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Survivor of the AIDS crisis. Destroyer of memory.

Hellweek25 "Horror" prompt.

It was a common practice among queer men of the late 80s and early 90s to have keys to each others homes. This was a precaution so that if one of them died of AIDS, friends would come in and remove anything the deceased friend wouldn't want his family to find. If the items weren't donated or kept, they were destroyed.

With the looming presence of AIDS in every corner of early Hellblazer, I don't doubt Ray Monde and John Constantine had difficult conversations and contingencies in place for "if the worst were to happen". Unfortunately for John, being a survivor means carrying the weight of memory.

#john constantine #hellblazer #vertigo comics #hellweek25 #ray monde #sergeant bill #jl remix #cw/tw aids crisis #i didn't want to do “supernatural horror” i went for depressingly mundane human horror which is very hellblazer tbh #whether it's ray or bill's family that's unaccepting- i imagine john had a lot of memories to go through

Hellweek day 6: Autumn

no better time to get out into nature and heckle your local plant man

#john constantine #hellblazer #swamp thing #hellweek #hellweek25 #fanart #my art

hellweek, but missing 2 days (i got busy)

day 2 - ships

day 3 - mucus membrane (i cropped his hair out because it looked kinda bad)

day 4 - au (i gave him my job)

day 5 - horror (the shining)

day 6 - autumn

day 7 - free day (repost of a demonstantine redraw i did ages ago lol but i still like it !!)

#john constantine #hellblazer #hellweek25 #dc #dc hellblazer #dc comics #vertigo #vertigo comics #chastantine #chas chandler

"no, wretch-- there is no pity in captain death."

3 days late but my entry for hellweek's first prompt: childhood!

since trauma is an integral theme in hellblazer i wanted to show how his events from john's childhood haunt him. the coat hanger is positioned over his head because of how thomas used to weaponize mary's death against him, the coat hanger abortion, and also because fetuses rotate when they're close to delivery. and of course, the dead boy's heart, which is in place of his own because it is fossilized from all the hurt it's forced to carry, and how john must steel his heart to the horrors that await him in his daily life.