Neil Gaiman has teased a fun new minor detail from his upcoming release of ‘Good Omens.’ It seems that Hell has some very entertaining motivational posters. With the Apocalypse coming, it is clear that Hell wants all of its citizens in top form and these signs are just the way to do it. This doesn’t give us much in the way of real teases but just shows the exact kind of subtle humor that Gaiman and Terry Pratchett were going for when penning the original novel.
Here is a before shot of one of the posters from Instagram:
And here we see it hanging up on a wall in Hell:
In case people missed this one. Another motivational poster from the walls of Hell. #goodomens pic.twitter.com/bPIhqcMZgq
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 14, 2018
Gaiman also shared quite a few others which had gone up on the walls as well!
A few more choice shots of the posters on the walls of Hell. #goodomens (I was proud of the art department for taking direction into the Comic Sans etc darkness.) pic.twitter.com/jE7ErlGi4V
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 14, 2018
A few more motivational posters from the walls of Hell. #GoodOmens pic.twitter.com/ShA5saE7ke
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 14, 2018
I absolutely love that Gaiman took the time to create the text for all of these signs by himself. Not only as one of the authors but as the showrunner where he needs every detail to be just right. The more I am seeing of his work and teases for the series the more excited I get!
As a bonus, the author also shared some of the great comments on the posters that tended to have one common factor among them:
This is hell, after all. I’m disappointed there aren’t apostrophes in intention’s and wall’s
— Ozzy (@karohemd) February 14, 2018
These are demons. They aren’t monsters. For cruelty like that, you need human beings. https://t.co/9Pkh31d5Qs
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 14, 2018
The quotation marks don’t match! One is bolded
— Sarah P-C (@sarahprozac) February 14, 2018
We were very proud of that, yes. https://t.co/1y2IQ653uL
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 14, 2018
I think it’s the first thing everyone’s spotted, but there’s so much more. The formatting. The mixed typefaces. I bet a closer look will reveal a kerning horror scene.
— Laurie Pink (@lauriepink) February 14, 2018
Gaaaah! Corporate use of Comic Sans! That’s EVIL, mister!
— Lanika (@lanika) February 14, 2018
It was in my brief to the Art Department. Because, yes. https://t.co/0gRpYTuKJF
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 14, 2018
comic sans – just no, …. :(
— Marija Kaesling (@mariakaesling) February 15, 2018
I’ll have you know it isn’t easy to get a designer to use Comic Sans. https://t.co/8jiktIIQOk
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) February 15, 2018
So remember folks, the one thing you can best take away from all of this outside of a laugh is:
The road to hell is paved with Comic Sans.
— Anne (@CoffeeGladiator) February 14, 2018
Are you looking forward to Amazon bringing us ‘Good Omens’? Do you feel that this is exactly the kind of motivational posters which Hell would have on its walls? Share your thoughts below!
