Comic #917: Delve too Deep (Patreon)

Three Kobold comics in a row? Is this a record?

The inspiration for this comic should be pretty obvious, but for those not aware, there were several hotfixes during the week that tuned the difficulties of delves making them a lot harder. These hotfixes were implemented in some cases while people were right in the middle of a dungeon, leading mobs to drastically increase in strength mid encounter. I immediately thought of the idea of a kobold going from a pathetic little creature to a monstrous abomination.

A lot of the humor here relied on that final panel. I wanted the kobold to look horrific while still looking like a kobold. I considered making the last panel slightly taller to better fit in the beast, but in the end I decided if I could make it squeeze into a small space it would probably work better.

Originally I was going to have Nyte hold up a panel, like a forum blue post, instead of a newspaper, but I ended up having to expand her dialogue to include the extra exposition. When I realized I could use a newspaper, I ended up putting the relevant information in the headline, and let Nyte have simpler dialogue.

You all know how much I love to hide extra jokes in newspaper headlines.... So these are the headlines on the newspaper, for those that can't make them out:

EMERGENCY HOTFIX TO BE ROLLED OUT IMMEDIATELY ON THE LIVE TEST REALMS

BRANN WAS ASKED FOR COMMENT, BUT HE WAS TOO BUSY PULLING ADDS

 “They don’t call me a hunter for nuthin, har!”