[ SECRET POST #3002 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3002 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye/Transformers: Robots in Disguise]


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[Gary Barlow, Take That]


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[Sherlock Holmes]


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[Criminal Minds/Law and Order: SVU]


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[Gekkan shoujo Nozaki-kun]


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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (episode: Prom Night)]


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[Breaking Bad]


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[Night Shift]


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[Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Colbert]


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[clockwise from bottom left: Dinosaur Comics, Romantically Apocalyptic, Homestuck, Nedroid, Sfeer Theory, Bite Me!]


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[Dragon Age]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #429.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see Gaiman as inheriting Moore's audience. Gaiman's audience is kind of its own thing. Plus, it's much easier to outgrow Gaiman than Moore.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Gaiman sort of inherited some of Moore's publishing connections when Alan flounced off on his own, I think. Or rather, he was useful to Karen Berger at DC, because he is a nice guy who enjoys the vastness of comic-book mythology without diving straight into the gory and cynical (Jamie Delano), cursing everything as insufficiently manly (Garth Ennis), or getting absurdly self-important about his revisionist fanfic (Alan Moore). Grant Morrison was another good one to have around for similar reasons.

But I agree that Gaiman has a different audience from Moore. Apparently Sandman attracted a bunch of Robert Smith fans and it ballooned from there.

The idea that people are not outgrowing Alan Moore, and that it's hard to do so, makes me sad. I've been reading his stuff long enough to see what tropes he keeps falling back into, and it's not always even well-executed. :(

[(Anonymous)]

On outgrowing Moore: that's not unfair. Moore does have tropes and bits he returns to again and again, and some of his stuff works better than others.

That said, I think his tropes are richer and more interesting than most comics writers', and his batting average is higher.

Pre-movie Watchmen was a revelation, and remains one of the high-water marks of superhero comics. His short pieces for things like the Green Lantern Corps and The Spirit Archives remain influential classics. The Killing Joke, problematic though it is, is still the best Joker story ever. Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow? was a perfect eulogy for pre-Crisis Superman continuity. His run on Supreme is delightful. From Hell, again pre-movie, is a stunning look inside a conspiracy theory. D.R. & Quinch was hilarious. V For Vendetta was a landmark indictment of the Thatcherite neo-fascism that Britain has too easily endorsed since then. And you know what, I absolutely loved Lost Girls. It was one of the most thoughtful, funny, sexy comics I've ever read, and it engaged fearlessly with complicated issues of fiction and fantasy that most people prefer to ignore.

...do forgive my loquacity, I'm quite drunk. But I stand by all of the above statements.