I frankly don’t even see what exactly was so offensive about Sijo’s original post anyway. Your own post struck me as a better example of “gratuitous backlash-ery.” But that’s just my opinion, and I freely admit I could be completely wrong.

I must say, though, I do like the word “backlashery”.

This is always a non-argument. Saying you disagree with someone does not infringe on anyone’s free speech, and is itself just a part of stating an opinion.

Personally, I haven’t read enough DOOM PATROL to have “experienced” the character, and have never heard of Danny La Rue, but I can share in the sadness that another human whom people loved is gone. If he indeed inspired such a beloved character, then I understand the sorrow is even greater.

So mourn, if you like. But don’t waste time carping at each other. It’s just silly.

But you’re the only one who took the time to post it.

Or, it can be a perfectly natural, spur-of-the-moment reaction to finding out something like that. I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought of it.

However, while I couldn’t care less about Angry Poster Backlash, I want to make clear I didn’t mean any slight to Morrison, much less LaRue. Doom Patrol, while not my cup of tea, does deserve its reputation.

Oh… wait a minute… Really??!? Never mind.

Is naming a band The Velvet Underground less cool because it was the name of an obscure S & M book first? Or does the intertextuality enrich it further? Danny The Street feels like a fuller character to me for having been named in homage to an actual person who embodied several of the more salient characteristics.

And it all came from a line of thinking similar to: “Hmm, Danny La Rue, huh? That means Danny The Street, doesn’t it? As if a person could be a street! Hah! Wait a minute…” The head priest at my church growing up was Father La Mort, and I’ve always wanted to use that somewhere, but it just sounds way too far-fetched.

-Citizen Scribbler

Since when getting inspiration from someone or something makes you a weaker writer?
Can you tell me of a single writer who doesn’t get his ideas from the real world?

All of a sudden I’m not so impressed anymore.

(Not that I ever believed the “Everything Grant does is Gold!” line of thinking, anyway.)

“I wanted to call myself Danny Street so Harry Secombe wouldn’t know I’d gone back to the stage. But there was already a singer called Danny Street, so I became Danny La Rue,” he said.