Comic #918: Diamonds are Forever (Patreon)

The joke here is that one of the new Earthen racials allows them to each gems when you right click on them. This of course often leads to you eating gems when trying to socket them. As soon as I heard of this happening I knew I had to draw it.

I originally had a different version in mind. Essentially the entire comic would be the earthen looking at a gem, then looking at the socket, then looking back at the gem, getting more and more desperate looking until finally eating it and exclaiming, "FUCK!"

In the end I decided I wanted the Earthen to be revealed in the final panel. I felt that this would make a stronger punchline. From there the idea for the rest of the comic just spawned organically.

Also, originally Gigz was going to be crafting a red gem, but once I decided on the title I made it a diamond. I couldn't think of a good title with any other gem!