![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Gary had been touched by a demon that he had failed to exorcise properly. One day, John returned to his apartment to find that his old friend Gary Lester, who had become a drug addict over the last ten years, waiting for him there. ![]() Angered by Swamp Thing's failures, John washed his hands of the issue. Realizing that the Green requires a sacrifice to become the next elemental, so that the Swamp Thing can retire without causing calamity, Constantine orchestrated a series of events which led to a plane crash, only to have Swamp Thing guide the intended host off to Heaven inadvertently. Seeking alternative methods, John reconnected Jason Woodrue with the Green in order to discover that the turmoil was caused because the Parliament of Trees had begun to create a replacement for the Swamp Thing, thinking he had been dead, after disappearing from Earth in Gotham City. He went to Louisiana to chastise Swamp Thing for shirking his duty, which was not at all well-received. Much later, John Constantine sensed that something was amiss in The Green, and realized that it was a reaction to the Swamp Thing's attempts to avoid being the protector of the Green, and focus on his relationship with his wife. With three casualties on his team, John Constantine declared the event a draw. After Swamp Thing managed to ease the threat of the Great Darkness, Mento watched as the Darkness clasped hands with the Presence, which drove him insane. Angrily, she cursed Constantine for involving them. Later, the Great Darkness chose to attack young Zatanna, but her father redirected the magic on himself, and she was forced to watch her father burn alive. They were forced to maintain their circle, holding his charred hands, lest they lose contact. Unfortunately, the Great Darkness lashed out, and Sargon was burnt to death. Together, John's team used Mento as a conduit to send their magical energies to aid the Swamp Thing's own team in the Spirit World. John gathered many occultists and magicians including Zatanna and her father John Zatara Mento Baron Winters Doctor Occult and Sargon the Sorcerer. With the Great Darkness' coming inevitable, John and Swamp Thing split up to recruit a force who could help them fight the evil off. In the ensuing battle, the Brujeria managed to transform John's friend Judith into the messenger they sought, and Swamp Thing allowed her to escape rather than allow John to be killed by the cultists. įinally, John, Swamp Thing, and the remainder of the Newcastle crew prepared to face the Brujeria in Argentina. įinally, Swamp Thing and John Constantine met in Brazil at the source of the river Tefé, where John explained that Swamp Thing's destiny as a plant elemental has heritage which extends back through something called the Parliament of Trees, to whom he then introduced the Swamp Thing. An evil South American cult called the Brujeria had raised an Invunche in order to facilitate sending a message that would raise a Great Darkness. While there, he commented that for people like he and the Swamp Thing, another supernatural crisis would be on its way. ![]() When the Swamp Thing finally completed Constantine's final task, John showed him how the crisis was affecting the earth, and then took him aboard the Monitor's satellite to explain the nature of the crisis. Meanwhile, Constantine began trying to prepare his companions for the coming threat of a crisis. At each location, the Swamp Thing learned of an evil growing across the land, and then Constantine would give him another location, but not much information. Īfter Swamp Thing had dealt with the threat of vampires there, Constantine appeared to him and gave him another location. However, he refused to reveal more until Swamp Thing agreed to meet him in Rosewood, Illinois. He revealed that the Swamp Thing was, in fact, a plant elemental, and connected to all other plant life through a force called The Green. ![]() Eventually, he was led to the Louisiana swamp, where he met the Swamp Thing. He had heard tell of a coming dark entity, and he used many of his contacts to determine what that thing was and how it would appear. John Constantine was an occult investigator in England. ![]()
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