Rassmguy
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mmmm...no,because if you spill soda over your comic you ruin it.If i spill soda over my computer it doesnt :closedeyes:
Uh....I would think the damage to a soda-covered thousand-dollar computer would be a lot worse than to a soda-covered three-dollar comic.
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I can beat that! Back around issue 150 or so, I first got into Hellblazer, having already been a Swamp Thing fan and deciding to give the spinoff a try. I ended up finding issues 1 to 130, plus the annual, the special and several crossovers.
The price?
$50.00.
Beat that! :)
I then read them all over the course of two months, and I've been hooked ever since.
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LOU:
What was his response JasonT?
[sic.]"Only a 'face' in a crowd, not as John Constantine, Hellblazer-or so the creators tell me"That's arguable, but I was only messing around anyway. Nice of him or her to respond so promptly.
I was briefly intrigued by "so the creators tell me", but it's probably a mistake to read anything into that.
By the way, LouK, you can call me Jason. :)
Funny enough, I also wrote to him, and his response was that the creators ALL told him 37 was the first appearance.
Yeah, right.
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A really neat auction if you had the money for John Constantines first appearance in the Dc universe pages 2-3 issue 37 of Swamp thing. So far it is up to 1600
http://cgi.ebay.com/MOORE-TOTLEBEN-1st-APP...1QQcmdZViewItemhellblazer auction
Of course, if you REALLY wanted his first appearannce, you'd need the art from issue 25.
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Yes that was not one of Garth Ennis' more original moments. He basically just re-hashed Alan Moore's From Hell theories and added a modern day demonic twist.
He didn't rehash From Hell, though -- Alan Moore didn't make up the royal conspiracy theory. That's been around a long time.
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cant he be say 50 for ever - when he hits 50 that is.
But he's aged in real-time since the title first began, and he's already past 50. If they suddenly stopped aging him, it wouldn't seem right.
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It would be really good if there would be a bigger characterdevelopment in part 2, yeah.
There won't be a part 2. It's been canceled.
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What's wrong with having some smoking establishments or smoking areas in certain licenced premises?
Because it's a farce. The divisions never properly filter the air, so those of us who choose not to be unhealthy and stinky end up unhealthy and stinky anyway. Those who do smoke have so dulled their senses that they don't realize how noticeable and offensive it is to the rest of the world, and that's still often the case in so-called "no smoking" sections.
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Look I don't want to cause anyone else any pain or agony because I want my drug fix, but I'll cut a motherfucker for my nic man. No I'm kidding it's just that we gave you fuckers the airplanes, office buildings, airports, resteraunts, and every public or government building. So why do we have to give up the bars? I mean can't we have at least one fucking place where we can smoke without having to deal with the elements.
No.
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Well, all I can say is that all the historical evidence so far in places where it actually has been implemented (Norway among them) is 100% positive. It works:
- More people quit smoking
- There are health benefits for the workers
- The pubgoers don't complain much at all
I'm willing to bet cash that the exact same thing will happen in the UK.
Exactly. Here in New York, it's been largely perceived as a positive step, and far fewer people smoke as a result, which is a good thing for all of us.
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At the same time, Garth Ennis couldn't be arsed to come up with a different name for his two angel-demon hybrids.
Huh? They didn't have the same name. The Preacher hybrid was called Genesis. The Hellblazer hybrid wasn't even named, as far as I recall.
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I'm sorry, but I have no empathy whatsoever for people who feel their rights are being limited by not being able to smoke in public. You may have the right to smell awful and be a high risk for cancer if you wish -- after all, I also believe suicide should be legal -- but you shouldn't have the right to make others smell awful and be a high risk for cancer. Smoking is a disgusting habit, and it kills way too many people every year, far more than many drugs that are classified as illegal. The only reason it's legal at all is because of the kickbacks politicians get from that industry. It should be banned, period, just like any other harmful drug, and the sooner the tobacco industry is eliminated, the better for us all. I'm sorry if some of you will find this to be closed-minded and Big-Brotherish...but that's how I feel.
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IF they were to restart "Hellblazer", I guarantee you that they would make it a DC title, and market it to the film audience.
Whereas I would guarantee that would never happen.
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Anyone find Hellblazer 216? It wasn't at my regular shop. Hmmmm.
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OMGWTF
in Hellblazer
:icon_evil: although i did see a photo of sting, looking like john constantine, im not sure that constantine looks like sting.
Er...eh?
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Okay, for the record, since this girl named me in her most recent blog entry, I want to make it clear that I did NOT harrass or insult her in my e-mail. Not at all. I simply wrote to her privately, asking if she was being serious or ironic in what she said, as I wasn't sure. Something told me she might have been writing with her tongue planted firmly in her cheek, and if so, I thought it was genuinely funny. So I asked her, just out of curiosity. That's ALL I said to her. Nothing more. It was a friendly e-mail, sent privately, and she slammed me in public for it. As far as I'm concerned, she has every right to like Angela over Kit if she wants to. I couldn't care less. So why she chose to mention me and only me in her blog as though I were the one harrassing her, I have no idea. As far as I'm concerned, such SEVERE over-reaction on her part raises a strong question as to the stability of this kid.
Sincerely,
Rich Handley
Roots of the Swamp Thing
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(Zomg, Keet made me post this. Because sharing is gud.)
I was randomly googling the other day, and came across this:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/475560/
HAHAHA! Thanks, that was one of the funniest things I've read in quite some time. What a maroon!
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But frankly it doesn't bother me that much, noehter blonde noe english makes Constantine Constantine, Assholyness and Cohones makes Constantine Constantine, ofcourse that was seriosuly watered down.
On the contrary, being English is a VERY important part of the Constantine character. In no small way, being English defines why he is the person he is.
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For those who want to find out what the recent stories are about, you'll find detailed breakdowns of every issue at:
Roots of the Swamp Thing
http://rhandley.0catch.com/swampthing
I'm slowly adding the Hellblazer line as well, and am currently almost done with Delano's run.
Rich
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*sniff* No-one ever reads the site!
Here's the info you need matey - http://www.insanerantings.com/hell/characters/cpp/demon.html
I empathize, John. That's how I feel on the Swamp Thing boards when people ask for information about what came before. :)
Rich Handley
Roots of the Swamp Thing
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It's pretty clear the majority of fans are pissed that Tim has been let go as cover artist. Maybe a group effort to let DC know what a boneheaded decision that was might make some sort of statement to them?
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My only concern is the inclusion of a sea elemental, as there are no more sea elementals anymore -- the Word killed them all in Mark Millar's run on Swamp Thing, and Swamp Thing absorbed all their powers, becoming the elemental of the sea and all the other elements. Since Swamp Thnig and Hellblazer are in the same universe, I just worry about a possible continuity issue here.
Please be joking.
Nope, sorry.
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John, this novel sounds fascinating, and I look forward to it! All the elements below will make for great reading, no doubt. My only concern is the inclusion of a sea elemental, as there are no more sea elementals anymore -- the Word killed them all in Mark Millar's run on Swamp Thing, and Swamp Thing absorbed all their powers, becoming the elemental of the sea and all the other elements. Since Swamp Thnig and Hellblazer are in the same universe, I just worry about a possible continuity issue here. Still, I look forward to reading the book!
John Shirley here. So Bradstreet won't be doing covers anymore? He says HB is not selling well? I trust it's not going to be discontinued anytime soon? Anyway last I knew he was doing the cover of my Hellblazer novel Warlord for Pocketbooks and DC/Vertigo. So I hope that'll be some consolation.I was hoping the movie'd help sales of the comic but newcomers to the comic via the movie might've just been confused. "Who's this British guy?" They might not stick around long enough to notice the comic is better than the movie.
I've quoted Jamie Delano in the beginning of the novel, in an epigraph.
The novel is done except for tweaking (I don't mean I'm tweaking, I mean tweaking the book). Besides a war-god from ancient times (which I made up but tied into known ones),the novel contains a sea elemental, gigantic, a summoning of archangels swarmed by devils, a Zoroastrian magus, a demonic possession, a possession by a 'benevolent' spirit, animated skeletons, mind control, psychic parasites, a famous Nazi preserved alive in a jar, ritual sacrifice in ancient and modern times, reincarnation, demons which might be working for a familiar Constantine nemesis, undead terrorists, an ancient secret society, psychic card playing, hypnosis, hallucinations, a dash of sex, sorceresses, telepathic exchanges, the war in Iraq, and lots and lots of ghosts. And more stuff than that too. It all comes together in one story. Oh and it also contains John Constantine, at the center of everything. I've made him as much the Constantine of HB as I knew how--in fact I feel I channeled him quite well. It felt like him, to me. He pulls some shit, for sure.
The novel is, at least, eventful. That I can promise.
The only concession to the Constantine of the movie is that there is a holy Christian relic that is significant at one point--but there's none of that whole quasi Christian point of view, none of that pulling pieces of the One Cross out of his Utility Belt or something. I just put in the one thing about the relict because it fit into the story so welland because I thought there ought to be some little point of orientation for fans of the novelization and the movie.
This is the Constantine of Hellblazer though. Mercury is important in this story, as an adult. Rich and Chas appear in the beginning and end.
Most of the story takes place in the Middle East (some in a country I made up off North Africa), some in France. Beginning and end in Britain.
I give a model of the afterlife and the spiritual world in the novel that might (depending on who wants to argue with it) tie together the various bits we get from the comic. It's kind of, in my view, John Constantine's working metaphysical model.
The next book in the series, SUBTERRANEAN, will be all in (or under) Britain. It's going to feature Chas bigtime.
I feel good about Warlord but I feel like I'll have an even better command of the material in SUBTERRANEAN.
for those of you who missed the exchanges with me here last time:
www.darkecho.com/johnshirley
www.johnshirley.net
Constantine's Back Tattoo
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That's probably because...he doesn't have one.