Yes, that's subtext

You got it.

It's everywhere.

But if you mention subtext in a specific instance, you will be reminded that everyone else who sees it mistakes recognizing subtext with having fucking invented subtext.

No, I don't know why.

It's the Magic: Quinton Hoover

This weekend, popular discontent over the latest spoiler from Dragon's Maze was eclipsed by the news that Quinton Hoover, fantasy artist responsible for some of Magic's most memorable art, passed away at the age of 49.

I'll cop to being aware of only a few Magic artists, so I didn't know Hoover by name before Friday afternoon. It didn't take too long for sites like Art of M:TG and a quick look around The Gatherer to realize I've known his work since before I played Magic.

Not all of the early art was representative of what the card did *cough* Stasis *cough* and I never really got how Green Arrow's interpretive dance performance exemplified regeneration. It's because I posses the paired faults of being too lazy to examine art and too much a philistine to even properly appreciate it.

You know this one. There are newer Wraths of Gods, in name and form alike, but if it's not an angry, glowing face looking down on opposing armies as they slowly die, it's just not the same.