1 {scene: The Infinite Featureless Plane of Death}
1 Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals: DEFF OF IN'ALIN' 'ATMAKIN' CHEMICALS, AT CHORE SERVICE, GUV.
2 Jamie: But I died in an insanely overpowered fireball when an AK-47 backfired and exploded.
3 Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals: FIREBALLS DONE GOT 'ISSELF DEMOTED. I'M PULLIN' DOUBLE DOOTY.
4 Jamie: But that's unfair!
4 Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals: IT'S THE BURDEN OF THE WORKIN' CLASS, GUV.

My main concern when putting this strip together was that Jamie and Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals turned out to have very similar speech balloon colours. I decided that it wasn't enough of an issue to change one of them, since with the CAPITAL LETTERS it's obvious who's speaking at any given point anyway.

Then I realised that I'd forgotten to update the Death scorecard for ages and, as it turns out, Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs is currently not demoted from his position. He'd been reinstated back in #1555.

So why, in an in-story sense, is Hatmaking Chemicals here instead of Fireballs?

Ah, now that would be telling.

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2017-12-23 Rerun commentary: (One of the main reasons is because I love writing dialogue for Hatmaking Chemicals, so I put him into the story whenever I can.)