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REQUEST: Mia Button
It doesn't happen often but when it does it's disheartening. You see you lane is mia, you go to type "mia" or "mid mia" or w/e and in that instant you get ganked. With your hands out of position, that 1 second differential can mean life or death.
While it may not be a long time to take you hands off the mouse to type, it is time and does take away from the flow of the game. Pings "can" be used but they have so many other meanings that merely pinging your lane will raise more questions than will answer in your team. So I'm thinking it would be nice to have a MIA BUTTON. This could be hotkeyed just like the alert and retreat pings. Then, at the press of one button, a chat marker (or even better a teamwide announcement) would say mia for your lane so the rest of the team knows what's up. This is especially useful for laning against champs like eve or kass that either disappear or leave their lane often. Thoughts? EDIT: To all the Nay Sayers.... I WIN!!!!! :) |
It already exists. It's called control-click on the mini-map. And you press enter and say, "mia."Problem solved.
Type SS instead of mia it means the same thing and can be typed just as quickly with one hand.
Typing, no matter how efficient, still has a higher lag than a button.
Using both hands, hands off mouse, press enter, type "ss" or "mia" with both hands, press enter. Using one hand, move hand to enter, press enter, type with one hand, press enter, retrun hand to hotkeys. No less than 1 second with either method. With button, move cursor to button, press. No more than 200 ms with this method. Always more efficient to have a button solution hence the request. |
Alternate solution: Learn map awareness.
Having your midlane call 'MIA' when Eve disappears from lane is a privilege, not something you should expect. Your teammate should not be typing MIA if it causes them to miss a single creep kill. Your teammate should not be typing MIA if it slows him from quickly pushing his lane. Your teammate should not be typing MIA if he can go take his/their Wraiths instead. Take responsibility to protect yourself from ganks. Use wards. Have map awareness. Learn to glace at least once every couple of seconds. Learn to hit tab regularly to check up on opponents. |
Sometimes what is seen or not seen on the map is not really accurate to what is going on. Only the person in the lane knows for certain what is going on there. It is also best to provide your teammates with all the information possible as the game progresses. One thing I do like about DOTA2 a lot is the verbal announcer that say 'missing mid' or whatever. It helps the overall situational awareness. |
I think it's gonna be really chaotic with 3 ping buttons. There's already the 'signals to be careful' ping, I think that's enough.
press v and click anywhere. tadaa!
I for one would love a clickable option. you don't have to use any of the buttons if you dont want, instead using the keyboard. i feel like it wouldn't hurt anything at least.
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In this course, professional audio engineer Scott Hirsch shows how to create an evocative sound mix for a film or video, built from basic audio collected during the shoot and transformed into a final mix using Pro Tools 9. This course shows how to set up and optimize a Pro Tools session template for projects with unique requirements, record Foley and ADR audio, layer sound effects, perform corrections such as noise reduction and pitch shifting, mix for stereo and 5.1 surround sound, and finally, how to format and deliver the finalized mix, whether destined for DVD, movie theater, broadcast, or the web.
No matter how hard you try to get a truly locked picture edit before the video editor transfers materials to you, some editorial changes will inevitably occur. Of course, these new picture edits will throw your audio session out of sync. When you have your full-blown Pro Tools session running, it's never fun to conform to a new picture edit. But with the right techniques, it could be a pretty simple and painless process. Let's see how it works. The real key to conforming your session to a new video edit is to have the best communication possible with the video editor. For everything to work right, you are going to need to know these crucial bits of information.
You need to know the exact timecode locations of all edits that were made and the exact timecode durations of all edits. Both Pro Tools and Avid Media Composer can generate a document that shows this information. It's called an EDL and this is what an EDL looks like. It's a pretty complicated set of instructions containing all timecodes for all the edits in a sequence. So this is a little hard to read. If you wanted to find what the difference is with this new edit and the old edit, we have to compare the two and we could use it to find the changes.
As you can see, it's kind of hard to read, and usually what I do is I will just ask the editor to make a Word doc or a simplified, even an email, that just details only the edits that were made in exact durations in timecode locations for all those edits. So in this case I've done that and the editor made me this Word doc, which just has three changes. It has two changes that are cuts where they are tightened, the edit is actually shortened, and it has one addition cut where 10 frames were added. So we are going to conform to this new video edit.
So back in Pro Tools we have our original video edit here and we are going to import the new video. So I will go to File > Import > Video and here we are going to bring in this video that's called Sequence NTSC_After. So we have a before video. This is the after video after the edits have been made. Click Open and Pro Tools brings in the video. If you remember in the complete production toolkit and in Pro Tools HD, you can have more than one video track running. So we are going to import this as a new track and we will bring it to the session start and we will also import audio from the file as reference.
If we click OK, it asks us where we want to put the audio files and we choose the audio files folder for this project, and it comes in. So here's our new video and our new video reference file. You can see the edit is shorter from the original video. So let's actually color code this new video and the reference movie just so we know which one is the new one and which one is the old one at a quick glance. Okay, now the tool we are going to use to actually make the edits in Pro Tools is called the Time Operations Window and you can find it in the Event's menu up here.
So under Time Operations, we just open up the main Time Operations Window and then from this window, we can actually go to Cut Time. Since our first two edits involve removing time, this is the window we are going to want to be on. Now, before making any changes, you have to know that Cut Time operates on any tracks that are currently showing in the edit window. So for that reason we are going to actually hide the newly imported video and the audio reference from that because we don't want to make any edits to that.
So with these tracks selected, we are just going to actually hide them in our Tracks list there, so that they are not showing. But everything else here, we do want to make the edits to. And remember, if you do have some hidden tracks that you want to make the edits to, you might want to show those at this time as well. So in the Time Operations Window here, I am going to go back to our file and reference. The first edit is at 33 and it ends at 33:07. Here's another pointer though before you make any edits, is you want to start at the end of the session and work from the end to the beginning when you're making these kinds of edits.
If you start at the beginning and you made the first edit, then everything from that point forward will be out of sync because it will be a different timecode. So you have to start at the end and work forward to make all of your changes work according to any EDL that you are going to receive from the video editor. Luckily here our video editor was aware of this and they made their document in the order from the end to the beginning, so the first cut is the last cut and it starts at 01:00:33 and it ends at 33:07. So it's a seven frame tighten edit.
Back in Pro Tools, we are going to enter those values in our Time Operations Window. 01:00, into this field 33. I am going to tab over to the End field. I am going to type 01:00:33:07. Make that seven frame edit and hit Enter, and you can see the total length is going to be seven frames. And if you zoom in to Pro Tools here, you can see there is a seven frame selection already made. And when we hit Apply, it's going to make the cut across all of our tracks that are showing.
So there is our first cut and what I like to do is I like to hit Enter here at this point and I like to say edit 1. Just make a marker there because we want to go back and check all of our edits to make sure that there's no audio glitches where the edit occurred and we will do that after the fact. So let's go to our second edit which is in here in the Word doc. We've got from 25:03 to 29:27. So back in Pro Tools, we've got 25:03 and Tab over and its 01:00:29:27 and hit Enter to lock that in. And that's a 4 second and 24 frame edit and hit Apply.
And you can see all the tracks snapped together at that point. Drop another marker there. Call this edit 2. And there's one more edit to be made and in the Word doc remember this is an insert of a time, not a cut time. So back in Pro Tools in the Time Operations Window, we are going to actually go over to Insert Time, which allows us to insert a certain amount of frames. And let's look at frame that starts on. It starts on 08:07 and it goes to 08:17. So back in Pro Tools here we are at 08.07, and tab over so we are at 01:00:08:17, and hit Enter to lock that in.
Again, it's a 10 second insert that's going to happen and hit Apply. And you can see that the tracks move down a little bit by 10 frames across all tracks. And we are done making our conforms. Go back to our edit window and drop the marker in there and call this edit 3, so we know where that one was. And close the Time Operations Window. And now let's show our hidden video that we are conforming to and here we want to make sure that everything lines up. So let's take a look. And you can see the audio is lining up perfectly.
If we go into Grid mode, everything looks in sync and we want to check just the end of the movie here. Yes, everything looks good. Everything is in sync and we are happy the edit is conformed correctly. So we can actually hide the old videos and we have our newly imported video and our Pro Tools is conformed. Now we just want to go ahead and like I said check our edits. So here at edit 1, there is a little weirdness that happened because of the cuts, so we're just going to clean that up edit-wise. So we get rid of this and what I want to do is use the Trimmer tool and just pull out this region a couple of frames and maybe lengthen that Crossfade and of course we want to listen and check our edits there.
(Male speaker 1: Financials?) (Male speaker 2: But Jessica?) So that sounds okay, and the second edit here. We are going to look. This one, it looks okay in terms of there is nothing any extra audio material hanging over but we are talking about to pull these guys out maybe a couple of frames there and we will make a quick crossfade using the F key between those guys to smooth that edit out. (Male speaker 1: Speaking of money?) Okay, sounds good. And the last one is trickiest one because remember we added some frames here, so there's a gap. So we definitely want to fill any kind gap like that.
We could fill it with room tone, but we might actually be able to get away here if I just removed this piece and take the Trimmer tool and drag the old section out and kind of pull this one in a little bit and make a crossfade. So I have to listen to make sure it works but it might work perfectly. I will actually go a little closer here. So that sounds good. I mean, we can finesse this edit a little bit more, maybe just pulling this over. It doesn't look like we have to have any other room tone to add in there. We can just pull that out and it stretches across the edit and everything is cool.
So conforming to a video edit can seem daunting but as long as you use these tips and you have good communication with your video editor, it actually is very manageable in Pro Tools.
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Try and buy as much H.E.B. brands as possible. They make everything in Texas and the stuff is good and costs less. I prefer most of the stuff to national brands. Don't confuse it with the Hill Country Fair brand...that is something you have to be selective about, but it is even cheaper.
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Lisa Vanderpump-Todd | |
Lisa Vanderpump, Beverly Hills, California on 16 March 2013 | |
Born | Lisa Jane Vanderpump 15 September 1960 London, England, UK |
Occupation | Restaurateur, philanthropist, author, actress, television personality |
Years active | 1973–present |
Television | The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Vanderpump Rules |
Spouse(s) | Ken Todd (m. 1982) |
Children | 2 |
Lisa Vanderpump-Todd | |
Lisa Vanderpump, Beverly Hills, California on 16 March 2013 | |
Born | Lisa Jane Vanderpump 15 September 1960 London, England, UK |
Occupation | Restaurateur, philanthropist, author, actress, television personality |
Years active | 1973–present |
Television | The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Vanderpump Rules |
Spouse(s) | Ken Todd (m. 1982) |
Children | 2 |
Lisa Jane Vanderpump (born 15 September 1960) is a British restaurateur, philanthropist, author, actress, and television personality. She is known for her appearances on Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Vanderpump Rules, and ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Vanderpump and husband, Ken Todd, have owned 26 restaurants, bars and clubs in London and Los Angeles, including The Shadow Lounge, Bar Soho, SUR, and Villa Blanca.
Lisa Vanderpump was born [1] in London, England. Vanderpump resided in London before moving to Monaco. Vanderpump also lived in Cheltenham, England prior to moving to Monaco. After residing in France, Vanderpump, along with her husband and children, moved to Beverly Hills, where they had lived briefly years before.[2] Vanderpump and Todd own a home in Montecito, California.[3] In 1982, she married Ken Todd six weeks after meeting him; she was 21, while he was 37, and at the time owned his first bar. They have two children together, daughter Pandora (born 1986) and an adopted son Max (born 1992).[citation needed]
Together with her husband, she supports Keep Memory Alive, founded by Larry Ruvo of Nevada. The organization was established to bring awareness to various neurological disorders, including Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and Parkinson's disease. Vanderpump and her husband financially support the organization in an effort to develop treatments and thereby prevent and eradicate all types of neurological disorders.[4]
Vanderpump was a full-time drama student by the age of nine and starred in numerous television shows and films as a child. She made her film debut in the 1973 dramedy A Touch of Class, playing the daughter of Glenda Jackson,[5] and also appeared in the cult horror film Killer's Moon (1978). Throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, Vanderpump had small roles in various episodic television programs. She appeared on the television series Silk Stalkings and as Margo Curtis on Baywatch Nights.[6][7]
She was featured prominently in '80s music videos "Poison Arrow" by the band ABC; and "(What) In The Name of Love" by the duo Naked Eyes.[8] She was featured in the Lady Gaga music video for "G.U.Y." in March 2014.
She debuted on Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2010. In 2013, she was featured in a spin-off of the program, Vanderpump Rules, which focuses on her West Hollywood restaurant, SUR (sexy unique restaurant). In February of that year, Vanderpump was announced as one of the twelve celebrities participating on the sixteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.[9] Her professional partner was ballroom dancer Gleb Savchenko, who has appeared on a season of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars.[10] She and Savchenko became the second couple to be eliminated from the show. During training for the fourth week, Vanderpump passed out and was rushed to a hospital by her partner, where she found out that she had an early flu virus. Despite being in poor health, she decided to continue with the dance fifteen minutes prior to appearing on the floor. During her post-dance interview, she stated, "It's not how many times you fall, but how many times you get up."
Before moving to the US, Vanderpump designed 26 of the London-based bars and restaurants that she co-owned with her husband. They own two new restaurants in California. Villa Blanca is based in Beverly Hills, while Sur, the focus of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills spin-off, Vanderpump Rules is based in West Hollywood.[11] In August 2013, entrepreneurs Ryan Allen Carrillo and Andrew Gruver filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, naming Vanderpump and her husband as defendants and alleging breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud, breach of contract, and misrepresentation and deceit, according to court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com. Carrillo and Gruver claim the couple "unfairly snatched the West Hollywood venue" where they intended to open a gay sports bar called Bar Varsity.[12]
She is a monthly contributing writer and editor for Beverly Hills Lifestyle magazine.[13]
Vanderpump released a line of homewares called The Vanderpump Beverly Hills Collection by Pop Culture Promotions on November 6, 2014. [14]
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2013 | Dancing with the Stars | Sixteenth season; 4 episodes |
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John Constantine | |
Cover to Hellblazer #220 (July 2006) Art by Leonardo Manco | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | The Saga of the Swamp Thing #25 (cameo) (June 1984) The Saga of the Swamp Thing #37 (June 1985) |
Created by | Alan Moore Stephen R. Bissette John Totleben |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | John Constantine |
Species | Human |
Place of origin | Liverpool, England |
Team affiliations | The Trenchcoat Brigade Justice League Dark |
Partnerships | Chas Chandler Swamp Thing Zatanna |
Supporting character of | Timothy Hunter |
Notable aliases | Hellblazer |
Abilities | Cunning Evocation Mind control Magically adept Arcane knowledge Expert fraud and con artist |
John Constantine | |
Cover to Hellblazer #220 (July 2006) Art by Leonardo Manco | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | The Saga of the Swamp Thing #25 (cameo) (June 1984) The Saga of the Swamp Thing #37 (June 1985) |
Created by | Alan Moore Stephen R. Bissette John Totleben |
In-story information | |
Alter ego | John Constantine |
Species | Human |
Place of origin | Liverpool, England |
Team affiliations | The Trenchcoat Brigade Justice League Dark |
Partnerships | Chas Chandler Swamp Thing Zatanna |
Supporting character of | Timothy Hunter |
Notable aliases | Hellblazer |
Abilities | Cunning Evocation Mind control Magically adept Arcane knowledge Expert fraud and con artist |
John Constantine (/ˈkɒnstəntaɪn/)[1] is a fictional character, an antihero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a cameo with The Saga of the Swamp Thing No. 25 (June 1984), revealing himself completely in The Saga of the Swamp Thing No. 37 (June 1985), and was created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, and John Totleben. He serves as the lead character of the comic books Hellblazer (1988–2013) and Constantine (2013–present).
The titular Hellblazer,[2] Constantine is a working class magician, occult detective and con man stationed in London. He is known for his endless cynicism, deadpan snarking, ruthless cunning and constant chain smoking, but is also a passionate humanist driven by a heartfelt desire to do some good in his life. Originally a supporting character who played a pivotal role in the "American Gothic" Swamp Thing storyline, Constantine received his own comic in 1988. Pop artist Sting served as visual inspiration for the character.[3] A live-action film was also released in 2005 entitled Constantine, where an Americanized version of the character is played by actor Keanu Reeves. Welsh actor Matt Ryan was cast in the role of Constantine for the 2014 NBC television series Constantine.
The Hellblazer series was the longest-running and most successful title of DC's Vertigo imprint.[4] Empire Magazine ranked Constantine third in their 50 Greatest Comic Characters of All Time,[5] while IGN ranked him No. 29 in their Top 100 Comic Book Heroes, and the character ranked No. 10 in Wizard Magazine's Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time.
John Constantine first appeared in 1985 as a recurring character in the horror series The Saga of the Swamp Thing, in which he acted as a "supernatural advisor" to the main character.[6]
In these early appearances, Constantine was depicted as a sorcerer of questionable morality, whose appearance was based on that of the musician Sting (specifically, as Sting appeared in the films Brimstone and Treacle and Quadrophenia). Alan Moore created the character after artists Stephen R. Bissette and John Totleben, who were fans of the Police, expressed a desire to draw a character who looked like Sting.[3][7] They had already drawn at least one such character in Sting's likeness, as a briefly glimpsed background figure wearing a black-and-red-striped T-shirt, in Swamp Thing No. 25 (1984). In his earliest Swamp Thing appearances, the character is drawn with a marked resemblance to Sting, and in Swamp Thing No. 51, Constantine appears on a boat with the name "The Honourable Gordon Sumner" on the bow.
John Constantine's official debut was not until Swamp Thing No. 37 when he was drawn by Rick Veitch. Moore describes the creation of Constantine as being drawn from a number of "really good ideas... about serial killers, the Winchester House, and... want[ing] to draw Sting in a story."[8] Calling these disparate strands a "big intellectual puzzle", Constantine was the result of "fit[ting] it all together."[8] Initially created "purely to get Sting into the story", by the time of the 1985 San Diego ComicCon, Moore stated that "[i]t's turning into something more than that now."[8] Veitch's contribution was to give Constantine an earring, something he considered risque for 1985.[9]
Asked in 1985 about the similarities between John Constantine and the character Baron Winters (from Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's Night Force), Moore revealed that he was a "big fan" of Wolfman and Night Force, but that there was "no intention to rip off Baron Winters."[8] He stated
" | With Constantine, I don't know who I was thinking of. I just wanted this character who knows everything, and knows everybody—really charismatic. Who knows nuns, politicians and bikers, and who is never at a loss for what to do. I suppose there is a similarity with Baron Winters in that he is another manipulative character who has a bunch of agents working with him.[8] | " |
Constantine and Winters met each other during Moore's run on Swamp Thing and again during Gaiman's The Books of Magic.
Speaking to comics magazine Wizard in 1993, Moore elaborated:
" | One of those early notes was they both wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. I think DC is terrified that Sting will sue them, although Sting has seen the character and commented in Rolling Stone that he thought it was great. He was very flattered to have a comic character who looked like him, but DC gets nervous about these things. They started to eradicate all traces of references in the introduction of the early Swamp Thing books to John Constantine's resemblance to Sting. But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve and John wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. Having been given that challenge, how could I fit Sting into Swamp Thing? I have an idea that most of the mystics in comics are generally older people, very austere, very proper, very middle class in a lot of ways. They are not at all functional on the street. It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.[3] | " |
In 1988, Constantine was given his own title, Hellblazer, published by DC Comics. In 1993, at the launch of DC's Vertigo Comics imprint, Hellblazer was made an official Vertigo publication. It was the longest continuously published Vertigo title.[10] The policy was reversed in 2011, when a version of Constantine appeared in the DC Universe crossover series Brightest Day, a spin-off series, Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing.[11][12] Peter Milligan added him in the roster of The New 52 series Justice League Dark.[13][14] Milligan began writing Justice League Dark while also writing the Vertigo's Hellblazer series, being a writer of both series at the same time. In an interview, Milligan told Newsarama,
" | Yeah. Sorry about that. I felt pretty bad and it was quite strange, sitting on a few panels and then having a few interviews where I couldn't actually say that I'd be writing Constantine for DCU. I have to say, though, that that didn't change what I said, which I still stand by. Namely that as far as I'm concerned, it's important that the Vertigo Constantine and the DCU Constantine are kept separate, with no cross-over things going on. The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings—otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered aging old sod we meet in Vertigo. Unlike my Vertigo Constantine, the guy we see in JLA Dark is definitely not married! I also said and believe that the average DC reader—Vertigo and DCU—is sophisticated enough to be able to read both versions without getting confused.[15] | " |
Beginning in Justice League Dark issue No. 9, Jeff Lemire assumed writing duties on the series, replacing Milligan who had remained on the Vertigo title. Speaking with CBR News exclusively, Lemire said he considers Justice League Dark his dream gig at DC Comics because Constantine is one of his all-time favourite characters not just in comics, but in all fiction. Lemire also teased that while Constantine, Zatanna and Deadman would remain on the roster, the team would change in his opening arc and expand.[16]
Although a compassionate humanist who struggles to overcome the influence of both Heaven and Hell over humanity, and despite his occasional forays into heroism, Constantine is a foul-mouthed, disillusioned, British cynic who pursues a life of sorcery and danger. His motivation has been attributed to an adrenaline addiction that only the strange and mysterious can sate. He also seems to be something of a "Weirdness Magnet" (a term also used to describe Blue Devil).
Constantine is shown to be someone with a wide and international circle of contacts and allies, and is adept at making friends. He has had many girlfriends as well, and one story mentions past boyfriends too.[17][18][19] At the same time, his close friends inevitably suffer or are outright killed simply by being in his life; this has left a severe mark on him. In No. 69, when the King of Vampires killed the man next to him and casually asked if he'd been a friend, John replied "Must be. He's dead." His relationships shown in New 52 have included numerous women, most significantly Zatanna, and the sorcerer Nick Necro; all have been fraught with distrust and mutual disappointments.
Constantine also has a reputation as being one of the most powerful sorcerers in the world.[20] Despite this, Constantine rarely uses magic, instead choosing to use his wits to trick his opponents. Constantine is also referred to as "The Constant One"[20] because of his whole family tree being somewhat connected to the occult. Many of his ancestors are sorcerers from different eras of history, and have taken part in many known historical events. Some of his ancestors have roles in other works outside Hellblazer, such as Batman: The Order of Beasts, The Sandman and Books of Magic.[21]
While Constantine has worn many clothes over the years, he was originally portrayed as often wearing a blue pin-stripe suit, tan trench coat. and occasionally gloves. As the series progressed, his trademark attire became a grungier (or perhaps the same, just older) trench coat, white shirt, and black tie, but has recently returned more to his earlier fashion. Constantine smokes Silk Cut cigarettes, consuming thirty or so a day.[22] John also occasionally breaks the fourth wall, where he talks to the reader and narrates the story himself.[23]
Constantine is unusual among comic book characters in that he has aged in real time since his creation.[6] During the first year of his solo series, Constantine celebrated his 35th birthday. In the relevant issue Constantine is reading a newspaper when he notices the date on the cover is his birthday, making his date of birth 10 May 1953.[24] Five years later, on May 10, 1993, he turned 40.[25] In Hellblazer, it was mentioned multiple times[26] that the aging process of Constantine himself might be different due to the demon blood that he obtained from Nergal. In a 2011 interview, DC co-publisher Dan DiDio said that "Constantine in the Vertigo universe is in his 60s, and what you have in the DC Universe is a character who is markedly younger".[13]
In Constantine's early appearances in Swamp Thing, his past was a mystery; his life as a child and young adult was not developed until Jamie Delano's Hellblazer stories. John Constantine was born in Liverpool, Merseyside on 10 May 1953. His mother, Mary Anne, died giving birth to John and his stillborn twin brother because an earlier abortion—forced on her by John's father, Thomas—had weakened her womb. Because he was unable to accept responsibility for his wife's death, Thomas blamed John and the pair grew up with a deep dislike for one another.[27] Whilst in the womb, John strangled his twin brother with his own umbilical cord; in a parallel universe, the twin survives to become the well-loved and well-adjusted magician that John never was.[28]
In their childhood, John and his older sister Cheryl lived briefly with their aunt and uncle in Northampton to escape from their father's alcoholism and subsequent imprisonment for stealing a female neighbour's underwear. They moved back to Liverpool when their father was released. John's bloodline and ancestry were known as the Laughing Magicians, legendary mages who have the power over synchronicity and were infamous for bluffing and tricking gods.[20] This ancestry later drives John Constantine to partake in his lineage and practice magic. One of John's first acts of magic, as a child, was to hide all of his childhood innocence and vulnerability in a box to rid himself of it.[29] Later, in the 1960s, a teenage John ran away from home, but not before a botched curse caused his father to become withered and frail. John eventually made his permanent home in London in 1969, rooming with Francis "Chas" Chandler, a young man who has since gone on to become John's closest—and longest surviving—friend.
During the 1970s, John became involved in occult circles in London. He travelled other countries and visited San Francisco, where he met, and subsequently began a relationship with, the female magician Zatanna Zatara (in DC's The New 52 however, the two met in New York[30]). He also became enamoured of punk rock; after seeing the Sex Pistols at the Roxy Club in London in 1977, John cut his long hair, called himself Johnny Con-Job, and formed his own band, Mucous Membrane, whose members included Chandler (as a roadie), a drummer named Beano and fellow Liverpudlian Gary Lester. They later released an album called Venus of the Hardsell. John also performed as a famous stage magician in the 1980s, where he became famous for predicting the assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan.[31]
John's first venture into occult "heroism" was a disaster. On tour with Mucous Membrane at the Casa Nova Club in Newcastle, he found the aftermath of a magical orgy gone horribly wrong: an abused child, Astra, had conjured a hideous monster that took revenge on the adults who were tormenting her, and the monster refused to leave. With typical recklessness, John convinced some members of the band, along with several occultist friends, to try destroying the creature by summoning a demon of their own. Unfortunately, this demon was not under their control and after it had destroyed the child's monster, it tormented Constantine's friends and took the child to Hell. John suffered a nervous breakdown after this incident, and was committed to Ravenscar Psychiatric Hospital, which he drifted in and out of over the years.[32]
The guilt of Astra hung over him for many years until, in his mid-forties, he used some magic and con-artistry to free not only her, but also the souls of all the other children trapped in Hell. As for the rest of the "Newcastle Crew", the incident left the group both physically and psychologically scarred. After helping Dream retrieve his sands, Dream in turn relieves Constantine of the nightmares that had plagued him since the incident.[33]
John is later freed from Ravenscar by London gangsters, threatening him to resurrect a mob boss's dead son whilst his sister's family pays the price. John organises a group and manages to resurrect the boy. Years later, John was able to persuade the same group to help with his investigation of the Brujería cult, as seen in Swamp Thing Nos. 37–49. The cult murdered most of them, including John's then-lover, Emma. These people, and others who have died due to John's carelessness, have continued to appear to him as silent, reproachful ghosts. Chas is the most prominent one of very few human friends to have survived a long-term association with John.
John first met Swamp Thing in 1985 after being interested in the creature. John later acts as the Swamp Thing's protector, guide, and voice of omen, even teaching the Thing to amplify his powers. Both would have further adventure with each other, such as John introducing the Thing to the Parliament of Trees, Thing using John's body to make love to his wife and father a child named Tefe, and fighting off the Damnation Army from summoning the Anti-Christ. Both carry a dull, but nevertheless fruitful friendship with each other. Constantine even invites Swamp Thing to his 40th birthday and assures the Thing he'll try not to bother him again. In 1991 while in his late thirties, John contracted terminal lung cancer. During this time, he sought the help of a dying friend, Brendan, who had sold his soul to the First of the Fallen, the most powerful lord of Hell. When the First came to collect the soul, John tricked him into drinking holy water, which rendered him helpless and prevented him from collecting the friend's soul at the appointed time.[22]
For this, the First promised to make John suffer unprecedented torment in Hell when he dies. Slowly dying from cancer, John hatched a plan to save himself from eternal torment. He secretly sold his soul to the other two Lords of Hell. When they discovered Constantine's actions they realised that they could not allow him to die, or else they would be forced to go to all-out war over his soul, a war whose only winner would be "the Lord of the Hosts," i.e., God and his angels. They were also far too stubborn and proud, however, to enter anything resembling an alliance. As a result, they were forced to cure John of his cancer.[22] This led to the First plotting a grand revenge on Constantine, who manipulated the demon via his ally Ellie, a succubus, into coming into a trap; the plan only barely succeeded, and while the First was temporarily defeated many of John's friends were killed.
Constantine then went on to have a series of adventures and misadventures playing the role of puppet and puppeteer with his signature style and profane sarcasm. He managed to free Astra and every other child in Hell, but at the cost of the First returning to power; also, as part of the scheme, John's worst attributes were given separate existence as "Demon Constantine" which meant he himself could not go to Hell. As part of an attempt to regain his nastier edge, he used Ellie, and this led to her taking out a revenge scheme in 1998 that forced him to turn to the First for help; Ellie ended up in Hell and several of John's oldest friends left him. John, being tired of all this, contacted God. God appears and the two converse in a campfire. John then tells him his reason for contacting Him. He warns God that if his soul is ever sent to Hell, he would easily take over, and do nasty things such as unleashing the demons and locking away Hell so that the damned cannot enter and have no resting place. John blackmails God to do his bidding, and that's to keep his soul away from Hell. God, knowing of John's abilities, does so. But warns him of what will come next.[34]
On return to Britain in 2003 and after reconciling with his sister (who believed he was dead), he went on to be involved in a magic war in London and was horrified to find his niece Gemma, whom he'd wanted to keep out of this life, had become a witch. He soon ended up organising a counterstrike against a creature known as the Shadow Dog, having been warned of its coming and believing it was an entity that brought death and madness; instead, it was a guardian against the true enemy, the Beast, who was manipulating John into giving it free access to humanity. In the process, he was rendered an amnesiac, leaving him vulnerable to the schemes of the demon Rosacarnis. To get his memories back, he had to spend a day in her service, in which she had him father three demonic children, who went on to massacre anyone who knew Constantine, from friends to enemies to people who'd only briefly met him. Among them was his sister Cheryl; one of his sons had exploited her husband's religious fanaticism to make him see his wife as a witch — and thus a person to be killed. This forced Constantine to go on journey to Hell in the hopes to return his sister's soul. Accompanying him was Nergal, the demon he thought he had killed by sending him to the border of Heaven.
While in Hell, John and Nergal met the demon Constantine, who tried to kill the original one. John was forced to let Nergal enter his body in order to finish him. Later they also encountered Ellie, who seemed to have quite pardoned John for him selling her out to the First. She was not subject to any torture or punishment, either. The couple finally arrived at Rosacarnis's hall, where there was a feast with all three of Constantine's children, the First, and many demons from all Hell. Because of Nergal's earlier possession of his body, any damage done to John would be mirrored on Nergal. Nergal, however, calls the bluff, showing that the effect goes both ways by clawing at his chest slightly. John begs Rosacarnis to kill him to save his sister, but just as she's about to, the First of the Fallen intervenes and immediately kills Rosacarnis, since Constantine's soul is his by "right of insult" and will only be taken when he deems fit. The First also kills Rosacarnis' two sons, but spares the daughter, who had been dealing with issues of identity and had doubts about whether she wanted to continue to exist.
Following this, the First commands Nergal to release the soul he's holding. Cheryl's soul is pure and innocent and does not belong in Hell, but the First offers her a truly devilish deal. Informing her that her husband, Constantine's brother-in-law Tony, has killed himself with her blood still staining his hands, thus making him twice damned, and offering to fairly divide her husband's punishment between the two of them if she stays of her own free will. Constantine attempts in vain to argue that Tony murdered her and does not deserve that mercy. Despite all that has happened, Cheryl still loves her husband enough to accept the First's deal and decides to stay. Constantine can do nothing as the First gloats over his victory and then sends him back home. Unable to look at his niece Gemma's tear-filled eyes because of his failure, Constantine runs barefoot down the stairs and into the Liverpool night.
John later revisits Ravenscar Asylum, the place where he was thrown after being framed for Astra's murder. John remembers all the maltreatment he suffered, and remembers every suffering and guilt he had for the past years. At first it appears as though it is too much for him and that he will be overtaken by the images of the ones he has hurt, but the being turns into the form of a baby. This baby, who is the sum of all his guilt and self-hatred, is then promptly thrown off a cliff near the asylum and into the sea. After killing the creature, Constantine is now free, and becomes even a bit more cocky and picks back up his earlier style from the beginning of his book and his appearances from Swamp Thing: a double-breasted blue suit underneath his trench coat, and slicked-back gelled hair.
Later on, a Sudanese shaman who had first bound the hunger demon Mnemoth[24] has been having dreams of Constantine and a war-mage named Mako who is coming to kill him and devour his being. The reason that Constantine is a specific target of the war-mage is because he is "The Laughing Magician" who is also known as "The Constant One." Mako wants to devour him so he can absorb that power and have his being made a fixture of the universe. To counter this attack to come the African magus puts a dream of his into a tree root, with Constantine's true nature in those dreams. After doing this a young man is sent as a messenger to find John and deliver the message. Constantine later notices that something is wrong on the synchronicity lines and it seems that he is going head first against the traffic. Remembering that Mako mentioned Ravenscar when he found out about Constantine, he tries to summon his unborn brother, but instead is summoned to his brother. The soul of Constantine's brother tells John that he was not to be born and that it should have been he who had been born instead, as he is the Laughing Magician, he requests that he and John merge their souls so that they become one and can fix the world, they had previously attempted this but John was apparently too strong willed. John then makes the link that it was the soul of his unborn brother that caused him to get cancer and for his relationships to fail, and that anytime he tried to take control of his life, something bad would happen to make John weaker, so that the souls might be able to merge. After realizing this, John cuts the soul of his brother out of his own soul, so that he can control his life and live his way.
In 2010s, John entangles himself in further adventures. He goes to India and fights a ghost of a British soldier of the Sepoy rebellion,[35] fights a Babylonian shape shifter named Julian, gets his thumb cut off to contact Shade: The Changing Man, marrying a young girl named Epiphany Greaves who was also the daughter of an infamous gangster,[36] looking for his lost trench coat that his niece sold, finding his sister's long lost son named Finn, and finally getting his sister's soul from Hell.
By 2013, John was contacted by the Three Fates, who tell him that he will finally die in five days. Having lived a good and adventurous life, John happily accepts his fate rather than trying to fight it like he always does. When the 5th day came, John Constantine was murdered in his own home when he was ambushed and killed by a gangster. His funeral was attended by many of his friends and family. But it later turns out that he had faked his death yet again. Constantine decides he should keep a low profile, because he doesn't want to hurt the people around him again. He bids farewell with Finn and Epiphany, and finally visits Gemma. In the meanwhile, Gemma, hearing about her uncle's return from the Fates, tries to kill herself with a poisonous revolver, but Constantine sneaks the last remaining dart from his niece. Gemma says her life will be better without him, because he takes up too much of it and she is either hating him or loving him too much. John suggests he leave her be, but Gemma fears he will return and put her life to misery. John tells Gemma to make her own decision, and she reluctantly points the revolver at him. Gemma closes her eyes before muttering, "Damn you, John Constantine." and pulls the trigger, but when she opened her eyes again, Constantine had vanished. The last scene shows Constantine in the Long Journey's End bar, holding a glass of liquor with a vacant look.
In The New 52, Constantine appears as one of the lead characters in Justice League Dark.[14] His history is slightly altered, such as meeting Zatanna in New York instead of San Francisco, and the origins of how he got his trademark trench coat. During the gap where he travels the world to learn magic, the New 52 added the history of him meeting Nick Necro, who was implied to be John's mentor and original owner of the trench coat. The Forever Evil: Blight storyline would establish that the three characters were all involved in a magical pact and a love triangle, which fell apart due to Zatanna ending her relationship with Nick to pursue John. Nick refers to John as having been his lover as well, stating "We were all in love, and you two shut me out!"[37] The character also stars in the ongoing series Constantine, which replaces Hellblazer. He is still an unsavory trickster in the New 52 universe, as, while during the Trinity War between the three Justice Leagues, he tries to trick Shazam (14 year old Billy Batson) so that he can steal his magic. He fails, causing Billy to become even more distrustful of other people than he already was.
In Constantine #14, it was revealed that John Constantine, as a boy, was taught and cast his first magical spell—at the cost of the lives of his parents and his house burning down (it was implied that his mother, unlike in Hellblazer, survived the childbirth). It was also revealed that he spent his childhood in the '80s in Liverpool, England (it is not shown if he had any sibling, like Cheryl Constantine in Hellblazer). The one who taught John his first spell was Tannarak from the Cult of the Cold Flame (Constantine #15).
His primary enemies in Constantine are Mister E, Sargon the Sorceress (the original Sargon's daughter), and Tannarak: all are members of the Cult of the Cold Flame. Together with his allies Papa Midnite, the psychic mage Spellbinder, and a witch called Julia Everheart, Constantine attempts to destroy the Cult by conspiring a scam to take Sargon and Tannarak by surprise. However, prior to the planned battle, Constantine is thrown into the battlefield in Dar es Salaam in World War I because of a ritual going wrong, making his plan ultimately fail. An encounter with Doctor Occult there results in Constantine being transported to Earth-2 - a world dying under siege from Darkseid and his army of Parademons.
In Earth-2, he is assaulted by the Parademons, but Wotan comes and rescues him, before trapping him to open a gateway to escape the dying Earth. Constantine manages to convince Wotan to spare his life, then works with the ancient sorcerer to open a door through his body to Earth-0. As Wotan enters the doorway, he is split into two halves, because there are two John Constantines in this world: the original Constantine and the native one of Earth-2, who is surrounded by his friends and even gets married. After the death of Wotan, Constantine resolves to find his Earth-2 counterpart. He travels to Liverpool and witnesses all the horror and despair of the dying world. As soon as John reached the destination, he is shocked to find his "parents" (actually the Earth-2 John's parents), his friends Gary Lester, Chas Chandler and his former love interest Maureen still alive.
The Earth-2 John quickly attacks him by grabbing him in the neck, but they are engulfed in visions of their lives in parallel right after: a dangerous life marred with sorcery, adventures and regrets of Earth-0 John and a much quieter, much happier life of Earth-2 John. Constantine quickly earns the trust of the Earth-2 family, who consider him to be a wonder. Together, they escape to a warehouse where John instructs them to draw sigils to cast a complex spell. As John is lecturing about the unpredictability and the price of magic, Doctor Fate appears in front of his eyes, claims to have foreseen his arrival and offers to help him.
The Constantine Futures End tie-in tells the story of John Constantine five years into a possible future of the New 52 universe. He somehow obtains the ultimate occult artifact, the Helmet of Fate, and manages to trick and kill the ancient magician Nabu with the help of an old ifrit.
John Constantine appears in an early issue of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. There in 1989, he helps Dream recover a pouch of sand which had served as one of Dream's totems of power. John had purchased the pouch during Dream's imprisonment and it had then been stolen from him by an ex-girlfriend. John and Dream find the woman using the sand as a drug and driven mad by it. Dream recovers the pouch, granting the woman a peaceful death at John's request and promising to end the nightmares John had been having "ever since Newcastle".[38] John's ancestor Lady Johanna Constantine also plays a significant role in storylines of The Sandman and an Elizabethan-era "Jack Constantine" is mentioned.
In another of Gaiman's comics, The Books of Magic, John is at hand to show the hero Timothy Hunter around the then-present day DC Comics Universe, along with Mister E, Doctor Occult and the Phantom Stranger. He later appears several times in both the monthly "Books of Magic" series and several mini and maxiseries featuring Timothy Hunter.[4]
During a crossover, Constantine met Shade, The Changing Man during the Hotel Shade era, by Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo. Constantine also makes a small cameo in Vertigo's Lucifer. In issue No. 5 he is seen drinking at Lucifer Morningstar's bar Lux, among guests that seek an audience with Lucifer about the gateway to the void outside of creation. According to himself he's not there to propose a trade with Lucifer, only to take "a quick look at the field".[39] Lucifer Morningstar makes a return cameo in Hellblazer No. 192. Lucifer writer Mike Carey wrote Hellblazer between issues 175–215.
Constantine is one of the few people aware of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and one of the few to have foreseen it. Although longtime allies Zatanna, the Phantom Stranger and Swamp Thing are still either active or frequently referred to in the DCU's world of superheroics, the world of Hellblazer became more realistic and no mention was made of John's interactions with superheroes, which included attending the funeral of Hal Jordan uninvited, drinking with Doom Patrol member Mento, meeting Batman, attending the opening of Guy Gardner's Green Lantern theme bar, helping an incarnation of the Challengers of the Unknown save London from one of the Millennium Giants and, in his own comic, playing host to a stoned Zatanna at his fortieth birthday party. He does complain about superheroes not getting in trouble for collateral damage as he does at the beginning of The Fear Machine story arc.[40] Constantine was slated to be a main character of the aborted company-wide crossover Twilight of the Superheroes, however the project was ultimately shelved.
John Constantine can be seen in a panel in Neil Gaiman's Batman: Secret Origins story "When is a Door". In it, a film crew is asking people on the street what they think of Gotham's super-villain problem, John is shown smoking a cigarette, responding "Sorry squire, I'm not from 'round here' make that "no comment."" Though it is not stated that this is Constantine, he has the same appearance, speaks in a decidedly British fashion, and this would not be the first cameo Gaiman has given him in a comic. The story was later reprinted as an extra in Gaiman's "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader". He briefly met Oliver Queen in a London pub, telling him to mention his name to the dark forces in Sherwood Forest, although Queen ignored the request.[41]
While not seen in the Justice League Unlimited comic books he was mentioned. He also rates a mention along with Swamp Thing as unavailable in The Spectre (vol. 2) No. 11 (a crossover with Millennium, to which he alluded in Swamp Thing, trying to get the latter to assist). Constantine appeared in the pages of Justice League of America: Wedding Special, during the bachelor party of Green Arrow. He was walking behind Metamorpho during a conversation between Hal Jordan and John Stewart.
In the final issue of the Brightest Day series, Constantine appears on the last page, remarking "Bollocks" at news that a new Swamp Thing has appeared. Constantine starred in Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search For Swamp Thing, a three-issue mini-series that saw John interact with various DC superheroes during his pursuit of the new Swamp Thing.[42] DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio stated that the John Constantine in the DC Universe will be closer to his original incarnation while Constantine in Vertigo's Hellblazer would continue unaffected.[13]
After Swamp Thing's resurrection by the White Lantern, Constantine is shown looking over the bodies of the polluting executives Swamp Thing has just killed.[43]
John Constantine debuted in the Injustice Year Three comic series as Batman's newest ally against Superman, written by Tom Taylor. He takes part in the war to protect his illegitimate daughter Rose, whose "parents" are killed in the crossfire of the war between the Green Lantern Corp - Batman allies and the joint force of Superman and Sinestro's Yellow Lantern Corp. He hides Rose inside the Tower of Fate, which resides in a separate magical realm, and proceed to strike a deal with Trigon, then recruit Detective Chimp and other magical characters including Klarion the Witch Boy and Etrigan the Demon. Together, he has to face a new enemy who allies himself to Superman's side: The Spectre (who is later revealed to no longer reside in Jim Corrigan, but a malevolent host). Later on, John Constantine unsuccessfully attempts to recruit Swamp Thing, who cites Superman and Luthor's efforts in protecting the environment as a reason to join the Regime's side. This leads to John conspiring to kill Swamp Thing.
Hellblazer boosted the popularity and image of the occult detective fiction genre and shaped it to its modern form.[53] Many modern examples of the genre such as Hellboy, Supernatural, Grimm, The Originals, Felix Castor, and The Dresden Files have been influenced by the character.[54][55] Many imitators of both the series and its character flourished such as Criminal Macabre, Gravel, Planetary, and others.[56] Its elements and style have been used countless of times in other works and many analogues of the cynical John Constantine have appeared.[57]
Unlike most comic book magicians, Constantine rarely uses magical spells, unless he has to, especially in combat. Constantine faces most of his challenges relying primarily on his cunning, quick-thinking during fights, vast knowledge of the occult, manipulation of opponents and allies, and an extensive list of contacts. These skills are often more useful than his magical ones. He is known to have deceived many of the most powerful beings in the universe, such as The First of the Fallen[22] and The Presence. In the DC universe, John managed to recruit Batman and Superman through his own manipulation.[42] He is considered by many as being the world's greatest con man.[58] Constantine is also one of a few people knowing all the routes to Heaven, Hell, and the afterlife, which he uses to escape and teleport without the danger of being chased by enemies.[59] In the graphic novel Pandemonium, he once allowed himself to be killed, but later resurrects himself by exiting the afterlife.
As a sorcerer, Constantine is armed with the knowledge of many magical spells, rituals, and curses, such as evocation, necromancy, illusions, invisibility,[60] and can even use magic to time travel.[61] He also has a wide range of protection magic such as sigils and magic circles that can protect him from both physical[62] and supernatural attacks. But John's most signature ability is synchronicity wave travelling, which is an instinctual supernatural ability for Constantine to make his own luck. This has led John to uncanny luck at games of chance, the ability to avoid and escape harm, meet the right kind of ally to help prevent or stop an apocalyptic event from happening, and reshape the battle he's fighting to his own accord.[24] Constantine is also highly resistant to many psychic attacks such as telepathy, possessions, and mind control. He can even use magic to block off omnipresence, seen where he once used sigils to hide himself from the First of the Fallen.[63] By the New 52, other magical powers such as mild teleportation,[64][65] counter spells, electrokineses,[66] telekinesis,[67] and immobilisation[67] have been added. He can also use magic to reflect damages done to him unto his enemies.[68][69]
Aside from sorcery, Constantine has also exhibited considerable mastery in "stage magic skills"—hypnosis, sleight of hand, pick pocketing and escapology. John also carries with him an arsenal of powerful magical artifacts to aid him in battle, such as The House of Mystery which also serves as his transport to different realms of the universe, and his trademark trench coat that also possesses powerful demonic powers.[70] Ever since tricking the Lords of Hell into curing his lung cancer, he was perpetually in good health and physicality. Constantine's blood is demonically tainted, initially by a blood transfusion from the demon Nergal, and later by sex with a succubus. His blood has been shown to have healing properties, and is noted to have an age-managing effect.[26] It also acted as a defence mechanism when attacked by the King of the Vampires,[71] as it is highly corrosive and poisonous. Constantine's skills in unarmed combat varies depending on the writer. Some portrays him as a poor physical fighter, while others as a capable hand-to-hand combatant. However, he has occasionally won fights, either by using magical weapons, by fighting dirty,[72] or by quick-thinking.[73]
Constantine also made deals with two lords of Hell, ultimately to play them off against each other and keep himself from hell. The demons were essentially forced to be his guardian angels to keep him from dying and for a time the forces of darkness could not touch him, as evidenced by his rescue of Tim Hunter and Zatanna from a mystical Halloween party in the Books of Magic series. Each of the two demons made a deal with him. It has yet to be mentioned what exactly he got out of the deal and if Hell was affected by the New 52 story line. If not with Lucifer quitting his position and Azazel still under the Sandman's care the remaining demon may want to claim his due. However it has yet to be mentioned what John sold his soul for a price that would not alert them to his real plan and the demons had been very eager to claim it, so Constantine's powers may be a bit better than he lets on.
Alan Moore claims to have met his creation on two occasions. In 1993, he told Wizard Magazine:[3]
" | One day, I was in Westminster in London—this was after we had introduced the character—and I was sitting in a sandwich bar. All of a sudden, up the stairs came John Constantine. He was wearing the trenchcoat, a short cut—he looked—no, he didn't even look exactly like Sting. He looked exactly like John Constantine. He looked at me, stared me straight in the eyes, smiled, nodded almost conspiratorially, and then just walked off around the corner to the other part of the snack bar. I sat there and thought, should I go around that corner and see if he is really there, or should I just eat my sandwich and leave? I opted for the latter; I thought it was the safest. I'm not making any claims to anything. I'm just saying that it happened. Strange little story. | " |
His second meeting with his creation was illustrated in 2001's Snakes and Ladders,[74] an adaptation by Eddie Campbell of one of Moore's performance art pieces:
" | Years later, in another place, he steps out of the dark and speaks to me. He whispers: " I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any cunt could do it." | " |
They met a third time in fiction, when Moore was written into issue No. 120 of Hellblazer by then-author Paul Jenkins. Moore is seen sitting in silhouette at the back of a bar as John Constantine (who is on a pub crawl with the reader) raises a drink to him.[75]
Original Hellblazer writer, Jamie Delano also claims to have encountered Constantine, during his run on the character, outside the British Museum.[76][77]
The character won the 1986 "Favourite Supporting Character" by Eagle Award, followed by winning it again in the same category a year later.[79] In addition to being ranked third in Empire magazine's 50 Greatest Comic Characters and being ranked No. 10 in Wizard Magazine's Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time, he is also listed in IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes as No. 29, stating that "John Constantine is pretty low on the totem pole as far as DC's magical players go. But through a combination of guile, trickery, and plain old ornery charm, Constantine battles the worst Hell has to offer and lives to tell the tale. Constantine is a byproduct of both the punk rock era and Margaret Thatcher's Britain. He isn't very nice, he drinks and smokes like they're both going out of style, and his friends always seem to pay for his own magical misdeeds. And yet we can't help but love this crusty old magician all the same."[80]
The character also garnered some negative reception, where UGO.com listed both Constantine and Zatanna in UGO's the Dirtiest Comic Book Sex Scenes, where they comment that, "One DC heroine who often finds herself unlucky in love is the backwards magician Zatanna, who can never seem to find a quality dude. One of the most fulfilling relationships she's had to date is with that reprobate sorceror John Constantine, who is the very definition of a "love 'em and leave 'em" kind of dude. The pair hooked up a number of times but their respective worldviews were just too different, plus he's straight Vertigo and she's wiping minds in the Justice League. The commute would be hideous."[81] During Brian Azzarello's run on the series, the Ashes & Dust in the City of Angels story arc gained controversy for portraying Constantine in a bisexual relationship.[82]
Fandomania.com ranked the film Constantine in No. 13 of their Ultimate 20 Comic Book Film Adaptations, stating that Keanu Reeves's performance "was good", although saying it might have been better if "played by the person the character was originally modelled after: Sting of the Police."[83] TopTenz.net ranked him No. 5 in Top 10 Comic Book Anti-Heroes, saying that "Just knowing John Constantine is likely to get you killed: during his comic's run just about every member of his supporting cast has either been killed, maimed, mutilated, tortured and coerced into making deals with fiends from the Pit. And yet Constantine goes on, a supernatural warrior willing to pay almost any price to keep the darkest evil at bay. In recent times Constantine has got rid of the guilt and self-loathing plaguing him by magically giving it the physical form of a baby and throwing it off a cliff. What a magnificent bastard..."[84]
Sonia Harris from Comics Should Be Good praised Hellblazer, saying that "watching John delve into his past in order to exorcise his (and the worlds) literal and metaphorical demons is a delight. Simon Bisley does an incredible job of visually contrasting the pretty young version of Constantine with the imposing man he has become. Time and misadventure have scarred and hardened John, and the man he has become has the strength and will to transform his environment by channelling the anger that pained him so much as a young, fresh-faced, suicidal punk kid."[85] Constantine ranked 30th on ComicsAlliance's 50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics list that even though almost all of his relationships end badly, they can't warn others against his wily charms.
John Constantine appeared in the 2005 film Constantine portrayed by Keanu Reeves. The film used some elements from Garth Ennis' "Dangerous Habits" story arc (issues No. 41–46)[86] and others—such as the inclusion of Papa Midnite—from the "Original Sins" trade paperback.[87] The film changed several aspects of the source material, however, including a number of cosmetic changes to the lead character, e.g., his name is spoken as "constan-teen", and Reeves played the role with his natural accent and hair colour, as well as the film basing him in Los Angeles (although the director pointed out that the comic book was not exclusively set in London either).[88] Other differences to the comic were made, for example giving him a psychic ability to see "half breeds" as they truly are—a curse that caused him to attempt suicide which in turn damned him to Hell. He was also given the ability to render invisible beings in his proximity visible by using the incantation "Into the light I command thee" and two magical glyphs (called "The Perfect Red King" from Eugenius Philalethes's "The Speculum Veritatis") on his arms to combine, which he uses to uncloak the archangel Gabriel directly after he attacked his friend Chas. Unlike the comic version, Constantine's exorcism tools are primarily based on Christian relics rather than generic supernatural items; the novelisation expanded on this by explaining that, as Constantine comes from a Christian culture, he has a greater natural understanding of the power of Christian relics that makes it easier for him to use them. Constantine's exorcisms are motivated by a desire to redeem himself for his past suicide, yet they are constantly doomed to fail as everything he has done has fundamentally been for his own benefit rather than for the selfless betterment of others. The resolution of the lung cancer plotline in the film was also amended, with Lucifer saving the redeemed Constantine to give him a second chance at failing after Constantine willingly sacrificed a chance to save his own life to ask Satan to send the innocent Isabel Dodson to Heaven (Isabel having committed suicide to prevent herself being used as a host for a demonic incursion). This selfless deed allowing Constantine to regain his place in Heaven. Constantine was also restored to life and his lung cancer was removed.[89]
A live action Constantine TV series is in development for NBC with Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer writing and executive producing the series.[90][91] On 31 January 2014, it was confirmed that Constantine will be British and will have blond hair, much like in the comics.[92] It was announced on January 30, 2014 that Neil Marshall will direct the pilot of the series.[93] On 21 February 2014, Welsh actor Matt Ryan was cast as Constantine.[94] On 23 February 2014, it was announced that Papa Midnite will be the main villain of the series.[95] On March 4, 2014, Lucy Griffiths, Harold Perrineau, and Charles Halford were cast as Liv, Manny, and Chas, respectively.[96] On 10 March 2014, Goyer discussed that the Constantine character in the series will be closer to the source material from the comics than that of the film.[97] On 8 May 2014 NBC picked Constantine up for series.[98] Griffiths was dropped from the series when it developed in a different creative direction, and it was later announced that the character of Zed will be written in with Mexican-American actress Angélica Celaya in the role.[99][100]
In this TV series, John Constantine checks himself in a mental asylum called Ravenscar after a failed exorcism in Newcastle and stays there for a few weeks (unlike the two-year stint in Hellblazer). After being warned "Liv Dies" by the ghost of his former friend Jasper Winters, Constantine checks out and starts finding Liv, Jasper's daughter who, like him, is a psychic. She is being hunted by the demon Furcifer who has the power of manipulating lightning and electricity. After taking down the demon, Liv leaves John, seeing his dangerous life as well as his "bastard" side. Before departing to California, she leaves behind a scry map, marked with blood stain, which predicts supernatural troubles related to a "Rising Darkness". John Constantine also forms an uneasy alliance with Manny, an angel tasked to "watch over" John. Driving John around and cooking meals in Jasper's house (John's new headquarter, stocked with mystical artifacts) is his life-long mate Chas Chandler, who is an American and has the mysterious ability to survive any types of injury.
Later on, John finds Zed, an artist and a psychic who keeps seeing visions of John and cannot stop drawing about them. She insists on John training her to control her power, and John reluctantly lets her tag along. She has a secret dark past, which is later revealed that she used to escape from her parents, who have ties to a mysterious Christian cult and are trying to catch her back.
THQ released a video game film tie-in of the film entitled Constantine.[101] An analogue of the character made an appearance in The Golden Dawn, a Call of Cthulu RPG book by John Tynes, John T. Snyder, Garrie Hall and Alan Smithee. The authors recommended Hellblazer in the book.
John Constantine also appeared in the MMORPG DC Universe Online. In the heroes side, he resides within the Hero Garrison in the Gotham Wastelands. He must be talked to for the Wrath daily missions, while in the villains side he is random boss in the Cathedral duo for Villains.[102]
The noir fiction author John Shirley is credited in writing three Hellblazer novels, including the novelisation of the Constantine film. The novel Hellblazer: War Lord features Constantine talking about "another John Constantine in an alternate universe, [who] has black hair and lives most of his life in Los Angeles" whilst giving a brief summary of the film's plot.[103]
DC Direct created a toyline of John which is more related to his comic book appearance. Another action figure toy line was created by DC Heroclix, which resembles the Constantine in The New 52. Film-tie in merchandise of the film were also released.[104]
The song Stranger in the Mirror by Ookla the Mok is written from Constantine's point of view, including a lyrical reference to 'the Newcastle incident'.
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