A. Heathen

Maybe we should have a poll covering the options for The Demon Constantine?

qv The Empress poll

There was some debate about if the Emperor and Empress should be linked.

I say yes.

See the Hellblazer Tarot thread for previous discussion.

Okay, the nominations are closed, and some cards need to be decided by poll.

First, here's the ones that are decided (give or take a few quibbles and or changed minds).

1 The Magician = Constantine (I withdraw my suggestion for Crowley, because there's a better role for him in this, and really John is unavoidably The Magician in this story. Specifically John now.)

2 High Priestess = Zed

7 The Chariot = Chas (as depicted by David Lloyd in the Secret Files, I reckon)

17 The Star = Astra (I know James nominated Mercury, but ...)

18 The Moon = Mercury

19 The Sun = Golden Boy

20 Judgement = Gabriel

21 The World = London (possibly with a role for Map if he loses out elsewhere)

As for Crowley, well he did his own Tarot, skewed to his own world view, so perhaps he should be our host for this deck?

A couple of others can probably be decided without poll.

8 Strength : Map or Chas.

I think Chas should appear once only, and besides James' comment about Josh Wright, Map is the only nomination. Crowley's Tarot has this one as "Lust", and its links to "Courage. Strength. Energy. Use of magical power. Control of the life force. Great love affair. Resort to magic." indicate Kit especially as John's resorting to magic was what ended the relationship.

Back to the poll on this one.

16 The Tower : Newcastle or Ravenscar.

Both should appear somewhere in the set, but which is best for the Tower?

I agree with James that Newcastle is better as the location of the calamity. I am not sure about Ravenscar as Death though as it is not really an agent of change in John - at least no more than Kit leaving him or him creating The Demon.

Did he then ask you if you like films with gladiators in?

Yes, and she keeps it in Budgie's trousers.

And he wss the subject of my post rather than Siouxsie, but it's too nice a pic to avoid.

And Christopher Ecclestone is playing Jim Wilkinson

Someone not exactly like you, but taller and with a penis ?

I heard he's changed your name in the rockumentary to Tom Weelcoombe.

My one's better.

I don't think there's any problem having John as the Fool and the Magician.

It's just a matter of which depiction you use for each one, my preference is the two Bradstreet covers (as I used for Fool & Magician in my "Bradstreet Tarot" upstream) which nicely show how he fills both roles.

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life

Never make a pretty woman your wife

So from my personal point of view

Get an ugly girl to marry you

 

{Refrain}

 

A pretty woman makes her husband look small

And very often causes his downfall

As soon as he marries her, then she starts

Doin' the things that will break his heart

 

But if you make an ugly woman your wife

You'll be happy for the rest of your life

An ugly woman cooks your meals on time

An she'll always give you peace of mind

 

{Refrain}

 

Don't let your friends say you have no taste

Go ahead and marry anyway

Though her face is ugly and her eyes don't match

Take it from me, she's a better catch

Hurrah for Roganovich !

The world's finest Hellblazer writer.

Well Rachel Weiszs's not the person to have to answer them.

Glad to see Francis Lawrence got himself another job on the back of Constanteen:

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0450978/

Hey, let's not put too much down to Pooka's "attitude".

What with everyone's preconceptions about how women should behave, taking the "all men are gay" comments out of context as some sort of factor is a bit of a stretch. Let's be honest, the onus is still on the boys to do the chasing, even with all that laddette business, and that can be a tad daunting.

There's also the tried and tested "Hate > Love" (or at least like) defence that boys and girls have. You know the one where you both make snipey comments but really you are both interested. It's a dance.

I can only speak for myself sixteen plus years ago.

Most men are Bashful.

I reckon that's the reason.

You look mighty fine, and that'd present an obstacle for a bloke to overcome.

ie nothing bad on your part, everything to do with lack of chatting up prowess.

I can't believe that them unselfconscious Jack the Lad types don't try and hit on you, are you sure you aren't filtering them out among the chaff ?

Then again, your personality online reads like it would soothe the savagest embarrassment, so what do I know?

The cover text talk worries me Mister Brown.

 

"Buggery And Hellfire, Part 2 of 5" = okie dokie.

 

"Oh My God...It Can't Be You...You're...DEAD!" = shit.

"He's left Hell with no friend on Earth, so he's ended up in Glasgow.

She is wearing Ralph Lauren underwear."

Pixie's the grey one, Daisy is poking around going "Oh yes, new bug eh? Well you can stay out of *my* food bowl". Actually they hit it off with minimal intro.

Though Pickle has yet to explore the wide open expanses of THE FLOOR.

They certainly returned Swamp Thing to its roots

(post Wein & Wrightson, pre Alan Moore).

I maintain my opinion that Brian K Vaughn's run was better than this and better than Millar's up until the final few issues.

http://www.ofoto.co.uk/PhotoView.jsp?&coll...oid=88810070833

Besides all that other business and still having the after-effects of infection, I've been introducing Pixie to our household after the premature death of Maisy.

Cheap Trick managed to somehow squirt out one of the most perfect pop songs in all of the universe with "I Want You to Want Me"...and then went on to produce some of the worst aural shit known to man.

 

I'm particuarly amused at how they attempt a wide variety of genres with their songs, and somehow manage to make each sound worse than the last.  Kudos, fuckfaces!

That's a phenomenal misreading of what Cheap Trick do.

Unpretentious power pop, pure and simple.

And yes, that really is a working five neck guitar that Rick Nielsen plays (usually in Surrender) and Sting is still shite.

Yeah, John extracted my post to start this thread, but I originally posted on that new Hellblazer art thread.

You know, I could see this style working (with aforementioned cover text) as the style for an arc. And in the longer term, varying styles for each arc with the HELLBLAZER logo as the unfying facet. Of course, that would require them to stop messing around with the placement of said logo.