Memo to self:

[camwyn]

Listening to a CD to get into the right mood to write is a good idea, but it must be done properly, particularly when one is trying to get into Hellblazer: Hogwarts mood/mode.

Listening to movie soundtracks often helps, as they generally have a unifying mood.
Listening to the soundtrack to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, however, is REALLY not a good idea.

When I get home and finish my job-application-related writing for the evening I'm putting on the soundtrack to Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade. That's serious hurt-your-character music, which means it's perfect for John. Mind you the segment I have to write is the start-of-term feast and some Sorting stuff, possibly with some stuff from the first day of class, so it's not as if I need to make him suffer much. It's the principle of the thing, though. I'm not saying that John Constantine wouldn't do well in a pulp setting, it's just that he'd be in one with tentacled horrors and priests who really ought to be mad by now and maybe the Occult Bureau of Nazi Germany figuring out how to make their crap actually work. Not the kind of giant-robot pulp you get in Sky Captain.

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[quintus.livejournal.com]

See... everything is better with Nazis (In a 'pounding the Hun' kinda way that is).


Now, Indiana Jones and John Constantine... there's a pub scene made in heaven :-)

ClassicDrogn has played _Tales From The FLoating Vagabond_

[(Anonymous)]

Indy and John in a bar, swapping Tales of the Weird, while the Ninja Hell Commandos hold a shindig in the restauraunt side of the room... when suddenly, a troop of Space Nazis bursts in the door!

I can't think of how to make it more perfect, except maybe to have both Jackie Chan and Jet Li playing Ninja Hell Commandos. Maybe some cowboys nursing their beers at the bar?


- CD

Re: ClassicDrogn has played _Tales From The FLoating Vagabond_

[mephron]

And some pirates in the back.

Monkey pirates riding small dinosaurs.

Thus giving you the best of all worlds.

Re: ClassicDrogn has played _Tales From The FLoating Vagabond_

[camwyn]

Close, but you left out one or two things. We compiled the list of elements that MUST be in the Objectively Best Cartoon Ever some time back.

Everything's better with monkeys- check.
Everything's better with pirates- check.
Everything's better with ninjas- check.
Everything's better with giant robots- okay, we're missing that one.
Everything's better with Jackie Chan- check.
Everything's better with pie- man, how could you leave out the pie? We gotta have pie.

'Everything's better with Nazis to kill' joins the list today, of course, but there's got to be pie and a giant robot invasion somewhere.

Re: ClassicDrogn has played _Tales From The FLoating Vagabond_

[mephron]

I do nopt subscribe to the pie side of the force.

Re: ClassicDrogn has played _Tales From The FLoating Vagabond_

[camwyn]

Fair enough, but you haven't addressed the grievous lack of giant robots, either.

Re: ClassicDrogn has played _Tales From The FLoating Vagabond_

[(Anonymous)]

Robot dinos for the monkey pirates, then?

- CD

Re: ClassicDrogn has played _Tales From The FLoating Vagabond_

[camwyn]

Possibly a visit from Batman?

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Now I have this idea forming for a John Constantine-HP Lovecraft crossover.

With the occult Nazis from Hellboy.

Shit.

[camwyn]

Oop. Looks like I'm memetically contagious. Ordinarily I'd say that with the Constantine family, sometimes it's easier just to go back to a previous member, since there seems to be a magically talented jerk in each generation. However, John's granddaddy was one of the few non-magically talented ones and is the only real candidate I can think of for the time frame in question.

(Unless he had a brother we just never saw in the comics, of course.)

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good point. Of course, there's also the possibility of moving the Lovecraftian nasties forward to John's era (or indeed choosing any time period at all for them).

Or ... if the granddad had a sibling who was magically talented, what if said sibling died in a Mysterious and Horrid Manner, thus leaving no offspring, just a mystery ...

I'm going to go soak my head now.

[lizzyrose89.livejournal.com]

Please please please write more of your story! I'm loving it, to quote McDonald's, and I couldn't resist bugging you when I saw your post. I've never actually heard of the John Constantine thingy person, but he sounds cool, in his own little sweary sarky way. My kinda guy actually! So, yeah, I'm gonna go now and stop annoying you! Sorry! Lizzy xxx

[camwyn]

No worries, I'll be working on it properly this week. It's been too long. And after I'm done with John's chapter I can go back to Who Ya Gonna Owl...

[faeriethistle.livejournal.com]

you gonna need a beta??????
~~makes cute adorable puppy eyes~~

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying that John Constantine wouldn't do well in a pulp setting, it's just that he'd be in one with tentacled horrors and priests who really ought to be mad by now...

He'd fit right in to the universe(s?) in Cast a Deadly Spell (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101550/) and Witch Hunt (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111730/). Not that anybody ever recognizes either of those....