Comic #919: Brann (Patreon)

For those of you not familiar, Brann is the Delve companion this season, and oh boy, I don't think an NPC has ever caused me more rage. The only one who comes close are the shado-pan followers from back in the day. Which of course I illustrated in #360. The creature in the final panel, Zek'vir, is the big bad guy of the delves, and the joke is that Brann isn't incompetent, he's just working for the enemy.

This one was a lot of work in the planning stages just because I had so many different "Brann'isms" I wanted to reference. Originally I had his egg in the mix, or him backing up to max range inside a pack of mobs, but in the end I settled on what you see here.

I wanted him to be completely oblivious to the chaos he was causing while he gleefully yelled out his favorite one-liners to match my interpretation of his frenetic insanity inside an actual delve.

Originally there was a lot more Gigz dialogue, but in the end I think it worked better if she's just a silent victim for the most part. I was originally going to have her scream at him in the second to last panel, but decided in the end to just use the UI to illustrate that she had failed the delve, and thus he had succeeded.

I also added a little cloak joke to the first panel, as that seems to be the only loot people seem to get out of delve caches.