#DC Showcase Shorts: Constantine - The House of Mystery

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DC Showcase: Constantine - The House of Mystery (2022)

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A Look at the DC Showcase shorts

(Be sure to rant about Death in the family in the intro) INDEX: The Spectre Jonah Hex Green Arrow Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam Catwoman Sgt Rock Death The Phantom Stranger Adam Strange Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! The Losers Blue Beetle Constantine: The House of Mystery Hello, Spongey here. For the past year’s I’ve been looking at comic book movies in some form,…

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DC Showcase Shorts: Constantine - The House of Mystery is NOT safe!!!

The first short, which is the one in the title, has an unsafe scene that starts almost exactly at the 5 minutes mark. 2 children are seen coughing violently until one of them projectile v*s blood onto Constantine’s face. The other child v*s blood right after. Once this is done, the scene continues with several other people beginning to cough before v*ing blood. This all lasts about 1 minute total. All of the shorts after this are safe.

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Blue Beetle Arrives In New Images From DC Showcase - Constantine: The House Of Mystery

Blue Beetle Arrives In New Images From DC Showcase - Constantine: The House Of Mystery #DCShowcase #ConstantineTheHouseOfMystery #BlueBeetle

Jump on the couch, pull up your cereal bowl, and relax right into the late 1960s era of Saturday morning cartoons with Blue Beetle, one of the four shorts comprising DC SHOWCASE – CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY, the third compilation of Warner Bros. Animation’s DC-centric shorts. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, DC SHOWCASE – CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF…

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Constantine gets his due in 4 new images from DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery

Constantine gets his due in 4 new images from DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery #DCShowcase #ConstantineTheHouseOfMystery #Constantine

It’s basically Groundhog Day in Purgatory for the Hellblazer in Constantine: The House of Mystery, the never-before-seen centerpiece of the four DC-centric animated shorts that comprise DC Showcase – Constantine: The House of Mystery. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, DC Showcase – Constantine: The House of Mystery – which also includes the shorts Blue…

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DC Showcase: Constantine: The House of Mystery - Coming May 3, 2022 After rewriting time and preventing the Apokalips War from ever happening, John Constantine finds himself imprisoned in The House of Mystery - facing a punishment he does not yet understand. As he explores the house's labyrinths, he soon finds Zatanna and many friends, but time and again these meetings end in his brutal death. Facing an endless loop of his own demise, the ever-brilliant Constantine begins to unravel the path leading to his hellish purgatory. Can he outwit his captor and escape his sentence, or is he destined to serve his eternal verdict? Plus 3 more animated shorts - Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!, The Losers, and Blue Beetle. Other 2022 Warner Bros cartoons: Tom & Jerry: Cowboy Up - Jan 24 Catwoman: Hunted - Feb 8 DC League of Super Pets  - May 20 Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse  - May 24 Green Lantern: Beware My Power - Summer Battle of the Super Sons - Fall Untitled Milestone movie Merry Little Batman - Holiday Season Scoob! Holiday Haunt - Holiday Season #warneranimation #dccomics #DCshowcase #constantine #thehouseofmystery #apokalipswar #johnconstantine #constantinethehouseofmystery #tomandjerry #tomandjerrycowboyup #catwoman #catwomanhunted #teentitango #dcsuperherogirls #superpets #greenlantern #supersons #merrylittlebatman #scoob #scoobydoo #warnerbroscartoons #hbomax #scoobholidayhaunt #mayheminthemultiverse #kamandi #thelosers #bluebeetles (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CabX-yYLNg3/?utm_medium=tumblr

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What we know about the Sandman Netflix series so far: (separating fact from speculation)

Includes Sources.

1.   The series will be very expensive and is a DC / Netflix co-production.

Source:  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/sandman-tv-series-neil-gaiman-david-goyer-a-go-at-netflix-1220761

2.  It’s based on Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. 

This is based on Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman and not the spin-offs, nor is it about the Wes Dodds or other Noir or superhero characters that have gone by the Sandman name.  This is about the literal Sandman of folklore.  I know this might seem obvious but some people are asking.  DC’s official statement confirms it’s about Morpheus.

https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2019/07/01/breaking-news-sandman-tv-series-coming-to-netflix?fbclid=IwAR1TDcLIwysRIcLZENU5sJDycVc6bTQqkVzbJMdXmxOxEqZutQ2Vf73Xdek

3.   The series is being produced by Neil Gaiman (Sandman’s creator) and David S. Goyer.

4.    Allan Heinberg (writer for the Wonder Woman movie) is set to showrun and to write it.

5.    The first season will consist of eleven episodes.

https://screenrant.com/sandman-tv-show-season-1-episodes-neil-gaiman/

6.  The series will be available exclusively on Netflix.

6.  The main character in Sandman is Morpheus AKA Dream of The Endless.   

He is the living embodiment of dreams.  His minion are entities of Dreams and Nightmares.  He seems to have a fondness for Halloween aesthetics from Jack-o-lanterns and Gothic castles to spooky old houses.

Morpheus AKA Dream of The Endless is of a family of beings known as… well… The Endless.  The Endless are a family of anthropomorphic personifications.  That means they are living embodiments of certain concepts.  For example Morpheus / Dream’s older sister is Death.  She’s essentially the Grim Reaper.  

The family consists of Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and little Delirium (She used to be Delight but she went mad).  

7.  The first season will retell the graphic novel, Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes.

In this story Morpheus gets summoned and captured by occultists who had been trying to capture Death but got him by mistake.  Despite realizing their mistake, he is kept locked in a windowless cellar in a crystalline cage for nearly a century.

When he finally escapes he gets his revenge on the son of his original captor and then seeks out his tools that were taken from him when he was captured.  These tools include his pouch of dream sand (he is the Sandman after all), his helm (a battle helmet, though he rarely if ever goes into battle, made from a skull and spine of Old Gods and resembles a gas mask), and his rubly dreamstone amulet, which is a conduit for his power (like a wizard’s wand).  

The first storyline is Morpheus reclaiming these lost artifacts.  At one point this leads him to Hell, where he faces a demon who has gotten a hold of his helm.  The demon challenges him to a game of wits, creativity, and imagination as opposed to physical combat.

Morpheus used to be something of an asshole but he undergoes considerable character growth through the course of the series and becomes more and more compassionate.   Often he finds himself simply trying to set right the wrongs of his own past.  

So, yes, Morpheus IS problematic. That is the point. He is problematic. He knows he is problematic and he means to set right the wrongs of his past. 

8.  There will be a Thirty-year-time-shift.

 According to Neil Gaiman this version of Sandman will have its timeline bumped thirty years as so the contemporary scenes will take place in present day.  

There’s no word yet on if the date of Morpheus’ capture (June of 1916) is changed.  

Personal thoughts:

I kind of hope this aspect is not changed because I like the early twentieth century, England at World War 1 aesthetics at the start of the story. It adds to the Gothic ambiance.  Not only that but more importantly the mysterious Encephalitis Lethargica epidemic was meant to overlap with Morpheus’ capture.  I think this date should be kept as it originally was for the Historical context and connection.  

I saw a 1996 script for a Sandman film that never got made, which changed the date of his capture, and it never set right for me.  I’d rather they extend how long Morpheus was captured as opposed to change when he was captured.   If it is changed, it’s a petty enough detail that I’ll accept it, but I do hope it is not changed.

9.  Official synapsis:  

Synopsis:

“A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven, The Sandman follows the people and places affected by Morpheus, the Dream King, as he mends the cosmic--and human--mistakes he's made during his vast existence.”

https://www.cbr.com/netflix-sandman-officially-ordered-episode-count-revealed-neil-gaiman/

10.   Morpheus’ sister, Death, will also be appearing in DC Showcase in an animated short.

https://www.newsarama.com/45078-new-dc-showcase-animated-shorts-to-feature-sgt-rock-adam-strange-death-more.html

This will be Death of The Endless’ first animated appearance.   

Bonus:   Other characters of Sandman who are currently active in DC Media (within the last five years) are:

Note: I put a * next to characters that are important within Sandman. *Cain the Caretaker and his House of Mystery - Justice League: Action episode Trick or Threat.  The House of Mystery is also in Justice League: Dark the animated movie but without Cain.  (Cain and The House of Mystery are recurring characters in Sandman.  First Sandman appearance is in issue 2, “Imperfect Hosts.”)

The Magdalene Grimoire - Justice League: Action episode Supernatural Adventures in Babysitting.  (The grimoire used to summon and trap Morpheus in the very first issue of Sandman.)    *Abel the Caretaker and hos House of Secrets - Name dropped in Young Justice. (Like Cain and his House of Mystery, Abel and his House of Secrets are major recurring characters in Sandman.) John Constantine - Had his own short lived series, Appeared in Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Justice league: Dark (animated feature), Constantine: CIty of Demons (webseries and animated feature), Justice League: Action (animated series)  (Appears in issue 3 of Sandman.  “Dream a Little Dream of me.” and his ancestor, Johanna Constantine is a recurring character.)

Etrigan - Justice League: Dark (animated movie), and Justice League: Action (animated series) (Appears in Sandman issue 4 to lead Morpheus through Hell.)

*Lucifer - His own Netflix series.  (Recurring character in Sandman.  His own comics were a spin-off of Sandman.  Sandman: Season if Mists is about Lucifer quitting Hell.)    Martian Manhunter - Supergirl.  (appears in Sandman issue 5.)   Mr. Miracle - Justice league: Action (animated series). (appears in Sandman issue 5)

Scarecrow - Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Batman: Hush.  (appears in issues 5 and 7 of Sandman.)

*Matthew Cable - Swamp Thing (DC streaming series) (Major recurring character in Sandman as of issue 11 of Sandman.)  

Other DC characters who have appeared in Sandman or get mentioned in Sandman that have had recent media incarnations include The Justice League, Batman, Superman, and The Joker.

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DC Showcase: Constantine – The House of Mystery Animated Shorts Collection

DC Showcase: Constantine – The House of Mystery Animated Shorts Collection

Warner Bros. Animation continues to glean beloved characters from DC’s robust library for the popular DC Showcase line of animated shorts, this time opting to elevate Constantine, Kamandi, The Losers, and Blue Beetle in the 2021-2022 compilation release, DC Showcase: Constantine – The House of Mystery. The R-rated shorts collection will be available from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-ray…

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Trailer, Box Art And Details on CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY

Trailer, Box Art And Details on CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY

DC Showcase – Constantine: The House of Mystery, the latest collection of DC animated shorts, arrives May 3, 2022 on Blu-ray and Digital from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Check out the box art and further details here below!  Warner Bros. Animation continues to glean beloved characters from DC’s robust library for the popular DC Showcase line of animated shorts, this time opting to elevate…

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Kamandi Takes Center Stage In New Images from DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery

Kamandi Takes Center Stage In New Images from DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery #DCShowcase #ConstantineTheHouseOfMystery #Kamandi

One of Jack Kirby’s most beloved characters comes to full-fledge animated life in Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth!, one of the four shorts comprising  DC SHOWCASE – CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY, the third compilation of Warner Bros. Animation’s DC-centric shorts. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, DC SHOWCASE – CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY – which…

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Constantine: The House of Mystery Trailer And Blu-ray Release Date Revealed

Constantine: The House of Mystery Trailer And Blu-ray Release Date Revealed #DCShowcase

If you’re like me, then you love DC animated films. They’ve been able to tell stories that simply aren’t possible in live action – and some would argue DC animation is superior to the live action side of things. On that note, we can’t forget the wonderful Showcase shorts that have popped up over the years. Normally, these short films focus on characters who aren’t always afforded headlining gigs.…

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The Losers Wage War In New Images From DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery

The Losers Wage War In New Images From DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery #DCShowcase #ConstantineTheHouseOfMystery #TheLosers

A band of misfit soldiers, led by a mysterious special agent, wages war with the unexpected inhabitants of a secluded island in The Losers, one of the four shorts comprising DC SHOWCASE – CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY, the third compilation of Warner Bros. Animation’s DC-centric shorts. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, DC SHOWCASE – CONSTANTINE: THE…

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New Images Revealed From DC SHOWCASE - CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY

New Images Revealed From DC SHOWCASE - CONSTANTINE: HOUSE OF MYSTERY #DCShowcase #ConstantineTheHouseOfMystery

Four animated shorts – representing distinctly different art styles and comics eras – comprise DC SHOWCASE – CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY, the third compilation of Warner Bros. Animation’s DC-centric shorts. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, DC SHOWCASE – CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY – which includes the shorts Blue Beetle, The…

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DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery comes to WonderCon 2022

DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery comes to WonderCon 2022 #WonderCon #WonderCon2022

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will host a panel spotlighting its upcoming release, DC Showcase – Constantine: The House of Mystery, at WonderCon in Anaheim on Friday, April 1 from 6:30-7:30pm in North 200A. The panel will focus on the yet-to-be-seen Constantine: The House of Mystery extended short, while also discussing the three other animated shorts included on the upcoming release: Blue…