GottaGetAGrip

I think Nextwave was twelve issues. Although in like two years or so, the final issue of that series will be getting its tenth anniversary...

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/new-details-photo-from-constantines-arrow-appearance-revealed

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Are there any native Liverpudlian actors who'd make a good John?

It feels to me like this Constantine is just flopping back and forth between self-loather and selfish dickwad depending on what the writers need to move their story along.

No Del Toro ?

 

Today is his birthday

I think he's staying on as a Producer.

http://www.tracking-...-shoot-in-2016/

IT'S ALIVE!! (for now)

Albeit without Del Toro as director and no Matt Ryan confirmed

This was my favorite companion in New Vegas, after I started modding the game:

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/56742/?

Honorable mention: http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/50107/?

Without taking mods in consideration, I never did go far without my combination of Boone and ED-E, because they were so overpowered. I shall never forget the day we stormed the Fort and took the Caesar's head...

and then he became a cyborg ninja and beat up a senator

maybe the last issue of the book since it just got slated for cancellation will involve classic biker lobo coming out of nowhere and then running nulobo over in the last page

Ennis also wrote issues 50 - 56. It's a change of pace from the usual Crossed fare, in that it's a political drama starring Gordon Brown set at the beginning of the Crossed outbreak.

He also has a free 12-part webcomic up on the Crossed website called Dead or Alive.

Because where else can you read about Batman getting a parking ticket and a perversion-powered "superhero" battling a chivalrous giant tapeworm for the affections of the sweet innard maiden?

In the pages of All-Star Section Eight #3, Ennis had this little bit to say about New 52 John:

What circumstances would bring John and GA together?

Could it be... Nick Necro?

should we hold a preemptive funeral for El Diablo and Slipknot right now?

Who is Joel Kinneman playing again? As far as the trailer, it looks pretty good to me but i know i wont be seeing it in the theater because that is my lot in life these days.

I think he is playing Rick Flagg

the executive producer is interested in bringing over matt ryan as constnatine and have talked to dc about it, but nothing is promised

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/arrow-ep-teases-arrival-of-constantine-in-season-4

oh snap

alright! hail to the king, baby!

Annihilator #6 - Morrison concludes his sci-fi scriptwriting meta something something story set to Frazer Irving's pretty pictures. With a sentient teddy bear and guy in an ant-mask running amok. I enjoyed it.

also ordered some second-hand trades of Global Frequency (the complete trade... hopefully) & Sin City: A Dame to Kill For off the Amazon marketplace 'cause I'm a cheap bastard.

Checked out some old Warren Ellis trades - Ocean from Wildstorm, Ignition City from Avatar Press, and Fell from Image. Ocean had some interesting ideas regarding future corporations and humanity's ancestors, but was just overall average at best with some very pretty pictures. Ignition City contained a surprising lack of sex and decaptitations for an Avatar Press title, was a fun read about a space cowgirl dealing with washed-out stand-ins for all those famous old space serial charactesr like Flash Gordon but overall it feels like a tv pilot that never got picked up for a full series - like Ocean, it just sorta ends. Fell was the one that I enjoyed the most. Great art by Ben Templesmith that complemented the messed-up setting and Ellis wrote some pretty quotable one-liners. But it doesn't look like the creative team are returning to this one anytime soon.

I still haven't warmed to the new look, and the writing felt a bit clunky, but this was better than I was expecting it to be.

A 7/10 based on initial impressions.

Look on the bright side.

At least he doesn't have the buttchinspike on his costume anymore.

I'd sure like to know what brand of booze & cigarettes this Constantine has been taking to maintain such a body shape.

It's also nice seeing how far Sean Phillips' art has come in these books.

So apparently a hollywood producer thought

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Well, as far as Brubaker goesm, I'm reading The Fade Out at the moment.

As far as my takes on the various writers on Constantine go:

Guys I liked:

Moore: wrote what was probably the most "heroic" John (discounting Morrison's Hellblazer), and unlike Azzarello, his John was a genuine man of mystery.

Gaiman: pretty good John, felt that he did the best job of carrying on the mystery aspect of John's character. I wish Gaiman decided to write a Hellblazer special instead of The Sandman: Delays for his return to comics.

Delano: definitive take on John for me - the best balanced mix of self-loathing, bastardery, and grinning backstabbery.

Ennis: I found his John actually more relatable than Delano's, and I enjoyed most of his stories, but compared to Delano, there's just something that was lost. He seemed to be less of a bastard than Delano's John - I can't really see Ennis' John doing what Delano's John did to Ritchie Lester or Gary Simpson for example.

Jenkins: Of all the Hellblazer writers, I think Jenkins probably wrote the nicest (well, as nice as John can get) and most relatable John. If there was any interpretation of John I'd actually want to hang out with, it's be this one.

Carey: R.S.V.P. is probably my favorite conclusion to a Hellblazer run - John burning the artifacts of his past, Swamp Thing's favor, walking past all his ghosts, and standing alone in the dark as the rain begins to fall yet somehow still managing to get a few bitter laughs like fucking over the Tate Club's party - it got me teary.

Diggle: might not be a common opinion, but I found it a fun, nostalgic throwback to the old days. The only thing I didn't really like about Diggle's run was the Geoff Johns-esque retcon regarding the Golden Boy and all of John's miseries post-Delano.

Morrison: wrote a funny parody of Conjob in DP and Multiversity, and I found his two-parter pretty tense and unnerving with a hard-hitting downer ending.

Disliked:

Azzarello: The Azzhole is a hit and miss writer for me. Wonder Woman and Joker were hits, but Hellblazer was a very big miss. His John just came off as a massive douchebag who seemed like he was enjoying the misery that was happening to everyone around him. The only thing that prevented his John from being 100% unsympathetic was that most of the people in Azzarello's run were even bigger douchebags than him (SW Manor, the Highwater skinheads, etc.) Even in his one genuinely good story (Freezes Over), his Constantine is still the same grinning lunatic asswipe that's waltzing around in the rest of his run. The only time I enjoyed his John was the one issue where he sings Beatles songs in a pub, and that issue was still ruined by Azzarello shoving stupid heylookkidshesbatmanbutnotreallyimsoclever SW Manor shit in for half of it. In fact, I've started to play a game regarding Azzarello's stories called: "Delano did it better", inspired by South Park's Simpsons episode.

• Recurring Mastermind Antagonist? Nergal > SW Manor
  
• Bondage? Delano did it better in The Horrorist than John whips SW Manor for a couple of issues.
  
• Picking up prostitutes? Delano did it better in Family Man than Bingo with Broads.
  
• Screwing over racists? Delano did it better with John vs. The Football Hooligan Demon than all of Highwater.
  
• Showing that humans, not boring 'ol demons and ghosties, are the scariest evil? Delano did it much better in Family Man than all of Azz's run.
  
• Cruelty to Chas? Delano never had to resort to urine to show that John isn't exactly the nicest friend to Chas.
  

Milligan: wins the award for dumbest John. the only way this John's behavior could be explained: A) dementia B) Milligan not giving a care really C) possession by a yellow demonic moron bug but no matter what this is probably the worst portrayal of Constantine for me and the worst Hellblazer ever got, thanks to Milligan's character assassination of Gemma alone.

New52 John: an irredeemable shit that makes Azzarello's John look like Santa by comparison.

Indifferent:

Mina: wrote him well, too bad the same can't be said 'bout her story.

Ellis: don't remember much about his John as far as character goes actually.

Campbell: pretty bizarre story, no real strong feelings about his John take, but like Ellis, I do find myself wondering how Hellblazer would've turned out in the long run had he stayed on for a full run.

Injustice: I thought John popping up in the Injustice comic would be the dumbest thing ever, but his characterization was pretty good - why wasn't Taylor writing him in the New 52 instead of Fawkes and Lemire?