The Centre Cannot Hold

Welcome to something a little different from what you’ve previously seen in Crossing Over. Today, instead of crossing over just two sources, I’ll be creating a whole chain of crossovers, using The Witches of Eastwick as a starting point.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride, folks.

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 [...]

Moving on, at last, we leave the Planetary and take a turn in the direction of the cosmic. Our destination is Amber, legendary centre of all existence, and the only true reality. At least, that’s what it says in their press releases.

Moving right along.
A secondary theme in Planetary - and the major theme in TORG - it the multiplicity of realities. Both settings posit an almost infinite number of realities, in which our Earth is only one, although special for various reasons. The Earth of Planetary (that of the original WildStorm Universe, if you [...]

This week, we bid goodbye to the Lord of the Rings, and move on with Unknown Armies to another link in the chain: Planetary. It’s a strange world -let’s make it stranger still!
As always, copious spoilers are to be found within.

Well, Babylon 5 lost the toss, so this week it’s another crossover for the Lord of the Rings. (Don’t worry about B5 - I’m sure we’ll be back there one of these days.) This time around, Lord of the Rings meet Unknown Armies. High fantasy meets postmodern horror.
Next week, the Lord of the [...]

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 [...]