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PAGE 39I think someone has a little bit of an inferiority complex, don't you?
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And our blue flame guy dies because of that attack. Yeah like that's going to happen
Goodbye you oversized thing
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and now the bug guy has officially signed his deathwish
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ummmm, drago, quick question; why is Darin willing to slaughter the regular humans but leave the bug guy alive? it's kind of a double standard and makes a lot less sense since hes killing the people who can't do anything to him but be pathetic yes the person capable of doing something, no matter how supeficial, gets mercy?
also, you can kind of see where the god-mode comment comes from in the fact darin's fight has taken up over 1/2 the comic so far and hes yet to put in even the slightest bit of effort or attention. just from the flows its comes across that he could end this imediatly and i just letting bugboy attack for the purpose of either filler/establishing his god-credentails
and that infinity sign from before still does not help, because due to needing no effort to kill anything so far, it IS coming across as ifinite, not "unabe to measue right now"
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Cause the other ones were energy clones meaning he could defeat a number of them and not do any actual harm, as far as he knows, to the original.
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and the fact that all the clones look identical, so far all he know he killed the origional in there with the fakes
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and the guy's skull he cracked before throwing him several stories into the air to plummet to death?
or has he been forgotten
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He'll be back. Darin enjoys fighting but he does have SOME restraint. Now stop trying to get spoilers!
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...his skull was cracked and he fell several stories from the sky (and the way he was thrown to get him so high probably also already snapped his neck, but...). thats not something anyone humans coming back from...
your not showing restraint when you throw someone over a pine tree. you killing them.
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Yes, because no human character in any fictional story ever written has survived a long fall. Ever.[/sarcasm]
Exhibit 1: Tatewaki Kuno, from Ranma 1/2. Regularly portrayed as being sent flying into the stratosphere, sometimes shown as landing on his head, and essentially walking away from it by the time the series ended.
Exhibit 2: Cid Pollendina, from Final Fantasy IV. Not only fell a great distance without a parachute, but set off a rather spectacular bomb in the process. Was later shown recovering at a nearby castle.
Is that enough, or shall I hunt down more examples of fictional human characters who survived falls from great distances?
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i have one more..ahem.TEAM ROCKET!!!!
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People can survive from a cracked skull. People can survive having a knife shoved threw there skull. People can survive from falling down a tree. I've seen alot of reality shows that show this.
If you're going to knit-pick things, you should stop reading then.
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Actually, I'm not too sure the lackies he fried were even alive, let alone human. Perhaps an earlier page lists something that can clear this up.
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they register as human on mr mcplotpiece's vison thingy, and even if their something like the bug/paper girl he's still not killing those, so still contradictory to previous actions.
also, this: [link] he cracked a guys skull and threw him a very, very long distance (and to the top of a tree), eaisly enough to kill him and even if he's lucky, shatter pretty much every bone in his body
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In the page you offered a link to, Darin refers to the lackies as 'clones', so it's possible they only register as human because of the species they were cloned from. Plus it's possible the other guy got canned before he realized that chump wasn't worth killing.
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I love Darin. I've literally given people the same option in real life that he did above. "Just walk away, and leave me alone." They usually didn't take it, but I only actually ended up getting pushed to the point of fighting three times (each at a different school). After seeing me actually pissed off, it got around the school to leave me alone. Fortunately no one was actually badly hurt, but I'm scary in a rage. I was actually more afraid of me hurting someone else than someone else hurting me, so I really identify with Darin in that respect. He's a cool character.
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I think someone has a superiority complex, or is at least letting his ego screw with his diplomatic skills.
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It just shows Darin's priorities. He isn't afraid he can't beat the bug. He's just afraid he can't beat him without killing him. He doesn't want to kill him, and he's giving the bug the option: Walk away. He's also apologizing that he doesn't have enough control of his power to keep himself from just killing "Boss."
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I give it, at MOST, another 8 seconds before the big bug prays for the mercy of bug-spray.
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Ooo... Who will win? The introductory villain, or the god-mod Mary Sue? I guess we'll find out next time!
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I don't agree that Darin is a god-mod.
One of the key ways that you can tell that a character is a god-mod is that they're always able to effortlessly counter every move that an opponent makes, often before they've actually made it. You might recall that Darin was caught by surprise by Mr. Bug's pincer attack earlier. A god-mod would have already had a block in place, or would have been able to step out of the way despite being surprised.
It's possible he could become a god-mod at some point in the future, of course. But I don't think you can justifiably argue that he is one right now.
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Effortless counters are only the worst manifestations of a god-mod. Considering that Darin as of the next page will have spent half of the comic defeating all comers with ease and that thus far the injuries imparted on him by superhuman and supernatural sources have amounted to as much as a light sweat and shaving cut...
I would say that any attempt at portraying Darin as a badass have failed. His abilities are being overplayed such that his relatively uninjured victory is a forgone conclusion to the audience. He's had a vicious curb-stomp battle as an introduction a way that only villains should be introduced. If it were a villain doing it, we'd respond with "I wonder how the hero will defeat such a character?" Instead we're left with "How can the author contrive a problem to seriously stump this character?" Which is no good way to open any plot.
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I still think you're barking up the wrong tree.
The comic is so far only 39 pages long; that's about the equivalent of an opening chapter in a book. We don't even have a baseline of Darin's abilities yet, let alone what limits they might have that we haven't seen. In fact, that's part of the problem; you're assuming that Darin essentially has no limits based on the fact that you haven't seen any yet, when in fact you've seen very little of the comic as a whole.
And when you say he's defeated "all comers with ease", you mean a bunch of clone mooks who clearly weren't especially strong to begin with, their controller who mas not much stronger, and he's in the process of defeating Mr. Bug, who is clearly stronger than anyone else in this reality (described by Darin as a "no powers" reality, which means he's got a devastating advantage against anyone from here). Of them, the only one who's even worth mentioning in terms of power is Mr. Bug, who is essentially the big frog in a little pond.
In conclusion, your lack of imagination as to situations that might be challenging to Darin in no way constrains the author's ability to come up with such challenges. The comic isn't even the equivalent of one chapter long yet, and we've only seen Darin in a single fight in terms of opponents who can hold a candle to him. Rather than assuming that he must therefore be a god-mod, be patient and wait to see just exactly what happens, or even if Darin remains in the story for it to be a going concern.
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Well I'm sorry that my lack of imagination is ruining someone else's work. You feel free to accost me on my lack of vision, by I'd like to counter and state that as a reader my only job is to sit on my lazy a** and read the text put in front of me.
The problem is that what is in front of me is faceless characters beating each-other up. There's ABSOLUTELY NO STORY in "Darin beats up everybody", I don't really empathize for or against any of the characters except for the one who's not getting screen time, and there is nothing particularly revealing about ANYTHING that is occurring in the fight that makes me look forward to the future of the comic. The entire fight so far could take place off screen or as a 1 page highlights reel for all that it matters to anything relevant that's going on. If there ever WAS going to be anything important from an opening fight like this, it would be to establish the kid, the character that you are ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO BE CARING ABOUT.
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You don't have a 'job' as a reader in the first place. You can read, or not read, as the mood strikes you. If you read something, and you really feel it's worthless, then I'm sure you'll say something; just bear in mind that other readers can and do feel differently than you and will counter your 'criticism' if they feel it's unjust or unfair. For you to complain because some other reader, in this case myself, takes you to task for something you said is hypocrisy, because you took the author to task because he didn't write the comic the way you think he should have written it.
It's worth noting that you are the only person complaining about this, as well. Perhaps you saw something that everyone else who read the comic missed...or perhaps you're just dissatisfied because the author isn't doing things the way you think he should. The latter seems pretty likely at this point, so all I'm going to say is that if you truly think there's "absolutely no story", that it's nothing but "faceless characters beating each other up", etc, then perhaps this simply isn't the kind of story you're going to like. As for me, I'm okay with the story as it is, and I don't think your criticism is particularly fair or appropriate, so I'm going to say so.
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I'm not sure if this was an insult or compliment...
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It's a negative critique on the use of a narrative technique that is detracts from the story being told and is usually the sign of either a bad writer or an expert writer who is promptly going to make fun of it. A good definition of "God-mod Mary Sue" can be found here: [link] especially the 3rd and 4th paragraphs.
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Not sure that's a fair statement for this early but then again while I'm still a beginning writer but did plan to make fun with stuff in this so might be a bit of both.
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I don't particularly feel the need to be "fair" by any particular scale. Part of what defines a good writer is your ability to manipulate readers like me. As a critical reader, part of my "obligation" is to essentially complain when a writer has done a poor job of that manipulation regardless of that requirements that such control might have. I'm not going to come in and say what you do or don't need to do, but I do feel that by commenting I can highlight failings and help you understand your own storytelling.
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Yuki: Man he's worse then Kaguya.....and he's the embodiment of fire.....
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I was doing a comment in character of my OC. trying to break through a block
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Oh, ok. Got confused. XD
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