#swamp thing by Alan Moore & Steve Bissette & John Totleben

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1984's (Saga of) Swamp Thing Vol.2 #28 cover by Steve Bissette and John Totleben.

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Mezco One-12 Collective John Constantine.

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Page from Swamp Thing #34. 1985. Art by Steve Bissette and John Totleben.

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Saga of the Swamp Thing #24, May 1984

Writer: Alan Moore, Artists: Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben, Tatjana Wood

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While the rest of the DC Universe was dealing with a Crisis on Infinite Earths, Swamp Thing and other mystical characters had a crisis all their own to contend with. It came to a head in Swamp Thing #50 by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch and John Totleben, which was released on this day in 1986.

In this issue, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Etrigan, Phantom Stranger, Doctor Fate and an army of angels and demons would face off with the Great Darkness as John Constantine and a circle of magic types tried to help from Earth via a séance that would not end well for Sargon the Sorcerer, Mento or Zatara. This was Moore's Swamp Thing at its finest.

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John Constantine is a character from DC comics and appears in his own comics, his own movie starring Keanu Reeves and the CW series Legends of Tomorrow.

Constantine is an occult detective so he deals with the more magical elements of the DC Universe.

He first appeared in Swamp Thing #37 in 1985 and was created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and John Totleben. Alan Moore’s most notable work is the creation of The Watchmen.

I think the demons from the 2005 film ‘Constantine’ resembles my creature the most.

The grey and tight to the muscles skin is very similar to mine and the long limbs too. I really like the texture of the skin it looks like an old persons all dry and I wonder if I can find a way to texture my creatures skin in the same or similar way. I think using a dry and rough bristled brush would be an effective way to texture skin by just brushing it across the sculpt so it leaves the marks of the bristles creating the wrinkles and then dabbing the brush to create pours in the skin, and the grey/brown colour of the skin will also contribute to making it look dry.

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Bonus fun fact! Constantine was created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, and John Totleben in Saga of the Swamp Thing #37, published June 1985. He'd later get his own ongoing series, Hellblazer, in January 1998. Hellblazer was initially published under the main DC Comics brand, but was moved to the then-new Vertigo Comics imprint in 1993 along with titles such as Swamp Thing, The Sandman, and Animal Man.

In a 1990 issue of Doom Patrol, Grant Morrison wanted to use Constantine, but was denied use of the character by editorial for fears that his usage in the bizarre and surreal Doom Patrol series would spoil the realism of Constantine's character.

So, Morrison created a legally distinct not-Constantine character, Willoughby Kipling, to fill that role in the Doom Patrol book. Doom Patrol would later get moved to Vertigo along with the rest of the aforementioned comics in 1993.

That same year, Phil Foglio (of Girl Genius fame) was writing a Stanley and His Monster miniseries for DC. He wanted to use Constantine in the series - but editorial prohibited him from doing so. So, then he asked if he could use Kipling, and was denied that as well. At the time, DC had a very strict policy where Vertigo characters (with very, very few exceptions) could not appear in the mainline comics - and since both Hellblazer and Doom Patrol were now Vertigo titles, both Constantine and Kipling were denied to Foglio.

In turn, Foglio went and created a substitute for the substitute character - Ambrose Bierce. Bierce has never appeared again outside of that original series where he debuted, but now you know that DC doesn't just have a Constantine knockoff, they have a knockoff of the knockoff.

May I have a fun fact?

You may!

So! John Constantine:

Famous occult detective out of Vertigo, the imprint of DC Comics, first invented for Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing. He sort of took a life of his own, leading his own comic book (Hellblazer), staring in a movie played by Keanu Reaves, getting his own television show on NBC where he's played by Matt Ryan, crossing over onto the Arrowverse after that show got cancelled, and appearing in a ton of animated projects. Also the inspiration for several other characters, including the design for Castiel off of Supernatural.

Also, in the comics, he's name is pronounced 'Con-stan-tine' not 'Con-stan-teen'.

Today You Learned that people (and by that I mean comic book writers) claim to have met him in real life. Not a cosplayer, ACTUALLY John Constantine.

Alan Moore says:

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.

I want it known that Alan Moore also believes in all kinds of crazy shiz, and so this isn't that out there for him. Mind you, it's entirely possible the man is pulling our legs with his weird act. But he's not the only one who has made this claim (and Alan Moore actually says he's met him twice, for the record). Other comic book writers who have written for Constantine's comic, Hellblazer, have also said they've met him.

Jamie Delano says he say him outside of the British Museum. Brian Azarello says he saw him in Chicago and decided to avoid him (probably fair).

Is this a prank they're pulling on us? Are comic book writers suffering from shared delusions? I dunno. You decide.

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John Constantine is one of those comics characters that I grew up with, so it was fun to revisit him for this /Film profile.

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...But it was no good. He couldn't sleep.

Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #42

artists: Stephen Bissette & John Totleben

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Masters of their art. Swamp Thing #23 pencils by  Steve Bissette inked by John Totleben. Script by Alan Moore. 1984

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1983's (The Saga of) Swamp Thing Vol.2 #20 page 1 (the 1st issue of Alan Moore's run, leading to the famous next issue, "The Anatomy Lesson"). Pencils by Dan Day, inks and finishes by John Totleben. Source

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McFarlane Toys DC Direct John Constantine, created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and John Totleben. I'm glad this has been re-released, because I passed on it in its initial release and it's pretty fantastic.

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Swamp Thing #58 cover. 1987. Art by Steve Bissette.

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“You must not torture yourself with pointless guilt. If there is someone that you love, then tell them.”

Saga of the Swamp Thing #34, Rite of Spring, March 1985

Writer: Alan Moore, Artists: Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben, Tatjana Wood

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