Comic #820: Ready for Raiding (Patreon)

I originally was going to have Keydar and Narya and Donald all dusting the bench in preparation for their raid night, but it ended up not working for many reasons. I feel like Besides, in my view, Donald always starts off on the bench, whereas Keydar and Narya move to the bench over the course of the night as they screw up the raid.

I had a completely different comic planned for today until this morning. I woke up, re-read my idea, and thought it wasn't funny enough. So this idea came to me last minute. It originally was going to be a Narya themed comic where Krom was telling him he wasn't cut out for raiding. That idea might still reappear in the future if a new version of it comes to me.

There's something I really like about how simple the premise is in this one. It's one of those ideas that feels simple enough that I'm surprised I haven't done it before. I also wanted to make sure to use as little dialogue as possible. A couple buffs or spell effects here and there can get the point across pretty well. I was a bit worried that nobody would be able to tell that was a feather duster. It's a weird thing to draw.

I think this might be the first comic where I have drawn one of the players with 5 fingers. I wanted Krom to say "5 minutes" and hold up five fingers, and then I realized I only ever draw four. I considered having him say "4 minutes" instead, but it didn't look right. His hand held in that position even with four fingers still somehow read as five to me.