its finally here http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-115-wraiths-rogues-gallery
Dangit C and A! Now I want a Hangman story!
Man, I'd forgotten asking that question. The Letters Page is always surprising! :D
I really love the wacky, cheesy single-gimmick villains. Saw Man is serious bottom-of-the-barrel stuff and he's absolutely perfect.
Anyone think Vicious Cycle would be a great awful villain? Goes around robbing banks and getting away on a tricked-out bicycle with like, spring-action blades and nets and gas traps and stuff. XD
Bicycle? Eh…
I say lean in to the cheesiness, go for a tricked-out moped.
Christopher’s sawing sound resembles an orangutan more than it does a saw.
30s foes - gangsters and criminal hoodlums
40s foes - Nazis
50s foes - Communists
60s-70s foes - ???
80s foes - greedy corporations
90s foes - polluting corporations
00s-10s foes - ?
I find myself wondering what Wraith’s equivalent was to the famous meme image of Batman smacking Robin across the face.
Labyrinth is a really engaging concept to me, because he’s somehow creating these mazes and that has to be a huge logistical undertaking. I imagine Wraith trying to investigate how he funded this operation, and getting stymied by legal obstacles that Maia herself put into place to keep anyone from tying The Wraith to Montgomery Industries.
A great “outside genre” story for the Wraith would be a new criminal coming to town, who can do things Wraith cannot logically deduce anything about, and it turns out he’s an alien, maybe a powered Thorathian whose two powers are not very strong but are extremely versatile for like destroying evidence or making witnesses hallucinate and tell contrary stories, so all Wraith’s detective work is wrong because it’s based on false assumptions that the criminal can’t do the impossible, when in fact he can. Turns out he’s come to Earth because it’s known across the galaxy as this primitive backwater world where nothing ever goes well for anyone who visits from space, and so he wants to be a big fish in a small pond, and he stymies both Wraith and the Organization so thoroughly that they have to help each other (probably without the others knowing) before they can take him down.
I wonder if C&A are familiar enough with the Elder Scrolls that they intentionally named Wraith’s first villain after the leader of the Thieves’ Guild in Oblivion.