Viking

[Pagangirl]

I know we had Slaine slaughtering his way into Celtic mythology, but how about having a Vikng story?  I mean there is some seriously scary and weird stuff in Norse mythology, as well as the more widely know guys with horned hats that we see in movies.  So how about it, a strip that draws from the Norse myths?  If nothing else you could cash in on thr LotR media buzz.  Please.  Pretty please?

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[Pagangirl]

I'm not going to drop this one you know :oP

I want at least a reason why a Norse based historical/dark fantasy/horror story wouldn't work.

Think about it, something really creepy and atmospheric.  Maybe a lost earth colony where the only surviving knowledge after the crash of technology was a Norse encyclopedia if you wanted to make it more scifiy

[Oddboy]

Sounds great!  But it needs a sci-fi twist.

How about the greatest Viking hero meets a stranger from lands afar with evil glowing eyes & they go off together into the future killing wrong-doers for money..?

[JimBob]

 Nah that'ld never work ; )

[malkymac]

I saw a Star Tek episode (NG) recently that was based on Beowulf (the holgram generator thing got stuck or whatever) Very entertaining though. Lots of Vikings and shouting etc

[Pagangirl]

****How about the greatest Viking hero meets a stranger from lands afar with evil glowing eyes & they go off together into the future killing wrong-doers for money..? ********

I was hoping for a delving into norse culture and myth to produce some nice atmospheric chills and a bit of good old fashioned eerieness, as you well know.  We have enough people running around with weapons screaming, lets try for character and depth once in a while outside Dredd.

[Smiley]

>I was hoping for a delving into norse culture and myth to produce some nice atmospheric chills and a bit of good old fashioned eerieness, as you well know.

Ugh! No sci-fi Viking comic strips please, the plot might end up like "Camelot 3000". (Or rather "Valhalla 3000"?)

I dunno about comics, but if you can find a copy of the novel "War Of The Gods" by Poul Anderson, give it a go. An orphaned Viking king is raised by Titans. He grows up and sets off to bash some heads in order to claim his throne, while possessed by a Norse god. It's a moody yarn written in (a sort of) Anglo-Saxon, very atmospheric and fairly grim in places. Might be what you're after.

[The Amstor Computer]

One big argument against a Viking story - it would be dangerously close to what's been done with Slaine. Even with the best will in the world, it would still feel like a Slaine knock-off.

[Oddboy]

(How about the greatest Viking hero meets a stranger from lands afar with evil glowing eyes & they go off together into the future killing wrong-doers for money..?
You know I was talking about Wulf & Johnny, don't you?  Good.)

I do think it's a very doable story (if done well/right artists/scriptdroid etc yadda yadda yadda) but it would have to be done very differently from Sl?ine.

[Pagangirl]

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(How about the greatest Viking hero meets a stranger from lands afar with evil glowing eyes & they go off together into the future killing wrong-doers for money..?
You know I was talking about Wulf & Johnny, don't you? Good.)
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I still don't think having him say "By the gotts" every so often counts as authentic Norse.  As to the same as Slaine theory.

Take a different tack on it, Slaine is Conan (did we ever say that before?).  Let's try something with more character and depth of atmosphere, a creepiness factor.  All those dark norse winters, still impenatrable pine forests, forbidding mountains, icy fjords etc.

After all are Sinister Dexter and Strontioum Dog identical?  No same set up, futuristic hitmen, just a different path, same with Farscape and Blake's 7, same idea, different execution.