Week 88! (Patreon)

This panel comes from 130 - The Big Fairway in the Sky, the start of the seventh arc, the shortest arc of the entire comic where they find that red door in Kale's head. Requested by nobody in particular.

So this page was somewhat notable for being the first appearance of Caddy Chicken, who would go on to have a couple more appearances and be mildly popular as a bit of a mascot, to where I made a bunch of stickers and a poster to sell featuring him. It's also the first time you see Fox Kale in color, where I made the fatal mistake of coloring him like a regular fox but silver instead of like an actual silver fox (they're mostly black with silver highlights) because I didn't want people who didn't know that to get too confused, but it ended up that Fox Kale gets mistaken for a wolf by some people instead. Oh well.

I don't really remember where I got the idea to make Kale's dream be this weird golfing in space on floating islands thing with a chicken and an exploding island, but I do remember liking making it a lot. I used to do a lot of really weird and ridiculous jokes and situations in older comics, but I had resolved to try and make FH's New Canon more 'serious' or something, and at that point I think it felt sorta restricting. So it was refreshing to come up with this random idea and have a weird joke where Kale's thrown golf club hits a floating island and it explodes like the Death Star. Also, I think Caddy Chicken was a last minute addition, even, I think I was just gonna have Kale be alone at first, but the random thought to include a chicken as his caddy entered my head later.