New York Comic Con was a little over a week and a half ago, and if you’re anything like me, you followed the events religiously. And if you’re like me, you also probably weren’t anywhere close to prepared for the sheer amount of content released over the weekend.

While I was distracted with the new DC Universe content (movies, shows and an entire new streaming service coming next year!), something snuck by me. Though I didn’t notice for several days, something even more exciting than the “Harley Quinn” animated series trailer had dropped.

I’m talking about the “Good Omens” trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZSXlNRRoGU&frags=pl%2Cwn

In spring 2019, BBC Two and Amazon Prime will debut “Good Omens,” a six-episode miniseries based on Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name. The show will star David Tennant as the demon (Crowley) and Michael Sheen as the angel (Aziraphale).

At first glance, the show seems hokey. IMDb describes the show as “a tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an 11-year-old Antichrist, and a doom-saying witch.” That’s not a lot to go on and frankly reminded me a little too much of the CW’s long-running show “Supernatural.” I mean, its slogan is “The End is Nigh.”

That all went out the window as soon as I watched the trailer. I was hooked. I needed more content, immediately. Since the show won’t air for several months, I did the only thing I could do. I turned to the source.

As soon as midterms ended and fall break began, I bought the e-book of “Good Omens,” sat down, and started reading.

If there is one thing I can say about “Good Omens,” it’s this: the book is hilarious. Thankfully, I can say more than that.

In a world where Pollution has become a horseman of the apocalypse and Heaven and Hell are closer than you might think, stopping the apocalypse is left to Crowley and Aziraphale—simply because they’re the only ones interested in stopping it. They are helped by Private Newton Pulsifer of the Witchfinder Army (which consists of exactly two people), occultist Anathema Device and her ancestor Agnes Nutter’s incredibly accurate book of prophecy. The problem? Armageddon is entirely caused by the imagination and frustration of Adam, the 11-year-old Antichrist who has read a few too many New Age Spiritualism magazines.

Given a premise like that, any book would be, at the very least, weird. “Good Omens” takes the weirdness and embraces it. Even as I was on the edge of my seat about the end of days, I couldn’t stop laughing.

From what I’ve seen in the trailer, I don’t think I’m going to be disappointed next spring. It’s creepy, it’s funny and Crowley and Aziraphale’s millennia-long friendship is every bit as antagonistic as I could have hoped for. Of course, running behind it all is Queen’s “You’re My Best Friend.” (Hell turns any cassette left in a car into the “Greatest Hits of Queen.”)

But looking past the end of the world, past the jokes that never feel forced or overused and past the unshakeable friendship that may have become my new obsession, Good Omens has something to say. Demons don’t have to be all that evil (though they can be), and angels don’t have to be all that good. And at the end of the day, people are just stubborn, contradictory, surprising people…even if one of them is literally the Antichrist.

“Good Omens” premieres on Amazon Prime in spring 2019.