Comic #950: Judge Not (Patreon)

I thought of this idea as I was making #949. During the making of that comic, I had to look up various icons from different classes trying to find the perfect fit. In that process, I noticed that most of the paladin icons were just some form of hammer. I did consider at the time using paladin icons rather than warrior ones, and having a throwaway line about how they are all hammers, but ultimately the warriors icons were better for the purposes of that comic.

I realized as I was making this comic that gnomes could not be paladins and ended up changing the first panel dialogue because of that. I initially thought about just saying screw it and doing the comic anyway, but the idea of getting 30 messages correcting me didn't sound pleasant. In the end it resulted in a pretty good joke for that first panel.

I also decided to change the color of Miji's outfit to make it clearer he was a new class. At first I used his traditional blue scheme but it didn't feel different enough.

The punchline really depends on that final panel, so I put a lot of thought into how to place the dialogue, with "ALL" being heavily emphasized and extra large, as well as Miji's expression and pose. I ended up stealing my own idea from #911, borrowing a lot of the action from the third panel of that comic because I knew it had the right feel for what I wanted.