Ace looks like someone's great Aunt sitting alone at a holiday function.
Perfect description! His body language and expression are a combination of being forlorn that he's sitting alone but content that he's sittting at all. You can almost hear the sigh he must be sighing.
What that obscures is that he may not actually be sitting on anything at all and could well be levitating in a seated pose, which only adds more to my theory that Ace was the most powerful member. His "powers" listing in the Official Handbook To The KISS Universe would have to include teleportation, optic blasts, laser fingers, interstellar flight and either a healing factor or high resistance to electrocution.
Other questions raised by the Hotter Than Hell back cover: is the lady that Paul is sexin' turning into a statue? Or maybe a statue turning human? Also, when did KISS abandon the idea of the giant gestalt KISS logo? They should have explored this concept more, where they all could have combined into a megapowerful Super Space Clown like Captain Planet or Jack Kirby's Infinity Man.
Buffcoat, you know you're not allowed to give up on these until you rediscover The Elder. It's vital to the health of the board.