permalink: "#71 (March 4, 2024): The Best Medicine"
The line between humor and horror gets blurry when you're an elder god.
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71: The Best Medicine - March 4, 2024 (M)
Panel 1
[Pilcrow and the Asterism are standing in the attic of the Black Manor in their bird-headed humanoid forms of a crow and three-eyed flamingo. Pilcrow is wearing a tan suit over a dark orange turtleneck, and the Asterism is wearing a comfortable over-sized off-white sweater over jeans.]
Pilcrow: "Today's lesson: human emotions! First, one of the most primitive yet most important. Humans highly value the experience of laughter."
Panel 2
[The view shifts to a pink star exploding like a supernova in place, with the Asterism's three star-eyes superimposed on the scene.]
The Asterism: "Laughter? Like the response from the masses of a world watching their star explode?"
Panel 3
[The view returns to the Black Manor, close up on Pilcrow's face where he is shocked.]
Pilcrow (looking dismayed): "Uh... No. It's like the joy from simple things!"
Panel 4
The Asterism: "Oh! Like a black hole devouring a star system, the eradication of life by an unexpected gamma burst, or the collision of entire galaxies?"
Pilcrow (dumbfounded): "... Let's start with something simpler, like terror."