Soup the Comic Strip by Alun Clewe
Comic strip for September 10 2023.
PANEL ONE: Outside the entrance to the dungeon, the adventurer we've been following bends to retrieve his bag from behind a rock as Erlak appears behind him. ERLAK: Hold, mighty adventurer! ADVENTURER: Oh, great. Is this day never going to end? PANEL TWO: Erlak and the adventurer face each other. ERLAK: Um... That wasn't exactly the response I was expecting. ADVENTURER: Sorry. PANEL THREE: Close on Erlak. ERLAK: I have been watching from the Mountains of the Gods thy noble quest to retrieve the Amulet of Ygraine, — ADVENTURER: Oh, no! The amulet! PANEL FOUR: Top view of Erlak and the adventurer. ERLAK: What? ADVENTURER: With Ligiani's death and all I forgot all about the amulet of Ygraine! I'll have to go back and get it! PANEL FIVE: Erlak puts his head in his hand in frustration. ERLAK: Oh, for crying out loud!... Just wait here a second. ADVENTURER: Uh... okay. PANEL SIX: Erlak disappears. PANEL SEVEN: The adventurer waits. PANEL EIGHT: Erlak reappears. PANEL NINE: Erlak tosses the amulet to the adventurer. ERLAK: Here's the stupid amulet. Now shut up and listen. ADVENTURER: Uh... Thanks. PANEL TEN: Close on Erlak. ERLAK: Okay. I am Erlak, god of soup; I have chosen thee as my champion; yadda yadda yadda. What do you say? ADVENTURER: Uh... Okay. PANEL ELEVEN: Erlak and the adventurer face each other. ERLAK: Really? You accept? ADVENTURER: Yeah, sure, I guess. PANEL TWELVE: Erlak holds up a flag with an image of a bowl of soup on it. ERLAK: Great! Now, as my champion, you will have to bear my insignia at all times... ADVENTURER: Hey, wait a minute... ERLAK: Okay, forget the insignia.
September 10 2023

Ugh. Here we have the most boring, least creative title display of any Sunday strip in the comic. I'd thought when I opened this comic in Illustrator that maybe it had originally been in a more attractive font that I just didn't have installed on my current computer. But I looked at the original exported image files, and... no; it had always looked like that. Bleh.

Also, I don't think that insignia ever comes up again. I don't think Erlak actually has an established insignia. I think he invented that insignia just now for this occasion.