Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)

Rifts Crisis Finally Over! was a short story written by Lupan Evezan and illustrated by Aristide Twain. Part of The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, it served as an epilogue to that series' “Rifts” story arc. Consequently, it featured a further guest appearance by Jenny Everywhere in the section tying back to the events of PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel.

	Gorbazaglaz Mandragora-257 Consistency Imperium The Imperial Imperator
	Journalist-649 Faction of the Fooling Fish Marksmanship-522 Tracker-764 Bibliophile-962 Pythagoras-858 The Hound Madame Tarsa Doki Dick Jenny Everywhere Lord Thymon Nadar-124 Nostradamus-066 Pessimist-242 (mentioned) Doctor Sigma Gourmand-705 Baker-954 Philatel-426 Foreman-964 Conspiracy-1263 Conquest-932 Celebration-665 Larrikin-1029 Mind Criminal
	The Cupid Homeworld
	5 pages
	Lupan Evezan
	Aristide Twain
	November 22nd, 2020
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Contents

Plot

Following the conclusion of the Multiverse-threatening Rifts Crisis, Marksmanship-522, Tracker-764, Bibliophile-962, and Pythagoras-858 return to the Cupid Homeworld aboard, of all things, a tachyonic sailing ship crewed by the Faction of the Fooling Fish. Before long, a special issue of the Homeworld's newspaper, The Cupid Courier, is created, reporting on this event, the truth about the Rifts, where the four heroic Clockwork Cherubs are going next, and miscellaneous other tangentially-related events.

Worldbuilding

Jenny

• The newspaper features a hotel review by the version of Jenny who had been travelling with Pythagoras-858.

Universes

• This story takes place in the Cupid Homeworld.
• Tracker-764 spent a long time in the Euclidean Plane, to which Pulsatons such as Doki Dick are native.
• The Cupids are aware of an escaped Mind Criminal from Dimension 87-B-24.

Other

• Tracker-764 helped destroy Mandragora's Machine.
• The Scarlet Wings are the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's elite taskforce. Marksmanship-522 is a Senior Agent thereof, and Tracker-764 and the Hound are invited to join owing to their heroic deeds.
• The Cupids sometimes watch a TV series called The Rainbow Adventures.

Continuity

• Pessimist-242's ownership of a TV set was previously shown in COMIC: The Pessimist's Guide to the Small Screen.
• Pythagoras-858 and Jenny Everywhere submit reviews of their experience at Hilbert's Hotel, seen in PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel.
• As Jenny speculated in COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids, the Consistency Imperium were indeed largely responsible for the Rifts Crisis, albeit due to the deceitful guidance of Mandragora.
• The Faction of the Fooling Fish later use their newly-acquired multiversal sailing ship in PROSE: Multiversal Mischief to play all kinds of practical jokes on residents of the Void and other dimensions, including Jenny.
• Baker-954 previously appeared in PROSE: Baker-954 and the Holiday Cookies, one of the 2019 Homeworld Holiday Vignettes.

Behind the scenes

Read online

This story is available online on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website.