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Legends of Tomorrow Delivers the Ultimate John Constantine Story

This article contains Legends of Tomorrow spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 14 As a longtime comics reader, one of they rules that gets ingrained early is “Unless you see a body, they’re not dead.” Superheroes in comics have been dying and coming back since the dawn of superheroes, but when there’s a corpse seen on screen, it’s much harder to undo. So…uh…what about when someone goes from “breathing” to “truffle powder” on screen? He’s dead, right? There’s certainly time (one episode) and ample opportunity (maybe he’s a mushroom now? Nobody knows how mushrooms work) to undo the events…
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DC Reveals Young John Constantine in New Hellblazer Book

What would John Constantine, working class warlock and notorious scumbag who tends to end up doing the right thing anyway, do if billionaires with angel wings started hurtling from the sky and impaling themselves on church spires? He’d probably be pretty chill about it, to be honest, but we’re going to find out for sure in September’s Hellblazer: Rise and Fall, the new DC Black Label book from Tom Taylor and Darick Robertson. Taylor and Robertson got their first crack at Constantine in 2019’s DCeased: A Good Day to Die, the tie in/expansion to the surprise hit zombie book, DCeased.…
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Constantine Director Says They’d Film A Sequel Tomorrow

The 2005 film Constantine, based on DC/Vertigo’s popular Hellblazer comic book about a mystic who can communicate with angels and demons, was not a resounding success. But the movie’s principals — actor Keanu Reeves, director Francis Lawrence and producer Akiva Goldsman — very much wanted to make a sequel. “Boy, we wanted to.  We wanted to make a hard ‘R’ sequel,” said Goldsman during a Comic-Con@Home panel, hosted by Collider’s Steve Weintraub, in which Reeves, Lawrence and Goldsman all looked back at the comic book adaptation. “We’d probably make it tomorrow,” Goldsman continued, “To the studios who made it, Village…
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