DiDio Assures Fans, DC is "Supremely Proud" of Just-Canceled "Hellblazer"

[SUPERECWFAN1]

I guess Cornell could keep the numbers up to non-cancellation range, at least.

Cornell posted basically that he was shocked it was ending and he always felt he would get a run on it at some point. I think he was like...fuck.... I could have followed Millar , Ennis , Ellis , Carey and more on that . Now I will never get a chance.

I got the sense a lot of British creators are either mad its gone or sad really.

[MajorHoy]

A sort of new reimagined Constantine like all NEW 52 Chars.
A younger 'streamlined' version.

He's been in Justice League Dark, and I believe he was the featured character for book's #0 issue recently for anybody to see how he's been handled there so far:

[Mr. Holmes]

Cornell posted basically that he was shocked it was ending and he always felt he would get a run on it at some point. I think he was like...fuck.... I could have followed Millar , Ennis , Ellis , Carey and more on that . Now I will never get a chance.

I got the sense a lot of British creators are either mad its gone or sad really.

Kieron Gillen is Marvel exclusive, but man his Hellblazer would have been sick as hell.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

He's been in Justice League Dark, and I believe he was the featured character for book's #0 issue recently for anybody to see how he's been handled there so far:

They are blowing major money by not keeping 2 Constantine books. You can have the younger Constantine meet his older self and play off that. The relationships they have and all.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Kieron Gillen is Marvel exclusive, but man his Hellblazer would have been sick as hell.

We won't get that. I wish there was someone at DC who you could actually talk to here. Who has a position to tell Didio how they could have both books run. Hell imagine a Jason Aaron run of Hellblazer ! It would be that damn awesome. There are a lot of creators they could talk to.

[passer-by]

He's been in Justice League Dark, and I believe he was the featured character for book's #0 issue recently for anybody to see how he's been handled there so far:
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I read it - the reimagined origin of John Constantine who learns magic from THE GREAT NICK NECRO, yaaayy!, after sucking up to him (and gets his trenchcoat from him). It was terrible.

[MajorHoy]

I read it - the reimagined origin of John Constantine who learns magic from THE GREAT NICK NECRO, yaaayy!, after sucking up to him (and gets his trenchcoat from him). It was terrible.

I haven't read it myself (just read JLDark tpb so far), but Nick Necco is also in the recent JLDark Annual.

[Mr. Holmes]

Yeah that's the point. Lemire threw him into Constantine's origin to establish the current villain. Lame.

[Desaad]

Eh. It's not that big a deal. In my own personal continuity I'm going to compress that whole mess to a month or two of Constantine's life. I buy him learning tricks and what not from others along the way. It's the idea that this was the definitive, and formative, piece of his history that I dislike. Easy enough to fix.

[LooneyKoala]

He's been in Justice League Dark, and I believe he was the featured character for book's #0 issue recently for anybody to see how he's been handled there so far:

I didn't read that. But I was reading JLD up until around #10 or #11. I really didn't like how Constantine was handled there, and after Milligan left it got worse for me. Sadly I was like "at least I still have Hellblazer"...

[LooneyKoala]

Kieron Gillen is Marvel exclusive, but man his Hellblazer would have been sick as hell.

I'd throw my money at DC if that happened.

[tylenoljones]

Eh. It's not that big a deal. In my own personal continuity I'm going to compress that whole mess to a month or two of Constantine's life. I buy him learning tricks and what not from others along the way. It's the idea that this was the definitive, and formative, piece of his history that I dislike. Easy enough to fix.

It's easy enough to dismiss these types of changes; but what's disheartening to me is not the stories themselves, forgettable as they are, but the current corporate attitude that overwriting the history of these characters is perfectly acceptable, with very little regard for what came before and whether the new product improves or builds upon that history in any way.

In many cases (and in my own opinion, of course), the need for a new number one or a fresh start is of upmost importance, and whether the change is necessary, or more importantly better than the original, is often secondary.

[fever00]

We won't get that. I wish there was someone at DC who you could actually talk to here. Who has a position to tell Didio how they could have both books run. Hell imagine a Jason Aaron run of Hellblazer ! It would be that damn awesome. There are a lot of creators they could talk to.

Aaron did a couple issues a few years. They focused on JC'SS punk days I believe. I think he's Marvel exclusive, but he's the only person Ican think of who could make this work. Let's all hope the new book fails miserablely, DC realizes JC sucks without his balls, and ships him back to Vertigo where he might be able to make them money.

[jpbl1976]

Could Renato Guedes be a duller, more wooden artist?

Guedes isn't a bad artist at all, especially when he's inking his own work. He actually might've been a good one to have on the Vertigo title -- but now he's tainted by the negative backlash on the New 52 title...

[jpbl1976]

I loved the Milligan run. I think it went down pretty well with most Hellblazer readers.

Yeah. I liked Milligan's run too. Shame it's about to end. The suits running DC really have no idea what they're doing...