George, "What the hell..." I'm a sysop on CompuServe, in the TradingCards Forum, where we play Magic online, among other things. I'd never address a new member with an off-putting remark like that. But my job is to foster community, not chase it away. What I meant was that there are some Magic artists who go for gross-out ugliness, and there are others who create some beautiful images. As John Gardner wrote, we as artists have a responsibility not to add any more ugliness to the world. There are artists besides Anson to mimic, you know! But if you give topics such as "Festering Cheese" the odds are very good that the resultant art will show decay and corruption and those other things that Anson and his buddies relish. I have been playing Magic since December '93, and miss the work of Quinton and Margaret and Rob and Kaja. It is all comicbook stuff, now. Pity. Carolly