Saturday, December 31, 2016

Tresspassin' - Doomtown: Reloaded

You short folk ain't welcome here!
So, one thing you learn about this card when trying to do a Google search is the first part of the word is supposed to be spelled "tres" and not "tress". I'm guessing this is an intentional misspelling in order to convey an accent or a drawl. This is supported by them dropping the "g" at the end.

Flavor wise, this is a perfectly okay card. There are people on your private property you want off, so you confront them and tell them to leave or you'll call the cops. They either go home or become wanted by the law. The flavor text seems to be commenting on the scene, and becomes funnier when you juxtapose it with the image. Apparently two old people with rifles are worse than the sheriff's police.

But now we get to the art. First off, why are the criminals so short? I would say the old couple are just standing on top of something, but the proportions of the criminals seems far too off for that to be the case. Did the art description ask to depict dwarves? Then there's the colors. Absolutely none of the colors are bright, and everything just looks brown and muddy. Even the greens and blues look closer to a gray. Again, the only positive point is the humor, since you don't associate two elderly residents with pointing guns at outlaws in the old west.

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