"Hey, Genn! For the next page, I'm going to send you designs for eight new characters. I'll need you to reproduce my rambling but very detailed ideas for these designs with precision but still add some artistic flair to the whole mess. Can you do that in a few days?"

Damn, can she! Ladies, gentlemen, those who are both, and those who are neither, may I introduce to you the Kings and Queens of the Minor Arcana. Cups. Swords. Pentacles/Coins. Staffs/Rods. With this page, we witness the birth of the Minor Arcana in Mysteries of the Arcana lore.

I cannot express enough how delighted I am with the way Gennifer's art has brought my ideas to life. Better yet, how she added to those ideas and made the Kings and Queens truly something special.

Thanks, Genn. So much.

P.S. There are a great many little, symbolic details hidden in each of the Kings and Queens. Can you find them?

I've really got to give Genn props here. Her computer died and she found a way to finish the page in spite of it. I know how hard it can be when a key piece of hardware craps out on you - especially when you need the processing power to run memory intensive art programs. So, thanks Genn. You went above and beyond the call of duty here!

Don't forget the contest, folks! I'm going to extend the deadline to the end of this month - so until 5/31/12. Right now we have exactly three entries. I'd love to see more!

Our pages are about to get somewhat abstract. I've been waiting to tell this particular story for several years, now. I always knew I wanted it to be something worthy of the great mythological origin stories, not to mention the many fine fictional ones. Hopefully, you will all enjoy.

Don't forget, there's a contest going on! Submit a piece of fanart to use by the end of next week. Genn and I will judge the entries. The three that we feel most excemplify the spirit of the comic will get a prototype Mysteries of the Arcana tarot card! It won't be anything fancy, I admit, but it'll be pretty neat to have, I hope!

Your submission doesn't have to actually BE a drawing. It could be a recipe, a poem, a photograph, some cosplay, or any creative work! Please, join in!