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To anyone familiar with the setting of Deadlands, the year 1863 is instantly recognizable as the year that Raven and the Last Sons set the manitou free. Or was there more to it than that? Consider that Raven was ageless and apparently immortal, and utterly consumed by his need for vengeance. Is it possible that Raven is one of the amnesiac Corwin’s by-blows? A bastard son of Amber, unaware of his true heritage but still deadly because of it? Continue reading Amber and Deadlands  Again with the obvious ones this week, sorry folks. There is some weirder stuff coming, I promise Crossing Over is basically me playing with popular culture. What I intend to do here is build a big, big chain of crossovers, snaking here and there across popular culture – and even occasionally looping back through itself. I’ll understand if it doesn’t appeal to all of you as much as it does to me. To start with, I’m crossing over Babylon 5 and The Lord of the Rings. This is an arbitrarily chosen starting point, and so I’ll be moving off from it in an equally arbitrary fashion: I’m going to toss a coin to see which of these two to cross over with some other source next week. After that, each successive week will follow the newer element into another crossover, while the older element will drop out. But enough preamble. On with the show: Babylon 5 and The Lord of the Rings Another fairly natural fit: Buffy’s shadowy government manipulators and those of Delta Green work very well together. After all, both groups fight the monsters in the shadows while struggling not to become more like them, and both groups prefer to operate in secrecy. It would be quite easy to crossover Burn Notice and Leverage – both shows have such similar goals: to help the little guy against the rich and powerful. Realistically, they’re both modern versions of the Robin Hood story, although that’s a thought for another time.
Continue reading Dark Knights, Dark City I: The Early Years of Gotham City
Continue reading Dark Knights, Dark City II: The First of the Batmen
Continue reading Dark Knights, Dark City III: The Last of the Batmen Well, it’s been a while, but here we are. Finally back and going on with the chain. Now, read on: Pagan Publishing’s Call of Cthulhu: Delta Green setting paints a modern world of conspiratorial horror and political madness, a blend of Tom Clancy and H.P. Lovecraft. GURPS Cthulhupunk, meanwhile, imagines the future of Bruce Sterling and William Gibson with Lovecraft’s creations gnawing at its already rotting roots. Each is a compelling and horrific setting in its own right. But in combining the two, the opportunities for horror are only multiplied. So what happens after the end of Fight Club? What happens after Tyler Durden has blown away the credit record – and a fair portion of downtown Wilmington, Delaware? Well, Tyler isn’t exactly unprecedented in his anti-consumerist philosophy. Robbing the rich for the sake of the poor is not something he’s a stranger to. You can see where this is going. This week: a pair of space westerns that fit together pretty well – with one small problem… |
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