Yaaay, I'm back into it. Here's something close to a finished panel draft for one of the mech scene's. Used the old mech render and a photo of my face for reference. I also got the lassoed speech bubble idea from somewhere........ but i'm not sure where. Its probably  been done a million times.

Just an idea

For something terrible to come of an intended good deed is sad.
But indeed even worse if that deed was a savior from a nasty catastrophe.

Such as it was with the great disease of our revolutionary currency.

With democracy being the worst form of government (accept all the others) and all the problems stemming from it; primarily consumerism. The age demanded some thing to solve the problems of our society.

Problems of environmental sustainability and population control being attempted out of necessity and sacrifice, but not solved. People searched elsewhere for the solution. Particularly one man; an anonymous biologist. Born of a corrupt accountant, he saw the most fundamental cornerstone of our society being immune to morality: money.

How could a system be developed where honesty was rewarded and unsavory opportunism punished. Seeing as economists had failed in developing such a system, this man saw a savior in science. He got the idea from a teen memory, not only was his father corrupt. But in marriage with this trait was cruelty; and no one feels the blunt edge of cruelty harder than those close to the cruel. His groundbreaking and simple thought came to him came on the day that he fled his home, thinking "If money could sense what type of a person he was. It would escape his hands as quickly as I run from his hate."

And so why not...... If money were possessed by not only the clever (as it was in the past), but the clever and good. Surely humanity would be better off.

At first he thought of a system which involved investment in charity. But what really made things come together was his studies into the reaction of flora to positive and negative emotions in their environment. Still no reputable studies had proven that plants had "feelings". Actually he was the first. Going beyond experiments of plants growing away from harsh sounds and move towards pleasant music. He engineered a new species of fungi that would degrade and fall into a withering hibernation certain if emotions were present. And would develop a healthy set of attributes noticeable by humans when loved.

This in itself was a huge advancement and had implications in law enforcement and other fields where lie detection was necessary. The fungi could specifically detect guilt and hatred, which encouraged people to focus on searching for

So the next step was finding a nation to adopt this revolutionary idea; Not an easy task. Think f those who would be currently ruling the economy and essentially making such decisions. Thinking about how they go there and their secrets. While this is not universally true (there would be no hope in this new system if the only real way to become rich was to be evil), there were surely enough people in this position to make it difficult. A reason in itself to birth and spread the doctrine.

So was found a nation that accepted the idea and assisted in further advancing the species to that it could not be forged. Which turned out to be relatively easy. All that had to be done was a check on the publicized genetic code of the currency to expose fraud: such as the altered strain which did quite the opposite rewarding   the nastiness of the now extinct villain. There was only one way for the money to be made. Any other method was simply a failure as forgery was among the many detectable wrong doings.

At first their were attempts to cheat the system, such as money handlers for organised criminals (or even those not so criminal by old standards) who were to simply live happy lives and raise the value of the currency. However it failed outright. Most "good" people would turn the offers down because they were... well.... good.
And those who were tricked into doing so eventually found out. Not to mention how quickly the currency gave away those shrouded in deception.

Also there were those who had to confront the morality of their professions, such as soldiers and devil advocate lawyers. Some simply changed professions. Some looked deep into the ethics of their careers and found solitude in their philosophical and fair justifications. There were also those who simple didn't have a place in the new world. Those who were ruled by crimes of immoral passion and hatred. Eventually these cases were bred out through a synergy of more successful education  a generally more wholesome environment. All byproducts of the topic at hand.

Eventually the idea caught that the best way to become more wealthy was to simply be happy, and more importantly, to help others be happy. And so as the world embraced the new wave of humanity, the less wholesome of the world and the last of their kind shrunk into a small corner of the world and slowly destroyed itself in an almost comical last stand. Unable to compete with the prosperity and increasing quality of life elsewhere and everywhere.

So no one would have expected the misfortune that came next.