fuckyeahgoodomens: William the Antichrist, a lovely little book included in the Ineffable Edition of

fuckyeahgoodomens: William the Antichrist, a lovely little book included in the Ineffable Edition of the Illustrated Good Omens, contains the Neil Gaiman original short text from which then he and Terry Pratchett cooked up the brilliance we know today. It covers the meeting of the three demons and the baby swap.Fun facts from Neil’s preface :) :Crowley was original known as Crawleigh, inspired by nearby town: The unfortunate demon, whom I called Crawleigh, because Crawley was a nearby town with an unfortunate name, would have to sort it all out as best he could.About the writing, Crowley and Aziraphale: Terry took the 5,000 words, and rewrote them, calling me to tell me what he was doing and what he was planning to do. The biggest thing he was going to do, he told me, was split the hapless demon into two characters - a would-be-cool demon in dark glasses (which was, I think, a Terry’s way of making fun of me, a never-actually-cool journalist in dark glasses) who had renamed himself Crowley, and a rare-book dealer and angel called Aziraphale, who would embody all the English awkwardness that either of us could concieve. Adam was named William all the way through the writing and only after the estate of Just William’s book didn’t reply, they shuffled things around: William the Antichrist XXX being finished, we reached out to the Richmal Crompton estate to see if they’d countenance the book being published with their character. They didn’t reply, and we were already talking about some of the fun things we could do to the characters if we weren’t stuck with William Brown’s world - Adam’s second in command could be female, for a start - so our second draft of the book formerly known as William the Antichrist, which was mostly an attempt to make it look like we knew what we were doing all along, and not just filing off the serial numbers and doing a Find and Replace to change William to Adam (although we did that, too, resulting in Gollancz’s copy editor asking who composer Vaughan Adams was).Fun facts from the story :) :Crawleigh is truly an in incompetent demon - when the other two recount all their evil deeds, he says: “Well.. I really meant to get around to that sort of stuff. I mean I really meant to. But. I’ve been so busy recently, and I just didn’t, um, you know how it is…” He trailed off.He drives not a Bentley, but a Citroen 2CV. (no colour specified, but this is what the type looks like: :))He’s really, really bad at demoning (remember that at this point he’s still both Crowley and Aziraphale): It wasn’t he didn’t want to ruin the lives and souls of strangers; it was just that after he’d given them nice cups of tea and homemade cakes, and listened to their problems and helped them balance their cheque books, and got their kittens down from trees, there simply wasn’t the time.Satan at one point of time hurt him! WE ARE RELYING ON YOU, it said. DO NOT FAIL US, CRAWLEIGH.“No, Lord.“NO… WHAT DID WE DO TO YOU AFTER THE ATLANTIS DEBACLE? REMIND US.“Half an aeon, O Master of the Nine Hells, partially dismembered, suspended in the flaming cesspits of Abbadon. There were internal stoats in there somewhere as well. And after that I was Earthbound until further notice.“ Proto-Crowley was SOOOFT ❤❤❤ -- source link

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