On the previous page and this page, the village leader, Goshen, has a walking stick (which he is handing to one of the guards in panel 1 here). This was intended to be an identifying prop for him, but when I got to drawing the first scene in the upcoming issue #4, I needed him to use his hands a lot to gesture and hold items. So the walking stick became a big nuisance. Does he hold onto it while also grabbing something else? Does he keep putting it down and picking it back up again? Ugh. So I ditched it. As it stands, Goshen’s walking stick only appears in the two panels in this scene, and it’s barely noticeable at that. Perhaps I should not have mentioned it at all…

And in retrospect, the fact that I had to draw him handing it to someone else on this page should have been my first clue that it was going to be a nuisance to work with.