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.