‘The Graveyard Book’ and ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Got Canceled while ‘Good Omens’ is Suspended (Yes, This is A Neil Gaiman Continuation)

Complicity and media adaptations.

Priya Sridhar
Counter Arts

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When I started drafting this article, the concept of Neil Gaiman’s projects getting canceled was more hypothetical than the real. The allegations of power imbalances and sexual assault only broke in July 2024. But Amazon has suspended production of Good Omens, and Disney has canceled development of an adaptation of The Graveyard Book. The hypothetical has become real. I definitely didn’t picture this (or the many lovely responses from you dear readers) when posting my thoughts back in August.

In addition, Netflix has canceled Dead Boy Detectives. Based on the one-shot comic issue within Sandman and the DC spinoff miniseries, it is exactly what it sounds like, where two ghost boys open up an agency to solve mysteries. It has a separate continuity from Sandman and separates its origins from the comics’ fourth arc. Note that Neil Gaiman was not a showrunner or even the original comic writer; DC Comics owns the IP and controls the revenue. He served a consultancy role on the show. But it seems he’s had an unwanted impact.

Avoiding Neil Gaiman Content

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Priya Sridhar
Counter Arts

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting.