8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero

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Hah! Told you to have trust in Mookie would be the best thing.
I just love how he does that.
We all know, it's by far not the first time he actually did silly readable things that somehow made no sense and put it back together.

If you're honest, you'll find this sort of thing in TV Shows / Series and Movies all the time.
And again, honestly, he does it very well. My oppinion anyways.

Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:37 am

Hooray for faith in Mookie! Something I'm always in favor of.

Sorry, no real comment on the comic. Just glad for some positivity.

And no, this isn't flaming at people for posting negative comments. Just . . . yay for optimism!
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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:17 am

This added a lot more sense to the arc, although it is interesting the amount of theories that are being proven correct (in the past couple of strips). I guess people on the forum rock at guesswork. : )

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I like the way this arc is going. It reminds me of an old detective story, where events occur and you really don't know until the detective goes over everything at the end.
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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:49 am

I love Dex's expression there in the fifth panel X3
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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:53 am

Reminds me a bit too much of Scooby Doo...

...his expression IS priceless...

...and honestly, I didn't see the Luna -> Illusion thing coming...

CURSE YOU MINI CLIFFHANGERS!
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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:53 am

I still can't get over how Dominic almost got Gregory killed (now by his own admission) in order to make him not feel guilty about killing someone.

And he's somehow not at all perturbed by this.

Also, if I'm honest, I'll notice that TV shows and other literary works that use this same technique of throwing out random crap and explaining it later I also dislike. Just saying.

As stated before, however, I'm looking forward to our next arc.
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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:13 am

I wouldn't say that he's not perturbed. Just look at his face in that panel, he looks sad.

Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:18 am

He appears pretty at-ease for almost single-handedly having caused his brother's death, though.
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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:13 am

I'm more shocked Pam is occasionally smiling that "oh dom, you're so clever" smile. I don't quite understand how she doesn't have her hands around his neck.

Don't get me wrong; I'm glad the arc sort of makes sense, as for a while I was questioning Mookies sanity...but as I'll repeat forever cause this keeps happening, a week of exposition doesn't make a bad arc good, and it certainly doesn't make for entertaining reading. As someone else said, the only thing worse than this arc in this comic, is this arc, twice. (Also I have personal opinions that a different part of this comic is MUCH worse, but that's a different story :P) I do agree that making me sit through this bad arc really is a terrible thing to do to someone though. X3

Someone said this feels like a mystery story. This arc has really been quite the mess of a lot of things, hasn't it? cause I can feel the mystery vibe. The only thing it lacked was GOOD foreshadowing (I am aware there was some there, but it was much too vague - I think we all knew Dominic was up to something around that frozen apple bit) which is REALLY important to a good mystery story.

Again, I do applaud Mookie for trying something new. A mystery vibe could be fun....but this arc was too weird for it to be really effective. We had dying girl panty shots, Superheroes, murderous rampages, big golems, laser blast fights, superman reference and poses, hulk references, a villian who couldn't decide if she was silly, or if she was serious (very poorly done, which was unfortunate...she was an interesting character for a few weeks :( - for those wondering, I'm talking about her constant flipflops from "I think I'm going to like this character" to "Why did she go on a murderous rampage? o_O" to "Oh it's okay, she has cake and shopping" to "EPIC SPIDERRIDER BATTLE" to "...Is he gonna keep her?") and it even had a stubbly Greg.

I hate sounding so negative all the time, honestly I do. -_-;

I have hopes for the next arc, not EPIC hopes (please god no) but "nicely written interesting flushed out characters well paced classic deegan intrigue and plots with a dose of action". Note, this is typically what we mean when we miss the old comic (besides those who like the Oracle strips at the first :P) We miss the old style of writing.

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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:06 am

How about a nice little exile of 6 months for Dominic and Greg? They did cause some trouble, or at least could have done some serious damage since we were shown Dom doesn't have every string in his control. Besides the next arc seem to be happening away of Barthis, so unless we get a Dom-less arc about Siggy, Milov and Jayden... well... our Oracle needs to move.

Don't tell me an exile wouldn't make sense, some of you point out how Pam smiles even if she learned her love nearly died while in the body of a small dark haired hobo boy, so her reaction already doesn't make much sense yet.

You know... maybe Dom could have never ordered the comics, only dictionaries and encyclopedias about boring matters to Greg and we would have never had SuperGreg. He would have remained Scruffy Boy, who wasn't recognised by Snowsong. She seemed to be fine and harmless until Buzz Beardman hit her nerve anyway.

Then, instead of letting his brother nearly get killed and other bad stuff, Dominic could have visited Snowsong's mindscape to solve her problems, he's Mister "Master of the Mind" after all, no problem there, he wouldn't get hurt much in his territory. As for how to get in the Mindscape in the first place? Tie her up at night while she's not wearing her skindex, she's apparently sleeping in a tent outside during that arc anyway (and ropes worked on possessed Szark, so why not on a sleepy Snowsong?) or use that Resistant necklace Luna got owned with, I'm sure Luna or Dex still got it stored somewhere for crazy mages cases like that.

But then the arc would be over days ago and Mookie wouldn't have liked that... he needs that time to plan his next GOOD arcs!
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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:14 am

Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:54 am

I'm in agreeance with Java?Schtolty. I'm not saying I'm disagreeing with everyone else; you've solid reasons for your opinions, but i enjoy these expositions. But yeah, it only works if I can read it in blocks, because this one strip at a time is torture (it's like reading a novel two sentences at a time. you pick it up, read for five seconds, and then just when it's sucked you in, you put it down and wait until tomorrow)
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Subject: Re: 8/10/2007: Revelations of a Superhero Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:24 pm

Well, we could just visit the site once a month to get big chunks, but I bet that we're all impatient and we need to check it daily despite the mental torture anyway.

We love hurting ourselves.
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