So a little more than a month and a half ago, I picked up John Constantine here. Problem was, at that point, I hadn't read any Hellblazer in months. I was doing the "applying for and RPing this character is practically second nature to me now, I don't need to refresh myself on his canon before starting him up somewhere new!" dance. And while I didn't crash and burn as badly as I could have, I did kind of...fumble his continuity a little bit in the beginning. By which I mean, a lot. Y'know how I couldn't seem to decide whether he was 41 or 42, whether he came from 1994 or 1995, or just what exactly he'd been doing before showing up? Yeah. That.
Now, I still have no desire to canon update him entirely.
( Tangent about why I insist on playing him from thirteen years back in his canon, sheesh. )However! I'd like to fix up his currently rather disorganized timeline and make it clear when he's coming from. In that interest, I'm sending him back to London (or, well...to London for now, even though he's just come back from Africa and America, and then he's going to run off to Australia...don't ask). He will be there for just a few months before clawing his way back to the City: sure, London's home, but he has unfinished business here,
thank you. When he comes back, he will have a definitive canon cut-off point: shortly before Hellblazer #92. Now, it's hard to put a date on this for sure, but based on certain environmental cues both in that issue and the ones preceding it, I'm going to say that...it's April of 1995. So he'll be synchronized with City time in everything except for the
year.
John will be disappearing from the City sometime tomorrow afternoon--probably in mid-comment-thread, so keep an eye out--and returning within a week.
Meanwhile, I'll be using this time to get Azula settled in and Omar...more active, I hope. In the interest of the latter goal, please
check out this post if you haven't already. I've been somewhat inactive the past few days, but I should be up to starting some of that activity now. And I still haven't done any logs at all with Omar and would be happy to fix that. Not necessarily with violence! Just, you know...probably. It's a lifestyle thing.