Comic #974: Hard on the Heals (Patreon)

I've wanted to do a comic about a player being out of line of sight of healing for a while, but every time I would try to do it, I struggled with finding a punchline. This time I thought maybe if I drew the player in the final panel really far away from the healer it would work, but I knew I only had so much horizontal space to work with. I then thought maybe I could use vertical space, but each panel wasn't really that tall. It then occurred to me that I could just make one giant panel and use the natural height of the whole comic itself to show that the player is on a completely different floor than the healer.

I liked the idea of continuing the theme from the previous comic, and I even considered keeping the same group, but none of the players in the group from that comic made sense to fill the role that Douche ultimately fills. Narya could have filled that role I guess, but he's more of a doofus and less of an asshole. So I decided to just change up the group a bit.

I knew this one was going to be effectively two panels, but both panels required a lot of work drawing the proper action and blocking. Also creating the dungeon floors was a bit time consuming, and I'm not entirely pleased with the final result. I just feel like the brick floor underneath the players doesn't look quite right. It almost looks like a panel border more than an actual part of the actual dungeon they are a part of.