An old Zen koan or conundrum goes something like this: "Am I a man dreaming that I am a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" (The correct answer to this koan is either the "square root of 35" or "yes.")
Always on the lookout for new ideas, you come across this koan and decide that it would make a fantastic comic. So is born the Butterfly Man, the butterfly who dreams that he is a man.
He thinks he is a man. He believes it to the core. He sees himself as a man. But in fact he is a butterfly, and everyone else sees him as a butterfly.
To infuse your work with the deep mysteries of the Orient, you decide to introduce Butterfly Man to your story the way he sees himself. You ask your artist to draw him as a full-grown, pleasant-looking man in 1950s-style clothes.
Please provide the beginning of your comic, showing Butterfly Man as a man. Use resources like the reactions of the supporting cast to hint at the truth that this fine fellow is in fact a butterfly to their eyes. Extra points if you avoid showing Butterfly Man doing obvious butterfly things like flitting around.
