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Grant Morrison and Alan Moore are writing a novel!

 
 
Mistoffelees
09:41 / 01.04.06
I posted it here, since both writers are better known for their comics work, but mods feel free to put in into the books forum, if you think that´s more appropriate, since it´s about a novel.

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Who would have thought? After all those rumours, that these two guys are more in a competitive mood towards each other, they now surprise their readers by working as a team.

"I was really fed up with Neil Gaiman´s success as a novelist", says Grant Morrison, "so I called up Alan, and he was up for it." "As long as they don´t turn it into a movie again", said Alan chuckling. "Yes, Grant and me bounced a lot of nice ideas at each other during that talk, and our publishers are already quite excited."

The buzz is, it´s going to be in the same vein as Gaiman´s and Pratchett´s book Good Omens but with a magical twist. "That worked very good for our graphic novels, so we expect to finally be recognized by the serious critics, too" says Moore. "After all, Grant and me got a 30 years of magical experience between us."

So far, there was no reaction from Neil Gaiman, a longtime colleague of his fellow British comics collaborateurs.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
09:52 / 01.04.06
It's past noon, GMT... sorry
 
 
andrewdrilon
20:01 / 04.04.06
April fools...
 
 
glitch
05:39 / 06.04.06
Damn shame. I just have to put somewhere that Gaiman's novels rock hard!
 
 
Sax
06:34 / 06.04.06
It was certainly rock hard to understand why there was so much fuss about Anansi Boys.
 
 
sleazenation
08:25 / 06.04.06
There was a fuss about Anansi Boys?
 
 
Tim Tempest
00:06 / 08.04.06
Anansi Boys...?
 
 
iamus
01:43 / 08.04.06
Neil Gaiman...?
 
 
matthew.
03:26 / 08.04.06
SHUT UP GAIMAN
 
 
Mistoffelees
10:00 / 08.04.06
I read Gaiman´s novel Neverwhere, and it bored my socks off. My comic book shop lady told me, he was writing new stuff for marvel. I was standing at the vertigo comics rack, glanced down on the neverwhere comics and declined on the spot.

Maybe my next april´s fool will be about Neil Gaiman having written an exciting new comic book.
 
 
glitch
08:00 / 10.04.06
I disagree. I really enjoy Gaiman's stuff. Disagree, but tell me why.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:43 / 10.04.06
Tell you why you disagree?

Non-mod hat. Near as I can tell, this is an April Fools' post. It might be better to talk about the novelistic stylings of Neil Gaiman in the Books forum.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
09:48 / 10.04.06
or we could use this one to post links to news regarding Moore's and Morrison's actual future novels, JERUSALEM and THE IF. =D
 
 
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03:18 / 06.08.07
You april fools bastard, you really had me there. I'm looking for an old thread and I saw this....then read the second and third posts.
 
 
Mistoffelees
08:58 / 06.08.07
It doesn´t matter if it took more than a year, at least I got you! Thanks for admitting it, Te; now I can bask in the joy that my ploy did work.
 
  
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