Comic #74: Power Level (Patreon)

Originally published:  Jan 6, 2007.

Uhh... Is Keydar wearing Narya's current outfit? I have no memory of that. At the time I was drawing this, Narya was still wearing that weird pink/purple number. It looks like Narya updates to the current style in #82, so I must have used Keydar's look from this comic as a template when I updated the look.

It also looks like I updated Miji's look slightly. He's got those circles on his knees that I only recently brought back.

I feel like the premise for this comic required way too much setup.  The premise that power leveled players infuriate NPCs is funny, and pretty simple, but it ends up getting too complicated with all the exposition.

I think if I were to do the comic again, I would probably just have it start out with Keydar taunting the NPCs, and have the fact that he's being power leveled naturally reveal itself through the dialogue.  I could easily have started in panel 7 for example, and just added a bit of dialogue.

It looks like I may have been struggling with this same issue back in 2006, because while looking through the original Photoshop file, I found an earlier version of the comic that I never used.

Unfortunately there's no text, but it does look like I originally planned to have Keydar on his main asking Miji to come powerlevel him.