Comic #185: Common Descent (Patreon)

Originally published: April 11, 2009.

This was another occasion where I learned there is lore and I don't know it and I should probably try to know it. It's embarrassing to admit, but at the time I originally made this comic, I had no idea where orcs came from in the Warcraft universe.

And boy did I hear about it. Thankfully this was 2009 and social media didn't really exist like it does today so it wasn't too bad.

This was also another comic where I clearly wanted to do sciency things in my art and ended up shoehorning it into DLC.

The background is so saturated in this one I find it hard to see the speech bubbles and the characters, I dunno if that's just me. I've mentioned this before, but it feels especially true in this comic.

Here's an example of how it would look with a slightly desaturated background:

Not a huge difference, but even still, I really don't like how the speech bubbles look in this era. The arrows are so hard to see. How could I stand it?

I took a look at the original comic file and found a hidden background layer in the final panel:

Looks like I originally used the same background for the entire comic and figured the background would probably change over the past 3 million years.