#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???

[oddeyesarcpendulumdragon]

finished rereading dominic deegan: oracle for hire, my childhood’s favorite webcomic, and remembered how much i really enjoyed it; so here's a sketch dump of a few of my favorite characters to cheer myself up

[entamewitchlulu]

sank back into Dominic Deegan, the first webcomic I ever read as a kid and man it’s still really good. there’s a lot of things that didn’t age so well, and it definitely requires a whole host of trigger warnings before I can recommend it to anyone, but I really do love the way it treats adult relationships and the aftermath of all the world-saving the protagonists go through. Like, there’s a really good variety of just...normal adult relationships. You see ppl getting together, breaking up, falling out of love over time, the occasional cheating scenario that ends with some pretty realistic fallout, and just really good normal healthy adult relationships between people who sometimes get on each other’s last nerve but also just, really, truly love each other. I think Dominic and Luna are still a blueprint relationship for me in a lot of ways, and Dominic’s parents remind me so much of my own parents with their natural friendship and love and all the puns. I think it was my first experience seeing a couple with a healthy and regular sex life too and I think that was good for me to see multiple couples treating sex as just a regular part of their relationship and not something super extra special or whatever.

And i really like that like, there are physical consequences for things. Dominic loses a leg in one battle and he doesn’t get it grown back through magic; he has to get an artificial leg and use a cane. They don’t shy away from the mental consequences either. Dominic very visibly suffers from PTSD and deals with nervous breakdowns. There’s a character who has to deal with extremely violent intrusive thoughts. Characters with chronic disabilities and illnesses who just find ways to deal with them, even in a world with healing magic. The first arc or so is a liiiiittle blase about depression, but later on they treat it really sensitively that some characters just have depression or anxiety. It’s just nice.

[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.

[gothamcityneedsme]

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

[inkandrhythm]

not me realizing one core component of my philosophy came from an early 00's webcomic

[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!

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.