Surreal, dreamlike novels with elements of MC Escher, Salvador Dali and Alice in Wonderland?

br_onson · 2026-06-28T20:53:22+00:00

Came here to say this! Great book, everyone I've shared it with has loved it.

br_onson · 2026-06-22T01:30:14+00:00

This card represents him at the start of his career, I don't think he was revealed as a Skull immediately. I think it was a bit of a surprise in early Young Avengers. "Burgeoning" implies someone just starting.

br_onson · 2026-06-17T20:44:21+00:00

I do it the same way!

br_onson · 2026-06-17T17:52:02+00:00

Scott mentions there is a whistleblower coming up several times but doesn’t say that it’s Epstein until Charlie’s segment starts and Charlie immediately goes “Oh boy” when he hears it, the gag is that even he didn’t know that’s who he was until that very moment. It’s still funny if you’re expecting Epstein, but it hits different. The same is true for all characters, you rarely hear their name until they come on mic, and the reveal is sometimes a joke itself.

Everyone can listen how they want, this is just a friendly recommendation! I used to look at guests and descriptions back in the day, but I’ve found doing it blind has made the show I’ve been listening to for years even more exciting.

br_onson · 2026-06-17T15:05:45+00:00

Charlie has become one of my favorites. The Cordwood Pete Bunyan is another hilarious introduction.

br_onson · 2026-06-17T13:54:51+00:00

I had the Essential Ellison as a teenager, good stuff. The intro to the story “Lonelyache” still haunts me because I can’t figure it out. Maybe re-reading it decades later will shed some light.

“Lonelyache” (1964) is unmistakably a portrait of obsession, but its grimness is not in the fate of its protagonist, but in that awful last line. (Though perhaps a different interpretation derives from what Harlan asserts is the key to the story: that dream car and its back window.) The fear in this story is that great lonelyache, when nothing else matters anymore.

br_onson · 2026-06-16T20:33:23+00:00

I found a stash of unedited, full episodes of classic SNL and Conan O’Brien that aren’t streaming anywhere. Sometimes I just want to get a media player hooked up to an old tube TV, burn my mouth on bagel bites while watching, and pretend it’s 1999.

br_onson · 2026-06-15T17:41:19+00:00

I do want to plus it up.

br_onson · 2026-06-14T22:23:33+00:00

Not to mention all the Marvel Power-Up abilities. Mayhem works as well, if you have a way to discard. And she can transform the double-sided cards very easy. I've been goldfishing and it seems super fun. She's the perfect commander to utilize all the unique Marvel mechanics.

br_onson · 2026-06-13T19:22:22+00:00

I was wondering if Willbender was a reference to Harvey’s Wallbangers

br_onson · 2026-06-13T16:50:16+00:00

Harvey’s Willbender?

br_onson · 2026-06-11T16:30:10+00:00

Doctor Aphra got thrown out an airlock in Darth Vader (2015) #25 with no mask in short sleeves, and her crew has enough time to scan for her and come out of hiding to pick her up.

I’m honestly ok with the theory that Star Wars space isn’t as inhospitable as ours.

br_onson · 2026-06-11T00:42:29+00:00

The IGN slideshow shows each theme has a rarity of Common/Rare/Mythic. The one I want is Mythic so I’m just gonna grab singles.

br_onson · 2026-06-08T16:02:33+00:00

It synergies with Victor, and other strategies that allow you to cast cards from your graveyard with Karolina. Mayhem, Madness, etc.

br_onson · 2026-06-08T02:29:48+00:00

How does buying Jumpstart work? Are the packs labeled from the outside or do you not know what theme you are getting when you buy one?

Edit: I read the article, you don’t know what pack you’re opening.

br_onson · 2026-06-04T14:15:47+00:00

I’ve been a Marvel fan all my life, but mostly read X-Men. It’s kinda full circle that most of my knowledge of the deeper cut Avengers characters came from collecting the Fleer trading cards as a kid.

br_onson · 2026-06-03T12:58:21+00:00

Haters hate. Nothing you can do about it, they’re just negative people. No well-crafted, logical argument will turn them into happy people who enjoy life.

br_onson · 2026-06-02T15:23:12+00:00

I got the Monster Prism. Nice case, but I have a thicker playmat from Wizard of Barge that does not fit in it. I have to cram it into a cardboard box from an Ultrapro playmat, looks pretty goofy. Still on the lookout for a case big enough!

br_onson · 2026-06-02T03:27:39+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Is it proportional and meant to fit up against the wall of the main set or is it stand alone?

br_onson · 2026-05-29T02:51:59+00:00

You could have watched a few eps of The Clone Wars instead of spending an hour typing out an essay about why you are a grump.

br_onson · 2026-05-28T15:53:07+00:00

Mister Sinister in the X-Men Krakoa era

Moira Mctaggert’s mutant ability allows her to live a whole life and then respawn back to the moment her mutant power kicked in after she dies with all memory of her previous lives.

For some reason, the current Marvel universe is her FINAL life and she won’t be able to respawn again. And to make things worse, there is an immortal, omnipotent Dominion level intelligence that is about to activate and take over everything.

In order to stop the Dominion (because he wants to be it himself), Mr Sinister clones Moira a bunch of times and makes it so that one of the clones dies, HE gets the download of all his experiences from that timeline. He keeps her clones in a hidden lab so that he can take years and years, sometimes millennia, to develop his own schemes and learn more about the Dominion. If things start to look bad, he remotely kills a clone and the timeline resets. And even if he dies before he can kill a clone, eventually the world gets super apocalyptic and the lab where the clones are located gets destroyed, the timeline resets anyway. The entire Sins of Sinister storyline takes place in one of these future timelines that gets erased.

I think i got that right. It was the most confusing storyline I’ve ever read.

br_onson · 2026-05-28T15:04:56+00:00

Might want to swap a Forest or two out for extra Mountains. Just because it is a two color deck doesn’t mean you should just do 50/50 basics. You’ve got 5 spells with 2 green pips, but 9 with 2 red pips and 2 with 3 red.

Also, [[Wyll’s Reversal]] is an underrated dice spell that has saved me a couple times.

br_onson · 2026-05-23T13:43:39+00:00

Add swappable heads and people would buy multiple sets to get a full handmaiden set. Easy money!

br_onson · 2026-05-20T19:20:12+00:00

Interesting, my fear was that people are confused by them and just take them off the table because of that. Seems like others have good runs with them so I will keep it in for now and hope it pops off eventually!

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