Ok, so this is the comic which technically should've come before the last comic. Eventually I'll move it around to fix it, but not for a few days at least.
Now, why all the talk of Masks, you ask? Well, other than the fact that those employees of Kentucky Fried Unicorn are all obviously wearing "people" masks (which, now that I've colored it, is even more incredibly creepy than it was before)… it also has to do with the "King in Yellow".
"The King in Yellow" is a collection of short stories all revolving around or otherwise involving a play, also known as The King in Yellow. The first act of the play is boring. The second act drives anyone who reads it (or, even worse, watches it be performed) completely insane.
The central figure of the KiY play, located in the KiY book, is the titualar "King in Yellow" himself. The King appears at a ball, wearing rags and a "Pallid Mask", and at the end when challenged to remove his mask reveals he cannot, because it is not a mask. Everybody then dies (more or less).
Art obviously is not wearing an actual mask, however since the new outfit, he is now hiding the Sigil under his hoodie… something he was unable to do a few years before (see the beginning of the comic), indicating he is probably gaining more and more control over it in order to contain it… or, if the need arises, release its power.
Coincidentally, The King in Yellow was in the late 1800s and was so influential on H.P. Lovecraft that it eventually came to be included in the gestalt "Cthulhu Mythos" even though it predates Lovecraft's own work by decades.
Since Apple Valley is all about the boundaries of realities breaking down… well… you do the math.
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