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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SPoD" data-source="post: 4117137" data-attributes="member: 51268">Well, I'm pretty sure you have failed to understand the point of this strip. It's not a "running gag" at all. This has little to do with O-Chul, per se, and everything to do with the Monster in the Darkness. It's the one getting character development here, because we see that it has developed an attachment to the paladin during the months of captivity and is willing to bet against all his so-called "friends" in the hope that the paladin escapes. That is, it engages in less-than-completely-Evil behavior. This may be the first strip of a story where the Monster helps the paladin escape from his horrible abuse, but we can't have that story without showing the horrible abuse first! This strip also starts the process of explaining why Xykon is still in the city and raises the question of why Redcloak isn't there.In other words, don't assume that just because he's a human paladin that O-Chul is at all the point here, or that you're supposed to care deeply about him. He's not important; he's just a stand-in so that we have someone for the villains to abuse, because they're VILLAINS and they are the stars (at least in this scene).(Not to mention, would you really rather Rich introduced yet another minor character to the strip for the bad guys to beat on? Give him some credit for trying to keep the cast of characters to under 100!)</blockquote>