{"id":9,"date":"2012-11-18T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/revisited\/?p=9"},"modified":"2012-11-18T17:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T17:11:48","slug":"getting-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/revisited\/2012\/11\/18\/getting-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have spent a little time doing some research on Constantine&#8217;s appearances in DC\/Vertigo comics and I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qusoor.com\/hellblazer\/introduction.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Hellblazer Index<\/a> by John Goodrich. John has constructed a timeline of John&#8217;s career rather than his appearances (though for a lot of it is the same thing). He has pulled in a lot of appearances in other books that I was unaware of as well.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to use an adapted version of this timeline to guide my reading &#8211; one that sticks more closely to publication date rather than Constantine&#8217;s personal chronology and will ignore one-off appearances in books I do not own. So I have constructed a list of comics that will start me on the <em>Hellblazer<\/em> re-read and will cover the first 100 issues of the series with some diversions along the way. The initial list is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 37-40<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 44-50<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 51<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 55<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 65-67<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 1-5<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 70-73<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 6-7<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 74<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 8-9<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 76<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 10<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 77<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 11-24<\/li>\n<li><em>Sandman<\/em> 3<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 84, 88-90<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 25-33<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 99<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 34-40<\/li>\n<li><em>Books of Magic<\/em> 1-4<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 41-48<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 114-115<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 48-71<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer Special<\/em> 1<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 72-75<\/li>\n<li><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> 134-138<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 76-83<\/li>\n<li><em>The Horrorist<\/em> 1-2<\/li>\n<li><em>Hellblazer<\/em> 84-100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have spent a little time doing some research on Constantine&#8217;s appearances in DC\/Vertigo comics and I came across the Ultimate Hellblazer Index by John Goodrich. John has constructed a timeline of John&#8217;s career rather than his appearances (though for a lot of it is the same thing). He has pulled in a lot&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/revisited\/2012\/11\/18\/getting-ready\/\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,11,18],"tags":[13,5,9,17,19,10,12,6],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-john-constantine","category-sandman","category-swamp-thing","tag-books-of-magic","tag-dc","tag-hellblazer","tag-john-constantine","tag-sandman","tag-swamp-thing","tag-the-horrorist","tag-vertigo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Getting ready - Revisited<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/revisited\/2012\/11\/18\/getting-ready\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Getting ready - Revisited\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So I have spent a little time doing some research on Constantine&#8217;s appearances in DC\/Vertigo comics and I came across the Ultimate Hellblazer Index by John Goodrich. 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