#dominic deegan

[ganurath]

When Taylor is reunited with Emma at Arcadia, her response is different from when they'd last interacted. A high school bully doesn't seem like such a big deal, after you've fought enough S-Class Threats.

Imagine, for a moment, if Emma hadn't been introduced until after all those major fights. After all those high stakes life-or-death confrontations, this... annoyance pops up, and for some reason I, the reader, am expected to treat this as a big deal. A bigger deal, even.

Long story short, after Mookie's work on Dominic Deegan, it's hard to get on board for Wildbow hate.

[goddamnwebcomics]

Rilian speaks about how this is the most important battle of all time, and he gets upset when Dominic and Luna are doing something completely unrelated to planning to kill King DJ? Why are you cringing dude? You were the one who said Deegan had god-like power, but now you're getting upset he isn't doing all the workload for you???

[drlombriz]

i remember the first four in my “checking comics” routine were least i could do; dominic deegan oracle for hire, questionable content, penny-arcade

Note: I'm a 1997 baby, so obviously my choices are largely influenced by what was popular when I was in school - and what was popular with my friend group.

[eyepatchdate]

character commission of @abysskeeper's trick and my tavon by michael terracciano!

i nabbed two custom commissions during the dominic deegan reprint kickstarter, very glad to see how they came out! asking mookie to draw characters in long coats is always a good plan

[canmom]

Where do you read and find web comics?

that's a great question!

these days the scene is kinda dominated by platforms like webtoon and tapas, which heavily favour vertical-scrolling infinite canvas formats. these environments are aggressively competitive, and getting to the top of the popularity pile requires a pace of work that makes even the manga industry look downright reasonable. I wrote a little about one such comic back in 2022. the 'portal' format applies similar pressures as webnovel sites - somehow that's come down to favouring high-concept premises which can be spelled out in a title, and a fairly homogeneous art style. in general you'll see a lot of romance and isekai.

that said, traditional page-formatted webcomics are absolutely still around. usually I read them on their websites - you can use an RSS reader to keep up with updates for most comics, but I fell out of the habit of that years ago.

as far as finding them, there's not really any centralised place to find them, but often webcomics will promote other authors, and there's organisations like hiveworks which serve to cross-promote members of their network. most webcomics have a 'links' page. it's rhizomatic or some shit.

if you are coming back to webcomics, 'I used to read this comic, is it still going' can also lead to a lot of pleasant surprises - you wouldn't believe the number of webcomic authors who turn out to have transed their gender when you come back a few years later (or maybe you would). 'spend years writing a comic instead of transitioning' is a strangely common pitfall [edit: though I'm not sure 'spend years transitioning instead of making a big creative project' is like. a better strategy lmao. they're both big expressions of agency, it doesn't really matter what order you do em.]

some authors tend to stay on a single perpetual epic that will likely last until they die, but others like to write multiple projects, and usually if you enjoy one thing by a person you'll enjoy the others. for example, @bigbigtruck wrote the excellent The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal back in the day, and is presently writing a story about stormchasers with a very similar vibe. Evan Dahm of Rice Boy went on to write some rather cool comics like Vattu.

webcomics review blogs can also be a good place to pick up recs. yes homo, now defunct, put a few things on my radar (I disagree with many of their opinions but that's part of the fun of it lol), as has thewebcomicsreview.

along similar lines, forums can be a good place to look - back in the old old days, I used to be a big fan of a D&D comic called The Order of the Stick and hang out on its forums a lot, and they had a pretty active board for talking about other webcomics (a large part of which was devoted to literally hundreds of threads for the club of posters making fun of a really mid comic called Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire - don't ask me to explain that...) these days I bet there are webcomics discords that function similarly, though I couldn't tell you which ones off the top of my head.

if you're willing to part with a little bit of money, events like the Shortbox Comics Fair are a good way to gather a huge stack of one-shots. I picked up a bunch in the last one of those, I should really write about them.

honestly I should really just draw up a list of comics I've liked, catch up on the ones that I fell off the update schedule on, and put that list on my website somewhere. writing full reviews is fun but time-consuming and I don't want to make promises with how incredibly ADHD I am (the 'comics comints' series lasted a mighty three posts, and of all the writing-about-stuff projects, the main ones I'm trying to get going again are the tftbn and umineko liveblogs), but it is happy-making to spread the word about good shit I've read. I used to liveblog webcomics quite a bit, you can see some of them over here. (I never got around to migrating the Homestuck sideblog.)

ultimately, word of mouth is queen here. all these suggestions are just different flavours of "find people who like the sorts of things you like and read the stuff they like" in the end!

[autumnbrambleagain]

also like all those jokes where quadmire smelling shoes and guys smelling women's clothes and that fucking strip from dominic deegan and he's like my bed smells like girl

you all were serious about that you all actually trying to sniff one another and you like

get something out of it

i thought when you see it in media it was just like

i don't know what i thought it was like

this is like those joke asexual posts where you see the asexual person being like "wait you all were serious" but in this case i catually mean it

y'all were serious

[shaydh]

did you, did you read dominic deegan???? for me that is always the #1 cursed webcomic I read that I remember enjoying as a teen that I remind myself of whenever I'm getting uppity about how the youth have bad taste. that or ctrl+alt+del...

Never read Dominic Deegan, regrettably read CAD and a bunch of other two guys who are gamers comics. Anyway youth is the time to have bad taste and read everything so you can develop your taste!

[gw-arena]

WEBCOMIC WAR OF WOE 1: BLOODBATH AND DAY 1

It's time for the big thing to begin!

We begin with everyone gathering supplies or running away, and unfortunately, we've already got a "Bury Your Gays" moment, as Mecha Maid shoots a rocket at Misty. That's still better Spinnerette's inevitable trans rep.

WHAT THE FUCK SPINNY, YOUR GIRLFRIEND JUST KILLED THE PERSON WHO WAS HIDING, YOU HYPOCRITE.

Meanwhile Chel grabs a sickle like a badass while Kevin grabs a shovel. I bet he makes some MATARI 2800 BT jokes as he does.

"Wow, this canteen of water is SO SOFT and ROUND. It is nothing like MUGS or PLASTIC BOTTLES I have seen at home! IT SLOSHES LIKE A FULL PAIR OF DELICIOUS MILKY BREASTS. Am I...am I gaining a water canteen fetish???"

Fucking kill me.

AND WE ALREADY HAVE THE FIRST GOOD DEATH OF THE GAME. B.B. probably sliced Riley in half just like she did to Django. I admit I was hoping Riley would get a gory death but I did not expect it to happen immediately. Ah well, there's still a bunch of hateable cunts in the game left to be sliced and diced.

And that's bloodbath done, rest of the fighters just gathered supplies and ran away and didn't have too many interactions. If you've seen one of these you've seen them all.

Day 1 begins with the head dying, as expected. Honestly I usually hate these solo deaths which is why I got rid of most of them, but this one is funny. Wait, does this mean rest of her body is still alive?

Matt builds himself a house, Gene is a dumbass and trips on a rock, some psychopath sends bear a hatchet and I guess Arfur Sr sent Tina some dead people in mail.

I guess for the sake of balance Gene isn't allowed to use the Family of Intelligent Life's second skin

Meanwhile, Mary the murderous 13 year old stalks the Console Girl, Spinny is looking for her wife after hiding like a bitch and Gregory is right to flee from Flora. I bet he would be scared by something like this.

Catwhis gets sent some herbs by the Old Bunny Couple, and Lab hears Kriti and Alej talking, are they about to make an alliance? For what??? So Alejandra can become a witch??

Eddie sends....Sethephoni a hatchet, our favourite bodysnatching God steals Eric's stupid porn drawings so he can destroy them, Duran probably turned into a werewolf to hunt some fishes, Digit is stalking someone who isn't exactly age-appropriate enough for her, and Chel thinking about home is probably the most in-character thing anyone has done in this battle so far.

Two porno psychos get injured, rightfully so. And then PETER KILLS TSUKI. Thank fuck, even this literal child this idiot of a tengu is too dangerous to keep around. What is the fun of this game if all the assholes die early?

Speaking of assholes, Blackbird stole Duran's idea and also turned into a werewolf to get some fish, no time to mourn for Misty huh?

Meanwhile Austin commits fucking TERRORISM and somehow his bomb is enough to kill THREE WEBCOMIC PROTAGONISTS. Warmage's armor of Rama didn't protect him so I guess it was a soulvoring bomb.

Scooter going hunting is also oddly in-character. Zack builds a house for himself as well and no I am not doing another Zack monologue parody. And Emulie receives a bomb from...Merry Bogard, I guess it's a Bomberman Online reference!!!111

Dominic Deegan thinks he is Argh so freaking useless. Nurse Rapist may be a rapist but she isn't an objectivist so she fucking murders Dr. Universe in cold blood. Daisy stalks Mora in hopes of learning new ways to be a horrible person and it seems Darktraceplier has possessed Trace as he FUCKING MURDERS SETH, I mean PERTH.

How did Trace even see him? Is he able to see Guardians? Did Seth turn on his visibility for the game? Or was it all an accident? Trace was training his sword fight and then accidentally killed Seth? I can see that happening.

Well, Peter no longer has a guardian, which probably explains why he got away with murder.

So far, 8 people have died. Misty (aww), Riley (YAY!), Dullahead, Tsuki (YAY!), Kit and Kay, Mecha Maid, Llew, Dr. Universe and Seth. Will their loved ones get their revenge? TOO BAD FIND OUT TOMORROW.

[villainessbian]

I don't think I'll ever get around to writing it but I had this idea of a book series where someone essentially visits AUs and tries to figure out their deal, like some sort of Ashitaka in Mononoke "seeing with eyes unclouded by hate" and essentially documenting what happens to the world under this or that system. They all have some degree of magic or they couldn't travel there, but all with different rules (and they can be soft or hard).

One such world had "fate's little workers" which is tiny fairies invisibly making prophecies come true, which is hard, thankless work, especially the "self-fulfilling" ones. They nudge little pebbles in place, whisper in people's dreams, and their morality is entirely different to ours. The traveller joins them and discovers just how fate secretly works.

Another had people sacrificing things for power, and it turned into essentially magical WMDs by manipulating people into giving away their consciousness and free will in exchange for fucking boom.

Another had people choose what their magic would be like by picking something to subvert during a coming-of-age ceremony, making power-blockers rather common as so many of them thought they were clever by choosing "subverting magic" as their thing. They literally got lessons about the effects of picking this or that.

One had boku no hero academia-like "quirks" but extremely specialised and low-powered, and society organised around the logistics of doing big stuff with small powers. It's harder to make people invent laser machines in the first place than it is to get one person who can make light, one person who can purify it, three who can amplify it, and one person who can angle it.

One I particularly like to think about was "gradual power incontinence for everyone." People made a wish for a power, had a sort of ritual to take on some magic, and then it just got stronger and stronger with time. Anyone whose wish was strength would eventually break themself. Anyone whose wish was flight would eventually zoom into space or too fast in a cliff face. Anyone whose wish was health or protection would gradually become nigh-invincible. They'd grow bigger and stronger until they would become literal hills, living centuries. Those who picked wisdom or insight became sages with time, imagine the level of insight Dominic Deegan gets with his second sight in the webcomic, but all the time, all the time. They become extremely respected figures because they might as well be playing 5d chess with time travel on anything you decide to do, but they also roam the world looking for goals you usually can't comprehend, maybe weeping at the beauty of a scene that will happen under that rock in 100 years or the majesty of whales that were here when this forest was an ocean. Both the wise sages and the unnaturally-old bruisers would get some special treatment, as people learn that their lot actually sucks and they get the "old-souls" tables in restaurants or taverns, comfy (and reinforced) chairs for those that have lived through more than anyone ever should - either by knowledge and cerebral ability growing super fast or by living through it. One scene I thought about a lot was a small village talking about a protector spirit, which was quite literally the small nearby mountain. When superpowered bandits attacked the town, it rose, fought them off, and defeated them, but because they also had the power creep disease thing, they killed it. After death, she reverted to the size and face of a 12 year old girl, but with white hair, because of the strain on her body that never grew but still got older. Buried at age however many hundreds of years in the recess left by the disappearance of a mountain, because she had once wished to be able to protect the people here. Just grew bigger, stronger, until all she could wear was sheets of soil and nature just... kept growing on top of her.

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

Over the eight different crossovers there was a variety of antagonists that brought the Arrowverse heros together in order to stop them. From powerful metas to Aliens and even evil dopplegangers. Which of the crossover antagonist did you enjoy most?

[ganurath]

There's a horrible part of me that wants the... we'll call them the most critical members of Wormblr to read Dominic Deegan.

[goddamnwebcomics]

Oh are you fucking kidding me. RANDOM BLACK TEXT. DARK THOUGHTS. DARKTRACEPLIER IS BACK.

Holy hell, just when I thought having a """"""good"""""" slaveowner was bad enough, we bring back edge lord Trace who randomly pops out to say shit. Memory loss does not mean you randomly remember things, memory loss means you LOSE. MEMORY.

Then they go in the pool and black text Trace is like "Must...drown...Flora, also gotta support the slaveowner" Oh wait, that last part is also what white text Trace thinks.

Fuck, we've gone full circle. This might as well be Alien Dice again, with the blue boy with dark side, the orange girl who acts as moral support, the morally corrupt fuckwit blonde the heroes are way too nice to and two pets that won't stop fucking, and their enemies have no clear motivation.

[staygoldnimoy]

the tags of this post are like, going to a reunion of old friends i had forgotten to miss.

Note: I'm a 1997 baby, so obviously my choices are largely influenced by what was popular when I was in school - and what was popular with my friend group.

[thewebcomicsreview]

in the interests of weird nostalgia, do you remember that weird John Solomon (remember him) “satire” of Dominic Deegan? Crazy how the world’s changed huh?

"Your Webcomic Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad" second only to Angry Video Game Nerd for internet criticism that made the world worse from the people copying it. There's like a straight line from it to the Bad Webcomics Wiki.

I miss Websnark, man. That was the blog that had the biggest influence on me. I wish there was more writing about webcomics out there.

[aerhartdraws]

I've been daydreaming about the idea of drawing a little comic series for myself just as a personal project for some time (read: 15 years).

Part of that involves a lot of hangups about at not being quite good enough yet at making shapes on paper.

But I recall reading OG Nimona, being filled with deep emotional attachment to characters conceived and rendered in an art style I can only describe as "lovable doodles in the margins of a school textbook".

And so I think, maybe I don't have to create something to perfection for it to be worth its own existence.

You'd think, as someone who loves the old Dominic Deegan comics to death, it'd be a lesson I'd have learned by now.

[gw-arena]

Webcomic War of Woe: Night 4, Day 5, Night 5 and Day 6

Gene got injured while wrestling with a bear, Nurse Rapist once again beats up a werewolf, and Eric and Giancarlo have sex. Yes, seriously. Giancarlo is somehow turning all the straight men gay. What is even happening.

Zack is not getting a bit of sleep. I am starting to get worried. I think that penis rash might be something extremely serious. But enough of that, Lexx kills Luna. I guess after killing Daisy, Lexx's bloodlust wasn't satisfying enough. However he failed to realize Chel was good friends with Luna? Or maybe Lexx was just jealous?

Speaking of Chel, she and Kathy make up for their bloody chase earlier in the day, and speaking of continuity, Digit destroys all of Tina's memoirs. Holy shit this thing is a menace, but that teaches Tina for diverting her attention.

At this point Stropov and Spinny have fully lost it, but they have to surrender to the fact they'll always and forever be alone. Karastropov went mad from having sex and Spinny from lack of it. Meanwhile Peter kills Emulie with a sickle. I guess Peter played some dreamcast game with her and he lost too many times so Peter beat her to death, what a psychopathic child but also, what the hell did Emulie contribute to this war?

And Austin misses being vored by random animals coming to his house.

Gene's had enough of both Mora (who is still in this) and Stropov and murders both of them. I guess Karastropov got what she wanted. I guess Trace and Sethephoni will avenge their loved ones???

Tina in the meantime steals the Family of Intelligent Life suit from Catwhis and Kathy chases after Eric, finally learning that Eric is in fact a piece of shit slaveowner. Maybe Chel told her that?

Oh good, Darktraceplier is back at wanting to kill furries. Giancarlo sets up one of Santino's explosives and blows up Dominic in a disappointing display. Sethephoni keeps an eye on Spinny, and Zack is no longer sick. Also animals eat fruit. What a shocking revelation.

We're starting to pick up in terms of deaths, Luna, Emulie, Mora, Karastropov and Deegan are gone. But all of their factions are still in the game except for Team Kit n Kay. In order to speed up the process, we will have next night and day as a bonus!

Two stupid self-caused deaths happen, Digit kills herself because she is sick of being stalked by Tina, and Kevin fails to remember that going out of bounds in a video game often leads to falling to your death. Well, no big loss. Kevin did absolutely nothing. That means Team Console Girl is also history.

In the meantime, Gene Catlow destroys all of Blackbird's beer as he continues to snap, and...oh so that's why Trace was hunting down Austin, so they could...uh, fuck. I guess fucking Austin is the closest thing to fucking Flora? Why am I even asking that question?

Eddie and Santino continue sending shit, while the oldest and youngest fighters in the battle simultaneously become desperate, and Lexx is doing another thing that is very much incharacter for him.

Gregory and Zack argue about whether or not homosexuality is gay. And I do not know if the fire Catwhis sees is an actual fire, fiery lovemaking between Trace and Austin, or fiery argument between Zack and Gregory, but whatever it is she is staying out of it. Meanwhile Chel wrestles and defeats a fucking bear. Holy shit. Then again, that bear has been extremely pathetic for this whole war.

Onto Day 6

And immediately after having sex, Austin injures himself and Trace dies of starvation. Poor thing. Maybe Austin offered that Trace could eat him during sex and Trace was like "ew"? He was just trying to save your life!

Blackbird is back to doing fishing in werewolf form while Spinny builds a house out of silk. That won't survive the rain.

Oh yeah I will address the elephant in the room, Gene got murdered by a child. Peter claims yet another victim. What even is Peter's superform? Adult Peter? Did he use his super social skills to become friends with Gene and then he backstabbed him as soon as he turned? That...is oddly true to life.

Chel and Catwhis go hunting, the bear continues to be a joke, and TINA KILLS ERIC HOLY SHIT. I know Tina is a fucking cunt but I think she was appalled after learning that human is owning her kind as slaves and chopped his head off. Horrible person kills an even more horrible person? Now where have we seen this before? Still, the most satisfying death in this round since Riley.

Sadly, Zack is not dead and is about to have sex with some flowers, and Nurse Rapist has found another stalking target. Of course it's the boy who is sexually confused.

Digit, Kevin, Gene Catlow, Trace and Eric can be added to the death pile, which means Team Console Girl, Team TwoKinds and Team Las Lindas can be added to the fallen teams pile. It's kinda crazy to think Team TwoKinds was dominating the beginning half of this war and now they're just...gone. Trace died because he refused to eat his lover, and Eric died because of a xenophobic old woman. What a pathetic end.

Catwhisker, Spinnerette, Blackbird, Kathy, Tina, Chel, Lexx, Austin, Once-In-Arc Bear, Giancarlo, Peter, Persephoni, Zack and Nurse Rapist are left. There's surprisingly even gender ratio here, but just who will win? And who will die next? And how? TOO BAD FIND OUT TOMORROW