Sacrifice for 2 Black Mana

Do you already have a Groink & Sproink from “Aaah! Real Monsters”? These things look like you drew them

I have a lot of the rest of the line!

I had an old article on this that I need to spruce up, but the line began as its own pitch called "Pets of Frankenstein" designed entirely by Mel Birnkrant, who is like a LEGEND in toy design, considered the inventor of action figures!

He actually put his original demo videos on youtube:

According to Mel, he took his prototypes to a toy show but no company wanted to buy something that didn't have a series or movie, so a nickelodeon executive bought the rights and attached the Real Monsters brand.

Action Comics #49 - "The Puzzler!" (1949)

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

Shut down the conversation without reacting.

"His dick, not mine" will get you much further to shutting that guy down than "well it's really inappropriate to call someone a slur while I'm the job site".

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/taylor-farms-pulls-salsa-guacamole-over-salmonella-concerns-bloomberg-news-2026-08-09/

https://www.startribune.com/salmonella-outbreak-minnesota-jalapeno-chipotle-mexican-food/601875105

So, my question is this: How much money does Taylor stand to lose from this? Because now they have to recall all the tainted shit, now they have a reputation as selling poopy products, the company is going to have to eat the cost of all that bad stuff that got through.

Plus all the money spent bribing Trump to let through the poopy lettuce to begin with.

I feel like it would have been less expensive and cheaper to just, you know, not sell plague infested diarrhea plants.

There is no sense of how it is infectious, or it's method of transfer.

Is it airborne? Does it transmit through physical contact? Contamination of surfaces? Exchange of body fluids?

None of these make coherent sense based on everything we've seen. Either a LOT more cases should be around, or a lot fewer. Fifty mutates is a drop in the ocean, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of them on Genosha.

Jay and Miles' suggestion remains the most feasible, that the virus' true infection method is "Dramatic necessity". When they need someone to be infected to tell a story, they'll catch it. Otherwise you're practically immune.

Here at least they appear to be highlighting/lampshading it, by suggesting that there IS no true pattern and there might be an actual artificial plan behind the infection choices.

Which... was equal parts hopelessly naive and also terribly insensitive. And also kind of shows that some writers don't really know how diseases and such work.

Like the Legacy virus was introduced in 93, and stuck around till 2001, as of this writing it is 2026 and we are only just now starting to maybe perhaps possibly figure out a way to cure AIDS question mark put a pin in that one. Point is if they are starting to figure it out we are probably still a few years away from a proper cure (especially with *waves hand* all of this going on right now).

But hey, this isn't the first time the X-men have clumsily appropriated real world injustices, and it wont be the last. Like I get the concept, of looking at the struggles of real life marginalized people through a fictional lens, but it has to be done delicately. Like it can be done well, but when its not you get stuff like Kitty Pryde calling a black guy the N word, or a bunch of white super heroes lecturing Kamala Khan, a child of Pakistani immigrants, that she doesn't know what its like to be actually oppressed, or a super villain who was a guy who was given horrible birth defects by the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, and is bitter at the X-men for calling themselves mutants when they are a bunch of super powered pretty people and he has to be on life support his entire life.

The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.

no longer violates the geneva convention

And so.....I prevailed.

This is the most cursed shit I have ever drawn, but, by the gods was i wheezing when I looked at the finished result.🤣

Nappa: Look Vegeta, I'm a unit.

Vegeta: Are you having an allergic reaction to something? Do you need your Epipen?

Nappa: I may have eaten fifteen pound of coconut Shrimp just now.