Christian

No, I don't think Cheryl should be there. The First has taken control of Cheryl's soul personally. Her ghost won't be making it out of Hell.

Another vote for the "ghosts are aces".

They actually really hooked me on "Hellblazer". After I started buying the Ennis issues, I thought "I like this John character a lot. He's the sort of character I've been wanting to read about", and bought the earliest Delano issues as back-issues. John talking to Emma's ghost in #2 (was it?) was the moment where I fell in love with "Hellblazer".

Seeing them in Azzarello's run was one of the high-lights of that run.

"I didn't see that version of the Heaven/Hell cosmology at all in this issue (or anywhere else in Mike's run), Josh - but it's possible that I'm misinterpreting. What exactly were you getting at?"

I assumed he meant John using the angel to get his message across to the magicians.

Even if you go all the way back to Delano's run, Nergal was the archenemy, and when John initially defeated him, he took him into Heaven for the angels to do the job.

I see John's life as a living Hell right now. Cheryl's soul is stuck in Hell because of John.

"They never mentioned Conjob evil Pirate ancestors (Nancy's poor Swamp Thing run) in the Hellblazer directory-book-thingey-whats-it."

There's a very good reason this was never mentioned again. Let's all forget it ever happened.

John is supposed to be the "last of the line", so I'd say that universal Constantine will come to a definitive end with John's death, or so I hope.

I don't know....John has cigaretees! LOL

Azarelo? Who's that? That guy who almost single handedly ruined Superman? He sucks! Chuck Austen shuld rite Heblazer. That'd be so freakin' awesome!

"and, above all, FUN. "

Yes, like "Rose & Thorn".

Actually, that's the only comic I've read by her, and I enjoyed it well enough.

I agree that I.C. is a hundred times better than "House of M"! "House of M" was such a complete failure!

The original "Crisis" was a fun comic full of ideas that didn't quite work and so much happening that it really should've detracted from the story, but instead it all just sucked you into the story.

Is "52" going to be a series of one-shots, each focusing on a different character? That's the idea I got, and was hoping it'd be.

:lol:

When you are at the mall one day, you see the woman of your dreams. Namely, a cute, blonde chick, your age. You stare at her a bit, hoping she won't notice and think you creepy. You decide to move on, when you see her staring at you...No, couldn't be, could it? Yes, she's staring at you and her finger is calling to you.

You walk over, and the first words out of her mouth are, "How would you like a hot, blonde chick to make love to you every night?"

You must be dreaming. You find her question odd, but decide to play along. "Oh yes!"

"How would you like a hot, blonde chick to make your every wish come true?"

"Oh god, yes!"

"Will you marry this hot, blonde chick?"

"YES!"

"Oh thank goodness! I thought I'd never find anyone to marry my mother!"

"Your....mother?"

"Yes."

"But, I thought...."

"You thought I was talking about me? No, silly. This is a wig!" she pulls off her wig to reveal curly, red hair. "Your word is a bond, you must marry my mother now."

"Well, is your mother at least young looking?"

"Oh yes!"

You don't quite believe her.

"And rich and famous!" she follows up.

Hey, this won't be so bad, thinks wolvy. "Who's your hot mom?"

"My mother is....BETTE MIDLER!"

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

I wish I had more things to wish for.....

You wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but taking the usual literal interpretation of this statement, your wish enables everyone EXCEPT YOU to have a Merry Christmas! While the rest of the world enjoys one day of pure happiness, everyone has totally forgotten about poor Wolvy. He ends up having the worst Christmas ever.

I wish a hot, plump woman with long red hair would smother me with her ample butt.

No, you're Inca.

Now, who's Matt?

"Haven't you heard? There's a WAR on Christmas! Be on guard, you fools! "

The atheists have thrown down the gauntlet!

All those loyal to Bill O'Reiley, bring it on!

The Forum does get crazy and weird at this time of year.

ElectricInca gets a job working in Los Alamos, New Mexico at a nuclear plant, where they are planning to test a new radioactive bomb, one to be used against the Chinese. A hippy kid named Wolvy is sitting in the middle of the test site smoking pot. Inca goes to stop the test, but it's TOO LATE! Inca, as hero, knows there is only one thing to do! He races into the desert and saves Wolvy, but in the process he is exposed to the radioation, which splits his two halves into two seperate beings. The gorgeous, handsome, courageous yet meek Brent; and the gruesome, hulking, ugly, evil INCA.

The two begin battling, in a "Lord of the Dance" contest! It's too awful for words, and the two halves are surely killing each other with such horrid dancing skills. Wolvy decides he must save the men who risked their lives for him, but when he comes between the two dueling/dancing halves, they rip Wolvy in two and then feast on his intestines.

I wish I owned every comic book in the world!

Wait a second....Who's Matt?

I hate all of you bastards!

But especially....well, you know who you are. Watch your back, you fucker!

Nothing in this thread can be used against us later, right?

"Carey's take on the cosmology (is that the right word?) of Hellblazer seems different than Ennis', for instance. Carey's take seems to be that there really is a war between heaven and hell, that Satan and hell are the real enemy, and that those mages are all trying to kiss up to heaven whether they realize it or not, while working really involving themselves with hell much more than heaven with their magic."

It doesn't change anything about John's views though.

And, there has always been a war (of sorts) between heaven and hell in the "Hellblazer" cosmology, just that neither side is right according to John.

If you look as Jenkins run, Carey's take would be more similar to his than to Ennis', I'd agree. Jenkins made Heaven's side seem much more sympthetic, but in the end, John still didn't see them as being better or right.

I took this issue as the views of those magicians. They are of the ilk of many famous magicians throughout history who worked with demons, yet claimed they were on the side of Heaven, because they were fearful and superstitous. John was just giving them shite about all of their "holier than thou" attitudes.

Yes, Mark is right. This has never really made any sense to me either.

I say that no, Wolvy cannot live without comics, comics are better than anything else he's tried before (or actually, wants to try, but hasn't actually tried), and I'm done with it!

Hey! I wanted to grant a wish, but there's no wish to grant!

You know what that means.....Christian sets off one by one murdering each and every STH Forum member, each in a new and more horrifying manner.

That's what us geniis do when we aren't being put to work.

I'm all about "The Church"! I wore one of their T-shirts in high school. Haven't listened to them in too long. Gonna pull out one of their CDs tonite, me thinks.

....Uh, right, anyway, you just reminded me of them.....

I love all of "X-Statix" and Milligan's "X-Force"!

I guess all that remains to be said is that if Girl don't work for you, there's always boy!

I herd John was, like, an alcholc one time and like lost his mony and his home and stuff like that. Cool stuff, I mean. But, it wasn't cool....I mean, i don't think kids should read aboot drunks, even with a good message like "DRINKING=GETTING ATTACKED BY VAMPYRS!".

Anyways, it's a cool book, you should read it or see the muvie.

You become more decisive, and decide that you hate your life, and leave everything behind you. With your new abilities, you become the head of a multi-billion dollar industrial Empire, who reins death upon the peasants below your 25 storey corporate towers. Unfortunately, you spend all your time destroying other peoples lives and never take time to find love or have kids, and you die one of the 10 richest people on Earth, alone and unloved.

I wish that I had the ability to read other people's minds.

See?! I knew ElectricTina was a female!

ElectricTina is my true love, Tina must live!

Somewhere in a dark catacomb a group wearing black hooded robes stands in a circle around a naked female altar.

High priest in a deep scary voice:

"The Dark Lord has blessed my dagger, which will rend the flesh of this virgin throat. The Dark Lord has blessed this chalice, filled with the blood of mine enemies. The Dark Lord has blessed my evil undies as I prepare to make this sacrifice to...."

A hooded acolyte snickers

"What? What the fuck are you laughing about?!"

:lol:

A bog is a swampland.

:lol:

Yeah, I agree that the angel scene was confusing....but Clarice's dialogue after the event stated that John just freaked them out by showing them their own morality, and they took off.

Then, when John leaves the club, he says that he'll use the backdoor, because there's probably a mob of pissed off magicians waiting to hang him.

Wait....This John Constantene guy was ripped off of Chris Claremont's brilliant X-Man character Gambit, right?

Miller's in like Flynn with Holywood.

Amazing that most of Miller's comic work comes out nicely for the screen but all of Moore's comic work comes out shite for the screen.