File this under vanity, but I’ve been laughing (in between patting myself on the back) for about ten minutes: MTV challenges filmmakers to adapt my comic book series, if they dare.

The opening scene of the series is a satire on the opening scene of The Satanic Verses: two people are falling out of a hijacked plane, but this time the hijackers are white right-wing vigilantes and the (semi-lapsed Muslim) hero has a parachute. I intended it as a sort of one-fingered salute to Sir S (look! Muslim writers can use wild abstractions and heavily laden symbolism too!!), but irritatingly enough, people usually assume it’s an homage. Just goes to show that trying to be too clever is almost never a good idea.

Still love that scene though.