Crosover TV Episode: Slumber Party

Are you a fan of L. Frank Baum's Oz books?

Then you'll love this episode of Supernatural featuring one of several different versions of Oz that CU characters have visited!

For more information, please read my books Crossovers Expanded Vols. 1 and 2. These books, which will debut at the Meteor House booth at FarmerCon/PulpFest in Columbus, OH on July 21-24, are AUTHORIZED companions to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Vols. 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert. Win provided the foreword to Vol. 1, and he and I will be at the convention signing copies, as will William Patrick Maynard, author of the foreword for Vol. 2, and Keith Howell, cover artist for both volumes.

Crossover of the Week

Autumn 2010-Spring 2011

BLOOD AND BULLETS

            Deacon Chalk has hunted monsters ever since a member of the race of angel/human hybrids known as the Nephilim killed his family. Deacon states, “There are few proclaimed vampire slayers and they range all kinds. Anita out in St. Louis, but she has a lot of stuff going on, not just vampire executions. Cat and Bones run their crew killing vampires and do a fine job of it. I hear whispers about the Blue Woman now and again, but it’s hard to pull the fact from the fiction on that one. There’s some folks in California. In L.A. and a small town east of it, who do mostly vampire slaying, but I haven’t met them yet. The black guy and old man combo who roam around do nothing but vampires. From what I hear they have a personal stake in it, so to speak. Sam and Dean will tussle with a vampire, but usually they are chasing down demons.”

            Novel by James R. Tuck. Anita is the main character of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, which takes place in an alternate reality where humans know that the supernatural is real. However, Justin Gustainis’ Morris and Chastain Supernatural Investigations series has established that Anita does have a CU counterpart, who has doubtless had very different adventures than Hamilton’s version. Dhampir Catherine “Cat” Crawfield and vampire bounty hunter Bones are from Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series of novels. Vlad Tepesh appears in Frost’s series, but he hates the name Dracula and possesses pyrokinetic abilities. This is probably a “soul-clone” of the original Dracula, who somehow developed pyrokinetic talents that the true Vlad Tepes lacks. The Blue Woman is Nancy A. Collins’ monster hunting vampire Sonja Blue. The small town east of L.A. is Sunnydale, the home of Buffy Summers on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Los Angeles reference is to the titular vampire from Buffy’s spin-off Angel. The black guy and old man combo are Marvel Comics’ vampire hunter Blade and his mentor Abraham Whistler, the latter of whom debuted in the cartoon Spider-Man: The Animated Series and went on to appear in the Blade film series. Sam and Dean are monster hunting brothers Sam and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.

Crossover Cover: What in Samhain Just Happened?

A television producer seeks out the Ghostbusters to clear a ghost out of his home, so that he can capture the bust on film. A DeLorean appears outside the ’Busters’ firehouse. After the Ghostbusters turn him down, the producer mentions that he’s heard of two brothers who are good at handling ghosts, “Remington…something like that.” A copy of the Necronomicon also appears. The DeLorean is probably the car from the Back to the Future film series. The brothers mentioned by the producer are Sam and Dean Winchester from the TV series Supernatural. IDW’s Ghostbusters comics must take place in the early ’90s, shortly after the end of the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. The Winchester brothers were children in the 1990s, and unlikely to have a reputation as monster hunters. However, they’ve magically time traveled many times over the course of the show, visiting the ’70s, the ’40s, the Old West, and a post-apocalyptic future, and have dealt with the fallout of an angel going back and saving the Titanic (though the timeline was restored by the end of the episode), so it’s not impossible that they may have spent some time in the early ’90s as well, possibly even traveling to that era in the DeLorean. The copy of the Necronomicon seen here is visually based on the one in The Real Ghostbusters episode “The Collect Call of Cthulhu.”

Crossover: Supernatural: One Year Gone

Monster hunter Dean Winchester, despite being supposedly retired, travels to Salem, Massachusetts to retrieve a copy of the Necronomicon, which he believes contains a spell that can release his brother Sam from Hell. This tie to the Cthulhu Mythos is one of several crossovers confirming that the events of the TV series Supernatural take place in the CU. It is also hinted that a similar book encountered by the brothers in the episode “Swap Meat” was a watered-down version of the Necronomicon.