Ignore the subject. It's a greeting post!

So. Hi. My name is Steven. And I will be joining you in your darling little community, complete with non-Shatnerian sentences starting with this one. No, that one. The one you just ready. Or just read a few sentences ago, geez, whatevs.

I'm afraid I'll have to make this short for now. Classes started this week, and I am swamped with last-minute requests. I'm an Instructional Designer, so faculty here who teach courses online are screaming for help, and I'm off to be a superhero. Cape and everything!

And yes, I will be playing John Constantine. Run for your lives!

EDIT: Adding here instead of a new post, but a little bit of background about how I'm handling Constantine.

Sit down children, and let Steven tell you a tale. Once upon a time, there was a critically successful comic book series called Hellblazer. Hellblazer took the character of John Constantine, a rather popular side character who first appeared in Swamp Thing, and gave him his own title. John is your classic Allan Moore creation--misanthropic, magical, and stolen from Allan Moore's cold dead hands by DC Comics. The comic was darker than most of DC's fare, and during a particularly dark and nasty run, DC started a new comic imprint called Vertigo. Hellblazer became one of Vertigo's most famous titles, and got even darker without the trappings of DC vanilla. John was a problem character for DC for a while--in DC comic fandom, there exists what is called the "Iron Curtain," which divides DC from Vertigo. Except characters like John Constantine, or the Endless of Sandman fame, appeared in DC first, then switched over. Still, Hellblazer was successful.

The comic lasted years, never going more than a few months without an issue, from 1988 to 2013. However, there were problems in paradise, as there always are. DC wanted to bring John Constantine back into its clutches. Nostalgia set in--during the Brightest Day event, John appeared with the Swamp Thing. Since then, he was a featuring character in Justice League Dark (an all-magic team), and has been given his own title called Constantine.

In true comic book fan way, I am not pleased with this turn of events. That said, it gives my wicked brain new ways to torture the poor man. So, here's the scoop:

While John has always looked younger than his 66 years (demon-blood in his veins), it's worse now. He looks right at 30, perhaps slightly younger. His memories are fuzzy--he primarily remembers the events of his Vertigo title, but he also remembers his time with Justice League Dark. Though married in the Vertigo title, his memories of his wife come and go--like much of his memories from either world.

In-canon, he has no idea why this is, and most of the time can't remember it happening enough to try and resolve out. Meta, this is because comic books are confusing and the Taxon aliens pulled both Hellblazer and Constantine at the same time. So John's dealing with basically being two different characters, but the same person, and yeah. Conflicting memories and selves.

Luckily, the Constantine movie has been well and truly forgotten by the annals of time. ¬.¬ For now, at least.