Comic #792: Altoholic (Patreon)

I don't think I've ever animated the first panel of a comic before. Usually it's the last.

The idea here was that Gigz hit the alt cap. Luckily I only had to create 25 alt names for Gigz for the panel 1 animation. Still, each name had to have a corresponding level and class, and I tried to tie the level to a corresponding zone. I'm sure Gigz hadn't leveled most of these in a while. I probably should have calculated the level squish into it too, but I wasn't that committed.

I had to draw the night elf starting background from scratch. I considered picking Keydar over Gigz so I could be lazy and reuse a stormwind background, but in the end the background turned out pretty well.

Before making this comic, I made enough alts to hit the cap, just to see what would happen visually. Turns out you can still go through the character creation process at cap, and it willgive you an error at the end. That didn't work for this comic though, so I just greyed out the button.

There are a few easter eggs within the alt list. One of the alt's listed class is "Charcoal" and their location is Teldrassil. One of the screens have the characters listed as: Admit, Your, Problem, Seek, Intervention. Another is "Anustart" which is an Arrested Development reference.

One more subtle easter egg, is that she has only ever created classes that are playable by Night Elf, implying that she never rolls any other race.