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An improvement on the pilot. I find it funny seeing all the ways they can have John smoke without directly showing him with a lit cigarette in his mouth. The actress who plays Zed already has better chemistry then the actress who played Liv had with Ryan.

I'm not the biggest fan on nu52 Constantine but this futures end issue did capture a tiny bit of the Hellblazer.

Seeing John do one of his cons while schooling some high and mighty power felt very John Constantine.

Glad to hear Goyer saying the best comic writers in the business wrote Constantine in Hellblazer for 25 years and they would be idiots not to use it as their source material

More faithful to hellblazer than I thought it would be. For a pilot episode it was ok.

Enjoyed the name drops and appearances of characters from the comic.

Matt Ryan could really grow into the role.

It was cool to see Ravenscar.

I wondered if Jeremy Davis was playing one of the newcastle crew.

Mackenzie Crook would make a good Gary Lester

Series has been ordered by NBC!

They got the look of the character, lets hope they got the portrayal right as well.

more news

I AM Rogue caught up with NBC's Constantine pilot showrunner David S. Goyer to discuss where the project currently stands. In what will surely please comic book fans, Goyer revealed that Matt Ryan's (Layer Cake) Constantine will be true to the source material. Said Goyer, "We start shooting next week. Shooting the pilot. We only have four series regulars but we've cast them all now. I'm proud to say that Constantine is actually being played by a British guy. Matt Ryan and he is going to have blond hair." When asked if Ryan's version of the fan favorite comic book character will smoke, Goyer shared, "That's a tricky one on network TV. We're negotiating right now. He will have his signature trench coat and skinny tie. I would say that the show clings more closely to the source material then the film did. Even though the film was interesting."

 

Goyer went on to add that the series will be close to the Alan Moor run. "Yeah," confirmed Goyer, adding, "And quite a few other characters from the comic books and possibly from the DC universe should we move forward will be showing up."

 

Lastly, Goyer spoke about some of the supporting cast recently announced. "Harold Perrineau. He's amazing. He plays an angel but not the kind of angel from Touched by an Angel. He's fantastic. Charles Halford who plays Reggie Ledoux on True Detective. He plays Chas. I don't know if you know that character from the comic books. He's sort of Constantine's strong man/friend. Lucy Griffiths who is ... I don't want to say too much about her. She' s an amalgam of characters. Hopefully, touch wood, There will be another recurring character announced. Pretty cool actor who fans will know the character he plays from the comic books as well."

Matt Ryan is a graduated of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company so he can definitely act.

The Hollywood Reporter listed this description.

John is described as a working-class Londoner with deadpan humor who is a mysterious conman and occult detective
 haunted by the recent loss of a young girl's soul. No stranger to the dark underworld that exists parallel to our own, Constantine has been studying the dark arts since he was a teenager. He's taught himself spells, rituals, curses and conjuring, but the one person he most wishes to see -- his mother, who died giving birth to him -- remains out of reach, at least so far. When Liv, the daughter of a late friend, is targeted by demons, Constantine steps in to save her and the two form an alliance.

It would be pretty cool if the young girl who lost her soul is Astra Logue

English actor Joe Anderson as Constantine . Anderson was in The Crazies, The Grey, The Ruins, Twilight, Across The Universe, Control, Becoming Jane and Horns.

I loved Delano's run

did really like the final issue.

CBR wrote a pretty good article on why Justice League Dark Zero didn't work

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/10/24/committed-dc-got-their-marketing-all-over-my-constantine/

John does seem all to ready to believe his nephew is a crazy killer. Alright issue I suppose.

Surprised to see Brendan Finn again. A Kit mention as well.

Epiphany seems to get herself in dumb situations all to easily.

Sacrificed for the greater good

The story, though... it's just a series of things happening, isn't it? Nothing of import happens and nothing is achieved. Well, I suppose on a meta level it serves to add to the Epiphany/John relationship, but it doesn't add much of anything, and after 30+ issues of those two slobbering over each other I'm not sure why we needed to know that they met 10 years ago. Is it to bolster the readers' faith in the relationship? To prove that it's not actually a love potion thing at all? Does anyone other than me even remember that speculation?

 

It's fine. Hellblazer died at issue 213. It just doesn't know it yet.

I agree. I don't really see the point of this story at all.

Once again it feels like Hellblazer is just treading water not going anywhere.

Peter Milligan's Hellblazer has just been a bit boring for me.

John has a unintresting marriage to epiphany the daughter of a sterotypical cockney gangster. His settled down which means his not out travelling doing crazy schemes, sacrificing some poor friend or acquaintance of his to save his own neck he is reactive instead of proactive.

I don't remember John ever straight up murdering anyone in cold blood before besides the Family Man serial killer and even then John struggled with killing him even though he murdered his dad as well as friend of Johns.

Jeff Lemire or Jason Aaron

Not been a fan of this at all under Milliagan. Hoping Jeff Lemire can do something instresting with the book.

I was too into Milligans run to but it seems like he is fianlly hitting his stride now. Some writers take time to settle into a character and their world I think.