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ITT: sum up a character in a single sentence
Grayson Turner
John Powell
You didn't answer the yes or no question. it only takes one word.
Jack Russell
>She's emulating her father when she's casually fucking around with magic,
And how. Look at him, the Zs are all spellaholics
Jaxon Martin
>her and her father use magic like it's the most normal, regular thing in the world
And then she blames John for Giovanni burning. It was only a matter of time for him, and it's only a matter of time for Zatanna.
Ryder Ortiz
Aren't the Zataras some kind of born wizard like Harry Potter and Bewitched? They probably think those rules don't apply to them
Nathaniel Moore
Black Bolt is a silent King and puts his people's safety above his own happiness.
Landon Howard
>John Constantine is the most powerful wizard in existence
>OP has never read an issue of Hellblazer in his fucking life
John's nine parts conman to every one part mage. He can't do much but he makes what little power he has go a very long way, and most of the time he cheats and bullshits his way to victory. Or he just sacrifices five of his friends.
Andrew Jackson
Aside from the lockup that he had (until it was torched) filled with the world's most powerful magical artifacts, and the fact that he knows a spell for literally any occasion and has been referred to as incredibly powerful numerous times throughout his run, due to a combination of his extensive and even baffling knowledge of magic, his willingness to do anything it takes to win, and good old fate. Neil Gaiman started the idea that was fleshed out throughout Hellblazer that John is a recurring magical archetype, the laughing magician, who appears to have little power while possessing limitless knowledge. The theme of the Laughing Magician was reiterated and reified by Andy Diggle during the run of the same name. John has: created a magical clone of himself, filled it with his sins and damned it to hell; he's turned a Neo-Nazi into a golem; used passive magic to drive an entire prison completely mad; taken the madness out of his head, created a baby homunculus with it and dropped it off a cliff; ripped off a casino for literally all of its money, etc. etc. etc.
But I've never read an issue of Hellblazer in my fucking life.
Sebastian Green
>Alan Moore claims to have met his creation on two occasions.
>"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."
>His second meeting with his creation was illustrated in 2001's Snakes and Ladders, an adaptation by Eddie Campbell of one of Moore's performance art pieces.
>"Years later, in another place, he steps out of the dark and speaks to me. He whispers: 'I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any cunt could do it.'"
Brandon King
Not going off and talking to John is probably the wisest decision he ever made.