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A lot of folks are a buzz over Helix, with good reason, it looks good and has promise. My favorite story is The Sum of Things by Robert Brown which is a fun piece of aviation based alternate history.
Jun. 15th, 2006
Musing on Vandal Savage
Jun. 15th, 2006 02:14 pmRecently I read JSA: Savage Time which brought to mind Vandal Savage. Vandal Savage is one of those really cool ideas that I don't think the majority of DC writers and editors know how to handle right. Or at elast I'm usually disappointed by his use. It doesn't help that the stuff I love the most, the Rip Hunter stuff, is mostly out of continuity/crazy mess. But I'm told that there are promising developments on that front (almost enough for me to pick up an issue of 52, but not quite).
What interests me about Vandal Savage is the fact he's linear and immortal, operating in a world of timetravelling heroes from the now (other stuff interests me too, but I want to talk about this). This means that he could have knowledge of heroes that doesn't represent their timeline. So, for example, he meets the Justice Society of today in Ancient Egypt. In Ancient Rome he meets the Justice Society of the 1930s; he potentially has knowledge that could come in handy. Especially since Vandal Savage is supposed to be super smart (and no, I haven't been reading the current JSA Confidential). This is cool stuff. Its even cooler when his foe is a time travel. Vandal savage is linear through history, but his foe (say Rip Hunter) isn't so Savage has a very different viewpoint of Hunter than Hunter has of himself.
I can see using this in a time traveling game. The players are based in the now and time travel. Their foe is living linearly through time (and still exists in the modern day). Adventures happen scattered through time and through it a picture develops of the opposition. But that opposition also gets an interesting view of you. Some of the stuff in Continuity might help out here a lot.
What interests me about Vandal Savage is the fact he's linear and immortal, operating in a world of timetravelling heroes from the now (other stuff interests me too, but I want to talk about this). This means that he could have knowledge of heroes that doesn't represent their timeline. So, for example, he meets the Justice Society of today in Ancient Egypt. In Ancient Rome he meets the Justice Society of the 1930s; he potentially has knowledge that could come in handy. Especially since Vandal Savage is supposed to be super smart (and no, I haven't been reading the current JSA Confidential). This is cool stuff. Its even cooler when his foe is a time travel. Vandal savage is linear through history, but his foe (say Rip Hunter) isn't so Savage has a very different viewpoint of Hunter than Hunter has of himself.
I can see using this in a time traveling game. The players are based in the now and time travel. Their foe is living linearly through time (and still exists in the modern day). Adventures happen scattered through time and through it a picture develops of the opposition. But that opposition also gets an interesting view of you. Some of the stuff in Continuity might help out here a lot.