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Jun 20, 2022 7 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Today’s #TeaGame for #TabletopGails is the lovely, calming GENTLE RAIN, from @MondoNews Games!

It’s a simple, enjoyable tile placement game that plays great solo or with more players.

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Created by @kevinwilson42, you place matching tiles of a tranquil lake, and when you can match a square block of four, you place a round wooden ‘blossom’ in the center.

You have eight blossoms and must place them all before running out of tiles.

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The ‘lies’ are really beautiful in themselves, so even if you ‘lose,’ it’s fun to play. It’s the only game where the instructions tell you to wear loose clothes and drink good tea, I think.

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Just. Beautiful, tranquil game. Fun as solitaire, more fun with two.

Endless fun in a tiny box, and the pieces are beautiful.
One of our favorite #Teagames.

Unfortunately, at the moment is is sold out at @mondonews, so I would say try your local gme shop first. If anyone has a good supplier, please list them here.

This game has a dedicated fan base, so hopefully it comes back soon! Recommended!

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Also, it takes like, a MINUTE to learn and could easily be played with kids.

Pick up a copy if you see one, I gather it is quite in demand.

Thanks @MondoNews and @KevinWilson42
It does appear to be a little hard to find right now…so I’m asking, games, creators and retailers.

Do you know of other games like this, that are tranquil and beautiful, for two players or more?

Please recommend below!

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Jan 16
I feel like people, even some comics pros and publishers, are learning the wrong lessons from the currently most successful comics.

They look at ULTIMATE and ABOSOLUTE and think, 'Oh, people want alternate versions of iconic characters.'

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They look at almost all of the hit indie books and think, 'Oh, people want nostalgia.'

I don't think either one of those is the correct conclusion.

People aren't buying Ultimate and Absolute for some version of the Multiverse.

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They aren't buying SPACE GHOST and TRANSFORMERS because of they want to relive some okay cartoons of a million years ago.

I think it's simpler than that.

I think it's accessibility.

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Every year on his birthday (which is today), I write a little letter to @JoeQuesada, wishing him health and happiness for him and his family. We have not spoken in person in years.

In that note, every time, I thank him for asking me, out of nowhere, to pitch for Deadpool.

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Because I had a comics comedy column on CBR and I made him laugh. He used to read the column on the phone to friends. Garth Ennis didn't have email, so he called him long distance to read one about Garth TO Garth.

Even when I made fun of JOE HIMSELF, he would laugh about it.

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So every year, I say something to the effect of, "Thank you for taking a chance on me, and for opening the door that had made my life's dream come true over and over."

And he always says something humble and sweet, that I make it happen myself.

But without Joe...

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Nov 5, 2024
I have been thinking this forever but this morning it really hit me.

@stephenking is a badass.

Just a combustion engine. Love that guy.

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There have been a dozen times where the thing getting me through a tough time was simply having a Stephen King novel or anthology or movie adaptation to enjoy.

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When I was a kid, the very first novel I ever read (I was probably a little young for it) where the cast was all female and took all roles from villain to tragic hero and everywhere in-between was Carrie. To this DAY, I still haven't read many novels that can make that claim.

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Okay, I thought it'd be fun to answer a few questions that keep popping up regarding Uncanny X-Men regarding nationality.

We couldn't be happier with the response to issue one. I think people know we put our hearts into this book.

Settle in, this will take a bit. :)

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A LOT of people, mostly from countries our new characters come from, asked why I chose to make a superhero who came from their country specifically.

They're not being accusatory, they mostly are delighted, but they are curious as to the process.

There are a couple reasons.

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Here are the big two.

Let me explain. :)

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Aug 6, 2024
I have a mutant hot take.

I hear all the time, and have thought it myself, why does the world fear and hate mutants, but love the scary-looking oddballs in, say, the Fantastic Four?

Here is a thought about that.

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The Fantastic Four comes to save you.

You look out, and you see standing around you;
A woman who disappears
A man on fire
A rock-like golen creature
and the ultimate stretchy body horror.

OR.

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You look out and see

A great-looking guy with sunglasses
A beautiful woman with a cool fire bird effect
A goddess controlling a storm
A slightly hairy Canadian.

Why are citizens afraid of THIS four, and not the others?
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When I was in second grade, our teacher read us, over the course of several days, an adaptation of Cool Hand Luke.

None of us knew anything about prisons, Southern culture, road gangs, prisoner abuse, or crime in general, really. We were seven years old, and enthralled.

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I remember, NO ONE missed school after the first day.

It starts with Luke, played by Paul Newman in the movie, getting drunk and busting up parking meters, for no good reason, so your introduction to him, in a child’s’ view, is bad, not revolutionary.

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Spoilers, but Luke ends up paying a heavy price for simply not being able to go along with what he is told to do, the falsehoods he is told are true. It is inevitable, even as kids we knew there would be no happy ending.

And we know it was wrong, the escalation. As kids.

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