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So... yeah.

 

John Constantine Is The Lead Character Of Guillermo Del Toro’s DC Movie

During the Wondercon panel for Pacific Rim this afternoon, Guillermo Del Toro seized the inevitable question about his “Justice League Dark” project, Heaven Sent, aka Dark Universe, and absolutely smashed it back.

The lead character of the film, he announced, would be John Constantine. And a blond John Constantine at that. A British John Constantine? Apparently he didn’t say.

http://www.bleedingc...toros-dc-movie/

Huh. Bleeding Cool News is using a scan from my index. Nice to know I'm not completely ignored these days.

So apparently, sales on Constantine #1 tanked:

 

http://www.bleedingc...lazing-a-trail/

John was also in Sword of Sorcery #6 this month. This new John is such a whore.

As well as Animal Man, JLD, and I, Vampire. He's been getting around a lot, but I expect this is basically promotion for Constantine.

In Animal Man 16

(spoiler!)

The Flash punches John's organs out. I'm sure he'll be fine next ish.

Did Tannarak appear in Lemire's Superboy? Perhaps that's why he ended up in the E.C.E.P.E.S (Evil Cabal of Evil Practitioners of Evil Sorcery, they're dangerous, dark and edgy!)

Yes he did.

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Tannarak_(New_Earth)

Just going off the new preview pages there's a little of the Gary Lesters about Chris.

OK the weird thing? In the comic they swapped Dr. Occult with Tannarak, and gave them all really shitty artwork.

Just going off the new preview pages there's a little of the Gary Lesters about Chris.

We'll know when he gets the DTs.

Jesus H. Bidmead!

Nice work.

 

"... In the book, he drinks, he smokes, he does a lot of other dirty things.”

Edgy.

Edgy or not, they shouldn't be talking about that nice Zatanna Zatara that way...

We should be so lucky if they did.

Well, it's better than JLD. But there's just a whiff of someone who liked Hellblazer in there.

Ah crap.

So, there's a lot of superheroes in the DCU that are really positions. How long is it going to be before John gets a Ring of Power, or the Spectre shows up with a ciggie and a shitty British accent?

"The Masked Messenger" by David Conyers and myself. Free on the Lovecraft E-Zine.

I'm pretty pleased with it; counterterrorism in the third world mixed with cosmic horror. Better, the talented Chaz Engan reads it well in the podcast.

Is that a mouth sticking its tongue in the middle of the pentagram?

Yep. Straight at the reader.

When did Johnny get a chin-butt?

And when do we get a joke that he's got the Queen of the Elementals on magic speed-dial to light his ciggies and give him blow jobs?

Like Dr. Who and Godzilla, John's on hiatus. It may be some time, but someone who loves the comic is going to say to DC "hey, I want a crack at Constantine." And then he'll be back, and people will get it again. And the money will flow. He'll be different, but the real John will be back.

John Constantine will never have sex. He might manage to imply that he's had it in the past, but he will never have it in the timeframe of the comic.

The power to lie

Yes. Without magic, John cannot lie. Because... he's a magical liar.

Oh, and can never say anything interesting ever. Or is that a general DCU rule?

Well, it looks like the life expectancy of Constantine will be short indeed. Good for my wallet. Good for my sanity.

I sort of assume he lied to Milligan. We didn't see what really happened.

OK, so if Milligan has retconned out Constantine's existence as a magic user by making him just a normal guy (as some have suggested), how does that change the rest of the universe?

 

One thing just occurred to me from the Department of Internal Consistency in Milliganblazer.

 

If the magic bullet erased him in the way you propose, there would have been no Demon Constantine,

therefore no regressed Gemma,

therefore no-one to fire that bullet.

 

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Oh said like someone who hasn't watched nearly enough Dr. Who.

You know, it occurs to me that Gemma might have missed, and that was our John in a pub realizing he had to take a leak. Or maybe he's just read JLD 0.

The Original Light and Darkness do not get along, and the Universe is destroyed.

I don't know who these people are, but they may be the Straight to Hell of Earth 2

http://forum.rpg.net...lazer-300/page1

They're my peeps. (Do we stll say 'peeps'?)

So, Hellblazer goes out, not with a bang, but a wimpy.

I plodded through it. Because the plot was leaden. I had a moment of interest before Julian turned into itself, but Milligan doesn't seem to have the patience to not tell us exactly what's going on the moment we have a clue not everything is right.

wow.

 

As you can see below, where the Vertigo Hellblazer tended to stay in its own sandbox, this one starts out immediately integrating itself with the DCU.

 

fuck you.

 

Official PR and some pages.

You may already know this mischievous Brit from the pages of JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK or Vertigo’s acclaimed HELLBLAZER series, but come this spring, you’re going to see John Constantine in a dark, gritty, and exciting all-new light.

 

Hitting stands on March 13, CONSTANTINE #1 kicks off an ongoing series starring John Constantine within the ever-expanding DC COMICS-THE NEW 52. From the co-writers of JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK, Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes, and fan-favorite artist Renato Guedes, CONSTANTINE shines a spotlight on the notoriously flawed antihero as he works to protect the world from the darkest corners of the DC Universe.

 

“CONTANTINE is turning into the window through which readers can see the dirtiest side of superpowers in the DC Universe, the nasty magic side,” Fawkes

teased

about the series.

 

“John has a very specific fight he’s actually involved in in this series,” Fawkes

continued

. “The first issue will reveal what it is he’s after. But he’s the instigator in a lot of the stories that are going to happen. In this book, he’s the one looking for the trouble. Sooner or later trouble starts to find him because of all the things he’s doing … John is not your typical hero-type character. He has a lot of vices. You’ll see him indulging in just about all of them. I mean sort of the only thing I can’t do with him in this title is swearing directly. In the book, he drinks, he smokes, he does a lot of other dirty things.”

 

why do they keep hiring writers who have no idea how to write the main character?

They're cheap and are easily bidden.

http://www.1channel....-Devil-You-Know

Nice catch.

I think your memory fails you.

It was not the scriptwriter that came here that said those things, but several producer types.

 

Mostly he was quite a gent around these parts, discussed many of the misgivings but had a studio to breastfeed after all.

And was not guilty of the very worst aspects of the film which were (1) in the 1st draft that he was hired to work up

or (2) added by Igor Goldkind at the 11th hour.

He seemed to thinmk he was very original, and when he pointed out several 'unprecidented things' about his screenplan, I cited places where they had been done before. Which led me to realize that I have difficulty respecting anyone who claims ignorance of Kit Marlowe's Dr Faustus.