A Fragment on The State Of Things
My comic for @wingzine, a fragment of a poem I imagine was scribbled down hastily on a napkin and forgotten in a certain bookshop...
Hey guys I saw people doing a Spotify wrapped art challenge and I wanna try it. So you'll send me a number 1-100 and I'll doodle something using the lyrics. You can send an ask with the number and a character ıf you want to (ıf you don't, I'll just draw about the character it reminds me)
Note: OK, first things first, I started drawing this while traveling on a bus, in an Easternish Europian country, so the roads were very bumpy and it was hard to write, so I'm going to write here the texts too. I hope you like this short story I came up with! ^^ (I'm obsessed with putting easter eggs into everything)
1:
God: Today I unite you,
God: And all shall witness.
[Crowley hides themselves with his wings]
2:
A: It's alright, my darling. No needd to cover me.
God: He is right, Crowley. You can't fight anyone's fate.
God: For it has already been written.
God: My sweet children, I have sent humanity for you to learn from.
God: And you two were the first ones, who ever did. Crowley, my fallen archangel, Raphael, guardian demon of the tree, and aid of humanity…-
A: What?! You're an archangel?
3:
C: Does it matter now?
A: N-no.
God: Aziraphale, principality of the Eastern gate… my softest angel. Your worries may layed to rest, for from this day forward, you shan't leave one another.
God: Take my gift, he will be the guardian of humanity. The fruit of your love will be Rathma.
A, and C: What?!
God: Demon, will you take my gift, and his hand?
C: … I'd like to hear it from him first!
God: Very well, angel?
A: Crowley… I will.
4:
C: Then,
C: I will too…
God: You may kiss your spouse.
5:
6:
later, somewhere in London
[wings flap, they are falling apart, from being untangled from their wings, finally falling back into cushions at the library]
C: What- What just happened?
A: I think… we just got married.
7:
C: Angel. Did you really want this?
C: I mean, them leaving us alone is nice and all, but… Isn't this going too fast for you?
A: Crowley, dear. This was just a ceremony of spending our time together. I think we already did that for 6000 years.
C: Did you not hear the part about Rathma?!
A: Crowley, I will do no such thing until I know you can love me.
C: Oh, so you mean to tell me, you also don't have free will. Beacuse angels can't have that.
8:
C: You just heard Her. We are on our own side.
C: You didn't say yes, just because you were forced, right?
A: It's not as if we can't set our own pace. She didn't say any date.
C: So you do lov-
A: Ahah, would you like some wine? Let's get drunk!
[alcohol appears]
9:
C: …sure. I'd like to be summoned while I'm too drunk to care about the change of surroundings. If that happens again.
[Bunch of alcohol later]
C: My point is… Ducks!
[A: again?]
C: They have eggs. Real good parental defene… defenend… guardians! Put their heir in an egg! Kids fresh out the egg can run! See! Speak too! Snakes have eggs!
10:
A: So you're suggesting we should also store them in an egg?
C: I-I-I I mean, I don't suppose any of us want to carry them the way others do, right?
A: Like humans?
C: Imagine fish…
A: Ugh… I'd rather not.
A: Do we even carry them? How-… Do they?… How would we even get there? I don't think others have done it before.
11:
A: How are angels born?
C: Why ask me? You're the angel!
A: You were an archangel! You should know more than I do!
C: I-I don't know!
C: God sorta just created them! In adult form. Or at least in a permanent state.
C: …You don't think-. They will just show up anytime?
A: She said they'll be born as the fruit of our love…
A: wait.
A: If we are good and evil. Then they will be good and evil. But humans are good and evil. What if they will be human? They grow so fast!!
12:
C: I go for a longer nap and they might be old or dead!
[Even more alcohol later…]
A: I can't help it, I'm an 'Ngel! I'm made out of love. I can only love you. Even if you can't-
[Drunk vision begins]
C: No. Angel,
13:
C: I'm sorry if you ever thought that. If you ever held back because of me. Of fear I'd hurt you.
C: I can't ask you to believe me, I only earned distrust for my fall. But I have loved you since the moment we first met. Even if I hate to admit it. There's no other being I want to protect more than you. If not me, the nature of the animal I've been cursed with, can be believed.
14:
A: Crowley… You just said that you love me!
C: I-… I did?
Aziraphale, barely can be heard: Dear, you're shaking! Are you alright? Oh don't fear, it is mutual, rea…
[Crowley's brain has stopped working]
15:
[Reality check starts, drunk vision ends]
C: OFC I LOVE YOU, ANGEL! PLEASE! IT'S BEEN 6000 YEARS! hic WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GO TOO FAST FOR YOU?!! HUMANS NEED LIKE ONE YEAR. Why do you think I slept so much?! "Devil don't sleep", Angel! I-…
[reciting of the last words, showing they really were said]
[Time was spent, and now it's morning]
16:
A: Mhm…
C: Nothing's too fast for you now, is it?
A: You're never going to let that go, will you?
C: That's basic standard~
C: Angel. Will you marry me?
A: But we're already married?
C: I want it to be your decision. When you want it. When you're ready.
A: Crowley~ You're the nicest being that I ever known,
[C: That's a problem]
A: Of course, I will!
17:
[much later, in Raphael's church, with Raphael's painting showing him holding a snake. Others have been invited too.]
C and A: I do.
[A: Now that I think about it, it's kind of obvious]
18:
It has been ages since they were on earth.
[ominous humming]
In their celestial star-shape.
A star smelter, in the sky. A new star was believed to have occoured.
And a new star was born. (A demigod).
19:
And soon, delivered to Earth. Vanishing from the night sky. An Angel's egg.
[later, at their cottage house]
A: Crowley~
[Crowley is shown in snake form, holding a marker, indicating he drew on the egg the shades]
“the angel of the eastern gate put his wings over his head to shield himself from the first drops [of rain]” no he didn’t actually. source: I’m Not Drawing That
Happy February 29th. A day that only happens once every four years deserves something special, so let’s dive right in.
ComicScene Awards win!
Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel won the award for Best Crowdfunder at the ComicScene Awards! We want to say a huge THANK YOU; it’s an award voted for entirely by comics fans, so we appreciate the continued enthusiasm and championing of the Kickstarter. You can read more about the award here. A nice companion to the Comedy.co.uk Award win for Season 2 as Best TV Comedy Drama, and the British Film Designers Guild Planet Positive Award. Wahoo.
PledgeManager.
We’re happy to say that the PledgeManager launch is coming in a few weeks. With our monthly update in March, we’re planning to move to the next stage of the campaign: here you’ll be able to add your shipping addresses, pay for shipping, and add any additional items that you might have missed during the campaign. We’ll have FAQs available once it is launched.
Now to the new stuff…
Ready to rep the world’s best antiquarian and unusual bookshop? The first of our A.Z. Fell & Co merch has arrived: bookmarks are here and looking tip top.
Our A.Z. Fell sample socks have, ironically, gone walkabout before we got a picture, however, here's a very quick snap of the Crowley pair.
Artwork, artwork and… some more artwork.
The prints keep on coming and this time we’ve got four in one. Behold, Anna Morozova’s take on the four horsewomen of the apocalypse in one glorious image:
The large-scale map of Tadfield (and the rest of the planet) by Julien Labit is underway, so here are a couple of sneak peeks at different locales from the world of Good Omens in their earlier design stages:
When we say it’s large-scale, wait until you see the full one. Huge! So much to explore.
And, in terms of artwork, we’ll end on a few inked previews from the graphic novel by Colleen Doran of our favourite Angel and Demon:
And… how would we describe it? A little mishap regarding losing the antichrist?
More pins.
You didn't think we could go this whole update without pins, did you? You can see updates of the pins outside of Kickstarter at goodomenshq.com. But for now, here's a few:
Future items…
Another ongoing thanks for sharing what you’d like to see in the eventual Good Omens merch store. We’ll have a few new things available via the PledgeManager directly from your suggestions - mainly alternative designs and variants for some add ons, with ambitions for plenty more on the official store. The list you’ve helped us put together is quite ambitious, but we’re up to the challenge *looks up how to make actual angel wings*