June | Poll #1

All of the comic's budget went into drawing the hat.

During the hat scene, I decided it was be entertaining if I added extra hats instead of just Pom-Pom's. One of the hats, which belongs to the Yu-Gi-Oh card [Madolche Mewfeuille], led me down a bit of a rabbit hole as I was trying to figure out how the hat should look. I'll be honest, I didn't fully realize the theming of the Madolche card series before this. Anyway, the hat looks more like food than I thought it originally did. The other hat is Daji's from Fullbokko Heroes.

Originally, I was going to end the sequence at the end of the transformation, but it felt wrong to not actually make him wear the hat, so I adjusted the sequence to have the post-TF bit. Then afterwards as I was trying to figure out a good excuse as to why he was wearing the full outfit, I figured maybe someone else is with him to make him wear the outfit, so the sequence ended up having another character involved. In the end, he remained naked regardless.

The "results" section at the end was originally more tame, but as I was trying to think of a good way to symbolize different categories, it morphed into a Sonic Adventure 2 reference due to stray thoughts invading my head at the time. It was most definitely not the random Knuckles music playing at the time.

Text for the last panel:

TF COMPLETED!

EGO NO CHANGE

TIME 00:19:73

LOOKS 80%

CLOTHES MISSING

RANK C