AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Gone with the Blastwave updated? Dominic Deegan is ending?

It's a great day to be alive.

Also I'm serious, you guys should go read Skullkickers if you're in the market for a new webcomic.

Zimmy is awesome in Gunnerkrigg.

I'm not sure what it is, but skullkickers keeps coming up with a "page cannot be loaded" 404. It's frustrating because I've grown to really like this comic.

Man, that sucks. The comic's working fine for me...

Time for me to feel bad for liking DD again, eh?

Wait what's Dominic Deegan and why is it so bad?

Answer A: Bad

Answer B: Everything

It's a silly fantasy comic, just take it for what it is.

Nedroid finally updated again



yay

I assumed it was a Mickey Mouse kinda thing, where his face is always the same no matter which direction he happens to be looking

@Clyve, what are these jazz-hands?

You guys should try reading this tumblr that gives advice on writing for webcomics and usually takes examples from notable webcomics to better explain the do's and don'ts.

Most of the time, and the creator fully acknowledges it, he uses Dominic Deegan and Bum Tickley as the examples.

http://learnfromwebcomics.tumblr.com/

His fourth lesson deals specifically with trigger warning, or rape, in a webcomic. And of course, he uses the example of Dominic Deegan as Clyve explained.

http://learnfromwebcomics.tumblr.com/po ... er-warning

There's no way to make light of how ridiculously offensive that plot was. There's no way to make it sound better. Bullshit excuses like "it's just the fictional tribe's customs" don't make it any better.
It's one thing to create a fake culture with laws we may find outdated or repulsive so long as it makes some daisies sense within the context of the work of fiction. The best way to do this is taking examples from real life. And there are more then enough examples to draw from history that can be deconstructed and analyzed to properly understand what could influence such customs.

Here, it's just thrown in there with very minimal understanding of how this custom is even reasonable to the tribe members or WHY they have such a custom. There's no history. There's not context. There's just no reason. It's just there. That's why it feels like it's a hollow attempt at drama and trivializes such a serious crime.

To be fair, Mookie did sort of address that issue much later in the comic. It still didn't make much sense and didn't seem like it was well thought-out, but it was technically addressed.

Does that qualify as "retcon"?

Reminder that Dominic Deegan's rape victim fell in love with her rapist at one point.

i am legit enjoying your rants on the matter clyve, please do more

after that one bad webcomic blog vanished from the internet ive been left with little to go to for good dominic deegan ranting