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Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

Bill Bittner — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:19:03 -0000

You're right, the look is Victorian, but not necessarily steampunk. But, I guess if there was only one aspect of the characters that could be steampunk, it was that McCoy got that way because of a laboratory experiment. But I guess that could also be Victorian Gothic as well.

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

T3chW01f — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:41:30 -0000

Well unfortunately you don't tend to see Victorian for Victorian's sake these days. It's almost always stereotypical steam punk work. I'm actually a bigger fan of steam punk settings outside of the realm of the Victorian era.

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

cedorsett — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:02:37 -0000

I agree, but there is nothing particularly steampunk or clockpunk about the picture. It is Victorian to be sure, but not necessarily steampunk.

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

T3chW01f — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:03 -0000

Steam Punk doesn't necessarily deny the plausibility or even possibility of these characters. A great example of this is a quite beloved PC game of Steam Punk fans, that never got the recognition it deserved, is Arcanum: Steam Works and Magic Obscura. In it there is a full array of steam technology and magical maladies from orks and trolls and spells to tesla coil guns and death rays.

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

cedorsett — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:24:40 -0000

Definitely. Perhaps we should compile a list of works and define a genre.

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

Bill Bittner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:22:42 -0000

If so, I guess Hellboy would probably be in that genre, right?

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

cedorsett — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:57:13 -0000

If there isn't an occult-punk or to use Lovecraft's fsvorite word, weird-punk because it sounds better. hmm, maybe this should webook project.

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

Bill Bittner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:28:26 -0000

That is pretty freaking sweet. At first glance, it's overall look is steampunk. But upon a closer look, it's all more occult-ish. Is that such a genre? Occult-punk?

By the way, I posted an idea on the deviantART page about another character idea. It's pretty obvious, but here it is anyway...

A clockpunk automaton brought to life by Rasputin, who he simply named "Pitor"