Buckle up, boys. We're entering Brian Azzarello's fantasy land.
That time Bruce Wayne showed up in HELLBLAZER as Constantine's lover
Asher Perry
Tyler Howard
Brody Garcia
Why John and Bruce?
Juan Thomas
Because Brian Azzarello ships them.
Carter Reed
The worst hellblazer writer period, azzarello is absolute trash
Elijah Wood
Chase Rivera
I mean his hellblazer is bad yeah but have you read 100 bullets? that shit rules.
Jaxson Reed
Just look at the second panel of text in this, fucking drivel
Christian Foster
Matthew Gomez
Fuck you for posting this
Christopher Robinson
Adam Johnson
Calm your tits, user.
Ethan Kelly
Ethan Butler
Benjamin Kelly
Jeremiah Sanders
Ayden Harris
Owen Peterson
Hunter Baker
Ryan Hill
Oliver Taylor
Dominic King
Austin Wright
Now the name "Stanley" here was originally supposed to be just a pseudonymous Bruce's using because he's doing some shady stuff, but later on ends up becoming this character's real name after he becomes a Bruce Wayne espy.
Camden Thompson
Adam Murphy
Jeremiah Cooper
Why john x bats? It’s such a crackship
Carson Nguyen
Noah Murphy
I don't know. Maybe he saw John Constantine as VERTIGO's Batman? I know a lot of people do. So he thought of hooking up VERTIGO's Batman and DC's Batman as a couple or something?
Nicholas Jackson
Jeremiah Thomas
>The worst hellblazer writer period
Milligan's run was so much worse and has the added downside of not being skippable due to it taking up the final stretch.
Joshua Foster
Lucas Bailey
Isaac Wood
Jonathan Rodriguez
Dylan James
Ian Richardson
Jose Moore
Sebastian Martin
Kevin Wood
Alexander Cook
Angel Ross
Levi Bennett
Jose Myers
a lot of people do think this
Luke Gutierrez
Wyatt Perry
Aren't storytimes of pain supposed to labeled?
Xavier Jones
John Morgan
Jeremiah Carter
Connor Sullivan
Kayden Fisher
You sure this is supposed to be Bruce Wayne? He just kinda broke two of his most sacred vows over a clock.
Angel White
Dominic Bennett
He's very young, so apparently he didn't had all his ethics and vows ingrained just yet, and it will make a bit of sense at the end. Though, that's a bit of a moot point afterwards when he becomes merely an espy.
Ryder Clark
Elijah Torres
Liam Cooper
William Russell
Ian Wood
Cooper James
Now as the story goes... when Brian Azzarello asked DC if they'd let him use Bruce Wayne in his HELLBLAZER run as John Constantine's foil and romantic interest, that they apparently said "YES", as crazy as it sounds, that is... until they went back on their word half-way into the run and said "NO". That left Azzarello frustrated and angry, because he had tons of things planned out for that duo.
So instead of using Bruce Wayne like he intended, he took "Stanley" here and turned him into his own character. This new Stanley would be his way of getting revenge on DC editorial by writing the most mean take on Bruce Wayne he could, using Stanley as an espy.
Now here's where the fun truly starts.
Nolan Gutierrez
Camden Martinez
James Scott
S.W.Manor
stanly wayne manor
why they even attempted this what was jsut mental
Connor Morris
Jaxon Davis
Ayden Sanders
Michael Peterson
Jordan Wright
>Now as the story goes... when Brian Azzarello asked DC if they'd let him use Bruce Wayne in his HELLBLAZER run as John Constantine's foil and romantic interest, that they apparently said "YES", as crazy as it sounds, that is... until they went back on their word half-way into the run and said "NO". That left Azzarello frustrated and angry, because he had tons of things planned out for that duo.
This makes me wonder who made the agreement and who went back on it. I assume that Levitz wouldn't have allowed it in the first place (and the timing would be close to when Authority was getting heavily edited).
Tyler Carter
Adrian Harris
See now this is making me think Azzarello might as well write Batman and Constantine expies so he could show how his Hellblazer and Batman: Damned stuff was supposed to go.
Julian Sullivan
Cooper Green
Eh, sure I guess?
Charles Allen
Yup. You thought right. It is THAT Jason they're talking about.
Xavier Rodriguez
Gee, I wonder if Azzarello smokes.
Isaiah Sanders
YES! Azzarello went there. This is just the beginning.
Ayden White
this is why i hated his fucking run on hellblazer
jsut no need
Zachary Gray
Speaking of BATMAN: DAMNED it seems that the book was indeed going to have something sexual between Batman and John Constantine too. Because while promoting the book Azzarello couldn't stop reference this precise HELLBLAZER run i'm currently dumping and the whole S.W. Manor controversy that accompanies it. He talked about it in the sense that with BLACK LABEL he was finally free to do what he wanted with the characters.
Funny how that went.
Gabriel Ortiz
Xavier Thomas
Justin Clark
Jonathan Gomez
To be fair, this is a pissed off Azzarello going scourged Earth.
Carson Reed
Blake Mitchell
Gabriel King
I have no clue how Azz would have thought it was going to 100% go through. The editors who controlled Constantine had a long history of preventing him from interacting with a lot of other characters ever since Hellblazer launched as a mature readers title.
Tony Bedard as editor probably thought it would be funny (it seems like his kind of humor), but Berger and Levitz probably wouldn't have approved.
Chase Mitchell
I'll always cry at the fact that Lee Bermejo is forever chained to Azarello. Such a tragedy.
Isaac Collins
Levi Baker
Ian Bennett
I think that whoever approved probably thought that Azzarello's Bruce Wayne would be sorta of VERTIGO's own mature version of the character. He'd be gay, for one. Or bissexual, at the very least.
William Howard
Easton Russell
This train isn't stopping, it is only gaining reckless speed.
Landon Anderson
Nicholas Rodriguez
Fair warning: everyone's horny as fuck in this arc.
Matthew Robinson
Why is 'Maybe Bruce Wayne' a raging faggot?
Colton Green
Andrew Reyes
Well, i'll be damned. The story-time is over. Good night.
Nathan Mitchell
Jayden Scott
why you lie
Kayden Campbell
Going from some other comics? Sid Vicious might have left some lasting impressions.
I'm a prick.
John Morales
Connor Cooper
Henry Price
We are Robin and Suiciders kind of sucked though, and Azz wasn't there for those
Ayden Bell
Julian Allen
Liam King
Henry Flores
Yeah, but We Are Robin, Suiciders and Batman: Noel were written by Bermejo himself.
Brody Thompson
Asher Kelly
John Davis
Jordan Walker
Adam Bennett
Benjamin Fisher
Kevin King
James Green
This girl's nasty.
Andrew Allen
Wheew...
Robert Parker
Andrew Perry
And... there's the Arab's fake clock.
Parker Roberts
Thomas Price
EXTRA! EXTRA! John Constantine is a poor lover! Anonymous lover tells all!
Brayden Young
Camden Thomas
Gavin Phillips
Andrew Harris
Benjamin Richardson
Levi Rivera
Isaac Harris
Jonathan Jackson
Wyatt Davis
Chase Sanchez
Benjamin Campbell
Justin Allen
Brody Bennett
Austin King
If anyone was still not clued in, Azzarello even used the bats to make the intention clearer.
Kevin Adams
Stanley's right hand man is named Fredo.
Alfredo.
Jeremiah Bennett
Joshua Cruz
Sebastian Sanders
Eli Johnson
Jose Sanchez
Cameron White
Joshua Miller
Jayden Mitchell
Henry Reed
Nah he's mediocre. That's worse than trash because at least trash is memorable.
Nolan Jones
Justin Martin
>who is Denise Mina
Camden Nguyen
don't remind me.....
Charles Martinez
Good art from Manco, very boring story. Thankfully only lasted a year
Brayden Reyes
Nolan Clark
Oy vey, Azzarello pulled the Jew card.
Jeremiah Kelly
Jonathan Lewis
Asher Gomez
Adam Campbell
Spoiliring because of them nips.
Aiden Young
Wyatt Turner
is there a source by the writer of something that confirms this?
Angel Bell
Dominic Brown
And there are the bats everywhere once again.
Luis Cox
And now the allusions to the death parents.
Cameron Sullivan
Cooper Williams
Everyone so darm horny in this.
Wyatt Roberts
Connor Gonzalez
I'm going to try to find it.
Austin Watson
Mason Long
thanks op, I haven't been able to find it
Gavin Stewart
Jaxon Kelly
This has to do with some prior stuffs from the run. This is basically S.W. Manor doing a recap to clue in those that haven't been following the whole run from the beginning.
Aaron Ross
The biggest problem is that many of the results give up "Stanley" Artgem, the cover artist that works for DC, instead of anything remotedly connected with the character,
Joseph Fisher
Cop likes what he sees.
Eli Wright
>Milligan's run extends to the end of og Hellblazer
Seriously? So I'm not missing out from stopping at the retarded love hex arc?
Grayson Stewart
Kevin Jones
Grayson Lewis
Dominic Richardson
Just read maybe the last issue of the series if you want to see how it ends.
But you won't understand why it happens unless you've read the wedding story..John uses Dark John as a decoy again, but is unaware that Dark John tries to rape Gemma while at the wedding. Thats why she "kills" him
Matthew Ross
Jesus what the fuck
Jack Smith
Robert Reyes
This page is a bit problematic. Funny how the description could easily apply to Bruce Wayne as well. Or Stanley, as it is. If he isn equal in all things to Bruce, that is.
Jacob Cooper
Bentley Collins
Carter King
>Batcon user is back
Based.
Logan Lee
Luis Brooks
Bentley Williams
I really fucking hate Azzarello. He's nothing, but a tryhard edgemaster. He doesn't have the charm of Ennis and even lacks the cynical humor of Millar.
Luis Scott
I read this thing but never once thought this guy was anything like bruce wayne.
Nathan Barnes
Is this where "you some kind of faggot? because I am" comes from?
Dominic Reyes
Gee, I wonder why DC nixed his take on Batman. What a fucking retard
Angel Bennett
Justin Price
Earlier arc, same artist. You can find it by checking which issues he worked on.
Milligan man. Nothing that came after was good, but getting cancelled was a mercy killing.
Eli Morris
OP said that issue was written in response to not getting to write a version of Bruce Wayne, so he went full ham on making Stanley an awful person
Oliver Cook
Yup. Not this arc in particular.
Dylan Walker
Yeah, Azzarello went to town on this in pure spite. You guys will see in the following pages.
Ryan Stewart
This page has been posted a lot here over the years.
Cameron Green
Xavier Jones
Fun fact: the detective guy is an Azzarello OC who first appeared in the very down to earth Gangland anthology. Not that it really matters
Thomas Bennett
Michael Hall
I hope this scene will be included in the new Young Adult Constantine book or maybe at least the dog fucking
Hunter Wilson
Luis Gomez
Wyatt King
There the damn bats again.
Colton Hill
Wait, is that Destiny?
Dylan Gutierrez
Crazy shit that announcement.
Michael Price
William Rivera
What a nifty take on the whole Batman's crusade.
Christian Parker
Oh, look. The Not-Waynes are here.
Robert Morgan
Damn. That's harsh, and lenghty.
Jonathan Lopez
Isaiah Ward
Jordan Myers
Kevin Long
I kinda liked prison arc
Hard Time iirc
Samuel Mitchell
Isaiah Ramirez
Mr. agent here doesn't seem to like our Not-Bruce Wayne.
Jason Young
Connor Murphy
Gabriel Jenkins
And here's Not-Timothy Drake. The third ward.
Bentley Watson
Ayden Young
Feels more like Phantom Stranger. Destiny would never act like this
Ayden Nguyen
Easton Howard
Nathan Hall
Cameron Kelly
James Bailey
Another one of Azzarello's mean commentary on Batman. Wanna hazard a guess?
Jacob Williams
Aaron Lewis
Julian Mitchell
This. Just assumed that he was another Azzarello oc, with some odd aspects here and there
Liam Sanchez
Joshua Brooks
Austin Diaz
Hard Time and the Ice man arc was not bad. What came after was simply hellish
Kayden Brooks
James Ortiz
Tyler Carter
As I recall this was the only time in Hellblazer John Constantine was depicted in a consensual relationship with another man.
Thomas King
Dylan Edwards
Alexander Morris
That's a nice and very brutal action sequence.
Evan Wood
Some have theoryzed that John Constantine also acts as a stand-in for the Joker. The whole Fool/Trickster thing. But reallty, it is a bit flinsy.
Nolan Smith
Nicholas Lewis
Goddammit
Adam Johnson
the DCyou hellblazer book gave him a positive gay relationship
Jacob Stewart
Ayden Foster
Jordan Young
And that's a wrap. Some weird shit.
Azzarello is still to this day trying to hook Batman and John Constantine up.
Oh, i forgot. Azzarello and this artist did a Batman book together. A proper Batman book. And some of the sexual deviants from this arc? They appear it it.
Isaiah Walker
Thanks for posting this.
I fucking hated it.
Ryan Parker
Thanks, I hated it.
Tyler Carter
>Oh, i forgot. Azzarello and this artist did a Batman book together.
I'm pretty sure they also did the Flashpoint Batman mini, too.
Robert Bennett
FUUUUUCK. I just realized that Batman: Damned pull the same crap with Joker being thought dead, while Batman himself doesn't believe it and try to hunt him.
Angel Martin
Nah, that was Eduardo Risso, the guy he did 100 Bullets with.
Dylan Fisher
Post it then
Jaxson Fisher
Anthony Phillips
As long as unrealistic super tranny is there, I'm sold.
Justin Morgan
Yeah, that's Eduardo Russo. You're confusing him with Giuseppe Camuncoli, who did this run. For reference, the latter also did most of Peter Milligan's run though his art style had noticeably gotten worse by then.
Lucas Thompson
Wait no, now I'm the retard, that's actually Marcelo Frusin. They're both Argentinians though so they may as well be the same person.
Kevin Richardson
I wonder how a relationship between Batman and John Constantine would have worked out without all this bile.
Kayden Robinson
I've never read azzies run. Damn this is terrible.
I stopped after Ellis. Never had any interest in continuing t. Glad I didn't. Did I miss much?
Angel Davis
People seem to like Carey's run but everyone after that was passable to bad. Milligan's run had a promising start but quickly slid in to shit and never recovered.
Gabriel King
This one isn't even subtle
Isaiah Turner
>that bottom panel
I can't believe Constantine is a hentai girl
Jacob Hughes
whats even the deal here? he feeds kids to bats? why?
David Hill
Probably would've been in whatever was supposed to happen in Batman: Damned.
Landon Robinson
Constantine in America was way more fun and interesting than people trying to be Ennis lite every other issue.