Comic #22: Ninja Loot (Patreon)

Originally published: Feb 15, 2006

This is one of my all time favorites. If I get around to redrawing some old comics I think this one will be high on the list. It also has a partial background which was pretty rare in the early comics.

I always thought this comic would be timeless but now there's absolutely no way to ninja loot anything anymore.

The tank here is Knorth who was present in Comic #4. He was the main tank, and an officer for the guild. I only say this because I've realized in hindsight that he bears a resemblance to Krom. Krom at the time was a healer, not a tank. I later transitioned Krom into the guild leader and eventually even the tank role in the comics. This allowed me to make more tank-themed comics if I needed to, and if I wanted a healing-themed comic, I could always use Gigz.

Edit 12/31/18: I realize now I forgot to mention another milestone of this comic. Speech bubbles! I struggled a lot early on with speech bubbles. I found it really difficult to draw them and they were huge, so figuring out the layout was always challenging, especially once I started to include panels. I went back and forth many times between drawing the bubble itself, or using an oval tool. I think overall they work better when they are drawn, as you can control the layout a lot more, but early on it was far simpler to just use an oval. I also couldn't seem to settle on a color for the bubble border, as it changes almost every comic.