Writer @neilhimself felt it very important that his comic version of Lucifer looked like David Bowie at the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(DC_Comics)

Just because it was a bit confusing :) Maybe because you say "writer" which is true, but doesn't translate well to his creation of a comic book character.

On 25 January 2016 at 00:58, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:

So this is a bit US centric since it came to my attention because of an ad for a new tv show starting tomorrow(and some may feel not it's mean to Bowie, though I don't really think so) but I found the fact about the comic it's based on so entertaining that I wanted to share given all of the context. Suggested thoughts:

Writer @neilhimself felt it very important that his version of Lucifer looked like David Bowie at the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(DC_Comics)

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