A. Heathen
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"That lot in Streatham"?
"That lot in Streatham" = any of Paul Jenkins' mates who appeared as characters during his run :-) was set in the area of Norwood, Streatham and Crystal Palace.
I agree with you re the impact of Cheryl (or Gemma) dying. Deliberately left Tony off because I think that'd be too similar to the dynamic with Chas's missus.
Map would be a shame because *he* told John to fuck off, and deserves to remain around the fringes.
For me, Zed, Kit and Angie are all good strong characters who should be left where they are (2 in John's past, 1 in his present & future).
It'd make some sense if each of the kids went for people from their "Mom's" era, but would probably hogtie the story too much (and would result in Streatham remaining untouched).
Let's all think of obscure characters who are still alive ... oooh what about Marj & Merc ? And whatever happened to that little Nergal boy from the Secret Files ?
And all those blokes in that pub who reckoned they knew Constantine ? They want to watch themselves too.
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“Reasons to be Cheerful,” Part 1 of 4. John Constantine’s three illegitimate children are back — only this time, they’re going after John’s few remaining friends and loved ones. Can an aged and exhausted Constantine match three beings born with all of the Hellblazer’s magical talents but with the hearts of demons?
“Reasons to be Cheerful,” Part 2 of 4. As Constantine’s three very illegitimate children continue to hunt and destroy his closest friends and allies, John finds aid from a highly unlikely — and as yet anonymous — source. But does this mystery helper really have Constantine’s best interests at heart?
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Really? Good grief, it's nice to be ahead of you for a change.
But it would require Adam to be about ten ...
And although Angie/John is a future shock and looks like Maria would be around 15, Zed was about fifteen years ago.
Nice idea though.
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One for the Road: Glenn Tilbrook
A fan follows Glenn around on his first RV Road Tour of the USA.
Interviews, meetings with fans, gigs of course.
He's like a more charming Jools Holland in the humour stakes.
At some of the gigs he took everyone out onto the street.
At others he went round to someone's house with all of the audience :-)
Great songs of course.
We went thinking it'd be nice until next time Glenn's on tour ... except he was there. With his guitar :-D
Top man!
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Do you know, James, it didn't occur to me that the kid's ages were anything to do with how long ago his relationships were.
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Do you guys have a different version of #200 to me because in mine the kids haven't aged to their mid-twenties at the end. Page 44 in panels 2 and 3 you see Angie/Rosa turn up with the two boys and Adam is still a small 5-year old. We don't see Adam again. Page 46 you see Saul and Maria together (possible incest there as they are siblings). All in all the three kids seem to be the same age that they were in each of their own vignettes.
I don't think we are seeing possible futures here as the three scenarios are all constructed to the whim of Rosacarnis with her playing the role of the wife and mother in all three instances albeit disguised as women from John's past.
We have the mass hysteria variant edition,
don't you ?
But I see that in the text you quote I say that Adam is the same age at the end.
What I was referring to about "ageing" was the ages of the children throughout the day, me assuming that Maria is older than Saul.
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Yeah, everyone seemed to enjoy it.
Wish I'd had the bravado to have said hello !
That Munje one sounds good. The misery who has reviewed "Kangaroo" on imdb says it's better.
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What`are serb dvds like for subtitles in english?
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When I Grow Up I'll be a Kangaroo
It is very very funny.
Like Rogan (read his tales on the old forum) meets Kevin Smith.
Two stories interwoven.
1) Belgrade-born Kangaroo is about to make his Premier League debut for Eastwich against Man Utd. His friends and family all descend on the local betting office to watch the game. The "Tourettes" Taxi Driver who is constantly angry. The cynical old get. The Manchester Utd fan (even in Serbia they know to dislike his sort). Kangaroo's mom. His two mates who have an accumulator bet which relies on Roma and Eastwich winning ("against Manchester United ?")
2) Braca and Iris. The unselfconfident wannabe film editor and the model who turned down Brad Pitt. He is let down by his mate who was going to lend him money to impress her ... and he really cannot handle the stress.
There is so much that happens.
The cinema where - even though they have only sold two other seats - Braca and Iris are made to sit in row 1, seats 1 and 2 by the usher.
The fact that Jim Smith is manager of "Eastwich" and they look like Fulham to me.
The blood pressure cuffs "you're going to need these".
The pot-heads on the roof who have to keep the aerial facing the right way.
The "thoughts" of B&I as they worry about their date. And what the other thinks of them.
It's great fun.
Oh and the guy who is running the festival said that the original print was stuck at Belgrade airport due to an engineers strike, but they found a VHS preview copy, and an expensive VHS player ... that chewed the tape ...
and I nearly shouted out, "Serbia sister !" ... in a room where I appeared to be the only non-serb (and there were some plenty of nice looking serbian sisters.)
The only flaw was the pacing of the subtitles - often having four people's words on screen and whipping them off before you could read them. Sometimes Ade laughed first because the subs were ahead of the film. Sometimes everyone else laughed because they heard the joke. There was one joke I didn't get which may be something local ... I forget the exact words, but Avaks said "why do we have that radio ? It doesn't work." Hybrid replied "wrong tense, past tense did work, present tense does not work". I see what that means, but is there an in joke ?
Oh, and The UFO.
The cast featured a sportsman or something, making his debut. which one is he ?
Sergej Trifunovic, Marija Karan, Nebojsa Glogovac, Boris Milivojevic, Nikola Djuricko, Aleksandar Sapic http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383846/
Rogan - if this is a big enough film to merit DVD with subtitles, I'll ask you to buy me a copy ...
And there was this short film beforehand:
NBA (NON-BASKETBALL ACTIVITIES)
UK DV 10 mins Director/Producer/DoP Andrea Kmetovic
The activities of a London-based Yugoslavian basketball team - The Knights.
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Stratosphere Girl
A girl leaves her home in Belgium to escape to Tokyo.
She is a comic artist (in the Bryan Talbot realistic style) and draws her tale of the sleazy life of a hostess for Japanese businessmen, and uncovers a plot to hush up a murder. Her art blends in with some scenes, mixing fantasy and reality quite well. It is the alien landscape version of Tokyo (surely the world's most photogenic city ?) and while the acting is not what you might call demanding, it is a reasonable story. With some funny moments showing the seedy side of Japanese culture - the hostess building has several floors, with the "Golden Gate" = all blondes; "The Jungle Room" = all black women; and a transvestite mud wrestling room. Plus the traditional shrink-wrapped panties production line.
End of the World
I am going to finally buy that Ramones anthology today, having enjoyed this documentary very much. Live footage, interviews with all of the band members: for the kids, that's Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy, Marky, CJ and the rather hilarious-looking Richy (the only ex-Ramone to appear in a suit and tie ...)
It shows them until very recently, old interviews and new ones with all except Joey who died before it was made (Dee Dee and Johnny have both died since it was recorded :-( )
The sequence about their work with Phil Spector should be used as a character reference in his forthcoming trial ! All but Joey hated him.
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I'm sure we can get it back, drop me a PM and let me know what/where it is.
I'd like to hear from the person who gave it a 1, curious to know what they didn't like. Don't let the generally positive tone of the thread put you off dude, if you didn't like it then say so.
No, let's BURN THEM !!!!
(only joking)
I think on some levels it's anticlimactic, but in a good dramatic sense.
It's a bicentennial issue with as many nods of the head to the previous issues as we can have without those dopey gets from South London turning up.
I may be projecting here, but the three parts work on a number of levels, not just the choice of spouse.
Kit - Garth Ennis - maybe it's because she's his character and has some irishness about her, but this segment read like Ennis too. And the Zed section was a bit more poetic/lyrical/shamanistic which reflects Jamie Delano. Angie ... "and this is me" said Mike :-)
It's interesting to note that the three women are not themselves at all. Of course Rosa never understood the women (... pause for effect ...) so she changes them all significantly. Kit has always been put up on a pedestal - by John and Garth - and she's decidedly nastier here. Of the three, she's the one most immediately Rosa. Zed looks conventional like she's gone over into the establishment.
And Angie is such a wimp !
Onto the kids:
Someone made part of this connection above, but here's my take on them.
Adam = The Demon Constant-teen* - hence the thought control thing.
Saul = The Swamp Constant-teen* - from JC's connection to Alec when Tefe was conceived. (An aside, as Andy Diggle failed in his brave attempt to kill Tefe, perhaps the former SwampChick should be dispatched by Saul.
Maria = The Bastard Constant-teen* more of a chip off the block than the two lads.
Incidentally, I understand that Vertigo would not allow the fourth part, to be illustrated by Sean Phillips, where John shags Slag and Rosa gives birth to Galen Constant-teen*. But the good news is this will climax in a Hellblazer special written by Chuck Austen, where the Constant-teen Titans battle against the Doomed Patrol (Gemma, Tefe and Elaine), but Ellie and Rosa have a cat-fight in mud.
I get the impression that John has been duped by Rosacarnis, just like he was at the end of the last issue - be careful what you wish for ! He asked for his memories back, and he got a load of false ones thrown in for (bad) luck.
(* not to be confused with the much-anticipated Keanu Reeves film, Constanteen.)
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Brian Tyler
http://www.briantyler.com/about_brian.html
The very fine Bubba Ho Tep soundtrack, which is suitably guitarose, but like Tom I fear Kack Metal at the behest of The Man ... or Woman.
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Drunk.
Just got back from the Ramones doc "End of the World".
The ageing fits in sequence near enough.
Let's give them 8 hours each - Adam is young then same age by the end.
Maria is fifteen (?)
Best of all, John's memories - his real ones - are clouded by the other three !
Top evil twist from Rosacarnis I feel.
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Another time Tomas Constantine was portrayed with two arms was in issue #13 where John remembers scenes from his childhood and there are Norman Rockwellesque portrayals of John's dual armed father and mother.
Of course this was all before Jamie Delano decided that John's mom died in childbirth and his dad was a one-armed bastard.
That's his aunty, but you're right about the arm.
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My recommendation to all is: "Tim Bradstreet knows how to do it"
(As does Andy Diggle for that matter.)
I call it the "Ask James" method.
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I don't think you blame the writer unless they use the Alan Moore method - "he raises his hand to his son. His right hand because his left arm was removed in an accident at the docks. His entire surly nature comes from his bitterness at losing that arm, and it was probably because he could no longer masturbate that he ended up having sex with his wife to produce this bastard son. We can almost see the malevolence floating in the air behind him, and the resentment charges his every mannerism. In fact he waves his right hand with an obvious compensation for the lack of a left hand. Exaggeratedly. A spider crawls along the back wall behind him, and the smell of sprouts wafts up from the kitchen below. A Tommy Steel record has just finished playing loudly in next door's lounge and John Lennon says to Paul McCartney, "We could do better than that."
I also don't think the artist is responsible for checking every detail unless it's in a "series bible" portfolio which all artists should be given.
I'll keep the "false memory" option.
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I got Bubba Ho Tep on DVD having multi-region in our house.
It's released at the cinemas in three weeks here in London, or so I believe.
Tonight I have seen a film and a director that I would have no hesitation in adding to that old thread I started about films that capture the essence of Constantine.
Dead Man's Shoes
http://www.warpfilms.com/films-dms.html
Directed by Shane Meadows who has a big name in indie films here. And co-written with his mate Paddy Considine (sic) who also stars as the older brother who abandoned his mentally-impaired younger brother to join the army and escape their small Midlands hometown.
The film starts with his return, and they remenisce about what happened before and what has happened while he has been away. Then he seeks out the local Jack the Lad, cock of the walk, drugs hooligans who act like they own the small town (or at least they carry on like they can get away with murder).
Except they can't, because they are incompetent at best and fucked up by drugs and booze at worst.
But he can. And as he does we find out why he is after them.
An absolutely brilliant film.
Considine's brooding Richard uses his army training (and gasmask) to first terrify the gang and then enact his revenge. When one of the characters first sees him in the gasmask he runs screaming "it's an elephant ! With BIG EYES !" Later, one of them sees him, but is so off his face that all he can say is "Are you the Devil ?" "Are you Jesus ?" repeatedly.
I tell you what, coming back to that hypothetical low-budget Hellblazer film, this team could make a great job of something like Highwater, Red Sepulchre or that last Garth Ennis one that the name escapes me.
Lovely scenery - presumably somewhere near Matlock in the Midlands that I now have to locate.
A very Ade Brown soundtrack -
1. (Smog) 'Vessel In Vain'
2. Calexico 'Untitled II'
3. Calexico 'Untitled III'
4. Adem 'Statued'
5. Calexico 'Ritual Road Map'
6. Laurent Garnier 'Forgotten Thoughts'
7. The Earlies 'Morning Wonder'
8. Richard Hawley 'Steel 2'
9. Clayhill 'Afterlight'
10. Calexico 'Crooked Road'
11. Lucky Dragons 'Heartbreaker'
12. Gravenhurst 'The Diver'
13. Cul De Sac 'I Remember Nothing More'
14. P.G. Six 'Fallen Leaves'
15. ABBC 'Pluis Sans Nuages'
16. Aphex Twin 'Nannou 2'
17. M. Ward 'Dead Man'
18. DM & Jemini 'The Only One
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On Saturday I think.
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Why not join up, tell them you are off to invade London in October and then desert ?
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I never discuss supposed "twists" without good cause.
I thought it was handled well except Old Boy's erm "mental breakdown".
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I studied some psychology, me.
(And I checked it was a mistake before I defended it with my cleverousness.)
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Ah but ... what does the editor do in these matters ?
The new man wouldn't make that mistake !
I hereby propose that, as this story probably takes places after Constantine's memory is back, that his memory does not come back properly, which explains why he imagines his dad as being himself.
There, it's all sorted.
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Nice try, Jim "Pogue" McMahon.
But he lost the arm before John was born, and was shown in flashback ushering Mrs C off to the coathanger lady ... thereby lie retrospective spoilers for issue 100.
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Okay since everyone is getting the wrong end of various sticks:
Oct 23rd - London Comics Festival
Oct 24th - Comic mart - for all your back-issue needs; same venue or just across the road.
Nov 6th-7th - Bristol Comics Expo I - with Hellblazer talk by Mike Carey (possible slide show and special extras)
May 14th - Bristol Comics Expo II - basically Comics Festival without Kev Sutherland having to organise it. Mike Allwood (& possibly Dez Skinn) taking over the whole show. Allegedly same weekend as a Xena convention ... cue Ade sat in bar pretending to be Joxer and hoping Callisto turns up.
later that same year:
London - I've been urging Kev to bring it forward to link with The Big Draw which some of you may have seen on TV last weekend.
Brighton - tbc for November.
Revisiting an old subject
in Hellblazer
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WHOA THERE !
We are talking about people close to John dying here.
While that may not score much on the FanKid-o-meter it will have dramatic effect on yer man.
Most of the deaths John feels responsible for have been directly.
What if an assortment of characters who have left the series and got on with their lives are disposed of ?
Are you suggesting (by implication) that the story should reflect what will upset the mainstream of fans ? In fact, if you were to strip all them old characters from the story then future stories can be free of 200 issues of back-continuity. And there's nothing to stop a character or two being introduced as an old friend and then killed - it's been done lots before (actually that's the only reason not to do it).