#Dead In America

[conjobthehellblazer]

John in Hellblazer Dead in America #2

#john constantine #hellblazer #constantine #dc comics #comics #vertigo comics #vertigo #dc #dead in America

[robinasnyder]

I'm like losing it over this idea, but!

(And I'm sorry to people in the John Constantine tag who just want Constantine. I feel you, and I'm sorry.)

So, in the John Constantine Hellblazer (2019) by Spurrier and Campbell, and in the current John Constantine Hellblazer: Dead in America (2024), there's a pretty huge, big, important plot point where Constantine has died. Like he for real died. His body's dead. His soul is still occupying his dead body. He's still moving around like he's alive, but his body's rotting. (Spoilers for Dead in America from here, btw)

Not to get into the plot too much, but for the 2019 run, there's something Constantine promised his soul to when he dies, and to escape that, he astral projected by having someone stop his heart, with the plan to revive it later. And he does get his soul back in his body, but the body's dead.

As of right now (Dead in America #2) we don't know why exactly this happened.

At the end of 2019, we get this:

Now, mind these panels comes before John realizes he's dead (by like a page or two), but I do straight up love the idea that he's pissed off so many people that no afterlife actually *wants* to take him anymore.

Now, from Dead in America #2, we get this:

Implying that there's something keeping his soul and body going despite the whole being dead thing. I'm assuming that we'll be told eventually, but no idea yet.

All of that to say this: John Constantine is basically possessing his own dead body, atm. So that means he would fall under the Federal Anti-Ecto Control Acts, right???

All I'm saying is that I love the idea of an entire government organization hunting John Constantine. All I'm saying is that I really, really need to see John Constantine being captured and experimented on by the Drs Fenton.

All I'm saying is that Danny would try to get him out, especially if he was trapped in the Fentons' basement. All I'm saying is that this would be such a perfect set up for some interesting darker fic.

The current run is pretty seperated from all other DC stuff. It's basically just Vertigo comics, just Constantine, Sandman, and Swamp Thing. Which means that if we're fully running this idea, then it's not like there's the Justice League or Batman to come fix things. It's just Danny, John Constantine in his own dead body, his son Noah who is mute, doesn't seem to know american sign, and doesn't know he's John’s son, and Nat, John's "bodyguard" with a hair-trigger temper.

So, yes to a Constantine vivisection/disection, yes to Danny having to run from home bc he's just "stolen" a "government resource", and yes to Danny either having to run off without his friends or tell them and drag them on the run too. Also yes to not just having an easy way to solve the government situation (especially bc John and co are also wanted for murder).

I'm just saying that there's never been a better time to write a darker or angsty Constantine and Danny Phantom crossover.

#danny phantom #dc x dp #dp x dc #dcxdp #dpxdc #john constantine #dc #dc comics #vertigo comics #hellblazer #hellblazer: dead in america #dead in america #spoilers

[nfcomics]

JOHN CONSTANTINE • HELLBLAZER: DEAD IN AMERICA no.1 • cover art • Sean Phillips [Jan 2024]

#JOHN CONSTANTINE • HELLBLAZER: DEAD IN AMERICA no.1 #Sean Phillips #John Constantine #reading #HELLBLAZER #Dead In America #Comic Books

[hell420er]

THEYRE EXTENDING DEAD IN AMERICA BY 4 MOREISSUES WOOOOOOOOO. THIS MEANS INSTEAD OF 7 ISSUES IT WILL HAVE 11

#hellblazer #john constantine #dead in america #hellblazer: dead in america

[puzzle-paradigm]

YESSSSS

#I’m going to be so annoying about this #hellblazer #dead in America

[saetoru]

guys please consider policeman gojo—he sits in a parking lot he knows you'll drive by when he's off duty/on break and just waits until your car drives past him. he recognizes it immediately—and then the sirens go off, and a cop car is tailing you, and you sigh and pull over as you think to yourself here we go again. it's the most annoyingly irritating white-haired man to EVER exist strolling up to your car, grinning at you as you say "can i help you officer?"

and he sighs dramatically and says, "i"m afraid i'm gonna have to charge you with theft," as you roll your eyes.

you just indulge him as you dryly ask, "and what did i steal?"

"well," he starts, just barely containing his giggles, "you've stolen my heart."

you look at him wholly unimpressed—but then the corners of your lips tug into a smile against your will before you shake your head and snort, muttering a quiet, "come here, you idiot," before letting him bend down and kiss you sweetly.

he grins and winks as he says, "next time i'll have'ta handcuff you, y'know," before he pecks your lips one more time and murmurs, "see you at home."

it'll happen again tomorrow. and the day after that. and the next day after that—but you just keep stealing his heart, and he just keeps letting you get away with it.

#usually i hate the police bc i live in america so obviously they want me dead #but gojo is the exception #as always #shorts.

[americaisdead]

mama lou’s restaurant still has a smoking section. oklahoma city. june 2023

© tag christof

#tag christof #america is dead #on the road #smoking #nonsmoking #cigarette #diner #okc #oklahoma

[gotyourbibleandyourgun]

#post apocalypse #zombie apocalypse #post apocalyptic #apocalypse #twd aesthetic #twd #the walking dead #the last of us #tlou #ellie williams #joel miller #rick grimes #southern aesthetic #southern goth aesthetic #southern gothic #rural #rural gothic #rural america #dark americana #gothic americana #vintage americana #abandoned

[bongosinferno]

A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.

Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.

This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!

Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.

#fallout #fallout 1 #fallout 2 #fallout 3 #fallout 4 #fallout new vegas #fo1 #fo2 #fonv #fo4 #I'm almost half-way through the show #it suffers from this too but whatever I'm just going to count it as it's own thing #it gets a pass or whatever. telling a video game story and telling a tv-series is completely different #they can do what they think is useful. #We see a bit of what the I'm talking about in New Vegas with mr house being able to be that rich etc #but new vegas cares more about the fallout of Fallout 2 + new ideas than some pre-war America. The most we get is like Poseidon energy and #Raul. but Raul doesn't really care that much about the details of the past world #his life seems pretty normal. it's not that important. #dead money and owb did this like... Okay. wasn't too bad it was fine. I don't like those DLCs too much. Dean Domino is whatever

[wicke2deer]

I'm pretty sure someone's already done this meme. Btw I know Mizu learned cool skills from observing and watching, but I sense Chekhov's gun (like, literally) so it's highly possible Fowler'll be the one who teach her how to shoot. And if he doesn't flee from Mizu, I bet he'll catch a bullet maybe even a bullet not meant for him.

#blue eye samurai #mizu #abijah fowler #Fowler is a crazy rat i doubt he'll be dead can imagine him running to America or smth

[conjobthehellblazer]

Hellblazer: Dead in America #1

#john constantine #hellblazer #constantine #dc comics #dc #dead in america

[churcvh]

source:

thank you to @12lizards for finding the original post. i don’t know how to reverse image search anything and i saw this image on tiktok with no credit as well. i apologize for taking so long to provide the credits.

#rural america #photography #rural gothic #southern gothic #southern goth aesthetic #appalachian gothic #southern aesthetic #american gothic #dead

[nfcomics]

JOHN CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER DEAD IN AMERICA no.1 (of 8) • cover art • Aaron Campbell [Jan 2024]

John Constantine has cheated death once again—but his heart's not beating, his body is decaying, and he, his friend Nat, and his son Noah are on the run in America, wanted for murder. Naturally, it's all John's fault—it always is. But as it turns out, Dream himself needs John's help. Something terrible has taken root in America, and it's using the sand from Dream's pouch to impose its will. If John can put a stop to it, he might be able to parlay that favor into a chance to save all their lives—but he's going to need help from someone he hasn't spoken to in years. Someone he wasn't always…all that kind to. Someone…or some…Thing?

Spurrier and Campbell's first run on Hellblazer was the best-reviewed comic of 2020, reintroducing the character to a new generation, and their second act, told in extra-length 28-page issues, is ambitious and unmissable!

(W) Si Spurrier (A/CA) Aaron Campbell 28 Pages • $4.99 US • On Sale: Jan 16th 2024

#JOHN CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER DEAD IN AMERICA no.1 (of 8) #Aaron Campbell #Si Spurrier #Hellblazer #Constantine #Dead In America

[strangebiology]

Carter, Wyoming. Population zero.

#Graphic #Dead Animals #Rural America

[optionalgs]

Jor-El: I made Kal-El a Kyrptonian combat suit out of nanotech so he can go out and fight crime.

Martha Kent: not without something to cover his junk he isn't.

#my adventures with superman #clark kent #superman #martha kent #jor-el #she really slut-shamed an entire dead civilization #how very rural america of her #do not read too much into this joke please

[petty-d4bblr]

Look at this smug git

#john constantine #constantine #dc black label #dc comics #hellblazer #hellblazer dead in america