Soup the Comic Strip by Alun Clewe
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Comic strip for August 26 2023.
PANEL ONE: Two adventurers (a man and a woman) stand in a round room. The floor is covered in runes, and there is a pit in the middle. WOMAN: And so, after the casino shut down, some evil wizard used the place as a lair, and then he was defeated by a band of adventurers. PANEL TWO: The two adventurers leave the room through a door. WOMAN: And then I guess some merchant company used part of the complex to store their merchandise, but they only used a few of the chambers near the exit, and that didn't last long anyway... PANEL THREE: We see the adventurers' feet as they walk on a floor tiled with runed pentagonal stones. MAN: Not that this isn't all fascinating, but did Jarum happen to mention what these tunnels are being used for now? PANEL FOUR: The two adventurers cross a rope bridge over a chasm. WOMAN: Well, he said nowadays they're just sort of a generic dungeon. MAN: Figures.
August 26 2023

When I drew the first panel here, I first drew the circles and the runes as seen from the top down and then grouped them and copied them and distorted them with the perspective tool because, I don't know, apparently I thought that was easier than just drawing them in perspective in the first place? (The reason I know I did this isn't because I remember drawing this strip twenty plus years ago, but because I when opened the original Illustrator file to reletter the strip I saw the pre-perspective runes and circles right there on the rough drawing layer.)