>BURBANK, CA (July 9, 2019)—Last year DC launched the Sandman Universe, a series of books curated by legendary author Neil Gaiman, bringing in new creative voices to expand the mythos of the Dreaming. Today DC announces a new addition to this universe starring the infamous John Constantine. It all begins October 30 with a special one-shot issue,THE SANDMAN UNIVERSE PRESENTS HELLBLAZER #1from writer Simon Spurrier and artist Marcio Takara, followed by the ongoing seriesJOHN CONSTANTINE, HELLBLAZERfrom Spurrier and artist Aaron Campbell this November.
>“Year One was just the start. Now you get to inhabit the worlds, books, and houses we built for you,” says Gaiman. “I was thrilled when I was told that John Constantine—the original, demon-haunted one who first showed up in SWAMP THING’s “American Gothic” story—is coming back to his murky and dangerous roots. More magic and more darkness and not a few gods and dreams are here for you to explore.”
>In THE SANDMAN UNIVERSE PRESENTS HELLBLAZER #1, the story begins in a moment originally seen in Gaiman’s miniseries THE BOOKS OF MAGIC. John Constantine finds himself haggard, bloody, and dying in an epic magical war—a battle that will soon consume the world. As he lies there, the vision of a young Tim Hunter stands above him, the naive youth seeing firsthand what his destiny holds. Horrified, Hunter flees back into the past, and Constantine is left behind to die.
>Now, years later, Constantine reemerges, physically un-aged but with all of his memories intact—and yet the world has passed him by. Constantine must now fathom a new world torn apart by the same old political and social woes, while attempting to discover how he returned after all this time. But most troubling of all are the rumors of a new young magician named Tim Hunter, a boy destined to be either the greatest sorcerer of all, or the greatest threat to the world. If history is repeating itself, then is it John’s role to die all over again? Or is John here to stop the cycle—and stop Tim Hunter?
>“HELLBLAZER’s the one title I’ve always aspired to write. Ever since John Constantine slunk from Alan Moore’s brain into SWAMP THING, dropping secrets like grenades, bewildering vegetables, and spinning mysteries, I’ve been drawn to his misadventures with eerie gravity,” says Spurrier.“John Constantine is the cynic’s magician: a man of selfish drives and cataclysmic self-knowledge, who tries to do the right thing in spite of himself, in spite of the cost, in spite of the vile and violent world he occupies. He may not be the hero we need, but he’s definitely the bastard we deserve.
>“In this new era, everything is different. Everyone and everything he loved and knew is dead or despises him. Alone, angry, older, and wiser, he beholds a world that isclearlygoing insane. The shadows are deeper than ever. So he does what he does. He breathes smoke. He grins to himself. And he goes to work.”
>Following the special issue, Spurrier and Campbell will continue Constantine’s story in the pages of JOHN CONSTANTINE, HELLBLAZER, available November 27. November will also kick off new arcs in THE DREAMING, BOOKS OF MAGIC, LUCIFER, and HOUSE OF WHISPERS.
>thanks to real time aging, the big magical war has already happened in our timeline
Juan Diaz
Well this is a fairly interesting angle.
Caleb Morales
Don't give me hope.
Carson Bennett
They couldn't let it end could they? His saga was over dammit
Cooper Rivera
Constantine a cute
Ryder Russell
Isn't this just the plot from the rejected House of Superman story.
Dylan Morgan
>“In this new era, everything is different. Everyone and everything he loved and knew is dead or despises him. Alone, angry, older, and wiser, he beholds a world that isclearlygoing insane. The shadows are deeper than ever. So he does what he does. He breathes smoke. He grins to himself. And he goes to work.” Sounds like Books of Magick: Life During Wartime
So, it's not a continuation of the original Vertigo Hellblazer nor the nu52 run nor the Rebirth run. Very confusing.....
Ian Jenkins
Based (illiterate) american.
Jackson White
>the story begins in a moment originally seen in Gaiman’s miniseries THE BOOKS OF MAGIC. John Constantine finds himself haggard, bloody, and dying in an epic magical war—a battle that will soon consume the world. As he lies there, the vision of a young Tim Hunter stands above him, the naive youth seeing firsthand what his destiny holds. Horrified, Hunter flees back into the past, and Constantine is left behind to die. The relevant pages
Black Label is just an age rating now, which means decisions like putting The New Frontier and All Star Superman under it make no sense anymore. Chances are the front cover will be some variation of this. Joe Hill (Stephen King's son) is running a subimprint, and the logo on the top of the cover has "Hill House" presented. Chances are, the Sandman related covers will look similar with a "Sandman Universe" where Hill's logo is instead. Or...
Yeah, the question still stands since the solociation only mentions it being a continuation of Books of Magic, not the original Hellblazer or any other runss. It's an alternative future version of Constantine traveling back to present day somehow
Carson Miller
>t's an alternative future version of Constantine traveling back to present day somehow literally Twilight of the Superheroes stealing from moore again
Wyatt Butler
The Sandman universe is a good reminder that those sandman spinoffs were never good
I am tired of Spurrier writing all the new Sandman line books.
Elijah Watson
The way it ended was awful.
Sebastian Hughes
Someone involved tweeted out that it's 'tine like wine not tine like teen which is the most confidence I've gotten from anyone hellblazer in years
Jaxon Hill
But at least they let if fucking end
Joseph Russell
holy shit, Books of Magic looks this good? This is from the current ongoing, right?
Nathaniel Howard
>t. skipped Lucifer
Wyatt Wilson
No, that's the original miniseries
Dominic Mitchell
No that's from the original min series
Robert Rogers
Haven’t been following the line since its launch, is it good? Heard some people say that it had a marked turnaround in recent issues.
Nicholas Nguyen
Lucifer is great, Dreaming is worth checking out, Books and Magic and House of Whispers are bad
Elijah Richardson
Lucifer has excellent art, but make sure you realize it's not a continuation of the Carey stuff. It's just a different story with characters who share the same names.
I just finished Books of Magic, what makes the new book so bad? So it's not even a follow up to the Lucifer book from a few years ago?
Tyler Cooper
That's not much Constantine.
Hunter Ward
Not at all, just Dream and Desire
Xavier Hernandez
I think everybody ignore that book.
Jonathan Harris
Nobody wants to deal with the 2016 Lucifer book. First arc of the new series was about how Lucifer has been looked at through literature. Second is more of classic arc (keep someone safe), but the most recent issue was a filler one with (good) art by Kelley Jones
Angel Lee
I like Si Spurrier and I like this angle
Grayson Hughes
oh ya, this makes me think we may see The Trenchcoat Brigade, love em
Ethan Clark
I'm not greedy. But i read some hellblazer and i wouldn't say that guy was constantine
Oliver Sanders
Nu 52 Constatine is not the same Contastine that is Vertigo Constantine. Hell, even Nu 52 Constantine is not the same Constantine as pre Flashpoint Constantine.
Tyler Sanders
>I just finished Books of Magic, what makes the new book so bad? it's mostly just boring. I liked the last issue though
Benjamin Baker
Everything except Lucifer is boring.
Joshua Lewis
This is what bloody corporations do
James Hughes
>4 user...
Oliver Russell
Is it bad that that was my first real introduction to Lucifer? I knew he existed but I hadn't read any of his stuff until that comic and now I watched the show which I thought wasn't that bad.
Robert Allen
>I watched the show which I thought wasn't that bad. eww
James Richardson
Most of the anger for that series is that it was written as a direct continuation of a beloved, long running series, but was clearly written by someone who had only skimmed the wiki entries about Lucifer. In the first four issues, it managed to get several points about the character and related lore wrong, and that pissed off a lot of people. Specifically >Lucifer brings chaos and anger wherever he goes, and lies all the time A specific point in prior work was that he doesn't lie. He tells absolute truths, but those are sometimes interpreted the wrong way, and he doesn't usually correct people >Gabriel is a homeless man Gabriel had been depowered due to a scheme by Constantine back in Hellblazer, and was later killed. We literally saw his death, but that death was not mentioned on the wikipedia, so the writer didn't know about it. >Morpheus is the Lord of the Dreaming Uhh, read Sandman for why that's accurate
Jeremiah Gomez
The show is Lucifer in name only.
Andrew Collins
>t. wizard who stoles from classic literature
Blake Nguyen
I will never understand how that comic became that show.
Lincoln Lopez
Is "The Sandman Universe" a different universe than the regular DCU?
Ian Murphy
It's the 'member Vertigo? -universe. Not actually the Vertigo universe but playing up the nostalgia for it to cash in.
Brayden Rodriguez
No. It's supposed to be like what Vertigo was in the 90's, it's happenng there but in its own corner without much relationship with the cape side of the universe.
Nicholas Reed
BUT DOES HE FUCK BATMAN?
Jayden Wilson
When did he fucked Batman?
Camden Green
Yeah, but Vertigo wasn't an alternative universe (at least not until the Flashpoint-retardation). The Sandman especially was rooted in the DCU to the point of the new Sandman (Daniel) being the grandson of Hawkman
>bar at the end of the world I can't google this because I keep getting country music songs, but it must be some kind of literary reference. Milligan used to be too smart for it to be as meaningless as a shout out to old creators.
Cameron Baker
Sandman's 8th book is named World's End and is about a bunch of people in a tavern swapping stories.
