Page 332 - "Keeping up with the up-keep"
GND 332 - Aziraphale & Crowley chat with Valjean while he works on the AC. They mention Marsha, Cheryl & Frank before discovering a much larger problem...
Pika's text:
In which a few things are confirmed on-page, and there is Finally, Some Plot Around Here!
And a belated acknowledgement of the new Good Omens series.
Reader, I loved it.
I also feel oddly ... dispossessed? of the characters now. Like, their new on-screen incarnations are brilliant but also full of subtle and major differences with their book counterparts and my headcanon, but I really really liked them, but there doesn't seem to be much point in-comic for me to just try and nail all of the actors' clever contributions and character tics (and appearances)...? They had it all down pretty darn perfect. It feels rather like... "my work here is done", not to be overdramatic and egotistical. But, well, thanks so much to so many people who have been re-reading and commenting on the Good Omens-heavy pages in the archives, and those who have been telling me GND was their gateway drug to discovering the book and that fandom. I feel like I just did my part in keeping that flame alive and spreading the good word through the lean times, and now.... I am really not needed! Gifs and fanfic and fanart have exploded all over and it's all so very very good. A lucky fandom! And I am enjoying it dearly.
I don't mean to say that I won't be using Az & Crowley round here anymore, nor that I am quite sure I'm committing to the series' looks for good. But they are not quite the same flavour - that's a less flusterable angel, and a less confident-tempster demon, and whole new facets of their personalities, and also now yall have visual references to compare to that I gotta do justice to.... it may take some digesting and adjusting to. (Although I was delighted to try and draw our Nu!Crowley's skinny-trousered saunter, goodness me. )
But they were so, so good. The series had some pacing issues, and I can't tell how people unfamiliar with the book may have felt about it, and oh gods must Cumberbatch be in EVERYTHING British, ffs.... but oh, they did good by the Ineffable Husbands storyline and their fans.
(also, panel 2: there is talk of a Good Omens musical in the works)
Superintendant Valjean is generally on top of things and the Building's quirks, but.....
(I spent an alarming amount of time sucked into wikiresearch on standards for residential AC and ventilation systems, and plastic explosives......)
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This is a work of fanart and solely intended for shits and giggles. Not mine, not making money from it.
CREDITS
Crowley and Aziraphale [Good Omens] (c) Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Amazon (hiss), David Tennant and Michael Sheen
Valjean [Les Mis] (c) Hugo, Boublil, Schonberg, and Kretzmer
Based on the original Roommates comic by *AsheRhyder
And a belated acknowledgement of the new Good Omens series.
Reader, I loved it.
I also feel oddly ... dispossessed? of the characters now. Like, their new on-screen incarnations are brilliant but also full of subtle and major differences with their book counterparts and my headcanon, but I really really liked them, but there doesn't seem to be much point in-comic for me to just try and nail all of the actors' clever contributions and character tics (and appearances)...? They had it all down pretty darn perfect. It feels rather like... "my work here is done", not to be overdramatic and egotistical. But, well, thanks so much to so many people who have been re-reading and commenting on the Good Omens-heavy pages in the archives, and those who have been telling me GND was their gateway drug to discovering the book and that fandom. I feel like I just did my part in keeping that flame alive and spreading the good word through the lean times, and now.... I am really not needed! Gifs and fanfic and fanart have exploded all over and it's all so very very good. A lucky fandom! And I am enjoying it dearly.
I don't mean to say that I won't be using Az & Crowley round here anymore, nor that I am quite sure I'm committing to the series' looks for good. But they are not quite the same flavour - that's a less flusterable angel, and a less confident-tempster demon, and whole new facets of their personalities, and also now yall have visual references to compare to that I gotta do justice to.... it may take some digesting and adjusting to. (Although I was delighted to try and draw our Nu!Crowley's skinny-trousered saunter, goodness me. )
But they were so, so good. The series had some pacing issues, and I can't tell how people unfamiliar with the book may have felt about it, and oh gods must Cumberbatch be in EVERYTHING British, ffs.... but oh, they did good by the Ineffable Husbands storyline and their fans.
(also, panel 2: there is talk of a Good Omens musical in the works)
Superintendant Valjean is generally on top of things and the Building's quirks, but.....
(I spent an alarming amount of time sucked into wikiresearch on standards for residential AC and ventilation systems, and plastic explosives......)
_____
This is a work of fanart and solely intended for shits and giggles. Not mine, not making money from it.
CREDITS
Crowley and Aziraphale [Good Omens] (c) Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Amazon (hiss), David Tennant and Michael Sheen
Valjean [Les Mis] (c) Hugo, Boublil, Schonberg, and Kretzmer
Based on the original Roommates comic by *AsheRhyder