Chastine? You're kidding me, right?

[elspethdixon]

Why does comics-based Hellblazer fanfic essentially not exist? I mean, the movie Constantine was actually much, much better than I expected an adaptation of Hellblazer starring Keanu Reeves to be, as long as I kept reminding myself that the lead character was some distant American relative of the real John Constantine, probably descended from some Constantine ancestor who got kicked out of England a couple centuries ago, and not actually John. However, it gets all of what little fic there is, and since the comic is cooler by a factor of ten, this makes me sad.

Also, every time you write movie-based John/Chas fic and refer to the pairing as "Chastine," the real John Constantine sacrifices a kitten to Satan. I'm not even going to touch the fact that movie!Chas is some teenage kid rather than the adult London cabbie we (and especially John) know and love (although fans' love for Chas is undoubtably less pathetic and lame than John's canonical [edit: or maybe semi-canonical, since I can't remmeber what issue it is] doomed thing for him), making the pairing creepy. I can't get past the part where people call it "Chastine."

Seriously. John Constantine would beat you bloody with your keyboard for using such a stupid pairing name to refer to him and his best mate.

I did manage to find one awesome SPN cross over with John/Dean, though.

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[velithya]

*stalks post for recs*

Hellblazer is one of those comics I really should be reading (read: catch up on past TPs), I've been recced it many times by my f.list and before the movie came out I bought the trade my local comic store recommended would be the best one to get an idea of the series so I could get all familiar with it (just in time to be irritated that movie!John wasn't blonde and British and at what they'd done to Chas, but not irritated enough not to enjoy it OMG GABRIEL, etc).

*does the 'I hate mushed pairing names' dance* seriously people. seriously. What is wrong with calling it John/Chas? (trufax: my fiance's name is Chas, and everything someone talks about Hellblazer I have a momentary 'what?' twitch.)

I CANNOT READ THE WORDS 'JOHN/DEAN' WITHOUT FLINCHING IN MY BRAIN AUGH NO. Speaking of SPN, I am not caught up on season four at all really but I heard that Castiel with his trenchcoat and loose tie and all was meant to look a little like Constantine. I went looking for fic around the time the movie came out and I don't really remember finding anything decent. I did read an SPN fic (?by poisontaster? maybe?) where Sam gets kidnapped by a demon and when Dean comes to break him out he's got help from (I think) both Constantines (comic and movie-verse). It was pretty cool but it was more a brief cameo rather than anything plot-relevant.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

IT IS A DIFFERENT JOHN WHO, WHILE HE'S THE SAME AGE AS JOHN WINCHESTER, IS NOT RELATED TO DEAN IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM.

Because, yeah, the pairing label sounds all kinds of wrong. The sex is hot, though. And it's kind of fun to watch Dean and JOhn (Constantine) try to one-up each other, a game which Dean is, alas, doomed to lose. Age and (sexy) treachery will defeat youth and beauty any time.

[velithya]

OKAY, JUST AS LONG AS WE'RE CLEAR ON THAT.

Personally I would probably mark that Constantine/Dean rather than 'John' I imagine. Ha, of course the sex is hot! Yeah, Constantine is pretty well versed in treachery, I don't think Dean has a chance - but you know, not that he'll admit it out loud, but after everything's said and done I don't think he minded that much ;)