Note the characters pointedly not saying redundant things like “ATM machine” and “PIN number.”
First panel has a flashback scene that’s copied all the way back from chapter 1, page 3. There are a few of those throughout the comic, and they always caught my eye in the remastering, because I would have to reopen the updated version of the old page in order to finish updating the new page. And then I’d be like “wait, not only have my art skills improved between drawing the old page and updating the old page, they’ve improved again between updating the old page and updating this new page. I could re-update the updated old page to bring it in line with that, and…”
Then at last I take a breath and stop cold. Gotta avoid getting stuck in those infinite loops.
Sparrow: The ATM — and I haven’t been out of cash since —
Bianca: Like the extra twenty I found —
Sparrow: You too?
Bianca: Have you been sticking extra bills in our wallets this whole time?
Patrick: I thought you needed them! Was I wrong?
Bianca: Patrick, we can always use more money. That doesn’t make it okay for you to steal it for us!
Patrick: But I didn’t steal anything! I —
I took it out of my account. The one my last Master set up for me. He said any money in it was for me to use. And he still hasn’t closed it, or emptied it out, so it’s still all mine. Right?
Yup. Those infinite loops are the worst. I’ve followed a few web comics that folded because the artist couldn’t get out of those loops and then wondered where the audience went.
When I find a new web comic, I look at the current page to get a sense of where the art will get to, and then go to the beginning. I can’t recall having ever decided that the beginning art was too bad to continue reading the comic ever. Though I do think there was one where I opted to skip a few chapters, because the beginning art was almost as bad as the best I’ve ever managed.
Admittedly, I might be more tolerant than most because the art in XKCD’s first comic was far better than what I could ever do and I recognize that.
There ARE some comics which redraw the first chapter to make better first impression, making the second chapter the worst drawn. (Or, alternatively, first chapter is worst but there is better drawn zeroth chapter/prologue before it.)