Comic #690: The Hero Exam (Patreon)

I know what you're thinking, and yes, many of our friends are playing without a license, especially Donald.

This one is kind of a silly premise, but it tickled me. It kind of reminds me of some of the earlier comics with the NPC rebellion. I could imagine Keydar being on the run for raiding without a license.

The original idea for this comic involved Keydar learning math problems in his early childhood and complaining that he would never have to use this information in the real world because he was going to grow up to be a hero, cut to him at the murloc trading game. That version of the comic is funnier to me but ultimately I couldn't figure out a way to set up the punchline without it being obvious. Any word problem I used that was similar to the Murloc trading game would make the coming punchline expected. Ultimately I somewhat settled for the version you see now.