Comic #732: Quest Thief (Patreon)

I wanted to have almost no dialogue on this one. When I restrict myself from creating easy exposition through dialogue I end up having to work harder creatively.

The downside is that I can't always be sure my readers will understand the premise.  One really extreme example would be if I had Keydar in the second panel say, "Hey! I'm clearing to that quest objective, you're stealing it!".  The premise would be very clear in this case, but I'm beating you over the head so much with exposition that it ruins the comic.

So in the end, I hope people get the joke. The joke being that people who click quest objectives while you are clearing them of mobs are monsters. When you make something and spend time on it, you lose all objectivity, so it may seem clear to you guys whether or not the joke is obvious, but I can never really tell when I finish.

That can make it fun for me to re-read my comics years later. After a few years I've totally forgotten the nuance and punchline of many of my comics, so I get to experience them somewhat objectively for the first time. Sometimes I find comics funnier than I envisioned, and other times I see them falling flat.