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 Here's my prep for the game: There's some heavy stuff in there; content warning for sexual violence, drugs, and all kinds of prejudiced -phobias.  A disclaimer about the depiction of Mormons in this scenario: it's totally fictional. I know/have known many Mormons, none of whom were serial killers. This scenario is based on a paranoid fantasy of Mormon-Pentecostal syncretists. Unlike modern Mormons, the villains in this scenario still believe in polygamy (now forbidden by the Church of Latter-Day Saints), they make and take drugs (always forbidden by the LDS), they worship the cross, speak in tongues, and handle snakes (Mormons don't worship the cross, and the latter two activities are Pentecostal), and they kidnap, rape, and impregnate women to serve as their "wives" (which is not something I associate with any modern religion). Prep and writing  This scenario evolved from a dream I had, in which killer hillbilly farmers worked a pumpkin patch, and simultaneo...

This post is for me more than you. I'm using it to track my reading history and to read list. You might get some recommendations out of it. You might give me some recommendations, too. If I write about any of these comics, I'll link them here. I might otherwise put in a little blurb, quick thoughts. I didn't think I was a big comic reader but I guess I am.  Comics I have read, in roughly autobiographical order Archie Comics. Used to buy them in the checkout line at the grocery store.  Bionicle. Can't be any good but at least it's an impressively fantastic world. Tintin. Haven't reread it but I bet it holds up. Mad Magazine, most issues from the mid 60s to the mid 70s. My father had a stack of these a foot high that he gave to me. Fuckin fantastic back in the day, nowadays probably too goofy. Ultimate Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men.  The  superhero comics of my childhood. I sprinkled in some other stuff when it was available at the library -- selected Marvel Z...