
And from these two corpses, Spurrier and team had to fashion a brand new John Constantine. Invoke the long-gone Delano & Ridgway version from the original 40 issues of the legendary Vertigo run. Decisively and pointedly kill the poorly-received New 52 version of the John Constantine character. To make this issue, much less any resulting series succeed, the entire creative team had to do three crucial tasks: This situation seems like a magical version of Parallax.
That’s seldomly an easy task, but it gets worse for the team the longer the character’s been around. We begin with the classic problem faced by all reboots: how to introduce the characters, the conflicts, and the world to fans both new and old.
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