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Some people quite liked the Constantine movie, we quite liked some of those people, especially the Keanu Reeves fans.

Lapsed Keanu Reeves fan here. I was just browsing and only found out about this yesterday. I hope its shown in the UK.

I don't think I've ever admitted this, but I never much liked the movie. I did like Hellblazer though and I've still got all the comics I bought when the movie came out.

Anyway, I hope it does well and that it does justice to the source material.

 

P.S. I still have my promotional Constanteen scarf in a drawer somewhere.

 

Scarf?

I could have had a screeching beetle in a box or a scarf. Come to think of it, I think I got both. I seem to remember that the beetle broke ages ago. I think it got squashed.

I was actually looking to see if you still have a Doctor Who thread, and stumbled upon this one. Oooh, I had no idea,(not so much of a K fan as I used to be). How interesting. I second Tim for some illustration work. I will keep an eye on developments.

P.S. I still have my promotional Constanteen scarf in a drawer somewhere.

... he was indulging in his own adrenaline and anger

That's exactly what I like about Haunted. Its one of my favourites. I think I'll have to read it again.

Yes, and all of the Keanu fans who turned up (and buggered off after the movie came out) were lovely people.

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I stuck around!!!

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...and I still pass by from time to time to see what's going on.

I went looking to buy issue 213 recently, as I thought it would be nice to read a standalone issue and the reviews here were good. When I got to the comic book shop I forgot what issue I was looking for and bought number 212 by mistake.

A mistake, I think.

Listening to Test Match Special on radio 4 longwave on a crackly portable radio while on holiday somewhere in the middle of France is the sound of Summer. Bliss. Apart from that irritating commentator who talks about clouds and pigeons and passing buses when someone's coming in to bowl.

You've seen a woman be ripped backwards through an entire high rise? Wasn't this from a "Terminator" movie? Something similar?

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It looks to me like a variation of the Trinity Falls scene from The Matrix Reloaded, at the beginning of the film where she's falling backwards out of a high building.

On the DVD commentary they talk about the car chase scene that had to be cut for costs and they suggest that Keanu and the director talked about what to do in its place and they came up with the idea together.

It's in 'Conjuring Constantine' about the history of the character on the second disc.

Karen Berger: The first issue of Constantine came out in 1987.

Jamie Delano: When I took over writing John Constantine and developing him I suppose my main concern was to do the character's potential justice.

Karen Berger: What Jamie Delano did with the series when he first started writing the monthly book was to really create a past for him, give him a family. Jamie really played into the political atmosphere of that Thatcher-Reagan era of the 80's.

Jamie Delano: It was basically a parody of the rampant capitalism that was stepping on the gas, and it was a lot of fun to write and great characterising BMW driving yuppies as corrupt greedy demons from hell, and allowing Constantine to sort of beat them at their own game by manipulating the hellish stock markets. . . When I first began developing John Constantine the imprint that later bacame known as Vertigo did not exist

Michael E. Uslan: DC comics began to experiment with some books that would bring back the old horror, thriller genre and do it being less fettered by the restrictions found in a typical DC comic book. Ultimately, this turned into the Vertigo line of comics, which is a mature line of comics.

Jamie Delano: Vertigo was developed on the back of Hellblazer and numerous other books such as Animal Man and the Sandman.

Michael E. Uslan: This was a chance for Constantine to really launch a whole new line for DC, and I think he did so incredibly well.

Paul Levitz: His cynicism, balanced with his knowledge of otherworldly things, really makes him the essence of Vertigo.

Michael E. Uslan: John Constantine is in-your-face, he will tell you what's on your mind, he really doesn't care what you say or what you think, he's the James Dean of the occult world.

Kevin Brodbin: He was about the most reluctant hero I'd ever come across. Yeah, instead of, like, doing it for very noble reasons he was actually doing it to bedevil the devil. He wanted to, you know, just take on demons for the thrill of it.

Karen Berger: He's a manipulator, he's a con-man. He'll use magic. He'll call up an old friend who dabbles in the dark arts, but he's more about manipulating people than using magic. And I think that's the key of what keeps this character so fresh, is that it's a head game all the time.

Paul Levitz: He's a smart-ass. In many ways I think he's what his readers would like to be. I wish I had his ability to slip through the cracks of whatever the problems are, deal with the weird stuff in life, and do it all with a smirk.

NOOOO!!!!

I'm hoping by saying that, that some forum member who DOES spend their money will transcribe the Delano comments for the rest of us! :p

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I can have a go at that if you want. He doesn't say much, but it's nice to hear someone say 'Constantine' properly, not 'Constanteen'. Kevin Brodbin says it properly too.

Well done, Ade.

I left the office at 4.30 and walked 4 miles to Finsbury Park to get a train as Kings Cross stayed shut. Everyone stayed calm and just got on with it. There were plenty of police just being visible but there wasn't much for them to do, just give directions to a few people who didn't know where they were going.

Ah, good. Glad to hear that. My copy of Red Sepulchre arrived this morning.

I'm stuck in my office in the City. We've been told by the police not to leave the building. There are no tubes, buses or trains and I have no idea how I'm going to get home tonight. I got to Kings Cross at 9 o'clock this morning and there were sirens everywhere but they only told us on the Thameslink train that there were problems due to power surges. Then they said that all tubes in London had been suspended. Got to work eventually at 10.

I completely missed that Red Sepulchre was coming out. I'll order it at the end of the month after pay day. I haven't read any of the recent monthly titles so this looks a good place to start.

In the last couple of weeks I've taken a break from reading Paradise Lost slowly (just got past the war in Heaven and Satan's fall and now we're up to the Creation) and read The Watchmen since I've heard so many things about it. Excellent story, I thought. I was waiting and waiting for the link between the Black Freighter story and the rest of the plot to come and when it did I almost started clapping, I was that impressed.

Anyway, Red Sepulchre, I'm going to buy it.

There's a picture on this thread on superherohype, is this the same one?

superherohype thread with picture

If it was in North London I'd be there like a shot. I'm not sure if I want to go south of the river on a Saturday night, though.

EDIT: Yes I know it's a weak excuse, but I don't know South London at all and I don't want to be messing about with public transport on a Saturday night in an area I don't know. Anyway, its just too complicated. It's a shame, because it sounds really interesting.

Thanks. I'm reading Paradise Lost (very slowly) on the train, and I'm keeping Garnethill at home for bedtime reading.

I've only read the introduction sections so far. Interesting stuff about foreknowledge, free will and neccessity and so on. I never realised Milton was buried in St Giles Cripplegate, which is in the Barbican next to Moorgate where I get off the train most mornings. I'll have to take a look on my way to work.

Glad to see you back krix. Stay well.

The source for the title for 'All His Engines' has been buzzing around in my head for a while. The other day I was looking through the paperbacks in WH Smith for something by Denise Mina, and couldn't find anything, but they did have Paradise Lost by John Milton in the M section, so I bought that. I eventually got Garnethill from Amazon so now I have two books I'm trying to read at once.

Thanks for the update. It's nice to know how much you collected altogether.

I'm really tempted to start reading Garnethill myself now after reading this thread. I'm catching a train from Waterloo on Tuesday so I'll have a look in the bookshops there and see if I can pick it up it then.

Yes, have fun. If it wasn't for family stuff happening tomorrow I'd love to come along to see how this goes.

There was a nursery rhyme when I was little:

Queen, Queen Caroline

Washed her hair in turpentine

Turpentine made it shine

Queen, Queen Caroline

(Every 'ine' is pronounced 'yne')

I can't bring myself to say 'Constanteen' at all.

I don't doubt that you know what you're talking about, Fuji, and I certainly know nothing about the film industry, but I had a quick look on Boxofficemojo for Hellboy's figures, and according to those its only just broken even too, when you include marketing costs:

Hellboy figures

Ah. I suppose that would explain how he came to be on the programme to host that special question and answer session at the London Comic Con last year.

He said he liked the film but didn't like Rachel or Keanu. He said Rachel's accent was awful and he REALLY doesn't think much of Keanu's acting. He also considers himself a bit of a comic books expert.