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Another Sir Terry Pratchett interview on the details of writing Good Omens with Neil Gaiman. (More about this process x).

Question about how he goes about collaborating with someone else ( @neil-gaiman).

Terry: “You make them do what you want”.

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How Good Omens came to be: and about the names Aziraphale and Crowley and how they used to be one.

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Since it is world book day, I thought I would share once again one of my most heavily annotated, scrapbooked, lived in books- Good Omens.

I usually scrapbook inside my books, but this one is the only one that has things in almost every single page. These are just the pages with double spreads.

To the book that saved me and to Terry Pratchett and @neil-gaiman , thank you 🥂.

I did add some image descriptions. So you get some clues about all the things I put in each spread.

(Because someone asked in the tags: “how can you read it? Reread it??”

Well simple answer: this edition,like many others, happen to have black pages with just the days of the week printed on them, which I left visible, and plenty of empty spaces where I glue/draw everything else, so nothing is covered at all. Plus having so much stuff inside has actually made it easier to open. )

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is there a spell on good omens books that makes them Irrevocably Fucked Up as soon as you finish reading them?? ? im over here laughing at all the ‘it fell in the bathtub. a car ran over it,,,,,,’ stories and then????? for the first time in ever??? i Fucking Murder a book? my good omens book,,, which i Love,,, has orange juice seeped into its pores, much like crowley himself. what the fuck is this. @neil-gaiman answer me

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hi neil, today is my eighteenth birthday! i was born on 06/06/2006, or in shorter terms 6/6/6!!

this may be a little too much to ask and this may amount to being a very boring word but could i have the 6th word on the 6th line of page 6 of the first episode of Season 3 of Good Omens? as im assuming episode 6 isn't written yet!!

It's "to" for Episode 1.

And I'm afraid it's "a" for Episode 6.

Happy birthday anyway.

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Valley of the Dolls in Dead Boy Detectives: A neat reference that I haven’t seen mentioned around is that Edwin read and lent to Monty “Valley of the Dolls”.

Now, Edwin is bright and well-read and yet he did not manage to understand the whole plot of the book.

Now, the plot of the book could be tied with his life, but it is not as relevant as the title. “The Dolls” of the book ultimately refer to the various pills the protagonists were taking. For Edwin, Dolls have a very different meaning, but they could also be translated as a “hard pill to swallow” because hell is the “valley”of those “pills”.

Again the title also refers to the three heroines of the book and how Hollywood played with them; and when they didn't fit in with what was required (or what they thought was required), they were discarded like used toys (like dolls).

And that is precisely what happens to Edwin. Discarded not only as a doll, but constrained for 76 years to become pieces of dolls.

Apart from the very obvious, that Edwin’s hell is literally called “The Dolls House”, an allusion to the original Sandman volume, but also a play on the book he mentions later.

#dbda #dead boy detective agency #dead boy detectives #edwin payne #charles rowland #valley of the dolls #george rexstrew #the sandman

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So the “are you sure they are wrestling” statue that David signed is now up for sale. Maybe someone here can get it so that Michael can sign the other cheek.

#good omens #neil gaiman #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #terry pratchett #good omens 2 #wrestling #good vs evil #david tennant #michael sheen

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Some Good Omens origins: character descriptions inside of the blueprint of what would become our beloved book, but which was first named William the Antichrist.

Although these are all about characters, I wrote about the process and the first draft here.

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Reblogging for the pins! Yes, the easter eggs are amazing. Check out the photo behind the magnifying glass at the end too! I can’t fit everything because of space here, but also notice how the cat in the frame is dressed as Edwin with a bowtie.

The Dead Boy Detectives opening credits and its details:

The dancing sequences (PREVIZ - MOTION TESTS by Lee Buckley) developed initially and some of the process of animating the skeletons and background:

Here is another video of George and Jayden trying to recreate the dance moves.

Everyone involved in the design of the opening credits:

Important to note: Steve Yockey has said several times that Dead Boy Detectives is like the Hardy Boys on acid. They tried to maintain the very psychedelic and colorful aspect of the comics, whilst also working with darker shades.

The lighting is said to be a mix of blues and purples, but it is also a play on the four main colors of the heroes: Edwin (blue), Charles (red), Crystal (purple) and Niko (pink).

#dead boy detectives #opening sequence #charles rowland #edwin payne #dead boy detective agency #easter eggs #edwin paine #steve yockey #the sandman #painland

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The Dead Boy Detectives opening credits and its details:

The dancing sequences (PREVIZ - MOTION TESTS by Lee Buckley) developed initially and some of the process of animating the skeletons and background:

Here is another video of George and Jayden trying to recreate the dance moves.

Everyone involved in the design of the opening credits:

Important to note: Steve Yockey has said several times that Dead Boy Detectives is like the Hardy Boys on acid. They tried to maintain the very psychedelic and colorful aspect of the comics, whilst also working with darker shades.

The lighting is said to be a mix of blues and purples, but it is also a play on the four main colors of the heroes: Edwin (blue), Charles (red), Crystal (purple) and Niko (pink).

#dead boy detective agency #dead boy detectives #opening sequence #easter eggs #charles rowland #edwin paine #edwin payne #steve yockey #the sandman #painland #george rexstrew #jayden revri #crystal palace #niko sasaki

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I literally DISCORPORATED with this. WHAAT. How. When. This is so sweet!! I am so glad. Holy cow you made me shed happy tears. Really, this means the world to me.

Much love from me to you! I’m a happy osito pookie now :)

Any time I see a post pop up from @captainfantasticalright I'm just over here like

Every post is so satisfying

The look! The screenshots! The research!

It is like a massage for my brain. If you are a Dead Boys or Good Omens fan especially - there's some real good shit over there, just saying

#dead boy detectives #good omens #people being absolutely nice and me just confused #really like #i cannot properly thank u

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Picked up my university’s satire paper today! You have a way with words .

I like the "Tumblr blogger".

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This is so sweet! Lo and behold, some character names from the opening sequence of s1! I was not actually expecting to see them. The names are hilarious.

The Peter Anderson Studio and how they originally developed the ineffable opening sequence for Good Omens.

I also covered most of the easter eggs you can find in the season 2 opening sequence here.

And if you want to read the interviews used for this post:

Peter Anderson Studio Title Sequence

Title Sequence Polygon

Indigo Awards

Art of the Title

The official page of the Peter Anderson Studio

#good omens #peter anderson studios #good omens opening sequence #easter eggs #character names #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman

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Reblogging because this comment made my day. Thank you.

Good Omens 2 opening sequence easter eggs:

I had originally posted these after the last Ineffable Con, but in separate posts. A lot of the things mentioned here were covered in the Con and said by Peter Anderson. (He actually left this comment).

Other easter eggs are mentioned inside of the X ray section of Prime! You can watch an extensive behind the scenes there and appreciate how the flames here were built using cotton balls or how the tartan hills were made. (Including our little spider friend, which I also asked some extra pictures from because the original concept was very creepy). You can see them better here.

#good omens #neil gaiman #dead boy detectives

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Niko Sasaki and her wonderful wardrobe in Dead Boy Detectives.

#dbda #dead boy detectives #niko sasaki #yuyu kitamura #george rexstrew #jayden revri #edwin paine #charles rowland #costume analysis #kelli dunsmore

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The Peter Anderson Studio and how they originally developed the ineffable opening sequence for Good Omens.

I also covered most of the easter eggs you can find in the season 2 opening sequence here.

And if you want to read the interviews used for this post:

Peter Anderson Studio Title Sequence

Title Sequence Polygon

Indigo Awards

Art of the Title

The official page of the Peter Anderson Studio

#good omens #neil gaiman #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #terry pratchett #good omens fun facts #good omens 2 #easter eggs #good omens opening sequence #opening titles #peter anderson studio

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More asks about the same thing and something I made a long time ago:

hello mr. gaiman,

so there is this nursery rhyme that goes:

A frog he would a-wooing go, Heigh ho! says Rowley, A frog he would a-wooing go, Whether his mother would let him or no. With a rowley, powley, gammon, and spinach, Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

especially the "heigh ho says anthony rowley" caught my attention as it sounds quite similar to “ 'Heigh ho,' said Anthony Crowley, and just drove anyway" line from the book . is there any chance that you were inspired by this song or is it just a wild coincidence?

It's where Crowley got his first name from.

#good omens #neil gaiman #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #terry pratchett #good omens fun facts #heigh ho #anthony rowley