Entries from April 2008

April 16, 2008

Random Punks at Hobby League foiled by Wonder Woman’s wily defensive tricks.

Last night our Hobby League was a trip.  We started playing Random Punks to get ready for the Clash of Worlds kit.  We had a full Earth 2 deck, some concealed CSA beats, Future Foes, QuickFate, my little X-babies punks, and…
Bring It On!
It was hilarious.   In the finals, Chris had his powered-up JLA deck sporting [...]

April 15, 2008

Happy Juno Day!

Today is the day.  Juno is released into the world on DVD.  This movie will raise the intelligence of our species just a little bit, and cause some seriously uplifting laughter along the way.  I can’t wait to cry my eyes out again tonight, for the joy of being human.
Thank you Diablo Cody, thank you [...]

April 14, 2008

The biggest little beats in the game, on top once again.

Indeed, I have seen that particular run of luck in my resource row.  It was part of the wackiest interview ever, and now it has triumphed in another terrifying epiphany of Vs. System pleasure.  Click the links and groove on some truly marvelous madness this glorious Monday morning.

April 11, 2008

Prize Shirt Preview.

There you go.  The first hand-stenciled prototype Full Body Transplant prize shirt, in living color.  If anyone knows jedimario on Realms, tell him to send me his size and snail mail.  He is the winner of the Cards through the Ages contest.   Mad grats.
The Earth 3 contest is currently being controlled by Pi.  Don’t be intimidated by his comprehensive entry, click [...]

April 9, 2008

Thursday Thirteen: Stanley Cup Playoff Edition.

That card made so many dreams come true for me.  My two all time favorite players, together, with a piece of their game used jerseys, with a repair stitch on the Hasek?  Beyond perfect.
And now it begins.  The 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs.  The best two months in sports, with the greatest trophy on Earth at [...]

April 8, 2008

For Your Viewing Pleasure.

So, as you can see, Typhoid Mary has led me to the promised land.  The artist known as Red.  Living in Montreal, surely as excited as we are about the playoffs starting tommorrow night.  Each one of those cards was randomly packaged by Upper Deck and flung to the far corners of the collecting universe.  [...]

April 8, 2008

Captain America really gets around.

Almost four months ago, I found Mysterio playing hockey.  Today, it’s Captain America.  I know he is hot stuff from all the Marvel Universe previews, but this is ridiculous.  One day before the Stanley Cup Playoffs begin, on a hand-painted card that was inserted into the Marvel Masterpieces packs?  Nice.

April 8, 2008

Crime Lords Month: Lest Ye Forget.

Bittersweet memories fill my soul this morning.  It is a sort of transition period in my life, and I was just remembering the fact that Stilt-Man actually won $40,000 once upon a time.  And, in case you need even more freaky Vs. System trivia to sprinkle on your cereal this morning, Typhoid Mary made Top [...]

April 7, 2008

Mothership Contest: A Trip to Earth 3.

This time you get to have all the fun.  As I am composing the new Rallying Cry article, I am realizing that there is a powerful menace hiding in the shadows.  The concealed evil of the Crime Syndicate of Amerika nearly took over the entire city of Chicago this weekend, and they whetted my mythological appetite [...]

April 4, 2008

Weekend in Heaven: We still got it.

(Viva la Revolucion! by John Van Fleet, from Upper Deck’s Vs. System.)
Not much time to talk, just enough time to quote from an amazing article:
“We still got it. The collective unconscious, the deep sense of inner wisdom, that intuitive knowing that borders on a kind of mystical proficiency, where millions of people can actually look beyond [...]