META: Theme Songs!

Drew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Sun May 14 14:38:03 PDT 2017


On 5/13/2017 6:00 PM, Adrian McClure wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Drew Perron <pwerdna at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ooooh! Maybe... the Pet Shop Boys? Soft Cell?
>
> Pet Shop Boys makes sense because it makes me think of
> Gillen/McKelvie--Kieron Gillen said they're "the pet shop boys of
> comics."

Ooooh, yes, that's right. :D

> The shadow of their work is very long in this series, which
> is especially noticeable in #2, drawing on WicDiv and Phonogram as
> well as Morrison's interpretation of the New Gods.

*nods!* You Can't Stop the Beat

> Liminals is
> definitely part of the British superhero comics tradition of Moore,
> Morrison, Gillen, and Paul Hardy's Legion of Occult Heroes as well.
> Thought it's also pretty anime. (Which makes it kind of like
> Claremont/Sienkiewicz New Mutants as well.)

That particular combination seems very LNH. I mean, LOH itself was deeply 
invested in anime fandom. :> (IT'S TOTORO)

>> (Speaking of, I realized that Writer's Block Person would have a theme by
>> Erasure. The *gayest* synthpop. :D And the least self-aware.)
>
> Yess, that's so great.

:D

Drew "erasuretastic" Perron


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