PANEL ONE: Erlak follows Drv'dxx's gesture as Drv'dxx points across the bar to a table where the storm god Thrumger and the grain goddess Conniff sit together.
DRV'DXX: Really, Erlak, I'm not lying to you this time. Look. They're right over there.
ERLAK: Oh, no. I'm too late.
PANEL TWO: Close on Drv'dxx.
DRV'DXX: Hey, Erlak, look on the bright side. You're such a wimp that you never really would have asked her out anyway, and you're such a pathetic loser of a god that even if you had she would have just turned you down.
PANEL THREE: Erlak stares forward disconsolately.
PANEL FOUR: Erlak puts his head down, holding his hands to his temple, as Drv'dxx looks on.
ERLAK: That isn't really much of a bright side, Drv'dxx.
DRV'DXX: Well, now that I can't rain destruction over countrysides anymore, I take my evil where I can get it.
September 28 2023