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Old 10-11-2011, 10:39 PM   #151
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Boy oh boy, you happened to find a Magic card with a storm on it, and on our cover it is raining. I can see the vast similarities you are trying to point out.

By the way, this cover was done by a guy named Vincent Chong, he's won the Bram Stoker award for best artist three years in a row. If you wanna talk about composition, color schemes etc. I'm sure he'd be happy to educate you.

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Jesus Christ. Did you crib those covers from Magic: the Gathering? Because if so I cast lightning bolt and end my turn.



I will be back later to talk about the Vagina Angel (the hair is the clit, the arms are the folds, the wings are the thighs.) and the shadowy anal rapist, but I'm sort of in the middle of a big project. Don't worry your regualrly schedualed scorning will return.
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Everyone look how incredibly similar these two images are! Errr.... right?



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I tap two mana and cast Diabolic Edict and target Chris_Morey.



Ooh! Drama! Which one will you sacrifice Chris_Morey? The Schoolgirl in the Drizzle or the Caucasian Egyptian? (Cause who wants to read a book about BLACK gods anyway? NOT ME. My steampunk fiction is about WHITE PEOPLE ONLY!)

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At 2:31 a.m., seismic monitoring stations in China and South Korea detect a magnitude-4 event consistent with a nuclear detonation in the southeastern corner of North Korea, within the Korean Demilitarized Zone. With the threat of full-scale war escalating by the minute, the United Nations Security Council dispatches an elite unit of peacekeepers to cross the border, penetrate the cloud of dust hanging over the site, and determine the exact nature of the seismic disturbance. What they find triggers a series of events that culminates in a civilian biomedical engineer boarding a transport carrier at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, bound for the Far East.

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Old 10-18-2011, 09:45 PM   #156
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"Note to self: Growing razor-sharp fingernail claws had unforeseen effects on my masturbation routine...perhaps I can convince one of these soldies to take me to the hospital? All in-all I'm glad I'm wearing my medical alert bracelet. I may pass out from the blood loss and won't be able to tell the doctors I'm allergic to penicillin!"
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Old 11-15-2011, 02:28 PM   #157
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In the dead of night, there are footsteps in the hall . . .
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Old 11-16-2011, 08:54 PM   #158
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Now THAT is one good fucking cover. I would pick that up off the shelf and read it in a second.

If your writers are HALF as good as that cover, you might just be on to something.

Well done sir. Well done.
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Old 11-25-2011, 11:52 AM   #159
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Oh good ol' Chris Morey, how I have missed you. It's good to see your still peddling your crap on a site no one knows or cares about. But hey, at least you had me at hello... right?
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And I had to show my tits!

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Wait, what?!
You said he had you at hello...

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Graus, I might love you....

btw you have some drool on you. right there.... where my face may have been... just to let you know...
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Graus, I might love you....

btw you have some drool on you. right there.... where my face may have been... just to let you know...
I'm okay with that. Just clean up your drool.
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Old 12-18-2011, 05:01 PM   #172
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Don't be polluting our love with your stupid book crap!

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Hey this is the public Literature section. Why don't you two get a room?

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No! Its awesomeness must be shared with the world!

While jacking your thread!
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lawls... but I agree, we were here first, and your a dirty liar if you say other wise. So get your own room.
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