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DumbAngelSessions:I’m hoping that, somewhere out there, Gail...

DumbAngelSessions:

I’m hoping that, somewhere out there, Gail Simone reads this. :D Because I just had a major epiphany in regard to the somewhat unresolved nature of her brilliant book “Secret Six”.

I have come to the conclusion that “Secret Six” is, in fact, the SOAP of the DC Universe!

Think about it: Strange, flawed (Sometimes silly) yet likable characters. A very cheeky, sense of humor that staggers between a dark & light nature at all times. Drama, drama, drama! Inter-gender relations. Insane plot lines. A seriously bent and wonderfully stated notion of what family is.

But most if all, it is unfinished. Just as SOAP was. True, though I feel that “Secret Six” did at least get a “Firefly”-esque “satisfactory” conclusion, there was so much left to be told. So many plot lines to have been concluded. Relations to be fulfilled. Deaths to be resolved.

I was just a kid back when SOAP first ran on ABC many, many moons ago. And by the time the network cancelled it, I was still just a bit too young to really be watching it (A lot of it went waaaay over my head). But I was always amused by what I saw. Even if i didn’t get the more grown-up aspects of it, what I got was funny. To the point that the crummy ending to the series still haunts me to this day. (As well, I’m still haunted by “Twin Peaks”. Damn you ABC. Now I see where FOX gets it from). Even the perfunctory resolution of the fate of central character Jessica Tate on “Benson” wasn’t enough. The fates of the rest of the characters was left in the air. And in its way, thanks to the New 52, the same can be said of the Secret Six.

Because of the DC Comics app, I’ve been filling in the holes of the issues I missed back when they first ran. And I just feel that heartbreak a’ comin’ knowing that these characters, this version of these characters, won’t get to play together anymore. That they won’t talk-that-talk Gail Simone wrote so well. That I won’t get to marvel at the weird sexual relations of Floyd Lawton and Jeannette anymore. That I wont be able to experience the strange father/daughter sweetness of Bane & Scandal Savage anymore. And even if they are brought back into play in the New 52 (not holdin’ my breath), it won’t be the same. It’ll just be…different. New and glossy. Not quite the same down and dirty.

Hello, sorry if this has been asked before but I'm only getting to really wondering this now since the absence of Secret Six has become slightly less depressing: since you revealed that Catman is the bisexual member of Secret Six, would his eventual male r

I had a new character in mind, actually, a guy who was not part of the hero/villain world.

pumkintier:i had a dream that i went to go see The Hobbit and it turned out to become a stupid...

pumkintier:

i had a dream that i went to go see The Hobbit and it turned out to become a stupid bro-comedy that of the likes of The Hangover 

i remember crying in my dream

it was the most horrid nightmare i have had in a long, long time…

DON’T EVEN THINK THAT.

Don't you hate it when you order something like Chinese food for delivery, and you specifically tell them that you're at work, and ask them for a fork, and they don't send a fork? And then you call them and complain about it, but they want another $5 deli

This is a terrible tragedy that NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED!

Don't you hate it when you order something like Chinese food for delivery, and you specifically tell them that you're at work, and ask them for a fork, and they don't send a fork? And then you call them and complain about it, but they want another $5 deli

This is a terrible tragedy that NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED!

If I recall there's a blocking option that you can use block anonymous messages. It blocks the IP address so the sender can't send you anymore messages. Hope this helps, sorry to see that you're having so much harassment trouble.

Thank you, that’s good to know. If it keeps up, I’ll do that.

But I hate to. I’m big on free speech. And I don’t feel it really rises to the level of harassment, they’re just very hyper-focused on one thing and do not seem willing to accept anything less than 100% agreement.

Most of the people asking, even if they really, really hate something, are content to ask once about it and then move on perfectly respectfully.

It’s the people who refuse to accept a partial agreement as enough that are a bit frustrating!

Don't Worry

Stuff like this gets a little frustrating sometimes…sometimes people refuse to let you go until you AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THEY SAY and I find that really wearying.

BUT it’s certainly not a big deal. On this end, you having a differing opinion is a-okay with me, the last thing I would want to do is obsess over it.

Please always feel free to ask or comment, that’s always cool. But if you ask the same question fifty times trying to get me to validate your opinion exactly, odds are you will be disappointed. Fair?

Do you have a favorite villian to write?

Hmm. Of my creations, probably the Queen of Fables. For others, let’s see…maybe Shiva, if she counts?  If not, I really enjoy Doctor Psycho.

I find this conversation about differentiating between the pre and post 52 interesting. I stopped buying Superman comics a few years ago when DC made the horrible choice to remove him from his own comic book. Ironically, I'm reading one Superman book now

I am glad, but ‘top selling digital book,’ I’m not positive what that means at this point. Does that mean it sells as much as a regular Superman title? Better? Worse? I really don’t know, and neither does anyone, yet, except a very few people in the know.

HOWEVER, it’s got one of my favorite creative teams going. I will pretty much buy anything by Brian Q. Miller, sight unseen. He is terrific.

I find this conversation about differentiating between the pre and post 52 interesting. I stopped buying Superman comics a few years ago when DC made the horrible choice to remove him from his own comic book. Ironically, I'm reading one Superman book now

I am glad, but ‘top selling digital book,’ I’m not positive what that means at this point. Does that mean it sells as much as a regular Superman title? Better? Worse? I really don’t know, and neither does anyone, yet, except a very few people in the know.

HOWEVER, it’s got one of my favorite creative teams going. I will pretty much buy anything by Brian Q. Miller, sight unseen. He is terrific.