Comic #951: Last One There is a Rotten Egg (Patreon)

My initial idea for this comic had the entire cast inverted. Instead of Nyte, originally I was going to use some friendly non-guild member (I was going to use Pal, the jovial mustached paladin from comics like #871). He was going to join the group, and run to the instance, much like how Nyte did, but instead of the final panel showing a chat box, I was going to cut back to town where we would see Gigz, Miji, Narya and Keydar relaxing and asking for a summon.

I ended up changing it because I struggled to figure out how I was going to make that final panel. Are they lying on the ground? Are they in an inn? Is it clear they are back in town? Before I got too far into that whole process it occurred to me that I could use a chat box.

I also decided it would be funny to show the listing as "pumpers only" while none of them even bother to run to the instance. Once I decided that I realized I needed the toxic crew to be the bad guys in this one instead of the Dark Legacy crew.

I also got to make another loading screen tip, which I love to do. I've had a comic idea written down for ages about trade chat devolving into general chat 2.0. I feel like half the time I try to use trade chat to find a crafter, someone's in there sharing their 200 page political manifesto. I never could think of a way to make a full comic out of it, but this tip made a good spot.