The rescued bard tells his tale of woe...
Nerd By Northwest #360 - "He Should Have Worn the Yellow Pants"
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Uff-dah... this strip took a longer time to finish than I expected. Wanna know why? While drawing action and combat scenes takes a lot of time, it takes even MORE time when the opponents are giants roughly three times taller than the average human. I had to shrink the size of Lady Karen's adventurers more than once, and even then I still had to settle for leaving most of the frost giants' heads being out of the frame. And speaking of frost giant heads, the little things surrounding only one that you CAN see are the magic sparkles from Dann the Bard's spell of confusion that has rendered the giant helpless. So yes, despite what Nolan the Rogue thinks, bards CAN be useful!
Now did Dann the Bard really pee his pants? It's possible... his rather dark green pants would make it hard to tell. But it's equally or even more possible that Nolan, because he loves to hate bards, is simply giving him a hard time. Or to use that classic British idiom, he's "taking the piss out of him". Such a lovely and image-laden expression! 😁
Anyway... in our next installment, Dann the Bard will be leading our brave adventurers into the glacial rift of the frost giants. Will they defeat the frost giants and their minions? Will they rescue the other members of Lady Karen's adventuring band? Will they even bother to try to rescue them? Would anyone blame them if they didn't? 😏 Find out in the coming weeks...
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