ADVENTURERS! Balance Thread

The full set of ADV has been out for nearly two months, and I think it's high time we started discussing balance. It'll be quite the undertaking, but there are way too many strips that are either too funny or not funny enough for their costs.

Let's begin with the strip that prompted this thread. The only thing that the punchline accomplishes is reinforcing the already well-supported "how the spoon can we defeat Eternion" strategy, and it doesn't even do it that well.

Compare it to the previous and following strips. The previous strip costs the same number of panels and roughly the same number of words, but the expressions in the last panel when they realise what Ker just said are far more useful, laughter-wise.

The following strip is even funnier, and in fact is probably too funny. The word cost is significantly less, and yet it presents the overly hilarious notion of using legendary weaponry to replace a can opener. I propose that "open cans" be changed to "slice vegetables". This will almost completely remove the humour, which we can then compensate for by using a particularly funny vegetable, such as an eggplant, or if this proves to be too weak, a rutabaga.