And with a flick of the wrist, the Vertionce takes out another valiant hero. Sadly, all the Plot Exposition on how the Clown knows it's Darlene Munroe under the armor, and how there's gravity and atmosphere on the Moon, is covered on Monday's page, so we won't worry about that today.
I will take a second to explain why the Clown is leaking yellow energy. When I was reading Silver Surfer comics as a kid, I never for one second thought that there was a flesh and blood person underneath the shiny Silver "skin". Not once. Apparently, nowadays, everyone who writes the Surfer just assumes that Pale, Pink, Soft Norrid Radd is underneath the shiny chrome, and every chance they get, they wanna strip away the Cosmic Awesomeness to reveal the "Man" underneath. Which is why I have hated every single Silver Surfer comic I've had the misfortune of reading over the last decade or so. Norrid Radd sucks.
No, I always believed that in order to be a cosmic being who could survive indefinitely in space, you would need to no longer have a flesh and blood body, you would need a body composed of pure, cosmic energy. Go back and reread the old Surfer stories written by Jack Kirby in the original "Fantastic Four" run (and yes, I said written by Jack Kirby). The Surfer is an energy being encased in a Silver shell, plain as day. There's even an issue where the Surfer and the Thing get into a fight over Alicia and the Surfer actually converts his body into a maelstrom of pure cosmic energy. The King knew the way it would work. (He was smarter than that hack J. Michael Strasinsky, that's for sure. Silver Surfer: Requiem is easily one of my Top 10 Most Hated Comics of all time)
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that our HFSAC Heroes, including the Clown, are not Flesh and Blood anymore. They may kinda look it, but they're actually living energy encased in a durable shell. Which is why, when they are damaged their skin cracks, and why they leak energy instead of blood.
In a Side Note: Despite his transformation, the Clown still retains all of the natural abilities of his Flesh and Blood body, namely his ability to regenerate at a rapid rate (an advantage he has over his fellow Fudgeheads) and his ability to draw in Life Force energy, which has now been upgraded to include Cosmic Energy, since Cosmic Energy is a Primal Form of Life Force Energy.
Woo. That whole blog was some gobbledeegook, now wasn't it?
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