I read this entire comic all the way to the latest post a couple of years ago, but because of this I'm reading it again. Also, I found another better link, this one's in colour, and the demon's non-hostile.
Discerning the desperate danger of demonic demise (and giving Khalid a cold feeling where other sentients would have a spine, as if a sorcerous drow had walked over his grave), Minsc remarks "Ooooh, I think I need a bigger sword!", so Xan, quaking in his Quaker™ AdventureBoots™ (J. Jansen, prop.), casts Power Word: Import to snatch Lilarcor from a puzzle-trap deep in the sewers of a city several days' travel to the south.
Alerted by the burning sensation in his pommel that someone, somewhere among the planes, is being rude about him, Lilarcor's Brother takes a break from the multiversal total warfare being fought over his possession and comes to investigate, materialising with a Blast of Glory* (demon takes 42 damage) in the grasp of Minsc, across whose face slowly spreads an expression of wonder and delight that he now wields a weapon far more highly enchanted than most loremasters believed could ever exist, the fabled +12 Hackmaster.
[* That's like a Bolt of Glory, but AoE with a 30' radius.]
"So that next time you'll think twice before you dare to allege that I 'spoke complete rubbish', oh feeble demon whom even my kid brother can easily defeat", replied Lilarcor's Brother, who, satisfied that his point is made (and seeing no need to use his edge), promptly de-materialises and returns to the inter-planar War of the Brother's Possession, thus leaving Minsc again holding Lilarcor (and the party to its fate).
Without the controlling demon to close it the hell portal continues to crackle with vile energies. "You f-f-first," Khalid gestures from Minsc to the portal as he takes several steps back.
"I would plug so abominable a portal had I the power," declared Jaheira, "but that's probably a job for Keldorn and his paladins, so the rest of us had better restore some Balance to this local excess of ankhegs!"
Apparently we've already had Geza using both a bow and a sword, but note that she's meant to be a Cleric and a pacifist.
The ground shook with tremendous force and the companions nearly lost their footing as ankheg after ankheg reared up from the earth and plunged into the portal.
"Quick, let us catch a couple before they're all gone!" said Kivan, firing an arrow "I hear that Thunderhammer can make us some good armour from their shells!" (Ankheg takes 10 damage).
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[* That's like a Bolt of Glory, but AoE with a 30' radius.]