Let's see what we've got today.
As our run of regular HFSAC pages wraps up for the week, we see yet another Miracle, this time, the Miracle of One Hundred Butterflies.
Originally, the Cosmic Fool was a bizarre version of the Silver Surfer. When I recently brought him back, he somehow, inexplicably, morphed into a bizarre version of campy 70s Batman. Not sure why that happened. Anyway, originally, the Cosmic Fool had his own Spaceship, which I called the Manta Emperor (it's a whole Tarot thing, since The Fool is the Zero Card in a Tarot Deck, so I thought naming his vehicle after the Emperor Card made sense. Or as much sense as anything I do). The problem with the Cosmic Fool having his own Spaceship was that... well, I was gonna have to draw a big fat Spaceship over and over again. Woof. So, maybe on accident, or maybe on purpose, somehow the Cosmic Fool morphed into sorta-Metron, and the Manta Emperor morphed into a flying chair. Of course, having drawn that big fat chair a few times, I'll freely admit it's not just a huge amount easier to draw. Still, I like it. Anyway, if you look closely, the Manta Emperor has the Cosmic Fool's Fornever Cube embedded into it, serving as the Chair's CPU. The Eyeball on top is the Eye of Konundrum, which not only serves as an extremely powerful Extradimensional Sensory Organ, but also can gather up... well, Spirits apparently.
Shiv's not been around very long, and I'm still trying to figure her out. When I came up with the idea for her power, Libro, the idea was that it was the power of Kharmic Balance. It was a neat idea, but trying to figure out what the heck it actually did... well, that was another matter. When we first see her in action, she can gather up negative energy and aggression and redirect it (with interest) back at the aggressors, with the cost being that Shiv herself takes some damage as well (Kharmic Feedback, y'know?). The problem was that Shiv's power was very reactive and passive, which is a bit of a problem. At some point I realized that a Kharmic power could be used in other ways as well, though. For example, if an entire village full of blue-monkey-people suddenly got vaporized by a Doom Beam from Outer Space, Shiv could right the Kharmic Imbalance by returning the aforementioned blue-monkey-people to life as Butterfly Star Children. All she needed was their Spirit Essence (gathered up by Cosmic Fool in Panel One), a little bit of their physical remains (gathered up by Tei Harlequin's Earth Control Power), and a touch of Pengy's Awakeno Power to push it over the top.
Seriously, I really enjoy the complete and utter gibberish I write into these Posts.
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