#hellblazer dead in america

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John Constantine - art by Aaron Campbell

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Priest disguise Constantine appreciation post

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using his coat as a blankie HOW CUTE OF HIM

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John "who needs a lighter when you have fire demons" Constantine

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he drink

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John Constantine Hellblazer: Dead In America #1

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Dc Comics Fanfiction Recommendations Master List

Guide: F - Fluff A - Angst S - Smut (All of these are fanfics I either stumbled upon or were recommended to me. All credit goes to the original writers, I’m just sharing their amazing works)

Jason Todd

•(F,A) Featuring the Red Hood drunk hacking a Watchtower meeting to bitch Batman out about not taking care of his birds. He just resuscitated one, and he'll be keeping him. https://archiveofourown.org/series/2804317 • (S) Featuring Jason and Roy having some fun at the gym https://archiveofourown.org/works/45383674 • (F) featuring Jason and Roy’s first Valentine’s Day together https://archiveofourown.org/works/37134484 • (S) featuring Jason and Roy sexting https://archiveofourown.org/works/35150506 • (S) Featuring Roy convincing Jason to sub (and finding out that Jason has a praise kink) https://archiveofourown.org/works/24970054 • (S) featuring Jason making Roy use his words for once https://archiveofourown.org/works/26589262

• (A,F) Where Jason accidentally shoots Nightwing https://archiveofourown.org/works/23438113

Dick Grayson

•(A) Featuring Dick having a ptsd moment when Red Hood goes into a building to save civilians right before it explodes, he can’t lose his baby brother again https://archiveofourown.org/works/41337654

• (F) Where Dick reveals his Nightwing suit to his boyfriend Wally. Set in the Y.J Universe https://archiveofourown.org/works/16804234

Tim Drake

(A) Where he lost his memory and has to deal with the aftermath of it Your Name Is Tim - Chapter 1 - alchemistsarego - Batman - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own] •(A) Where Tim Drake is not a child, he never has been. Sure, he was hurt and bleeding, and could very well be dying, but it wasn't like he deserved to have Batman speak to him so softly. Then again, this was what Tim always wanted, wasn't it? https://archiveofourown.org/works/57779317/chapters/147057439

John Constantine

•(S) Where he wakes you up in the middle of the night thinking that you’re facing a nightmare, but it wasn’t *that* type of dream https://archiveofourown.org/works/7671994 •(S) Where he makes it his goal to be the first man to actually please you https://archiveofourown.org/works/7534081

•(S) Where he teaches you a lesson https://archiveofourown.org/works/7742953?view_adult=true

• (S,F) Featuring John stepping up when your date is late https://archiveofourown.org/works/7958566?view_adult=true

More fics will be added over time

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John Constantine Hellblazer: Dead in America Solicits

I've had weird feelings about this run for a bit, so I decided to look at the solicits all together and...am I the only one who gets a weird vibe from these?

One and two feel pretty normal and true to what happened in book. Issue 2 is a little overdramatic, but that's how you get people to buy. No problems here, good hype, though I do think it's hilarious that issue one is billed at 28 pages, which means that of the rest of the issues it's the only one not filled with ads.

Issue 3, the numbers have gone up, the description has gotten small, and this was also where I started to question just what was happening. This was where this series started telling 'stories about the American dream' in overlong framing devices that really don't have anything to do with anything.

For me, Issue 4 is Issue 3 done correctly, and the solicit feels fine. It's sparse on the details because we're doing a mystery, but I thought it felt a bit rushed. I think in the previous run, this owuld have been a two parter much like Scrubbing Up or Britannia Rules the Waves, and I think it would have been better served that way, but whatever, this isn't about my feelings.

Issue 5, my second favorite main cover and least favorite issue so far, feels deeply misleading considering what we actually get out of the issue. Issue 6 also doesn't really tell us anything that's the actual main focus of the book.

But then BOOM!

Issue 7 comes along and I was genuinely surprised that we were getting more issues, since I hadn't heard that the books were selling especially well, but I don't have the sales figures to back it up. Once again, the solicit is technically accurate, but I'm noticing a trend of the 'he's a corpse! he's got to deal with that!' in the solicit and the comic...not actually doing that in any meaningful way.

Issue 8 has the smallest solicits of the entire run and nothing meaningful happens. We could have scrapped this entire comic and gone straight to LA, but for John Constantine: Hellblazer, he hasn't really done any blazing of Hell in this book, so I suppose it was necessary?

Issue 9's solicit is a lie and a nothing burger. It tells us nothing, and for good reason, because once again, NOTHING PLOT RELEVANT HAPPENS.

I'm living for the Hanged Man tarot cover of Issue 10, but I don't know about number 11's solicit. It's the final issue, why isn't it beefier? Why doesn't it SELL the finale?

I have suspicions, thoughts and theories, but all of it basically amounts to 'not enough oversight'. Most of my problems with these books amounts to the fact that the story feels like it wasn't finished when they started producing the comic (That's a thing in the industry, I know, but it's also not a good sign for longevity or future sales, so I don't know why it's a thing), and that unlike the previous run, Spurrier doesn't seem to really have anything to say beyond 'look at how bad America is!' and it just feels very out of touch.

It also feels like we've opened the story to get more traditional characters involved without thinking about the ramifications of adding them. This story didn't need Dream, it didn't need Etrigan, it didn't really even need Swamp Thing. I still like the inclusion of Swamp Thing, but at the end of the day, this run feels like it's not interested in John Constantine, which is a problem when it's called John Constantine: Hellblazer and not 'Wizards in America: We Fuck Shit Up'.

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POSTING TOO MUCH IK BUT- May I just say that this run is returning John his personality? Hello?? Hes so fleshed out man

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Hellblazer: Dead In America #2

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serving Father and father

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You and me both

Hellblazer: Dead in America #11 - art by Aaron Campbell

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Sampling of my favorite drawings of John from Hellblazer Dead in America issues 3 and 5-8

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erm actually ☝️🤓

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Look at this smug git

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Hellblazer: Dead in America #10