Good Omens graphic novel kickstarter

[=Tamar]

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Just as Agnes Nutter prophesied, Good Omens, the official (and ineffable) graphic novel, adapted by @colleendoran, launches exclusively via @kickstarter this summer.
Sign up for the launch here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm not sure a sequel is possible . . . but I hope to be proved wrong!

 

[RathDarkblade]

Um, this isn't about the sequel; it's about the graphic novel. There have been Discworld graphic novels before, too.

 

[=Tamar]

And the "adapted" part is just that it's a graphic novel, so a lot of description goes into the visuals. Colleen Doran says every detail is scrutinized by the Estate.

 

[RathDarkblade]

I'm not surprised. If details were not scrutinised, then someone online is bound to complain. (Aren't we scalawags).

 

[Quatermass]

So, who's doing the art? For some weird reason, I'm hoping for Dave McKean, though maybe that wouldn't work for a comic fantasy...well, comic.

 

[DiscworldArchive]

So, who's doing the art? For some weird reason, I'm hoping for Dave McKean, though maybe that wouldn't work for a comic fantasy...well, comic.

Colleen Doran who is Neil Gaiman's artist of choice.

With regards to this graphic novel, it is an adaptation of the original book not the tv series.

 

[RathDarkblade]

With regards to this graphic novel, it is an adaptation of the original book, not the TV series.

May I be the first (and probably only) to say: hooray!

I've nothing against the TV series at all. I think Neil and the team did a marvelous job. But it would be nice to see another artist's impression of what Good Omens should look like, rather than copying what Michael Sheen/David Tennant etc. look like. *nod* Just about every video on YouTube that has something to do with Good Omens makes Aziraphale look like Michael and Crowley look like David. It doesn't matter if the content-creator is doing a cartoon, a plasticine animation, a live-action roleplay or what have you. Everything must look like Michael and David.

Yes, I like those two very much, but let's please see something different? Pretty please?

 

[Quatermass]

Never heard of Colleen Doran. Though I am glad it's more of its own adaptation anyway.

 

[RathDarkblade]

What, never? Never ever? Colleen Doran - Wikipedia

Based on the wiki-article, I think "Good Omens" is in safe hands. She's done hundreds of illustrations for books, including Neil Gaiman's "Troll Bridge", some books by Stan Lee, Gaiman's "Snow, Glass, Apples", and many others.

 

[Quatermass]

Ooh, she did the Facade story for The Sandman? Nice, I loved that one, along with most of the Dream Country volume.