Comic #7: Stinky Droods (Patreon)

Originally published: Feb 7, 2006

To this day, this is still one of my favorites.

These early comics were so much easier to draw. I wasn't really trying to make the comics look good, and because of that, I was a lot less hesitant to draw complex things, because who cares if it looked bad. The whole thing looked bad. 

Also, if I were to draw this today, I would never name it "Stinky Droods". Not because the name is dumb, which it is, but because it spoils the joke. People will know the bear is a druid from the first moment he shows up. I would instead name it some kind of red herring to misdirect the reader into not seeing the punchline coming.

I might even write the narrative differently. Maybe Gigz is interacting with other animals too, so the bear doesn't seem as conspicuous.