Comic #146: Herbalist Lackey (Patreon)

Originally published: June 8th, 2008.

Hey, I feel like I could have made three comics out of this one, there's three solid jokes in there!

This sequence is my favorite. It can exist by itself.

The idea of profession trainers forcing you to re-spec is a pretty good one. This was one of those situations I think where I had a really fun concept that sparked a lot of ideas and I couldn't figure out a way to make them all fit. So I ended up making an arc that was waaay too long with random non sequitur jokes packed in to each comic.

Also, this is a bit of an odd coincidence, but the hat Miji wears in this comic reminds me of the hat in this more recent comic. The colors are even the same, though inverted. I know it's a coincidence because I haven't read this particular comic in ages.

Also, random side note, but I just noticed that in these early comics Narya doesn't wear a guild tabard! How have I not noticed that till now? Have I mentioned that before? This realization made me look ahead a few comics and it appears that I started drawing him in a tabard starting with #160. Maybe when we get to commentary on that comic I can pontificate on what lead me to make that change (it was probably laziness somehow).