actually raises critical points. You just keep on saying "HE'S AN ASSHOLE" over and over again. People who like DD just keep on saying "IT'S A GOOD COMIC" over and over again. The level of hyperbole and creative vitriol contained in the blog posts is not easy to come by, and amuses me greatly. It's the sort of humor that I enjoy (see also Something Awful.) In addition to that, he actually makes points about why the comic and the author blow so hard, which is just icing on the cake. And I'm sure people hate you too. -Still Baelfael
- Sorry again John, this is a reply to Theodorus in the thread, I don't know if he'll read it but whatever. I'm not going to post in the thread because I have friends who browse sa and who know my screen name. If they found out about this I would be subject to an incredible degree of mockery which I'm not exactly comfortable with for obvious reasons. I'm still happy to answer questions though. So as not to further pollute the comments section of this blog I've set this up with guest posting enabled if you still have questions you can post there. http://z7.invisionfree.com/tgquestions/index.php?
- Andrew/Sipex, it's pretty fuckin' lol how you can go "ARGH HOW CAN YOU THINK THIS MAN IS FUNNY" in the same breath as you're going "YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW AWESOME DEEGAN IS". But, while I may be very rusty at the whole non-fiction writing deal, at least every post I make I try to improve myself. In that respect I've accomplished more in two days than Mookie has in five years, which makes me roughly 1000 times superior to him.
- Whoa, I'm no hardcore Deegan fan, that comic has more holes than a sponge. I'm just here because from the second I started reading this vile putrid crap you call a blog I've hated you and I really wanted to let you know that. And then it got into all the crap where the other DD forum crawlers started going "Omg, he said something bad about DD, he's my god." and we're currently sitting on that tangent with these people trying to justify why they're sticking up for you beyond leg humping. And to whomever said people hate me too (can't really care to look it up) I know people hate me, everyone has someone who hates them and if my 'haters' choose to be as vocal as I am then let them.
- well okay just stop posting until you can be funnier
- I love you, John. And you're right, you really are improving with each blog you post, this one was definitely less rambly than the last one. It's obvious you're passionate about how much Deegan sucks, and I hope to see more from you on this subject. I want you to cover exactly how one-dimensional the villains are next time, or maybe use some basic anatomy guidelines to show what Mookie is doing wrong, that oughta be a hoot! But please keep your rabies-like hatred for the comic bottled up so as not to muddle your point about how objectively objectionable it is, okay?
- Sweet juicy Jesus, I go to work for a few hours and come back to find you've ventured even further towards the Heart of Darkness! I'm feeling practically spoiled! It's gonna suck when you leave next week for your vacation.
- This is the best Blog ever.
- You wanna know what really amuses me? How ever the writer of this blog considers this whole thing a joke. "well okay just stop posting until you can be funnier " Is the direct quote, and here I thought that this was trying to be a profesional criticism of bad webcomics. Evidently I'm wrong since the author of the blog thinks otherwise. ~David
- The last word of the first line was supposed to be "even". Typos can be annoying but no one is perfect. ~David
- fuego fish i love dominic deegan with all my heart and you are just an idiot PLEBIAN who can't appreciate the beauty of orc rape drawn in the style of glorious nippon
- i actually didn't find fuego fish (WHO THE FUCK IS JOHN seriously) funny (LOOK ITS A DOMINIC DEEGAN PUNCHLINE) until he started posting this shit. it's a lot funnier than his forum posts or Durgan is! I'm kind of afraid the blog will wear thin after the tenth or so review THIS COMIC IS A _____ OF _____ but for now it's funny and it's pretty nuts someone would think it's TOO MEAN. I hate it when people say this but it really applies: INTERNET dude.
- just one shitty webcomic creator being driven to suicide because people are tired of their fucking egos and their fucking shit will herald in a new age, a new interweb. one of glory and light, where people spewing forth their disgusting furry/rape/mary sue fetishes do not feel validated or receive money for doing so I pray to the lord jesus christ that mookie is the chosen one to lead us into this beautiful age, on the end of a razorblade.
- Dominic Deegan, again? Was it really necessary? I think you sort of got the point across in the last post, but whatever. It was just as entertaining, either way. It certainly does get some of the Deeganites fired up, if that's the effect you were searching for. To Sipex - Some people require idols to worship. I mean, I'm sure you've got someone out there you fawn over, right? Obviously, you'd say "No I don't", so I'm not even going to wait for an answer, but the point is made. If people choose to worship John Solomon because he shits on webcomic artists' art (or, in some cases, lack thereof), then that's perfectly fine. Personally, I worship C.S. Lewis, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoshitaka Amano and Jean Reno, so poke fun of me if you think that's dumb/queer. Because humans are afraid of difference. Yes.
- You know, even though I totally agree with you about the flaws in his writing and art, the thing that lead to me eventually completely hating DD is much more minor; the way Mookie bolds every word he made up, or thinks is important, or is the name of a character just being introduced or who we haven't seen in awhile, or which is the punchline of one of his "jokes", or sometimes just apparently at random on top of words that should be stressed. I end up with such a headache every time somebody links to something going on in his strip and I check it out to see what they're talking about, because when I'm reading my mind automatically stresses everything he bolds and he does it in such a completely unnatural way.
- Hate to have such an unrelated comment, but an earlier blog comment (I think it was in response to your Shortpacked! post) had someone talking about a rant you had about The Wotch, apparently on Somethingawful or some other forum. Is there any chance you could repost said rant on this blog, or if it's still around link to the forum thread? I would very much like to read your thoughts about that particular piece of shite, having suffered excruciating pain upon attempting to read it myself a couple years ago.
- do you do reqquests? http://pugh.smackjeeves.com http://somethingnew.smackjeeves.com http://www.misfile.com http://www.penny-arcade.com signed A person full of jiggly slime hate.
- Thanks for writing this blog. It makes me feel really happy inside when people slag off webcomics that used to be funny and hilarious but are now these angst ridden pooptrains full of child abuse and rape and stuff. keep up the good work, and for "bob'S" sake, review www.katbox.net/laslindas and a couple of more of those hideous animu webcomics.
- I just jizzed in your eye.
- anonymous said... do you do reqquests? http://pugh.smackjeeves.com http://somethingnew.smackjeeves.com http://www.misfile.com http://www.penny-arcade.com I'm not sure about John, but I do! Pugh: HA HA RANDOM or something I have no idea what's going on. This comic sucks, is terribly drawn and has no humour in it whatsoever but that's really par for the course with bad webcomics. There's nothing about Pugh that makes it stand out from the crowd, no sick fetishes or ridiculous webcomics drama from the writer far as I can tell. However, the writer does seem to think that people care about his comic a lot more than they do, and the Holy Grail reference on the main page really does make me feel sorry for Monty Python - lord knows how tiring it must be to constantly have their jokes being humourlessly rehashed incessantly for going on 40 years now. Something New: I tried to read this comic but the first thing that reached my eyes was an image with a caricature of one of the artists talking about their new webcomic, which is a collaboration that features "several of your favorite Boy Love (sic) manga artists [being] completely random". I don't need any more proof than that to know Something New is a total waste of time and not even worth criticism. Misfile: Oh dear god, Misfile. When I first discovered this comic, webcomics were fairly new to me and just about any piece of scanned paper uploaded online seemed magical - so by standards of quality that basically implied that anything was awesome as long as it was a comic and I could read it for free, Misfile was pretty damn good. But then, years later, I was talking with a friend about godawful webcomics and they linked me to Misfile. Being somewhat surprised that it was still around, I was naturally curious to see what'd been happening with Misfile and, more importantly, if it was ever any good to begin with. Famous last words right there. The art was the most noticeably bad element, right off the bat. The artist draws every character with seemingly amorphous facial features, only gaining coherent structure when obvious referencing from anime or manga images are in use. Anatomy is way off (of course) and the character designs themselves are generally unappealing. The cars, the most prominent features in the series' misguided street-racing plot arcs, look for all the world like my third-grade doodles I made with DRAW! Cars as reference (albeit with fewer flame decals and a whole lot more drifting) and the backgrounds are drawn so poorly you almost wish the artist would do what all the other webcomic hacks out there do and just apply gaussian blur to some random pictures from Google - at least then there might be some form to the mess. But the art isn't even the really bad part. That honour would have to go to the plot, which is the webcomics equivalent of a horrible sitcom pilot that nevertheless got picked up and, despite all logic and reason, continues to run even to this day. A boy gets turned into girl and another girl loses a year of her life thanks to a clumsy angel's misfile, and then he has to go live with them on Earth. Admittedly some vastly entertaining webcomics and TV shows have thrived for years with thinner premises, but in each example of such a case there's great writing, artistic direction, strong characterization or maybe just a really catchy theme song keeping things going. Not so with Misfile, though. The characters are all shallow, one-dimensional archetypes (the boy who turned into a girl is a natural tomboy, rejecting his femininity instead of reacting in an even vaguely interesting manner, the girl who lost a year of her life is an earnest bookworm who is obviously being set up to fall in love with the hero[ine] and the angel who lives with them is an idiotic slacker who gets drunk a lot, smokes weed and says stupid things that are approximately never funny in the slightest), the dialogue is neither snappy nor interesting and the inclusion of 'action' elements with the street races against demonic forces (seriously) are straight out of some Z-grade anime show, just unlike in a shitty anime the races in Misfile aren't even cheesy-bad enough to be funny. Misfile is just a terrible, terrible comic and unenjoyable on essentially every level. Shit, even the prospect of two nubile young girls getting it on in the story is rendered horrifying by the amorphous anatomy and bland character designs - to paraphrase Josh Lesnick, "nothing is worse than when artists who don't know anatomy try to draw sexy." And Misfile's artist does try. For shame. Penny Arcade: I like Penny Arcade and will be attending the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle for my third year in a row this August. That being said, sometimes the strip could be funnier and it is pretty much to blame for the entirety of the shitty gaming comics out there, so... Umm... You know what, I can't do this. I like Penny Arcade too much to attempt to trash it, even for the amusement of another. Sorry.
- Heh, that was actually my comic (Pugh). Thanks for reviewing it, mate, but you didn't say anything that i wasn't already aware of. And for peopel caring: I know that they don't care anymore. Is it ok if i copy that review and put it on my livejournal? cheers. Limb
- In response to limbclock: Feel free to use the review. Man, I remember when I had a stupid webcomic nobody read... It was a Final Fantasy spritecomic and was just about the worst thing ever created. Thankfully for me though I've long since lost all the image files for it, DrunkDuck's purged it from its archives a hundred times over and I think everyone who read it at any point in history has forgotten about it. Black Mage was a rapper in it. It was THAT bad.
- response to dmc: I'm waiting for John to go after Sprite comics and if there is a superior alien overlord, Penny Arcade. YOu could've been far more harsher in the review but it's ok as it is.
- I think the title of your blog is fantastic. I love it so much that I have to comment on the content: Many, many years ago, I started reading webcomics. Unsurprisingly, I really disliked a lot of them, because either they were complete crap, or they didn't jive with taste. But I also liked a good many. A couple of years ago, I started to find that I didn't like as many webcomics as I used to. Something was bugging me. So I started looking for a combination of quality and success in a webcomic. In other words, I started looking for a comic that both supported its creator(s) and somehow avoided doing stupid shit. During this search, I ran into way more successful, author-supporting comics than I did quality comics. This really bugged me, especially when it seems like most of the most successful comics are drawn and written without discipline beyond that required to meet a five-days-a-week production quota (And yes, that's quite a lot of discipline, but I think it would be better focused on the writing and art rather than on production). So, what gives? Why are the most popular webcomics terrible? And why won't pointing it out in public do a goddamn thing? Because the audience is the problem, assuming you see the whole situation as a problem rather than just the unfortunate state of things -- and it's a problem with no solution. Readers identify with the lame characters and go-nowhere plots of these comics, because they are themselves lame. Realizing this, I felt a lot of anger toward the webcomic community, and fandom in general, and I really, really, wanted to start posting essays like yours, albeit minus the personal attacks. But it turns out that I started to lose interest in lame comics because I was becoming less lame myself, and could no longer relate. Thankfully, I figured out that I was more angry at myself for being so lame and naive for so long, and that if I posted those essays under my real name, I would probably regret it later, 'cause nobody's work is perfect, and my own efforts would almost certainly be panned in retaliation. So, um, congratulations on becoming less lame, I guess. Hope it works out for you.
- I think you neglected somethings about Dominic Deegan. I spent a good weekend a few months back just reading it, and I thought when it was just pure fluff with no real big story, it was semi-decent since it didn't try to aspire anything great. Mookie has a problem in that he's writing an afterschool special. He's not just doing that, but he also has all his character statted out for Dungeons and Dragons, and is playing them by their alignment. Evil characters are invariably evil. Good characters are invariably good. And Evil characters can learn from the goodness from another. Is he fucking watch Sesame Street or Power Rangers while drawing this? Is his target audience eight years old? Reading his comic is playing with Jumbo blocks when you could be playing Gears of War. As to the orc rape? What the hell? Orcs are traumatized by rape? Last I checked with the stereotype, raping some village orphan is like shaking hands amongst the greenskins. Anyway, those are my words.
- John, you DID raise some legitimate points about Dominic Deegan. I'll say that any day. But some of your claims about Terracciano and his fans are ridiculous. You can call the comic pathetic all you want, and raise as many gripes about it as you want, and I won't say a word. It's not unreasonable to infer some things about the author based on what he writes, as well. But seriously, if you're going to make a good argument that a comic is bad don't ruin it by calling names like a 13 - year - old.
- Sure, I'll be nice - if I want to be Eric Burns and nicey-nice my way through the world, afraid of upsetting people by being too harsh. There is no law, cosmic or made by man, which says I can't say some fucking loser is a fucking loser. Because, hey, Terracciano is a fucking loser. People are forever demanding stupid things from this blog. They want me to provide constructive advice, when the webcomic's creator obviously does not want any. They think I am obligated to be nice, simply because I am reviewing things. They decry my harsh language and insults by use of harsh language and insults, and then call me a hypocrite. This is exactly what happens with a lot of webcomics that turn bad: the people that read them think that they're entitled to direct what is going on. Well guess what? YOU ARE NOT. You are just whiny assholes. I'll do whatever I please and laugh in your fat, stupid faces if you complain. I am not here to dance for your amusement, you pissants. I am here to impart one singular truth: your webcomic is bad and you should feel bad.
- John, you need to take that last comment and turn it into a standalone blog post so everybody sees it. It's basically the Manifesto for the blog.
- "Being a socially-inept dork would go some way to explaining why he got his ass dumped recently, dropped like so much dead weight." What is wrong with you? Why do you want to harm someone soooo much? So you get your kicks from being an internet bully...Anyone would think something tragic happened in your childhood. Like ZOMG, I'm analysing you like a telepathic Freud. Go me. You are pathetic as are your tired put-downs. Yawnnnnnn. P.S It ruins your credibility as a critic... --dclunkers
- Dominic Deegan rant= Heat Repeat formula. Original.
- Then we get the whole sordid tale, where Terracciano acts as morbid dungeonmaster to the cursed D&D campaign that Dominic Deegan truly is. He railroads his way into this thing. Every conceivable option is blocked off, his characters have only one way out of this nightmare: rape. My only real issue with this is the term morbid. I'm not saying that it wasn't, but it is moreso an example of bad DM'ing. In a well run, and fun to play D&D campaign, there is never only one way out of a problem.. The characters have to have freedom of choice. I think this holds true in narrative as well. Characters are defined by there actions, but more by their choices. If a character has a choice between doing something good and doing something bad, and they do something bad, that generally means they are bad, but if a character has no choice, then they're just an automiton. And where's the fun in that?
- I haven't caught up on DD in ages, but your blog has inspired me to do so now. Thanks! (Possibly! If the orc rape stuff is stomachable.) (also y u hatin on the anime art style? r u liek racist against japanese people eh? eh?)
- *Quotes* "You are just whiny assholes." *Ahem* You're one to talk aren't you...
- isn't he what? i find the impoliteness you display in not finishing your sentences appalling.
- Ok, for starters, your internet persona is ridiculous. Why? Because if you go around in real life directly telling people the sort of things you just said here, then you are completely incapable of interacting in normal society. However, if you are capable of holding reasonable discourse with those you disagree with, then all of the posturing in this blog is bullshit. Which is it? Are you a fake or actually an insufferable asshole? Secondly, assuming that you know something about rape because you know a single rape victim is almost as bad as what you accuse Mookie of doing. Mookie seems to have at least watched a few Limetime Originals to pick up some alternatives to violent hatred. I'm also struck by the lack of female commentors agreeing strongly with your assessment. As a woman, I actually find your harping about "growing some balls" and "manning up and accepting criticism" to be far more offensive than a poorly executed attempt at writing a complex sexual abuse scenario. In fact, most of your insults are grounded in sexist and homophobic language. I will concede that the drawing is terrible and the writing hackneyed. The "rock concert" strips were horrible and just generally a bad idea. The characters are overall rather flat. However, the more recent additions have shown considerable improvement in terms of attempted complexity. The level of associated sucess is still somewhat debatable. The quality of the coloring is, in my mind, quite good considering that it's conducted with markers on an original image. It's not photoshop quality, but it doesn't have to be. What's admirable about Dominic Deegan is that while it is at best a mediocre comic strip, it commands an incredible following of loyal readers. Somewhere along the way, Mookie invented the webcomic analogue of McDonald's. It is just good enough to pay the bills. Since the generation of cash is the primary goal of most cartoonists, then I see no reason for Mookie to be forced to acknowledge intentionally insulting and degrading criticisms. He has achieved his goals, thus he does not have to make substantial improvements. I would chastize you further about the level of vitriol employed in your assessments, but you do have as much right to vent your frustrations as Mookie does to mope. But I do hope that you are aware of your own hypocrasies.
- Really, quality of a work is purely up to the individual. Not a single individual, but each select person has the same right to determine what they believe is good or bad. That being said, you crossed the line. Your mentality is that of a fourteen year old that happened to pick up a dictionary and throws words that are not even used correctly. We insult others because they differ in OPINION than your own OPINION. Sounds like childish drama that you can see on a school ground any day. To wish ill will upon another human being because you don't like the work they do? Ohhh, I know what it is. You were incapable to get validation from these artists you "review" some point in the past and take it out on them as your new alias. You know, they do have self help classes for mental disorders, and stress problems. I would recommend signing up for one.
- You know John I'm curious. I'm curious if you wish to include me in this group you mentioned, People are forever demanding stupid things from this blog. They want me to provide constructive advice, when the webcomic's creator obviously does not want any. They think I am obligated to be nice, simply because I am reviewing things. They decry my harsh language and insults by use of harsh language and insults, and then call me a hypocrite." I'm curious if you include me in that group because I have suggested you use less insults twice now I believe in the other post. If you do I must admit I'm rather amused, because that would mean you're accusing me of harsh language and insults. If you are please find and quote me on it, because to my knowledge I haven't been anything less then polite. And groundless insults to my person make me laugh. Oh also, I never said you had to cut out the cursing, I'm fine with that and it can really emphasize your feelings sometimes. However when you're trying to prove or make a point insults don't really help you make them. If you think someone is a whiny jerk you can try and make that a point but just random insults don't make a point. On another note, I feel I must point out that you accuse some of the Deegan fans of thinking they are entitled to direct what is going on. This is completely true they don't have any particular right to direct what's going on, but you know what? Neither do you. This may be your blog, but you put it on the internet which means that just about anyone who finds it can say whatever they want. Free speech works both ways you know. ~David
- Anonymous said... Ok, for starters, your internet persona is ridiculous. Why? Because if you go around in real life directly telling people the sort of things you just said here, then you are completely incapable of interacting in normal society. However, if you are capable of holding reasonable discourse with those you disagree with, then all of the posturing in this blog is bullshit. Which is it? Are you a fake or actually an insufferable asshole? God forbid you should use the internet to say something that wouldn't be polite to say in a real conversation you stupid prick
- "What's admirable about Dominic Deegan is that while it is at best a mediocre comic strip, it commands an incredible following of loyal readers." how is this admirable in any way shape or form? in fact you go on to say exactly the reasons why he shouldnt even bother being polite that is him not improving and seeing no reason to. deegan gets politeness shitting out rainbows from his sycophantic fans and friends every day and closes his ears and blinds his eyes to any harsh criticism at all. and he and his fellow artists of shitty webcomics need this harsh criticism, even if they stick their fingers in their ears every time it rears its ugly head. because as i've said elsewhere the fans and the websnarks have been 'constructively criticizing' for YEARS and these comics haven't been improving for exactly that amount of time, so clearly this politeness deal doesn't work. they need to be worn down, bit by bit, until they finally get it. of course if they haven't gotten it at this point really, they probably never will, and the best we can all hope for with these rants is getting a hilarious rise out of them and especially their defenders. which is working perfectly, by the way. it'd be pretty cool if they did change, though. "That being said, you crossed the line. OPINOIINONPINIOENPONIOEN" ah yes the 'it's a person's opinion maaaaan' defense the last resort of defenders of shitty things from the festering hills of fanfiction.net to the putrid shores of deviantart. and if you think this 'mentality' is that of a fourteen year old who picked up a dictionary then you're a retard who's never met a fourteen year old or a dictionary. no wait no you are just completely shitty at burns jesus christ why are all you webcomic readers so shitty at burns
- Really, quality of a work is purely up to the individual. Not a single individual, but each select person has the same right to determine what they believe is good or bad. Then perhaps we shouldn't listen to movie critics at all, shouldn't judge art critics, and view all artwork from such a static standpoint that any attention to the elements of artwork are thrown out the window. Let's give credit to the guy who cans his shit or the guy who deepfries American flags or the guy who staples candy-bar wrappers. Also, consider this: An artist opens himself up for such shots that this blog delivers only as far as he has confidence in his ability to produce art. The more an artist is overconfident, the less likely he will produce challenging work and the greater he will avoid negative criticism. What is wrong with Dominic Deegan is just that; Mookie takes himself too serious of a comic artist, so he doesn't feel that he should be challenged. His transparent characters, his paint-by-numbers plots, and the product that he sells his fans all come off twice the more insulting because he considers them to be such superb quality. Deegan is too much of a Mary Sue also, which always insults the reader's intelligence and suspension of disbelief. How can I care for a character's predicament when I know the author will ultimately resolve the issue with a happy Disney ending? There are elements that universally make a good story, and elements that make a bad story. Such things are the ability to draw the audience in, the ability for the audience to feel, care, and yearn for the characters. They also include continuity and the amount of verisimilitude. A character who is a paramount of good because he's such a fucking Mary Sue already sets up for a bad story. Dominic Deegan's story does little to draw the audience in; it's a parade of monolithic issues that are shown on Lifetime. How can I care for a character when his fate is guaranteed by the author? How can I get imagine for a split second that this story is real when such naive notions as moral absolutism is in play, where "the ultimate good(y good) trumps the ever fallible evil" is the resolution to any situation. I don't agree with John's approach to this, because this is a mock-up for SA's "Your band sucks" feature. He's trolling fans, is all. But he actually hits a few good points. When Mookie no longer takes himself serious, then critics won't treat him like he's producing serious work. But that day's far from here. And knock off the whole "I have a right to like what I want" bit. You're only arguing the fact that you have shallow taste and your opinion's not to be trusted.
- I'm just amazed how many paragraphs people are willing to pour out in defense of their favorite fictional characters.
- I'm just amazed at how many paragraphs people are willing to pour out and how much research people are willing to do on something they claim to be unable to stand.
- Do not feed the troll
- The troll being John-I use a fake name because I'm scared that these sycophants will track me down-Solomon.
- If I never mentioned it was a fake name, you wouldn't be able to tell. If there's a real John Solomon out there, he would be getting phone calls going something like "I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU FOR BESMIRCHING MOOKIE YOU FUCKER!" Unless John Solomon is my real name, and I'm saying it's fake to avoid those phone calls. Because, frankly, your comments may be amusing but if you knew who I was, you'd find out where I lived and I'd wake up to find a burning cross on my lawn. So, hey, keep accusing me of "hiding" while secretly plotting how you're going to try and make my life miserable when I apparently crack under your heinous demands and give you my real name. I have a dog, why not kill her and mail me her in pieces - just so you can prove your worthiness and unwavering loyalty to Lord Terracciano? Because you fucknuts are just unhinged enough to do that. Now, admit it - the moment I mentioned my dog you thought "Every new fact about his personal life narrows down who he could be! I AM ONE STEP CLOSER TO VENGEANCE FOR MOOKIE-SAMA!"
- Seriously, you're creepy.
- What's admirable about Dominic Deegan is that while it is at best a mediocre comic strip, it commands an incredible following of loyal readers. Somewhere along the way, Mookie invented the webcomic analogue of McDonald's. It is just good enough to pay the bills. Since the generation of cash is the primary goal of most cartoonists, then I see no reason for Mookie to be forced to acknowledge intentionally insulting and degrading criticisms. He has achieved his goals, thus he does not have to make substantial improvements. If this were actually correct--if the author was laughing his way to the bank with a fistful of twenties, thinking about how he just squeezed out something good enough to put one over on those chump readers--I would actually have MORE respect for him than I do now. Because then, as you said, he would have set a goal (a devious contemptuous goal) and then set about achieving it perfectly. However, it is precisely because Terracciano actually believes his comic to be above criticism by virtue of its inherent quality that he enables criticism such as that on this blog to exist. If he didn't care about how good it was, this rant wouldn't bother him. It would roll off his back and he wouldn't even mention it. Therefore, since it did bother him, we must assume that he cares about how good his comic is--at which point it is entirely legitimate to point out how much it hasn't improved over the years. He can't have it both ways; either the comic's quality is irrelevent because it's primarily an income stream, or the comic's quality is relevent and he has to accept the criticisms of other people. Speaking of having it both ways, I think that's what bothered me about the orc rape scene. I think what he was trying to do was show how orc culture is not human culture, and something like a rape is "no biggie" under those circumstances. Which could possibly work--if he hadn't spent so much time using the orcs as an allegory for human racism. In other words, if his goal was to show that the orcs have a dramatically alien culture, such that we humans can't begin to fathom, where the rape of a 14-year-old girl is potentially aceeptable or even preferrable (even by the victim), that would be an entirely legitimate story to tell. A lot of sci-fi novels are based on the premise that nonhuman intelligence would be radically different in its morals and ethics. However, he can't then, in the same story, spend large amounts of time showing us how the orcs are just like us, if only we could look past their physical differences. The two points of view clash. Either orcs have a wildly different way of thinking from humans, or they're just humans who look funny. Pick a viewpoint and stick with it. Given that large amounts of the story are devoted to the latter idea, we have to assume that the rape thing was a very bad concept that should never have been included. --Rich
- Thinking that Terracciano can fathom that kind of complex, shades-of-grey plot is giving the man too much credit. By which I mean any degree of credit whatsoever.
- "Secondly, assuming that you know something about rape because you know a single rape victim is almost as bad as what you accuse Mookie of doing." Seems kinda like a no-brainer that a rape victim would probably hate her rapist. I didn't realize that you need to work in a Rape Crisis Centre to make that kind of a judgment. Life is not anime. Rape is not the gateway to superpowers or the love of your life, its an awful, horrible crime, and the only fitting end for the character that did it is to be hung for the crows. "Last I checked with the stereotype, raping some village orphan is like shaking hands amongst the greenskins" Right, that's great. I'm going to go write a fanasy comic about a race that molests little boys with a ****** and makes them eat ****** while forcing them to watch ****** ****** with ****** and a melon. And since it will be just how that race is, it's totally acceptable! Idiots. Keep up the good fight, JS.
- I said this on the other thread too, but it needs to be said again here. Okay, just a little comment to the Dominic Deegan fans on here: QUIT. FUCKING. POSTING. The man is obviously just trying to be offensive, and every hateful comment you post is just adding to the little attention-whoring orgy he's so masterfully set up. So just stop it. Move on. Find something better to do. It's not going to help, he's just enjoying it.
- no one cares you fag
- Why don't you spend your time doing something you like instead of painfully forcing yourself(!) to read comics you claim to hate... You closet Deeganite. Have you heard of Stockholm Sydrome? It's the same in principle when someone falls in love with their rapist...Try and do some research before you blog... Were you abused as a child?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome Wikipedia will sort ya out :-).
- Stockholm Sydrome is the exception, not the norm, and I really doubt Mookie has done that much research anyways. He was probably just reading plenty of anime where rape is a casual plot device.
- Those are just assumptions; you don't actually know, so you shouldn't comment about what research he's done. Also, Mookie wasn't suggesting Stockholm Syndrome was the norm; no one was.
- Anonymous said... The troll being John-I use a fake name because I'm scared that these sycophants will track me down-Solomon. John Solomon said... If I never mentioned it was a fake name, you wouldn't be able to tell. If there's a real John Solomon out there, he would be getting phone calls going something like "I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU FOR BESMIRCHING MOOKIE YOU FUCKER!" Unless John Solomon is my real name, and I'm saying it's fake to avoid those phone calls. Because, frankly, your comments may be amusing but if you knew who I was, you'd find out where I lived and I'd wake up to find a burning cross on my lawn. So, hey, keep accusing me of "hiding" while secretly plotting how you're going to try and make my life miserable when I apparently crack under your heinous demands and give you my real name. I have a dog, why not kill her and mail me her in pieces - just so you can prove your worthiness and unwavering loyalty to Lord Terracciano? Because you fucknuts are just unhinged enough to do that. Now, admit it - the moment I mentioned my dog you thought "Every new fact about his personal life narrows down who he could be! I AM ONE STEP CLOSER TO VENGEANCE FOR MOOKIE-SAMA!" John Solomon said... Seriously, you're creepy. ___________ Wow. You made up all these little secnarios in your head. Do you think you're that important? No one cares whether you use your real name or not because they don't care about you. You say you pity Terracciano, I pity you. Sad little man.
- "Also, Mookie wasn't suggesting Stockholm Syndrome was the norm; no one was." Actually, whoever thought that assuming a rape victim would hate her rapist is as bad as assuming she would love her rapist essentially did say that, or that it was at least 50/50.
- Utterly bewildered by that comment. Mookie's idea of making Melna fall in love with her rapist has a basis. That's all I'm saying. Not all rape victims hate their rapists. That's just one outcome. Human emotions make us think many strange things; why do you think murder occurs? But it makes John look extremely stupid if he thinks that situations in life have only one outcome.
- Just to clarify, it was John who said that rape victims can only hate rapists.
- Wow the people who are even mentioning Stockholm syndrome are idiots. Stockholm syndrome is the result of extended and extreme control over the subject, where beatings can be handed out just as often as food over a matter of days. The total control the capturers have over the subject means even the slightest kind act can be seen as a massively bonding experience. Rape doesn't have that feature, it's a short, utterly violent degrading experience with no positive attributes (except in animu cus i mean all the girls come amirite?). Literally the only conceivable place where SS could take place is the rapist could easily have killed or further hamred the victim but decided not to, and so the victim feels a twisted form of gratitude. Since the choice was death or rape, not both, there was no chance of any bonding experience; Melnas feelings are simply Deegans forcing a happy ending to a horrible event. Inexcusable.
- Whoa Bessie! I suggested that it was similar in principle. It is idiotic to think that there is only ONE outcome of rape. Are you saying that people can only hate their rapist? Then you are completely ignoring all of those people who have indeed fallen in love with their rapist. Try again.
- so you're basically saying that i can write the most unrealistic terribly-written characterizations imaginable and it will be fine because the range of human emotion is vast so 'it could happen'. it doesn't matter if a certain scenario 'could happen' if the logic behind it is 'contrived and unlikely' and the writing expressing it is 'shit'. could you review my epic two-hundred-page sephiroth/cloud slash fanfiction please in this vast range of human emotion it is very possible that two men with no previous signs of homosexuality or affection for each other suddenly turn gay for each other and then one of them turns into a woman but not quite with magic or something and then they have sex in a castle for seventy paragraphs. treat it as a literary masterpiece tia.
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- (Oops. I deleted my comment... REPOSTED HOHO) One thing most people seem to be forgetting is that she wasn't only raped, but minutes before, she watched both of her parents brutally murdered right in front of her. That's 3 traumatic events right after each other. There is no way she can POSSIBLY love this guy, because the very sight of him is associated with the worst memories of her life. This means every single time she sees him, she's going to see her parents murdered and she will feel herself being raped all over again. Her mind would have to be MONUMENTALLY messed-up for her to have feelings for this guy.
- Since it doesn't seem to have come up much here let me say that the person who was raped was indeed quite angry with her rapist afterwards. She did after all take a hammer and break his face with it, I don't think that's a sign of affection anywhere really. As far as I can tell she has only come upon the realization that she loves him after: a) Apparently forgiving him, but maybe Mookie doesn't like the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. She could also very well blame her tribe more then her rapist, considering her tribe approved her parents violent murder, and her ensuing rape. b) Probably about 20 years of time to try and get herself past her traumatic past. c) Seeing her rapist act in a manner very similar to her beloved father, and that's without any incestous connotations by the way. Am I saying that she's completely forgotten the events? No, shortly after her rapist tells the tale, she excuses herself then breaks down crying. So overall it doesn't seem to illogical to me the way Mookie played it out. Honestly if she was going to hate any one person it should be her clan chief, since he approved the death match that killed her father, he ordered her mother to be killed, and he told her rapist that he would have to take her more or less on the spot if he didn't want her to be killed for being worthless. ~David
- "So overall it doesn't seem to illogical to me the way Mookie played it out." That's because, as has been pointed out numerous times, you're a moron.
- So anyone who can recognise that there's a possiblity that rape victims can fall in love with their rapists, is a moron? Hahaha.
- "So anyone who can recognise that there's a possiblity that rape victims can fall in love with their rapists, is a moron?" Well, yes. We're talking about the real world here, not Japanese pornography.
- About this comment ""So overall it doesn't seem to illogical to me the way Mookie played it out." That's because, as has been pointed out numerous times, you're a moron." Could you try and find any comment that said that I was a moron? One that actually had any real evidence or reason to it? In other words any comment that tried to do more then merely call me names. As I recall there aren't many if any at all. And I suggest against using "all DD fans are morons/raving lunatics" or the like, because that's a sweeping generalization and there's a reason sweeping generalizations are called logical fallacies. Oh and also? Could you plese point out, with reasons, why you think that my comment is illogical and/or stupid. Thanks. ~David
- "All Dominic Deegan fans are morons and/or lunatics" is not a sweeping generalization, it is a simple statement of fact, in the same way that "all people who enjoy Hee Haw are rednecks" and "all people who take Michael Savage seriously are drooling mongoloids" are statements of fact. The evidence for this is very clear: only a moron and/or a lunatic could enjoy a foul, festering shitheap of a comic like Dominic Deegan, so therefore all of its fans are morons and/or lunatics. This is not a complicated piece of logic here so I'm not sure why you can't follow it.
- I believe the best way to respond to that would be to explain to you why I like the comic. I find some of the jokes amusing. Why do I find horrid jokes and puns amusing? I find them amusing because they're so bad. So I'm clearly not a moron because if I was I'd find the joke itself amusing, and I'd think it good. Since that's not the case I'm clearly not a moron. As for being insane? Only if you consider having a slightly twisted sense of humor insane. Which if you do you have a very very broad category of insanity. ~David
- Your routine never gets old.
- People who continuously expose themselves to things that cause them pain are called "masochists", and they are technically insane according to DSM-IV. (Section 302.83, look it up.) If you believe that Dominic Deegan is a shitty comic, and you enjoy it because it is shitty, then you are technically insane and my point stands.
- Speaking of having it both ways, I think that's what bothered me about the orc rape scene. I think what he was trying to do was show how orc culture is not human culture, and something like a rape is "no biggie" under those circumstances. Which could possibly work--if he hadn't spent so much time using the orcs as an allegory for human racism. In other words, if his goal was to show that the orcs have a dramatically alien culture, such that we humans can't begin to fathom, where the rape of a 14-year-old girl is potentially aceeptable or even preferrable (even by the victim), that would be an entirely legitimate story to tell. A lot of sci-fi novels are based on the premise that nonhuman intelligence would be radically different in its morals and ethics. This is belated, but the comment was in response to my earlier one and I'd like to disagree with this interpretation. I feel that the storyline was actually an attempt to "humanize" the orcs and add depth to an otherwise artificial character grouping. Multiple attitudes towards the role of women were displayed; there was also evidence of variation between the tribal cultures. I believe that the failure in the rape storyline is that Melna's change in opinion is too abrupt and condensed. There really should have been another story arc demonstrating the heroic/admirable qualities in the rapist before attempting to revise the victim's opinion. Now for other comments regarding rape victims... You really don't have to bring up a response as extreme as Stockholm Syndrome. Have none of you ever heard of spousal rape? How about date rape? Most girls who are the victims of date rape are not raped just once by their abuser. Instead, they willingly remain in these relationships because they feel that they "deserve" the abuse. Also, in highly patriarchal societies still practicing arranged marriages, young girls are frequently forced into marriage and are raped on their wedding nights. Yet most of these girls remain in these marriages not out of fear or because they experience "Stockholm Syndrome", but because it has been culturally ingrained in them that sex is not supposed to be pleasant for women. Chattel societies teach their daughters that sex is supposed to hurt and that enduring the pain is just part of wifely duty. And most women in these societies ultimately grow to at least value their husbands, if not to love them outright. I hate to defend the orc-rape storyline because it is poorly written. There are a number of inconsistencies that just aren't reconcilable. The whole thing is also very obviously implemented just as a plot device. But really, stop debating how a woman should or should not respond to rape. It reveals the narrowness of your understanding and awareness of what it means to be a woman. Ok, here's a question that I'd love to hear a response to: what if Mookie simply has no aptitude for art? Let's face it, not everyone can be a Renaissance master. Should one's inherent artistic limitations prevent one from attempting to be a cartoonist? And what if one assembles an audience before one realizes that "hey, my art sucks"? I posit this because there has been substantial improvement in the art over the years. It's just still not very good.
- because even crosseyed morons can improve their art, especially given a timeframe as big as FIVE FUCKING YEARS. that's actually a LARGE FRACTION of your finite time on this earth and terraciano spent it making the snouts on the profile view of his characters longer. 'inherent artistic limitations' may make you unable to draw better than a renaissance master. they will never in a million years make you unable to draw better than dominic deegan. also you admit the orc rape storyline is poorly written. cool. mookie is really not good at writing. now if you are not good at writing, and you are trying to give more depth of characterization to a fantasy race who so far you have ripped off completely from WoW, why the FUCK would you try to do it with something as sensitive as rape? that just screams retard-judgment from terraciano and so he really deserves all this vitriol he gets for it.
- Hey! Keep Hee Haw out of this, motherfucker!
- Did someone say comics drawn in MSPaint?... http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2955/comicry2ik0.jpg
- Ha! This is post rates a 12 on the 1-10 unintentional comedy scale. Imagine an egotistical uneducated fool who fancies himself the howard stern of the internet ripping people apart trying to get attention for himself. I only read this because I heard it was a good laugh if you liked Dominic Deegan, and I was well advised. It's anonymous internet name-calling at its best! Reminds me of my little brother... when he was 8.
- "It's anonymous internet name-calling at its best!" So says "Jack", no last name or other contact information provided.
- Huh. Wow. You're a sad little man with little better to do with your life than read comics on the internet that you don't even like, aren't you? What pathetic self-flagellation. Good bye, tiny man.
- I enjoyed that review. All the people who start crying at your dislike of Mookie need to realize that your disdain of the man is just the opposite side of the spectrum. If there is going to be those damn people fighting to Suck Mookie off then there are going to be those who find his work repulsive. Because your posts are not some sort of over the top attack on some mediocre comic, such as Garfield, it is an attack against a comic that is genuinely offensive. And the fact that he does not realize that it is offensive makes it worse. It is not like Electric Retard which is offensive to be offensive, no, it is a stupidity so ingrained that Mookie cannot see the stupidity. Keep up the good work John Solomon.
- "...you are completely ignoring all of those people who have indeed fallen in love with their rapist." Yeah, because there are just so fuckin' many women who just couldn't get enough of their studly rapists, aren't there? Either get some basic education about human nature or piss off, you contemptible little shit-stain.
- You're so unmercifully blunt and sarcastic...I think I'm in love. (Although I'm also slightly frightened; hopefully, when I get a scanner and have a chance at a webcomic one day, my comic shall never fall on its back and go under the terrible dissecting knife of John Solomon. Love is fear, I suppose.)
- Baby, don't fall in love with the Webcomic Man. He just gonna break your heart.
- The superman costume. The SUPERMAN COSTUME! It's sucking MY BRAINS OUT! There is no God.
- By the gods, I'm pretty sure it's about 1000 levels of unhealthy to spend this much time and energy on something you hate. A human being with any respectable kind of emotional range could never devote themselves to anger as fully as you seem to. Especially against something as self-serving and harmless as webcomics. I mean, talk about the least important thing in the world to rant about, and going off like you're the god of all literary media, with some raging hardon against anything that's not a 200 year old classic masterpiece. Yeah, you have the freedom of speech, and you have the right to sit around for days on end combing the archives of somebody's personal works with no intent other than to find some other little scrap of ammunition with which to pound into the minds of others why the person who created this free comic amidst millions of the same, better and worse on the internet has offended you and your world, and deserves to die because of it. But to whine about him being an attention whore, when this blog is clearly not your personal secret journal, unintended for public viewing? Well it's a damn good thing you Admit you're a huge hypocrite, eh? Now I can recognize the humor in what you write, you've got a great sense of creativity in some of your writing. But you really overshadow it with all your "Grr I fucking hate this guy, because he's creating something that noone has to pay for, that isn't professional level! Noone should be allowed to do ANYTHING if they aren't a master of it!!" And for all the orc rape you bring up? I can't be arsed to read the whole comic, cause I just don't embrace hatred as lovingly as you do, but I'm willing to bet that the whole reason that her falling in love with the guy is such a momumental point in his comic, is not due to her thinking "Durr, he stuffed his wang in me against my will when I was 14, we should definately get it on" but more to her realizing over the years after having to deal with what happened, Why he did it, and that outside of that incident, he isn't a bad guy. And I'm sure that explaining that will only result in me getting harassed in some childish way about Terracciano's body parts and my orifaces, and the many ways they must be combined, but I couldn't care less. Clearly it's something you either never thought of, decided to completely ignore, or in all your hatemongering, thought was less important than the initial act of rape itself. But whatever, there's a huge number of 13 year olds out there going through the stage where they hate everything that will love your writing, and will try to do many things to your cock in thanks for shitting out all this anger, and they're clearly the ones you write it for, so by all means continue. Let's just hope that someday someone with more hatred and writing skill then you can actually be arsed to write a review on your blog, and rips you up for creating something he doesn't like in the fashion that you rip up everyone else. Besides, I'm sure we can all agree that you'd find it just as funny as anyone else.
- tl;dr
- If there was a Richter scale for sheer unbridled faggotry, this thread would rate at least an 8.9. I'm sick to death of the constant sloppy blowjobs lavished upon terrible "artists" by lickspittle fandroids with no brains and no sense of humor. Solomon may be irascible, profane and downright petty, but he's far preferable to the damp-lipped pudding troughs who've been disgracing themselves all over this page in trying to defend this horrible, horrible excuse for a comic strip. My pet theory: the shittier a webcomic is, the more deluded assholes will line up to tongue-kiss the artist's musky bunghole in adulation. By this logic, Questionable Content will eventually form a massive black hole of smug, self-regarding suck that will obliterate the universe.
- Now, wasn't there once a saying that went "Before you say something sucks, try doing it better?". Seriously, this is no direct assault towards you, nor your readers, but before you go rambling that certain parts of comics suck, try doing a better job at it. Then you'll probably know how much effort it takes ... (directed at both "John" and the readers who can magically decide that comics suck because John said so ...)
- Now, wasn't there once a saying that went "Before you say something sucks, try doing it better?" Yes, and it's something that anyone with half a brain or any training in debate knows is a bullshit fallacy beloved of mental midgets who have no actual counter to the position they're objecting to. Remove yourself from the gene pool immediately.
- "My last entry about Dominic Deegan made poor old Mr. Terracciano cry." ,,,Wait, what?! Anyone have a link to this? google isn't helping with putting this blog's name in with Terracciano? His blog maybe?
- He didn't cry. Solomon just likes to overembelishly lie about stuff so he can feel good that he offended people.
- The above comment is what you get when an idiot decides to try and sound like smart folk. To answer the question properly, Terracciano is an over-emotional wet blanket who cannot take the slightest hint of criticism about his darling webcomic. The very fact he actually posted a response to me (before locking the thread and possibly banning everyone involved) goes to show how upset he was. He usually ignores criticism outright.
- I am a rape survivor and have known several other rape survivors throughout my life and have never known any of them to feel anything but utter contempt for their rapists. I myself years later still wish I could slowly torture him to death (he's in jail now). All you trying to justify rape or jerk off to your fantasies of us falling in love with rapists are ignorant fucktards who need to go back to your badly drawn deviant art underage fanfiction porn. When I first stumbled on this blog I thought Solomon was just using a lot of hyperbole but he's right. Dominic Deegan fans ARE fucking morons, at least the ones who entertain misguided notions about rape are.
- I think it's a case of "Everything I needed to know about rape, I learned from anime."
- You sir have caused me to laugh. I like you. Live long and perspire. Wait. That's not right, is it...
- You mean, "Everything I need to know about rape I learned from hentai." Because I don't remember any of this stupid "loli luv raepist" bullshit in any mainstream anime...
- Ugh. apparently no one on this site has ever heard of an accidental rape. It is rape when sexual activity occurs without consent. It is possible for two parties to engage in sexual activity without either party consenting. Rape is a pretty horrid thing, and one of the people I know who has been raped stalks his rapist (his words not mine). Mookie really screwed this story up. But it wouldn't take too much tweaking to get it right. Turning Melna from a manhating feminist to 'i love him because he saved me from death and tried to honor my parents memory' wouldn't have had to take too terribly long. But yeah, the exposition sucked. Oh, and Johnny boy. Fuck You. Creative differences do not justify calling someone what you're calling him. And I'm the one who _likes_ profanity.
- DD is the reason I lost faith in humanity.
- ACCIDENTAL RAPE HAHA GOLD
- "It is possible for two parties to engage in sexual activity without either party consenting." Wow...just wow. You brought ignorance and stupidity to a whole new different level...
- God, the three paragraph burn against the author at the end was just beautiful. Holy shit. Seriously, I don't laugh very much anymore, but I did repost it to all of my writer friends. It was just too fucking glorious. A lot of the webcomics you review do make me upset, the blatant sexism being one reason and cheap gore for laughs being another. The rants you do take the edge off. They make me feel like I'm not the only person left who can recognize these comics for the shit they are. Another interesting side effect is that your blogs make me want to improve my own work. I've switched from default fonts to comic font downloads, I've reexamined some of my plot lines and dialogue, and I've started doing more life studies. I used to think it was just okay if I could get popular, but being reminded there's an actual audience out there who gives a fuck about quality, originality, and character is a huge motivation. Thanks, John. I don't think you've ever intended to inspire anyone, but you have.
