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Great video

Can you imagine if comic book adaptations had been taken seriously in the 90’s like they are now and Sting had actually been cast as an accurate version of the character? We might have even gotten a Timothy Hunter Books of Magic before the whole Harry Potter thing.

Wow you're even more handsome than I imagined! You kinda look like Kyle Mclachlan more handsome.

Glad to see you talking about Swamp thing, it was a series I picked up on a whim a few years back because I knew Alan Moore worked on it and just an interest in the character. Funnily enough it actually introduced me to one of my favorite comic writer and artist; Rick Veitch! Some day I'd love to see you do a whole retrospective or whatever on his work to introduce more people to his work; especially since "Boy Maximortal" is ending soon, though I know you have done a video on the original series. Regardless keep up the great work, your videos always put a smile on my face and make me want to read more comics and check out series I might not have otherwise :)

Loved your editing.

In a DC multiverse, Constantine could actually be played by Sting! He does act. I haven't read this series beyond Swamp Thing. Thanks for this very good overview!

Hellblazer is a great story, though the early years are definitely steeped in the occult ideas of the 80's, which have agee... Weirdly.. (Comment for the algo)

How are you not going to have a werewolf in the show? A weasel? Really

More people need to watch your videos.

I've always found the comic series very interesting and would love to read it myself, but the political opinions that the writer has put into it mean I'd rather not delve into it. And before anyone says, I like Frank Miller's work, even if I roll my eyes at some of his stuff.

Fantastic video! I look forward to all the parts!

Constantine correct pronunciation is TINE not Teen neither Taine like you are saying lol. It's a mfing Italian name.

They f*cked up Spiderman realatonship this time, like honestly, if they want to replace peter just let him settle down, have a family and a good career in earth 616, I'm so done with seeing my boy peter suffering from these bull shit. I'm done with MJ at this point too, just let Peter move on and marry Black Cat, every Spiderman fan want to see him happy, not to stuck in these mess up events. Also, f*ck u Paul.

Millar is kind of like a guy who seems inspired by much better writers. Like Moore, Morrison, Ennis etc. But he isn't them and it shows. I feel this way about Geoff Johns and Tom King as well I feel like early Spawn was McFarlane showing how much Gaiman meant to him. But he is not Gaiman

FINALLY, an American person who can pronounce JC's name correctly! I met Jamie Delano a few years back, and he said how much the constant mispronunciation irked him, so it's great that you respect the book enough to bother taking it into account! This was a really excellent insight into the Jamie Delano years! Is there any possibility of you covering the subsequent writers' eras? I'd be very interested to see what you thought of Ennis's run, Mike Carey's and even my least favourite, Brian Azzarello's nasty little run on the title!

Nobody tell him about the sequel.

Reread my tpb's so many times in the late 90's and early 00's. I have considered many times filling in the run, but I never find back issues or trades in my area. I agree that Delano gave John a relatability that few writers captured following. Plus Newcastle is a prime example how to script a flashback story that actually contains tension, since we really didn't know what had happened until issue 11. Sure we knew John survived, and others hadn't. But the how and why were a terrible revelation that she'd so much light onto the man John had become.

I had read some long story about how Alan Moore offered Delano the Hellblazer title... but since i can't confirm that the best confirmation i have would be Karen Berger on The Endless Podcast saying it was Alan who introduced her to Jamie...

Yes marble is dying and manga is different than comic books because comic books are a western format in manga is an Easter format the Western comic book storytelling narrative is the triangle while the Eastern one is the is twist and turns the reason why Western comics especially marvel DC are dying is because when the alienate people with politics and for one they focus too much on the f****** multiverse not enough on creative stories that have meaningful consequences because the universe will just get reset anyway so what's the point it's just pushing politics down people's throats and lazy writing

I can't wait to see the rest of your series covering Constantine. I've owned this series two different times 1-300 and haven't read it either time, sigh. I'm excited to see what I've missed.

Very nice retrospective. Hellblazer was an excellent series that very much deserves to be looked at more closely. Yeah, the problem with poetry is you have poems that deliberately mispronounce things just to make them rhyme. Like the one that famously rhymes "eye" with "symmetry". So putting greater emphasis on what's supposed to rhyme just seems to suggest such a thing is, in fact, being forced. Like a square peg in a round hole. Gotta take the word of the man himself, though. Constantyne it is.

Looking forward to your thoughts on Azzarello's run (which I highly enjoy)

Your overview of Holy Terror is very good. I don’t really like the story but I always like Miller’s artwork no matter how good or bad it is. I understand how he felt at the time, I think most of us were very angry at the time but when you calm down and look back at it you realize not everything is as black and white as you thought

Just shared the video in a Hellblazer group on the socials, hope you get the most views!! Great video once again

Looks like the darker more merc style issues were better. Might have to pick this up.

Excellent work brother. Keep it up.

I picked up Constantine during the Vertigo run, but somehow got a hold of critical Delano stories like Newcastle. I've been fascinated by Hellblazer but not always able to hold on for all the turns the books take. I'll be fascinated to get an overview of the territory, thank so much!

There's demand for this type of material! <3 Thanks for your interesting reviews as usual. I got into the character and the title through Garth Ennis' run, in which I don't recall the pronunciation of the name being specified either way. In my head I always read it as "Constanteen" as in, you know, "Constanteen-ople". I only explored Delano's run (and Moore's Swamp Thing) years later, and by then it was already set in stone that way for me. I liked the movie well enough for what it was, which required refraining myself from comparing it too closely to the source material. The comic book series has London as one of the main characters, and a funny blond protagonist. Seeing the movie set in Hollywood's version of NYC (I think?) with a stoic and overall polite US citizen with black hair felt a bit like they went out of their way to make it "American" (even changing his brand of cigarettes to the Hollywood version of Marlboro IIRC, though at least they didn't make him a non-smoker outright). Still, it's a fine movie. The TV series is so faithful to the spirit of the character and comic book, though! While still adapting the stories and changing a lot of details, but it was such a joy to watch. It really felt like a top-notch run of the series but in TV format. I love it to bits. The cast was great too, especially the actor playing John, he's perfect. It's a real shame it was so short-lived. I would have binge-watched a dozen seasons of that any day. Looking forward to your takes on later runs. To me it's such a mixed bag, it's hard to read as a whole. Most runs by a given writer are at least cohesive and decent to an extent, but I feel for such a flagship title with such an iconic character, the editors could have been more careful who they hired to take it over. At the very least "have you read the series so far?" and "do you understand the main character and his world?" should have been asked before giving someone the lead. Continuity errors and especially drastic change of personality and motivation should have been checked by someone in charge and in the know. I don't care if the writer earned awards for a completely different series, if they're not willing to make any effort to get John Constantine, then they shouldn't have written his series. Similarly, the art changed a ton throughout the years, and not just in style (which is fine and can even be refreshing at times) but in quality. On the one hand you have early Steve Dillon becoming the master that he was for the rest of his career, and on the other hand you have... probably the worst amateur-level crap the aging giant illustrator Corben ever produced (he was never a decent comic book artist to me, and cover paintings was always his forte). I'm half sure the editor published the art as is to avoid hurting anyone's feelings, but unfortunately the end result is so bad it kind of ruins an otherwise great story. Still, there's plenty of great stuff at various points in the series. I wish Warren Ellis would have stuck around for the full run he had envisioned, though (among other things). Thanks again and please keep up the good work!

Re: Our John being a conman, I'd love to hear your opinions on magic and con artistry being treated synonymously in the series. Perhaps in a later video?

Side note: Newcastle is Gordon Sumner's (Sting) home town.

The best!!!

Nice

Desperately want to start reading this series! Any recommendations on what editions/paperbacks etc i should pick up?

I always loved the cover art by Dave McKean. It hits that sweet spot for me in terms of nightmare surrealism.

Personally, I love this comic series. I’d consider it one of my favorites. One of my favorite slabbed comics I have is the Leinil Francis Yu’s issue #1 variant in a 9.6!

Great video. More of Constantine please.

I would read this comic because the premise sounds really cool. But that's the thing with Tom King comics: they always have a really good premise and really good themes and ideas on the surface, but they rarely ever deliver on the premise and say anything actually profound or deep. The only two exceptions to this were The Vision and Mister Miracle, but even then I find those comics to be slightly overrated and mediocre in places. P.S. Im not saying that Tom King is a bad writer, in fact I've enjoyed several of his comics but in my opinion he is just very overrated and his comics are often disappointing as a result. Not trying to hate tho, I still think he's a very talented writer. Thank you for reading my long winded rant about Tom King, god bless 🙂

oh that was awesome, looking forward to hearing more about Constantine. some of that early art reminded me of the movie American Pop

Excellent job!

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First time commenting. This channel is f*cking awesome.

Delano's run my beloved

I know old Johnny boy been kind of getting more popular lately I like these videos because if someone asks me hey who is this John Constantine character what's his Comics like I can go well there's a video I can show you I don't have to repeat myself at nauseam

Great job. I’m looking forward to you covering the rest of the Constantine run! 👍🏼

This is my favorite channel on RUclips. Definitely the best comic book channel I have come across. The format is great and your taste in material is just what I look for in content. You've informed me of a lot of my favorite books too. I've found many of my pickups from listening to these videos every week. Starman being my favorite so far. Keep doing what you're doing! And thank you for the grade A comic book content! I look forward to what you put out every week!

Loved this series

Great video. Subscribed and looking forward to watching more.

I basically look at the previous "modern age" of entertianment; comics, collectibles, video games, movies, anime, etc, as being from the mid 70s up to the mid 2010s. SO basically from roughly 1975-2015. THe late 1970s began to bring the world a plethora of great stories in various mediums: Anime began to get more widespread attention, though it was still not mainstream in the west as it would one day be; cartoons were gaining ever more traction slowly but surely, comics were becoming more nuanced and mature, and film franchises that would span the genres from fantasy, to horror, and sci fi and beyond would start taking off from that point onward. Everything starts slow, but basically once even the "Early days" of console gaming had come and gone, the landscape was strewn with good stuff all around, and much of it all kept getting better over time. SO even in that great time period from the end of the "hipipe days" of the 70s, to the decline of gangsta rap and eerie all encompasing power of souless pop music by the mid 2010s, the middle 1980s to the middle 2000s was to myself and many I have spoken to...the "High Era" of all such things and more. IT more hits all around and great stuff than in any other time period. And since we can look back on the vast majority of written history, its pretty easy to see why is is indeed easy to come to that conclusion. Everything from the NES, the TMTN, the darker Batman comics, other cool and "manly" guy stuff in toys, cartoons, action movies, video games getting better and better year after year, and all the collectibles and pop culture that still holds sway over out hearts to this day...Maybe that was the "modern age". But everything after 2014 ish would then have to be the "post modern" age, aka...The Future. :P BUT WHERES MY HOVERBOARD? T<T lol

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