Well, the movie does turn him into a dark-haired American hottie, rather than a scruffy blond Scouser, so pronunciation not so much true to the original text. Guess you can pick your canon!
(Although I liked the movie, and
loved
Gabriel. Gah. Hotness. Still, I'm sorry that they'll never make a movie of the comic now, because I
love
the fact that he's a blue collar Liverpudlian, and that so many of his stories are set in Thatcher's Britain. It's such a very unAmerican fantasy, and such a very unHarryPotter take on English fantasy [cue reiteration of how fabulous Gaiman's
Books of Magic
is. Although not so much the nonGaiman spinoffs.])
Books of Magic
came out a bit before the first
Harry Potter
novel, didn't it? I remember being struck by how very much Harry resembled Tim Hunter when I first became aware of the series. Down to the owl.
To be fair,
Books of Magic
didn't invent the archetype of the dark-haired, bespectacled boy who gains or discovers he has powers. But there's definitely a resemblance.
Books of Magic came out a bit before the first Harry Potter novel, didn't it? I remember being struck by how very much Harry resembled Tim Hunter when I first became aware of the series. Down to the owl.
Yeah, I think Neil Gaiman mentioned that in his blog once.
To be fair, Books of Magic didn't invent the archetype of the dark-haired, bespectacled boy who gains or discovers he has powers.
And he basically said this.
The owl familiar and the bitter adult authority figure who's sure the budding wizard will go bad and therefore behaves ultra-scary towards him both struck me as a bit more specific correspondence than the archetype would warrant, though.
I can't believe that Metallicar was only 7th of the Top 8 Coolest TV Cars.
Jilli, you're missing a "shameless" in there.
