Comic #736: Technique (Patreon)

I originally was going to have the 2nd to last animated panel as the final panel. The joke being that the cooking animation in game is effectively just fiddling your hands next to your ear like you're solving a Rubik's cube. However, I felt that as a punchline is was a little predictable, especially with the setup slowly moving into the crafting pose. It gives the reader a lot of time to predict the joke.

At the same time, I had a second joke that I wasn't sure of how to include in the comic. The second joke was pointing out the ubiquity of the crafting/mounting animation. I liked both jokes pretty equally, and I felt that removing one in favor of the other was a missed opportunity.

I was going to give up and just drop the second joke before I realized I could have both jokes appear  in succession, by going against the norm and not putting the animation in the final panel. 

My only other worry was that people would not realize that crafting food had this generic animation. I think most people would identify it with mounting, as it happens far more often. So I tried my best to replicate the actual animation in that second to last panel as best as I could.