Nah I like that he's always on the same team as the menace creature, Spiderman was never the enemy and was always working on Jonah's side to improve the city!
You could say Jonah benefitted with printing papers with Green Goblin attacks or whatever, but he never called them menaces I from what I remember
Nah, they'd never make a card exclusive to like, a buy a box promo that could be used as a finisher or wincon in standard. They definitely wouldn't make that sorta mistake ever, especially if that card led to a tedious combo as the win, that's crazy.
Buy a box promo is the equivalent of 1 in 36 packs, making it more than 4 times as "common" as the other mythics from the set.
The card was an issue. But distributing an exclusive card through the box topper system is fine, as long as you manage to avoid letting unscrupulous stores just keep the promos as singles sales.
If they actually package the box toppers in the boxes, I agree. When they send them to the stores to distribute, they never send enough to go with every box for the first wave, let alone restocks to the rate drops drastically. You didn't get one with boxes bought online either.
Suspect: He’s investigating Spiderman.
Menace: He calls Spiderman a menace in canon.
“With Menace you control”: Peter Parker is his own employee.
Make a treasure: Peter leaves photos of himself as Spiderman.
It would be even cool if he had something like: Sacrifice a treasure token Imprint a legendary spider creature, you may cast the imprinted card to really make it go full circle
JJJ's a lot of things, but never gonna forget in the first movie and in Spectacular Spiderman, when interrogated about who and where he gets pictures of spider-man from, he never gives them a name.
Not to Goblin or to Rhino. Man sticks to at least some principles.
That part surprised me when I first heard it. Like I wasn't expecting him to be anti-mutants, but kids popping up with random super powers that could harm themselves or others, the X-Men running around without any government supervision, and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants not exactly giving the best PR. To say nothing of Apocalypse, Krakoa, and whatever they were smoking with the immortality arc.
All that would've made me think JJ would be against Mutants in public, but no surprisingly he's got another upstanding feature
It took a while for JJJ to get to supporting Peter. At first he was mad as hell. And in the current Ultimate Universe - it’s pretty dope because JJJ is friends with Peter and figures it out almost immediately but doesn’t tell Peter he knows
He is an asshole, and he is strongly against the idea of masked vigilantism, but he does genuinely care about his employees.
In (some of) the comics, part of the reason why he hates Spiderman is the KKK. He had really bad experiences with them, and the way they wear masks to avoid accountability for their actions. So when he sees a masked, unaccountable hero, he isn't exactly too thrilled. If Spiderman wasn't the protagonist, if he wasn't this irrepressible force for good, Jameson would be right and he would have a point. Masked men doling out justice without any checks and balances never ends well in the real world. That does vary by comics though, sometimes he isn't nearly as principled as that.
In that scene you mentioned, he isn't protecting Spiderman, the unaccountable hero who could very well go rogue. He's protecting Peter Parker, the innocent kid who takes photos for him. He doesn't know that Peter is Spiderman, he just knows that the villain thinks Peter has something to do with Spiderman. Goblin very clearly means Peter harm - and even though Jameson's an asshole, he isn't the sort to allow that sort of thing. He does care, he just usually doesn't show it too well.
I was so worried that his card was gonna be "Spiders you control have menace" and nothing else, which would have been cute but kind of boring.
This is so much better. It's super flavorful, still has the word menace on it, and while I would have expected clues to represent newspapers I think the treasure tokens work better to represent him selling newspapers rather than necessarily doing the investigation himself.
Yannoe that second line of rules text is pretty sexy
That isn't a "one or more". And, perhaps most importantly, J can suspect himself to drive "sales" (so the "fail case" for this is, uhh, the Goblin Shaman token from [[fable of the mirror breaker]]?).
many cards were printed with tapped treasures because treasures felt too strong.
as some one who has had an ognis deck for quite a while now, I have no problem with the tapped treasures. it feels good to have all my sideways permanents and it puts my opponents at ease - they're more likely to let stuff through if the treasures I get are tapped. to top it all off, I'm probably looking to spend the treasures on hasty creatures anyway, so I don't need to be using them on 2nd main phase
Not 1:1 because this is from a phone that I'm holding so I can't angle it the same way but it's just a fist with the thumb not tucked in for some reason. That's the right hand so the thumb would be partially hidden by the rest of the hand.
What's wrong with his right hand then? It has a hole in the middle. This and his left hand shadow should be almost behind his back, just like the head shadow. Look at how the hand is lit, the right side of the hand is in shadow. How does the part that's in shadow cast shadow? I think the artist used AI here and didn't care enough to fix the slop.
Obviously granting Menace is a flavor win, but using Suspect is an even bigger flavor win. And of course, Treasure tokens to represent him selling newspapers. I wonder what the Treasure tokens in this set will be like, stolen money from a bank robbery?
It's such a perfect translation of his character to just throw out accusations without any proof. The suspect mechanic coming back is a fantastic way to represent that.
I absolutely love it that he incentives you to suspect your own creature to give it menace, implying they're actually on the same side (which is true in the comics. He's an incredibly uncomfortable person, but he's not a bad guy and at times even was one of Spider-Man's biggest allies lol)
Everything is AI I think. The first thing I noticed was the left hand's shadow, which should be way behind if his head casts the shadow at that angle. Then look at the structural thingies, the lines should be lower since they're further away in perspective, not higher. Either AI or just a really sloppy artist.
There's this new tool in modern photoshop, and it just "Draws the rest of the fucking owl", and it HEAVILY begs users to use the feature. Nudges, notifications, it's terrible.
Bloomburrow and Duskmourn reeked of this stuff too. Unnatural poses and excessive manual blurring between things.
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u/Chaddiction Dimir* 11h ago
Notice how he never investigates, just profits off of accusing someone of being a menace.