Soup the Comic Strip by Alun Clewe
Comic strip for February 9 2024.
PANEL ONE: Somewhere on the Mountains of the Gods, Erlak approaches Nizini, holding a flyer. ERLAK: Zeen! Look at this! PANEL TWO: Nizini takes the flyer from Erlak. NIZINI: What's this? ERLAK: It's a flyer about my new soup bar! NIZINI: A FLYER? PANEL THREE: Close on Erlak. ERLAK: Yeah! I mean, sure I COULD rely on WORD OF MOUTH to attract gods to the bar, but this way they've got a VISUAL AND OLFACTORY REMINDER! PANEL FOUR: Angle on Nizini, Erlak in the foreground. NIZINI: Olfactory? ERLAK: As the flyer ages, it starts to smell like hot cioppino! NIZINI: Of course it does.
February 9 2024

As I've said before, while the revised Soup fonts are, I think, a significant improvement over the less legible original versions, they still could use some work. In particular, the kerning in the bold version of the Soup Divine font (the font used for the gods' dialogue) is off for a lot of letters and letter combinations, and I frequently have to manually tweak the kerning in Illustrator. I should maybe put in some time on further refining the fonts, but there are a lot of other things I also should put in time on, and that's not necessarily the highest priority.