6/7/12 I'd Be Impressed if I was Afraid or Cared

[daveshan]

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If I didn't know that Mookie was going to drop the ball on this really nice move, I'd say it was a great job.

If I cared about Nimel, I'd worry about him.

[MOG]

Celebrate the good, at least. The King is still alive, and unconverted after a few minutes of facing a Deegan.

Take the good and try to weed the bad parts of your memory.

At least, that's what I though while reading Perfect Lionheart or Sonichu, and this is at least, not as bad as those.

OHGODSITSCOMINGBACKTOME-

[Kian]

Well, he just removed all impact from the first archmage battle. The whole sacrifice there was that Nimmel was supposedly lost forever, and how the two friends were ignorant of each other's fate. Now that someone knows where Nimmel is, however, we know he's going to be rescued.

[LordGolbez]

Well, Mookie just rendered the scene where Katya was crying over her lost friend more ridiculous than it already was. What's the point of making scenes like that if they won't have any import ever? I knew Nimmel wouldn't be gone forever, but he could at least have kept him gone for a significant amount of time. You know, like not just since the last time we saw the characters he was with anyway. don't know if Mookie thinks that because it was like a month or so in real time that it matters at all. It doesn't. In comic time it was practically nothing. I hope Miranda decides to let Nimmel die for the greater good. I'd buy it.

Seriously, just why did he have to revisit this now? That little Nimmel episode was a stain on this arc and should have been well left alone after it was over.

[PantherScott]

Nimmel's fate has gone past the point of no concern. Too bad no one gives a damn anymore. Mookie is probably sitting in his Ivory Tower, surrounded by cookies his "fans" have sent him (Secretly baked goods his mom made him so he thinks he has friends) and he's smiling over every page, his cross eyes looking on with the love of a flasher to a stripper. And then someone asks him about us and he plugs his ears going "La la la la la, everone loves me!"

[IrishFino]

Die, fucker.

[Lumino]

Why does everyone hate Nimmel? Him and Katya probably have the only half way realistic relationship in this entire comic. I mean sure, he's not really an awesome character, but at least he's better then some of the alternatives.

PS: I was secretly hoping for him to be stuck in the prison for years and then busting out as a super archmage in the epilogue. But that does beg the question what he would eat while stuck there. As far as we know, being on a Demiplane doesn't mean you are immune from human needs, which means his escape really would have to happen sooner rather then later.

[Darth Cariss]

I don't hate Nimmel. I've always just assumed the reason everyone here hates him is because he's not a bad guy.

[IrishFino]

Why does everyone hate Nimmel? Him and Katya probably have the only half way realistic relationship in this entire comic. I mean sure, he's not really an awesome character, but at least he's better then some of the alternatives.

PS: I was secretly hoping for him to be stuck in the prison for years and then busting out as a super archmage in the epilogue. But that does beg the question what he would eat while stuck there. As far as we know, being on a Demiplane doesn't mean you are immune from human needs, which means his escape really would have to happen sooner rather then later.

I want him to die because no good guy ever dies forever. Bumper might be the first. Maybe. Possibly.


I'd really like to see Luna die though. Forever.

[Kian]

I don't hate Nimmel. I don't want Nimmel to die, specifically. But Mookie uses the omniscient perspective to highlight certain points. He didn't just make Nimmel disappear with no further word until he brought it up here again, but showed us how he was trapped and worried for his friends. This has the obvious intention of making us feel bad (a good writer would use it with that intention anyway). The thing is, you can't feel bad when you know they'll find a solution soon enough.

Take Game of Thrones (since it is popular now). Characters, beloved characters, die there all the time. And everyone loves the show. The reason is that the deaths of those characters makes it clear that anyone could die at any moment, so when you see a character in a difficult situation you feel dread, feel happy when they survive a scrape, and ultimately feel bad when they die. One of the points of reading a story is to feel those emotions. Especially the sad ones. But Mookie consistently cheapens those emotions, to the point that everyone here feels nothing at all. I can't feel bad for a character that will come back from certain doom a month from now.

[LordGolbez]

I don't hate Nimmel. I've always just assumed the reason everyone here hates him is because he's not a bad guy.

Nope. He's just boring and extremely extraneous. I hate him because I don't see why I should care about him.