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Might be a dream or a distorted nightmare like how that Aztec God altered our John's childhood memories (Thomas with both arms in tact )and the Mucous Membrane days while holding Tricia hostage

5 hours ago, Christian said:

Jamie Delano’s run is the exception to that, as John was mostly a loner.

I don’t think most would consider Marj or Mercury as the strongest of John’s supporting cast either, when they did show up.

It really wasn’t until Ennis’ run that the idea of a strong supporting cast for John to okay off of came to prominence.

Besides, I think everyone is forgetting about the greatest supporting character in Hellblazer history, from the New 52 series. Ha

Nick Necro or Caitlyn Jen- I mean... Sargon?

54 minutes ago, dogpoet said:

I'm not even sure that Marvel did buy the rights to Conan: isn't it something they acquired after being bought out by the Mouse like Star Wars?

Correct. Same with Buffy (though Joss Whedon did admit Fox did pull its license during the merger & it going to Boom)

1 hour ago, dogpoet said:

Don't worry: they've probably got James Tynion-Doyle and Rufus Dayglo working on something more Milliganistic even as we speak...

More shit to avoid at all cost

11 hours ago, Christian said:

Yeah, younger readers and females are more likely to pick up Trades than head to the comic store each week.

Marvel still canceled a lot of those titles based on monthly sales figures, but would then bring the book back for another go after seeing the collected edition statistics.*

*Those titles tended to be those yucky “diversity” titles that Marvel was publishing, which appealed more to “millennials” or females compared to the typical middle-aged male demographic who buy weekly new comics in the greatest numbers; rather than a book that started when Reagan was president. So, who knows?

As you said, the Vertigo HB TPBs have remained in print.

So, if the Trades end up seeing good numbers, there is a chance of DC giving Spurrier’s book another chance, I guess.

(Of course, these are COVID times, and Marvel has canceled a large percentage of their lower-selling books to increase profits too. I don’t think we can look at things in the same way as the past.)

However, AT&T may want DC to move away from a potentially controversial title like HB (it tackles...gasp!...politics), so they may not care about potential sales, which will never bring in the bucks like more Batman, Superman, or JLA anyway.

If only Batman: Damned (or in Friends layman's titles: The One With The Bat-Schlong feat. Lil' Etrigan*) wasn't commissioned in the first place.....

*Either this or NBA Demonboy

On 8/13/2020 at 2:31 AM, JohnMcMahon said:

Probably too soon to say.

The argument for that kind of imprint/content is that while the monthly audience tends to be significantly smaller than that for mainstream superheroes it's broader in the longer term (collection sales outside comic shops) and totally different - ie if you stop catering to them, you lose them altogether, they don't just jump over to reading Batman.

As ridiculous as it sounds, Constantine has a presence in media outside of comics too - granted, neither the show nor movie rocked the world but the character seems to have found some success on both the CW and in animated features.

Understatement after seeing that Bleeding Cool article just now..... Goddamn it

So we're gonna be stuck with sanitized!Conjob forever unless DC gets cut loose. 

This truly is the darkest timeline. Thanks, Alternate Evil!Tim Hunter!...

Should we be worried since Black Label and possibly Sandman Universe might be in danger?

Pretty sure re: Biden thing- the woman in question repeatedly changed her story to where she even refused a interview invite to a major news network and settled for online. Not help she had her own checkered past 

On 6/17/2020 at 10:38 AM, JohnMcMahon said:

More detailed information on the Ellis allegations here

Getting dirty with 20 year old women isn't a sin but exploiting your position of privilege over vulnerable people is and if that's the case here then he's got a lot to answer for.

Surprised Bleeding Cool haven't weighed in on this.

 

About them...

Goddamn it.....

4 minutes ago, JohnMcMahon said:

Love McCrea's art so looking forward to this - hopefully published concurrently with the current run!

You mean Robertson. But hell, I wouldn't object to McCrea doing a mini or the monthly. Especially since I been re-reading Hitman

My seperate wishes re:Taylor and Robertson became one! 

The former, he already proved he can write our John to a T (and Injustice Year 3 remains the main time our boy in the bigger DCU post-1993 worked while the DiDio 747 in the New 52 and Rebirth crashed and burned)

5 hours ago, GottaGetAGrip said:

I'm somewhat surprised at the number of Hollywood-level actors partaking in an audio drama adaptation.

(Makes me wonder if there's going to be some crossover between this cast and the cast of the in-development Netflix adaptation - though I can't exactly picture Egerton as a live-action John and much less James McAvoy as Dream)

I'll give Egerton a chance. Look how we took to Matt Ryan soon as we saw the official pic and trailer. However, I don't see any crossover happening in any form. 

Taron Egerton as our John and Joanna Lumley as Lady Joanna Constantine

8 hours ago, dogpoet said:

We're all taking it for granted that the old boy is the last panel of 300, which may not be the case. There's another Constantine who got zapped by Gemma's magic nerf gun, after all, and he'd have a good reason for taking a possessive approach to John's soul as well as explaining the physical link between the two of them. Maybe even telling John boy to be the best Constantine he can is just to free him up to be the worst himself.

Maybe it's John's evil twin...

If that's the case then everything in the Milligan era was just The Golden Boy not going into that goodnight quietly in Diggle's abrupt ending.....

9 hours ago, JohnMcMahon said:

Need Chas to step from the shadows, like 20 issues from now, to smugly reveal to John what's going on and to lend a needed helping hand.

But he's not much time left

9 hours ago, Christian said:

I thought that old man John was the JC from HB #300 also. I was wondering if the "old man" being referred to by hipster Tom was supposed to be Old Man Constantine or not. I thought maybe it was someone else. I can't see our John stirring up racism, although an earlier issue did show Old Man Constantine meeting with that Right-Wing politician.

So, maybe Old Man Constantine really doesn't have anything to do with the classic HB series.

Unless Old Man Conjob only blocked Willowtree  so our boy can get shit done.

1 hour ago, JohnMcMahon said:

It is indeed a two parter, it's not high comedy but

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John going to all the trouble of slipping back into his old duds only to get attacked by a shit monster

got a laugh from me.

A shit monster a neck beard failed to stop. Then again maybe the shit monster was meant to be DiDio

I feel for him. He might as well just settle for a suit vest and call it a day as backup. Still, for a one of a 2 parter, it feels very Jenkins with a dash of Ennis. A combo you can't go wrong with.

8/10

Soon as I saw that otw home from work, I went full goofy Macguire dance. 

Maybe he can grovel to Alan Horn (since he came to DC under his WB tenure) for a job at Disney before Iger leaves (but not before the latter blackballs him)

I'll need for the Berlanti mob to be banned from touching all Hellblazer material. You can use the New52 Cold Flame shit or the Djinn but for fuck sake, don't touch Dangerous Habits!! We suffered that butchering 15 years ago!! 

What's next, Seth Rogan adapting Pride & Jo- *gunshot* oof....

DiDio OUT!!

On 2/3/2020 at 12:40 PM, londonsurrealist said:

To be honest, I found Ian Rankin's book less than whelming. Not horrible, not great, a few good moments along the way, but too superficial.

Ironically, not too out of place for the James Tucker helmed DC animation crew to adapt (of course it'd be polluted with a ref or two complete with either a Nightmare Nurse appearance or Andrew Bennett because JL Dark is the little engine that shouldn't have been built) if applicable

On 1/28/2020 at 10:55 AM, Christian said:

I think the Doyle/Tynion run was pretty divisive from the start.

To their credit, they didn't try to write stretched out story-arcs, for the TPB market. Most of their stories were stand-alone.

It never truly had the feel of a John Constantine comic, although I thought it started out pretty well, before it quickly seemed quite pointless.

I never felt that the "Rebirth" book was succeeding in recapturing the spirit of returning John to classic HB status, as it seemed like he was trying too hard to fool readers in to thinking it was a relaunch of the Vertigo book, instead of a watered-down DCU all-ages retread. This was even before it became apparent that Oliver's sole idea was John vs. the Djinn. I give Doyle/Tynion credit for at least trying something different.

Spurrier's book is the first time I felt like I was reading a HB story that is  continuation of the same character from the Vertigo series.

Yes, I definitely give credit to Spurrier for starting out with a three-issue story-arc. I hope to see more one or two-part stories going forward too, like the pre-Azzarello Hellblazer series.

Even if their version if different was misguided and still kissing DiDio's bald head. 

Aside from the fucking Djinn, the hunt for Abby could've been so much more too close and a way resolve it and kill two birds with one stone. But alas it wasn't nor couldn't be the case. Then again, I'd reread that over Fawkes' butchering of the Trenchcoat Brigade and Cold Flame Cult any day (long as I continuously pretend JLDark isn't a thing whatsoever,)