I would ask him why he wants to play the character as an inhuman monster out to get the other PCs from the get-go.  What does he hope to get out of that approach?

If the other players were really mean, they'd use the first session to establish themselves as loyal followers of the Hocus.

Played IAWA tonight for the first time in awhile.  Lots of multi-sided conflicts, leading to my question: 

Say A and B and C are in a conflict together.  A defeats B.  C can still challenge in this conflict.  Can C challenge B?  Seems harsh that B might get defeated twice in one conflict, but it is a wicked age...

We have a new player in our group who's a bit more gonzo/camp/silly in some of his ideas than I'm used to.   I was a little worried, but I figure it's his game, too, so let him bring it.  I can still play it straight, and put my fingerprints on it.  In some ways, a silly concept can be more disturbing than a serious one when the horror train gets rolling.

I did draw the line at having an NPC gang member worship Voltron, though by the end of the session I was starting to regret it.  I could have some good bloody fun with that...

I perceive highlighting as OOC cues as to what other players would like my character to do, so the idea of redo-ing the highlighting due to IC actions seems off to me.

How about a short-lived "instead of rolling X, roll Y when you <move>" effect?

I like the idea of a 40s apocalypse.  What if the first atomic bomb blast really *did* turn into a run-away chain reaction, igniting the atmosphere?

The only take-a-new-playbook advance I've seen is a Maestro'D becoming an Operator.  As a Maetsro'D he was running around trying to keep all the plates spinning.  When he lost his place of business, and found his attempts to start a new one or regain the old one stymied, it made sense for him to become a plate-spinning "free agent".  It felt very organic.

It helps if your sessions end with the current action wrapped up rather than in the middle of things.  One of us couldn't make it to our last session, and it was really helpful that it made sense for time to have passed and the missing PC to be somewhere else.  Most of our sessions have not been so conveniently structured, so we would wind up pulling out Fiasco or some other one shot when a player couldn't come.

My first experience with the game was a one-shot at last year's GenCon GoD.  I grabbed the Angel because I'm a sucker for clerics.  The other PCs were a Driver, Operator and Skinner.

The game I ran last year included a Hocus, Gunlugger and Chopper.  There was also a Skinner, but the player was in only one session.  The guy who played the Hocus likes spooky/crazy characters.

I'm playing a Skinner in my current game, and the other players are a Savvyhead and Maestro'D.  I was tempted to play an Operator, since I like having "anchor" characters to whom it's easy to connect the other PCs as followers, gang members, etc., but the Maestro'D took care of that.  If we had gotten our hands on the Hoarder earlier, the Savvyhead player would probably have grabbed that.  This is the same guy who played the Hocus.  Weird is his thing.  The Maestro'D's recently turned into an Operator, since his establishment has slipped through his fingers.

My Skinner's will probably have enough advances to consider a playbook change soon.  Not many other playbooks focus on Hot (I think just the Maestro'D?).  The character could go a few different ways based on the current fiction: Hardholder, Maestro'D (there's an opening now!), Battlebabe.  Kind of depends on what kind of trouble he gets into for killing the NPC holder at the end of yesterday's session.  Storm really needs to work on impulse control.