by Quinn Blackburn

Created on: August 12, 2007

The Surgeon General Never Warned You About This!

Have you ever felt watched when no one was there, or felt like the rope in a game of tug-of-war where you can't see the players? Have you ever felt as if there was more going on just below the surface of the life you could see all around you? John Constantine's life is a tribute to the thought that maybe we should just be grateful that we don't see beyond that surface!

The Story

John was born with the ability to see beyond the surface of reality. What does this mean? It means he probably had to struggle from a very young age not to give in to madness! It also means that he could always see the influence brokers as he's come to call them. Those angelic and demonic halfbreeds who, for whatever reason, roam our Earth looking to influence things for their "side". According to John, our only purpose as human beings is to settle a bet between God and Satan. The bet? Who'll end up with the most souls.... without directly interferring, of course!

John almost took himself out of the game once, long ago, and for that he is slated to travel downwards when his time comes. Yet he has spent his life serving the Balance. He has used his gift and honed his skills towards one purpose. Whenever an agent of either side steps out of the bounds and interfers...he deports them. After finding out that he is dying of cancer (again!), John rails against the injustice of spending his life preserving Balance between two seemingly uncaring entities only to end up in Hell...where far too many of the inhabitants wait to exact their revenge upon him. "Shouldn't that count for something?", he asks his angelic contact. "Trying to buy your way into Heaven?!" Gabriel admonishes him, "Everything you have ever done has only been for yourself!"

Needless to say, John is not a happy man...but he is, fortunately for us, driven. Almost against his own will, Constantine finds himself helping out a devout Catholic police detective, Angela. All evidence says that her twin, Isabelle, committed suicide by jumping off the roof of the hospital where she was a psychiatric patient. Angela, however, believes it was murder. She also believes that only someone uniquely gifted, like John, can help her rescue her sister's soul from the eternal torment of Hell. Yet, Constantine soon realizes that he didn't commit himself simply to helping Angela save her sister's soul. Somehow, he has to rescue all of us from the fate that hangs precariously upon the point of the Spear

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