The Marvel Tarot

[lordultimus]

Comments

[deathcrist2000]

Reading the whole thing, I think it would have been improved if it went all the way with the whole universe as opposed to just the magic end of the spectrum.

[alicemacher]

The "magical scrapbook" framework is neat, and although I realize this is a book as opposed to an actual deck, I wish that for the card images themselves they'd done something more original than copypaste Marvel characters into the Rider/Waite/Smith Tarot.

By way of contrast: the Vertigo Tarot deck by Dave McKean (with accompanying book by Rachel Pollack).

[beyondthefringe]

I have that in the basement somewhere...

[kore]

That Vertigo Tarot is so so beautiful.

[kore]

Love it! I'm a total sucker for stuff like this with the fake notes and scribbles.

[full_metal_ox]

For interested parties: back in the 80's, BNF and real-life occultist cat yronwode (the lower-case spelling is her own preference) put together a whole elaborate grimoire indexing the spells, dimensions, artifacts, and entities of Vishantist magic through the Silver and Bronze Ages:

http://www.luckymojo.com/vishanti.html