There were rumors in 2011 of
Good Omens becoming a television series in the UK, and supposedly a movie adaptation of
Good Omens is in the works. Readers, however, have still not been able to see the faces behind the characters of the popular novel. Luckily, some fans have put together some of their own illustrations of the characters based on their descriptions in the novel.
Adam Young: "It was a face that didn't belong in the twentieth century. It was thatched with golden curls which glowed. Michelangelo should have sculpted it. He probably would not have included the battered sneakers, frayed jeans, or grubby T-shirt, though."
Pepper: "[They] had long ago learned that Pepper did not consider herself bound by the informal conventions of brotherly scuffles. She could kick and bite with astonishing accuracy for a girl of eleven."
Anathema Device: "Any prowling maniac would have had more than his work cut out if he had accosted Anathema Device. She was a witch, after all. And precisely because she was a witch, and therefore sensible, she put little faith in protective amulets and spells; she saved it all for a foot-long bread knife which she kept in her belt."
Newton Pulsifer: "He wasn't what she'd been expecting. More precisely, he wasn't what she'd been hoping for. She had been hoping, rather self-consciously, for someone tall, dark and handsome...She shrugged. Okay. Two out of three isn't bad."
Shadwell: "He was racist in such a glowering, undirected way that in was quite unoffensive; it was simply that Shadwell hated everyone in the world, regardless of caste, color, or creed, and wasn't going to make any exceptions for anyone."
Madame Tracy: Newt had been amazed to find that Madame Tracy was a middle-aged, motherly soul, whose gentleman callers called as much for a cup of tea and a nice chat as for what little discipline she was still able to exact."
The Metatron:
"Aziraphale: 'Oh dear. It's him.'
Crowley: 'Him who?'
Aziraphale: 'The Voice of God. The Metatron.'"
Beelzebub: "A figure rose from the churning ground in a manner of the demon king in a pantomime, but if this one was ever in a pantomime, it was one where no one walked out alive and they had to get a priest to burn the place down afterwards."
War: "She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired, but not up close."
Famine: "It was not surprising that she had recognized him, for his dark grey eyes stared out from his photo on the foil-embossed cover.
Foodless Dieting: Slim Yourself Beautiful, the book was called;
The Diet Book of the Century!"
Pollution: "'Young man,' he said, 'how would you feel if I came over to your house and dropped litter everywhere?' Pollution smiled, wistfully. 'Very, very pleased,' he breathed. 'Oh, that would be wonderful.'"
Death: "There was a tearing sound. Death's robe split and his wings unfolded. Angel's wings. But not of feathers. They were wings of night, wings that were shapes cut through the matter of creation into the darkness underneath, in which a few distant lights glimmered, lights that may have been stars or may have been something entirely else."
"Big Ted looked at the Fourth Horseman. 'Ere, I seen you before,' he said. 'You was on the cover of that Blue Oyster Cult album. An I got a ring wif your...your...your head on it.'"
Aziraphale: "Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
Crowley: "Nothing about him looked particularly demonic, at least by classical standards. No horns, no wings. Admittedly he was listening to a
Best of Queen tape, but no conclusions should be drawn from this because all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into
Best of Queen albums."
**Photos courtesy of
http://juliedillon.deviantart.com/ and
http://goodomenslexicon.org/, both of which I encourage you to visit.
