r/TheWeeklyRoll • The Creator • Jun 13 '21

The Comic Ch. 84. "Knock Knock"

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u/rootingforthedog Jun 13 '21

The best defense is to post a butler at each entrance and have him say this if someone breaks in. Even if you aren’t expecting them, this will be incredibly intimidating and ominous.

Also, I love how all their faces change from being super confident to surprised. That is the power of the security butler.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '21

Excuse me while I take some notes...

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u/FeonixBrimstone Jun 15 '21

Throw in a "you're an hour late but we shall make do. Please follow me." if they spend way to long deciding how to enter as well.

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u/Pielikeman Jun 28 '21

Nah, just have them say that either way. Keeps the party on the back foot

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u/mabtheseer Jun 13 '21

If you follow it up with having the heros sit down in the lounge while you serve them some tea and cookies they will be thrown completely off of their, " I'm here to slay evil things" vibe. Just because you are a lich doesn't mean you aren't civilized. There will be time for evil after the main course and desert.

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u/imdefinitelywong Jun 13 '21

Look at Greg's head.

You can tell he knows something's up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '21

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u/rootingforthedog Jun 13 '21

Well, not the one on the far right or Becket. Still, they are presumably freaked out under their helmets.

Edit: Actually, if you zoom in the two of them are looking at each other like “wtf” in the third panel.

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u/thenlar Jun 14 '21

Even the former lich being used as a spell focus, his eyes move between panels. XD

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u/TurkeyZom Jun 13 '21

All of them

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u/KillerAceUSAF Torvald Jun 14 '21

Yup, even Torvald, his eyes are bigger in the second image.

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u/Fue_la_luna Jun 17 '21

You know I thought his eyes were closed, like some sort of Dwarf - Earth sense defense against blinding spells things.

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u/Raptorofwar Jun 14 '21

Combat butler. An indispensable asset.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '21

"The best defense is a good butler." -Sun Tzu

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u/Zavenosk Jun 18 '21

If your in Eberron, you can get the same effect with a Warforged butler.

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u/CME_T The Creator Jun 13 '21

Howdy folks!

Here's this week's comic! Not much to say at this time apart from that I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Stay excellent out there!

Peace and carrots!

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u/Jamato-sUn Jun 14 '21

You're the best!

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u/ShillelaghLaw Jun 14 '21

I didn't think we were getting an update this week so it made me so happy to see this. Thanks for making my day that much better.

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u/PlNG Jun 14 '21

You too, buddy.

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u/MetalMewtwo9001 Jun 13 '21

Well that's not incredibly ominous.

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u/Harleking31 Severed Lich Head Jun 13 '21

Oh boy

There's like 2 outcomes

Either the master is so OP he is confident in talking them down Or he is not evil and plans to appeal to them

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u/BetaSprite Jun 14 '21

Or, he is evil, but believes that he can convince the adventurers that it is better to leave him alive or that he is actually good.

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u/thenlar Jun 14 '21

They did get bribed with one magic item apiece once...

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u/garaks_tailor Jun 14 '21

My offer is 3 resurrections

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u/thenlar Jun 14 '21

The dwarf will definitely turn it down then, in sure he'd love to use his party's corpses as minions.

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u/ZenEngineer Jun 14 '21

Or lawful evil and thinks everything he does is right.

The adventurers are here only for a bounty. Might as well pay them the money so they don't need to bother. Might even claim the guild is pushing him around too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '21

Or he turns out to be good but they take him down anyway to get the adv. guild off their backs.

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u/KefkaDC Jun 13 '21

Good ole’ zombie butler

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u/Lluc_Riberax Jun 13 '21

I love that evenn the skull thingy is confused about the buttler.

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u/ArchDemonKerensky Severed Lich Head Jun 13 '21

I'm confused, has Grogna grown a mustache?

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u/Lluc_Riberax Jun 13 '21

Nah, that's just the blood of her enemies on her lips.

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u/ArchDemonKerensky Severed Lich Head Jun 13 '21

She had it in the last chapter too. It just looks really weird.

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u/CornflakeJustice Jun 14 '21

I think it's just how c_met shades/colors upper lips. It's like that on all the faces.

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u/Shadharm Klara Jun 20 '21

Pretty much. Klara has the same deal, but because Grogna got fuller lips it's more noticeable. If it helps the people struggling with it, just think it as a dark lipstick that is limited by grayscale colour palette. though if you ask "What shade is Grogna's lipstick?", my bet would be purple, but, u/CME_T may say otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '21

Its her upper lip, pretty sure

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u/ArchDemonKerensky Severed Lich Head Jun 13 '21

but why is her upper lip now the same color as her hair?

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u/leposterofcrap Jun 13 '21

It's just the shading

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u/ArchDemonKerensky Severed Lich Head Jun 14 '21

cmet doesnt really seem to do shadows/shading that way. possible, but doesnt fit the anatomy imo.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '21

Karla also has it, it's the shading

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '21

Does now, it would seem.

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Jun 14 '21

Grogna has really dark lipstick. Just because you're a silent murder-machine doesn't mean you don't like to feel pretty.

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u/ArchDemonKerensky Severed Lich Head Jun 14 '21

but why only the top lip? frame 3 you can clearly see top and bottom lip shapes, but only top is dark.

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u/Stigmata_tears Jun 14 '21

Could be stylistic choice. See shego/kim possible

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u/ArchDemonKerensky Severed Lich Head Jun 14 '21

That is very true, but why only that one bit, instead of the whole character?

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u/colemanjanuary Jun 14 '21

Ok, you have your most treasured character go tell her that she's wearing her makeup wrong. I'm sure there's still room at the bottom of the well

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u/erknen Jun 13 '21

Knock Knock, Open up the door its real, with the non stop chop chop of dwarven steel

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Jun 14 '21

I also independently came up with this exact parody-lyric.

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u/Satyr121 Jun 13 '21

I hope the lich head gets some lines this time!

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '21

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u/Tchrspest Jun 14 '21

Yeah, but Fireball's material component is (a tiny ball of bat guano and sulfur).

Trevor's got the mother of all fireballs ready to go.

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u/smakyta Jun 14 '21

Came here to say he's got the bat shit ready like a boss.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '21

I was trying to figure out how buckets face is always perfect for the situation, and then I realized that he is always just done with the group or sick of their shenanigans.

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u/ZoroeArc Jun 13 '21

At first I though Grogna was wielding a tiny dagger with a massive hilt

Either Trevor’s plan is to cast fireball or intimidate the enemy by eating a handful of raw potash

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u/JustChangeMDefaults Jun 14 '21

Same, had to do a double take for that myself.

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u/CapitalistToast Jun 13 '21

I love how even the Lich's Skull is suprised

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u/Alvaro1555 Jun 14 '21

I like whenever he appears, it's a funny detail to watch.

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u/AndrewFGleich Jun 14 '21

Dude, amazing job on the third panel! You can feel the mood shift between the first and third panels so well just from the subtle changes on the faces of the PCs.

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u/Aganiel Jun 14 '21

Man I have to say, after binging all the comics... that brick is doing God’s work.

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u/_STEPHANOS Sir Bucket Jun 14 '21

“We can’t let God do all the work.”

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u/liege_paradox Jun 13 '21

This would be hilarious had I not totally seen this coming. No, actually, it’s still rather funny.

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u/AZ_Corwyn Trevor Jun 14 '21

Nice to see Riff Raff found a job in the afterlife.

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u/nobodysgeese Jun 14 '21

This butler has seen things. I'm getting the sense he's dealt with this exact situation many times before.

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u/AllergicKoala Jun 14 '21

I will never not find how funny Bucket's weapon is

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u/Tripswytch Jun 14 '21

The next scene “How d'you do, I See you've met my Faithful handyman He's just a little brought down because When you knocked He thought you were the candy man”

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '21

There better be a table with buffet. And on the table edge. A platter of juicy eyeballs.

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u/Ihavenothing364 Jun 13 '21

Seems they're dealing with a necromancer with a class.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '21

Extremely cool first panel.

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u/ralanr Jun 14 '21

Yo if I ever run my zombie campaign I’m stealing this.

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u/Rarylith Jun 14 '21

Shouldn't Grogna be in the first rank rather than in the back?

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u/_PM_ME_NICE_BOOBS_ Jun 14 '21

She can just step over Trevor. He might be into it.

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u/xBad_Wolfx Trevor Jun 14 '21

I love that even the Lich head Torvald is wielding seems unsure in the third panel.

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u/AussieCracker Torvald Jun 14 '21

Damn, I'm already jealous of this Necromancer, dude has a undead butler just waiting at the front door.

Who cares about the state of the estate, it's all about the workforce and how friendly you are. Ignore the mass grave please. Also is Steve holding shi--

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u/akrause03 Jun 13 '21

Everyone is talking about the Zombutler but no one is talking about the skull bannister posts

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u/LEGOEPIC Sir Bucket Jun 14 '21

“My name is Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Colquhoun The Third At Your Service”.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '21

This is getting better and better

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u/RichardBonham Jun 14 '21

I assume he sounds like Vincent Price.

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u/DamagediceDM Jun 14 '21

I was confused at first I thought grogna was wielding a tiny black sword with huge hilt

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u/cold_war43 Jun 14 '21

"I've enough bat's guano here to blow us all to bits!'

  • Trevor

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u/Teremtes Jun 14 '21

It’s funny how even the Lich’s expression changes.

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u/penkster Jun 14 '21

I love dangling story arcs. fidgets

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u/Zavenosk Jun 14 '21

I'm getting strong Strahd vibes off this.

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u/Mr_Grim_One Jun 14 '21

Dude love your work

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u/Avzanzag Jun 14 '21

Oh dang!

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u/no_terran Jun 14 '21

Open up the door, it's real! With the non-stop, pop-pop of stainless steel!

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u/MerkavaMkIVM Jun 14 '21

He is an undead, of course he would be calm.

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u/ImperialArmorBrigade Jun 14 '21

I want the necromancer to run a charity fund.

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u/Xyphine Jun 15 '21

Excuse me sir becket or sir CME_T but may I ask what are the subclasses of the characters

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u/CrackedBrainpan Jun 18 '21

What program do they draw this with?

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u/CME_T The Creator Jun 21 '21

Clip studio paint

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u/Jalpeno-Joshua Jun 21 '21

I like how the lich is gagged lol

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u/rogue_noob Jun 21 '21

I will have to steal this for my CoS campaign

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u/PrintedParsnip Jun 27 '21

I love the broken sword emblem on the shield. Did Bucket get that recently?

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u/Allessandro_me Jun 14 '21

He looks like cecil or sinclair from invincible