The Four Color Media Monitor

As the Neil Gaiman sexual assault scandal continues to gain public notice, it continues to have a domino effect on his career, including the TV and film projects recently developed from his resume. Latest case in point, as reported by Deadline, is the TV program based on Good Omens, which has apparently become a bad one for the studio producing it:

Production has been paused on the third and final season of fantasy drama Good Omens, the Neil Gaiman drama for Amazon that’s shooting in Scotland.

Deadline is hearing there are discussions about possible production changes. A spokesperson would not comment.

News about the future of Good Omen comes less than a week after Disney put a planned feature adaptation of Gaiman’s 2008 YA title The Graveyard Book on pause amid a series of sexual assault allegations against the award-winning author. (Insiders said multiple factors went into the decision). [...]

This may be the 4th project, whether live action or animation, that's been suspended as a result of the scandal. It'll be interesting to see if the Sandman show, probably the last current live action project adapted from his works, will see its next season subjected to the same result. And who knows, DC may have to put any more reprints of the comics on ice. Last time I looked, they were formatted in at least 10 paperbacks for reprints. If there was any plan to consolidate the 75 issues or so into larger volumes that've become more common today, they'd probably be sold next as 5 paperback volumes with a higher price, but after this whole scandal, any plans for a larger format may see the kibosh put on them. If they continue, the news suggests Gaiman will be removed from any staff position on the crew of the shows, though at this point, that he was the writers of these books and comics will still have a tainting effect on them.

I may have noticed some commentators arguing Gaiman was instrumental in getting people to recognize comicdom as something adults could embrace as a form of literature. Curious they don't consider Mike Baron's creations like Nexus and Badger worthy of such an honor, and for all we know, they probably don't even consider Alan Moore fit for it either at this point. If anybody with sense looked at the 1980s under a magnifying glass, they'd see there's dozens of creator-owned comics emerging at the time that could've proven the point of revolutionizing comicdom as an art form worthy of adult readership. Maybe those writing history articles about comicdom would like to take the time to do the math and connect the dots for real in the future before fawning over an overrated writer whose whole idea of how to make comics "adult" was to make them dark and grisly?

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