The novel Good Omens is a satirical version of Armageddon in almost every way. The story begins with the coming of the Antichrist, brought into the world as a human child although he is anything but. An angel and a demon, Aziraphale and Crowley respectively, and very good friends considering their rather checkered pasts, have banded together to ensure that The End is, at the very least, late. They take on a role in molding the child to see both sides of good and evil, trying to ensure that the child will not be able to choose a side wholeheartedly when the time comes. However, when the boy supposedly starts showing his powers, they realize that all their hard work had been wasted and that this boy was a completely normal human child. The real son of Satan was, in fact, Adam Young, and at birth he was placed in the care of two very normal parents in a very normal small village in the south-east of England. Adam grows up “not [as an] incarnate of evil or an incarnate of good… [but] a incarnate human” (366). He's as human and innocent as an 11-year-old can be; still finding himself and his three best friends causing terror and irritation among their older or respectable neighbors, even if this is more excused as a pre-adolescent tantrum rather than evil behavior. The villain appears to be what Newton Pulsifer, a relatively recently nicknamed witch hunter detective from the Sargent Shadwell witch hunter army, is looking for. He is given the task of searching through newspapers and anything of the sort to find evidence of anything remotely witchy, which appears to be exactly what Anathema Device, a real self-proclaimed witch and descendant of history's most accurate and useless psychic, may be . found by doing. Truth be told, she is... middle of paper... tears his leaves once a week, and every few months he threatens them with the death of one of their brothers, leaving the empty vase somewhere obvious around. the apartment. The way he treats the plants reflects how he truly uses his apartment as a place where he is in charge rather than his superiors in Hell. Otherwise, the entire apartment is actually pretty useless, considering that his stereo system has no speakers and his computer has the intelligence of a “retarded ant” (247). Both he and Aziraphale have taken on aspects of humanity that they believe are necessary, even if in reality they are completely useless to them. Works Cited http://www.wonderfulcomics.com/comics01/omens.html http://goodomenslexicon.org/articles /aziraphales-bookshop-in-soho/ http://goodomenslexicon.org/articles/crowleys-flat-in -mayfair/http://goodomenslexicon.org/articles/crowleys-houseplants/