Good Omens
Terry
Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Good Omens is what happens when you cross Disney’s The Parent Trap with Rosemary’s Baby.
A comic mix-up by the black nuns at the birth of the
Anti-Christ threatens to derail the prophesied Apocalypse, throwing the best
laid plans of Heaven and Hell into turmoil. As a result, the Anti-Christ is growing up in
small, generic England as a regular little boy with a gang of four friends, a
(very confused) Hell-Hound, and A Certain Charisma. Heaven and Hell are now
racing to find Him and get Him back on track to bring about the end of the
world; they’ve been preparing for this War for quite some time now and aren’t
accepting any excuses.
As a result two unlikely beings, a demon named Crawley (“who
did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards”) and an angel named
Aziraphale (part-time rare book dealer), are subsequently forced to work
together.
However, they’ve grown to enjoy the status quo. After having
spent millennia representing Heaven and Hell, Crawley and Aziraphale have
learned that sometimes that the agents on the ground often have more in common
with each other than the “people” they work for. They’ve also grown accustomed
to their earthly pleasures like Queen
and little coffee machines and digital watches and really cool cars.
Therefore Crawley and Aziraphale want to prevent the coming
Apocalypse -- while giving their Superiors Above and Below the impression that
they are Hell-bent on making it happen.
Good Omens is a collaborative story by two of fantasy’s
towering personalities. Terry Pratchett is the genius mind behind the
enormously successful (and beautifully ridiculous) fantasy satire series Discworld; and Neil Gaiman is the dark
and dry creator of such hallowed works as The
Sandman graphic novels. Together
they create a hilarious story with serious undertones that can appeal to all
age groups – I recommend it.
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