About the comic

The Scout Report is a webcomic based in the World of Warcraft universe. All panels are in-game screenshots with only the occasional additive or preservative, formatted with a program called Comic Book Creator, then painstakingly run through a .pdf converter and then GIMP, in order to eventually arrive at a JPG file that's around 300 KB. And in case you're wondering, it's even more tedious than it sounds.

About the character

A lot of what Scout says is my own take on the game, but keep in mind that I am separate from the character, so not necessarily everything applies. Similarly, not everything that Scout claims to have done is something I've actually been able to do. (Kiting demons to Honor Hold was 100% true, though, and I have screenshots of the angry whispers to prove it.) My primary concern is whether it's funny, not whether it's internally consistent. So if you're worried that I'm contradicting myself .... well, a wizard did it. Scout is located on the Skywall-US (PVE) server and is affiliated with the guild Sacred Samophlange, a semi-casual raid guild that's been around pretty much forever.

About the author

I imagine it's clear by now that I'm a slacker of epic proportions. Other than that, I prefer to remain an enigma. If you'd like to contact me, you can reach me at scout@scout-report.net.

About the fonts

There are an amazing number of cool-looking free fonts on the web. What's even more amazing is the percentage of those fonts that are completely unreadable in a word balloon. In the original release of the comic, I used a font called Pig Iron Medium. Word to future webcomic designers: never, ever use this font. I eventually went back and re-fonted all the normal dialogue with Oda Balloon, which was specifically made for word balloons, and I'm real happy with it. Ogres speak in Mouth Breather.