Comic #985: Jazz Hands (Patreon)

This one went through a lot of changes early this morning.

The premise was the same, but it had no animation and was a little different in execution. Originally I had planned the following:

Panel 1: Keydar rescuing a civilian, and the civilian yells, "What heroism!"

Panel 2: Keydar capturing a kobold, and an NPC in the background yells, "What bravery!"

Panel 3: Keydar bandaging a soldier, and the soldier yells, "What mercy!"

Panel 4: Keydar casting "Impress Raid Leader" in front of krom.

Panel 5: Krom looking at Keydar's corpse: "What a donkey".

I ended up changing it last minute because I realized I had kind of lost the premise in the execution of it. The whole joke is that we use the same emote for all these complex tasks for questing, and Keydar foolishly tries and fails to use it on a raid. In the original version, I felt like the "hand twist" emote takes a back seat and it just looks like Keydar is doing random tasks.

By turning those first three panels into an animation (which eventually became 5 tasks), where everything around Keydar changes, but his hand twist animation remains identical, I can then drop in a panel of exposition where Keydar can directly comment on the hand twist itself.

I also was originally going to have Keydar swear in the final panel, but I felt like him just lying there dead was funnier.

Funnily enough, this also marks the third time I've animated the twisty hands, I've done it before in both #719 and #736.