James

Or flogging dodgy artifacts, or hypnotising bank managers, or blackmail, or theft, or manipulating luck, or transforming seemingly ordinary paper into five pound notes,

or...

...bingo.

Maybe he took a puff of weed and transformed into a slavering junkie, Jekyll and Hyde-style, stomping on little girls to get to his next fix.

Kidding. He's probably off killing whales for science like all Norwegians do.

That second thing might constitute a spoiler.

Funny, though.

Red Sepulchre part 3, page 4: "That was so cool, uncle John."

Sepulchre, Part 4, page 5: "Bollocks, everything stopped as soon as uncle John walked in!"

Out of Season, Part 1, Page 5: "Then it'll do as well as anything" followed quickly by:

Out of Season, Part 1, Page 7: "Aaaaaa!"

Christ, just looking at how classy Red Sepulchre is gets me all frustrated at the "quality" of Frusin's work in Staring at the Wall.

Nothing much to look at in Bred in the Bone or "Staring at the Wall."

Do you need scans or do you want to do them yourself? And did you ever get that list I sent you?

The site allows you to upload images. Look at the Attachments bit at the bottom of the "reply" page.

I'd rather not have his leg bitten off by a shark...

Didn't Mike say that he was going to have Chas lose an ear at some point?

What do you use?

There are positive points, sure - a couple of really good deaths, an exorcism scene that sounds pretty exciting, a genuinely great scene between Constanteen and that bloke from Bush involving a bible (that one could've come straight out of the comic), some nice interplay during the Constanteen/Chaz/Midnite scene and one or two good moments here and there.

It's not enough, though.

John knows the kids are right bastard demons and there's no real goodness in them, so no problem killing them.

But he still has memories of two lives lived in which the kids had (an admittedly superficial) respect and love for him.

That's all well and good, but how would you kill Wolverine?

Quicktime won't seem to play that Batman: Dead End film. Anyone got any idea why? I downloaded a new version of Quicktime and installed the codec mentioned on that webpage but I still only get sound...

Could it be because I'm running Windows 98?

All three. W.E. 1 = Jenkins, W.E. 2 = Ennis, W.E. 3 = Dave Gibbons.

That is an actual old American folk tale which Gaiman used as I had heard of it before. It may have originated elsewhere and travelled over with immigrants though.

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Really? I thought it was a literal interpretation of those cultures that would sacrifice men to fertilise the Earth.

Apparently Milligan's got kudos with the Marvel crowd after X-Statix, and Marvel seem to use him all the time, even if it's for crap like Wolverine/Punisher and Venom vs. Carnage. So at least he's getting work.

Be nice to see him do some Hellblazer work, mind.

We have a winner!

The preview suggests that the skeleton is something from our own time that's going to pop back to an earlier point and haunt young John, possibly after older John offers up his soul in exchange for releasing the coma patients (I'm just making this up but it sounds plausible enough).

This has been bothering me for a while now.  Back in the Tainted Love, John's all destrought over Kit leaving him and he's at a coffee shop and he flips out.  He tells this waitress how she touched her sister when she was a baby or something.

 

So, my question is this, does John have sort of ability to see the evil in people? Or is it just a low-grade form of telepathy?

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He does it a couple of times in the Ennis run and I think a few times in Jenkins' run as well. No explanation, so Christian's is as good as any.

Or possibly he's trained himself to read the minds of the weak or something. Why not?

I think it would've worked if we'd seen John happy and content in a family relationship. Something he's always said he just could never/would never, be happy with. It'd show that John's been lying to himself.

You get that with the Kit and Zed stories.

I personally wouldn't have any problem killing some demonic killers even if they were my own kids. But, I'm a heartless bastard, and I've been told so is John!

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Remember that our John now has four pasts in his head, two of which are still bastard enough to kill their children and two of which aren't.

It's obvious tha Kit's John and Angie's John both hesitated at/failed to recognise the weird shit that was re-entering their lives. They'll be be parts of his psyche that want to hold back on attacking the kids. "Our" John and Zed's John will be all for taking them out.

Completed the zombie game. God, that was tough. Ignore the end boss' belly and just aim for his head. Jump the worm things, duck the fire/swoops and shoot him in the mush before he can blow your head up with lightning.

http://home.earthlink.net/~houval/gopconstrm.mov

Not terribly fair (all political parties have their buzzwords), but pretty funny all the same. Love the way Guiliani tries to bring something new to the phrase "September 11th" every time he says it. What a professional!

John scanned and uploaded it a while ago. Someone prod him.

Trust me, no good deed goes unrewarded in my book. You will get your homage sir.

But where and and when will be a mystery for now.

There's a few thousand pictures of Rogan on this thread, if you're looking for inspiration. Then again, that may not be a good idea - this might be a horror comic but you don't want to scare any kids coming into the shop. Especially with this one. Aaarghh!

I also find it nice that his Constantine feels like the version I portray on the covers. In my estimation (Lee Bermejo not included), its the first time the book has seemed to have perfect continuity, inside and out, during my run which started with #134.

Do you have any sway over the new editor? I'd kill to get Bermejo back on Hellblazer, assuming they ever prise him off the Batbooks.

Yeah, but he's got a huge website that lots of people love to read, so at least he's got an excuse!

...and James is probably just jealous, since he got one of those girly zodiac signs, like virgo, pisces or libra...

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Cancer, motherfucker. A hard shell, two big pincers and the ability to walk sideways.

Because the Demon John isn't the one she's trying to kill. Having him raise the kids wouldn't tell then anything about their target.

(Probsbly)

Check the date that the picture was posted.

Then try to remember what the mask says.

Too obscure for my own good, I suppose.

Trying to avoid spoilers...

The implication is that Keanu's half-suspected lung cancer for a while now and has already had some kind of chemo or something to kill off the cancer cells before, so it's less of a shock for him than it was for comic book Constantine. It works against the film, really, because it robs the story of much of the humanity that the comic had. It's not a massive problem though.

He doesn't really seem to have any plan at all except for asking Gabriel for help (this scene is very similar to the version in the comic). Then it's straight into Weisz' plotline. The cancer plays a very minor part in the film, really. The script doesn't focus on it in the same way that the comic does.

Constanteen's cure is nothing like as clever as it was in Dangerous Habits, and is almost a perfect definition of deus ex machina (although there's a bit of foreshadowing so that's not entirely fair). It relies far less on Constantine's cunning and far more in placing trust in other characters. I wasn't really convinced, myself. Shame. Still, it means interesting parties can pick up Dangerous Habits and get a completely different storyline...