Cloudswinger, I'm not just planning to do a Fool; I'm planning to do three Fools. I got the idea from the way some Thoth decks include three Magicians, but I have my own sets of resonances that made the joke into something serious. The 0 of VOID is a different flavor of nullity than the nullity of the Fool - rawer, not personified.
I've got sketches for all three Fools but I haven't touched 'em in Illustrator; partially because the first one is just not working as an image, partially because it seems like those are going to end up being some of the last cards I do. The journey may start with the Fool walking off a cliff, but it looks like it's where my random walk through the Tarot ends.
Alta, the issue of people possibly deciding to give this deck a miss due to a fifth suit is a good one. I'm already worrying about stretching people's acceptance by adding the 0 and the 99s, and with my casual disregard for a lot of conventions about what a Tarot card "should" look like. Still, I had to play with it for a bit, as people in a couple different places suddenly asked if I was considering a 5th suit. When it starts to look like the universe making a suggestion it needs serious consideration!
Anyway, as always, thanks for the kind words. Back to work on the 9P...