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Grant Morrison and Alan Moore are writing a novel!

 
 
Cletus Van Mist
(prev. Mist, the devil´s avocado)
12:41 / 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 thatīs more appropriate, since itīs 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 Gaimanīs success as a novelist", says Grant Morrison, "so I called up Alan, and he was up for it." "As long as they donīt 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, itīs going to be in the same vein as Gaimanīs and Pratchettīs 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
12:52 / 01.04.06
It's past noon, GMT... sorry
 
 
andrewdrilon
23:01 / 04.04.06
April fools...
 
 
glitch
08:39 / 06.04.06
Damn shame. I just have to put somewhere that Gaiman's novels rock hard!
 
 
Sax
09:34 / 06.04.06
It was certainly rock hard to understand why there was so much fuss about Anansi Boys.
 
 
sleazenation
11:25 / 06.04.06
There was a fuss about Anansi Boys?
 
 
Tim Tempest
03:06 / 08.04.06
Anansi Boys...?
 
 
iamus
04:43 / 08.04.06
Neil Gaiman...?
 
 
matthew.
06:26 / 08.04.06
SHUT UP GAIMAN
 
 
Cletus Van Mist
(prev. Mist, the devil´s avocado)
13:00 / 08.04.06
I read Gaimanīs 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 aprilīs fool will be about Neil Gaiman having written an exciting new comic book.
 
 
glitch
11:00 / 10.04.06
I disagree. I really enjoy Gaiman's stuff. Disagree, but tell me why.
 
 
A Haus of Minions
11:43 / 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
12:48 / 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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06:18 / 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.
 
 
Cletus Van Mist
(prev. Mist, the devil´s avocado)
11:58 / 06.08.07
It doesnīt 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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