Comments not appearing on Webcomic Homepage Template

[metafarion]

I'm not able to get comments to show on pages using the Webcomic Homepage template. For troubleshooting, I've switched back to vanilla inkblot and disabled all relevant plugins.

I have the Template options set to display the latest comic and to display comments. When viewing this comic in the archives, the comment section appears, but not on the Home Page. Checking the HTML output reveals that there isn't even a

being created. I've tried disabling the conditional in webcomic-homepage.php and just having a straight invocation of comments_template() but it still returns nothing.

Though I'm not using transcripts at the moment, the same issue appears to affect them: yes on archives, no on Home Page.