Soup the Comic Strip by Alun Clewe
Comic strip for February 1 2024.
PANEL ONE: The champion speaks with the necromancer. CHAMPION: DeVallon said he returned because of the Orb of Souls. Apparently when an Orb of Souls is broken, everyone who died recently nearby is brought back as a ghost. PANEL TWO: Close on the champion. CHAMPION: But DeVallon's not the only one who'd recently died there! Just before I killed him, he'd blasted my companion Ligiani with his ring of lightning. In fact, I think that's kind of why I killed him in the first place. Well, that and the fact that he was about to kill ME. PANEL THREE: Side view of the champion and the necromancer. CHAMPION: But anyway, that means that if what DeVallon said is true, then the Orb of Souls should have brought Ligiani back too. So I'm thinking we could call HER ghost to fight DeVallon's... NECROMANCER: If everyone explained themselves to me in as much detail as you do, I'd charge by the hour and make a fortune...
February 1 2024

So apparently my reasoning when I originally made this strip was that it was okay to have the strip be really wordy as long as I had a character comment on it and turned that into the "joke". I should, perhaps, have considered the alternative of... not making the strip so wordy.