The Pub Where I Was Born - Water.org Fundraiser
Last year, for my birthday, I bought for myself a piece of original Hellblazer artwork. My favorite character, as drawn by my favorite artist, it's beautiful and one of the physical things I'm happiest to have for my own.
This year, on my birthday, DC is releasing the final issue of Hellblazer. John Constantine will be getting a new book on the superhero side. One with bright colors and crispy art and a rewritten history that makes him younger and more callow and erases his worst mistakes and his best moments and leaves him less weird, less brittle, less flawed, less human.
I know the book hasn't been a really satisfying read for literally years, and that none of this zaps my back-issues out of existence, but Constantine - the version of him who's lived in Hellblazer, aging in real-time throughout most of my lifetime and being a meaningful part of my reading diet and imagination for much of my adult life - will probably not be seen again, and I will miss him.
I want to do something constructive with my disappointment and to commemorate how much this book and character have meant to me and to celebrate my birthday despite the worst present ever, so I've decided to do a fundraiser through water.org:
The Pub Where I Was Born
Water.org works with local populations to expand access to clean drinking water and safe sanitation to communities and families throughout the developing world; if you've got some charitable cash without a destination, I hope you'll consider directing it their way!
This year, on my birthday, DC is releasing the final issue of Hellblazer. John Constantine will be getting a new book on the superhero side. One with bright colors and crispy art and a rewritten history that makes him younger and more callow and erases his worst mistakes and his best moments and leaves him less weird, less brittle, less flawed, less human.
I know the book hasn't been a really satisfying read for literally years, and that none of this zaps my back-issues out of existence, but Constantine - the version of him who's lived in Hellblazer, aging in real-time throughout most of my lifetime and being a meaningful part of my reading diet and imagination for much of my adult life - will probably not be seen again, and I will miss him.
I want to do something constructive with my disappointment and to commemorate how much this book and character have meant to me and to celebrate my birthday despite the worst present ever, so I've decided to do a fundraiser through water.org:
The Pub Where I Was Born
Water.org works with local populations to expand access to clean drinking water and safe sanitation to communities and families throughout the developing world; if you've got some charitable cash without a destination, I hope you'll consider directing it their way!