Comic #34: Repair Bill (Patreon)

Originally published: Mar 20, 2006

You might notice that this comic is a slight departure style-wise from the rest of the comics so far. Up until this point I had drawn all the comics directly into the computer using a tablet. For this specific comic, I instead drew it first on paper, then scanned it into the computer, and then inked and colored it. The process took way too long and I never did it again. The only other times I drew on paper for my comic were the instances when I was on vacation and drew the comic on the go, such as #209.

As to the comic itself, this joke is based of a temporary bug that existed only in vanilla, and thus makes absolutely no sense to probably 90% of readers. Early on in vanilla there was a vanish bug where your animation from the waist up would freeze in the process of casting, and thus you would be stuck in a permanent vanish animation. In the case of most players that meant one hand up in the air.