Wednesday - February 02, 2005
Lucien Constantine, Hellburper.
Luc is named after two of my favorite comic book
characters: Lucien, the custodian of the Library of Dreams, and John
Constantine, Hellblazer and Chainsmoker.
(Lucien is also the name of the leader of the lycans in Underworld. I like his tragic, melanin-challenged style. There's always been a soft spot in my heart for intense wasted Goth boys.)
Lucien, librarian to Morpheus, is a geek. He watches over all the books that have yet to be written. I think of him as a portal of potential, the guardian of possibilities. He is not a main player in the Dreaming. He has no puissance, although he does have funny conversations with Merv the scarecrow pumpkin head cleaning guy and Matthew the ex-convict ex-magician-gone-bad raven.
I've been a John Constantine groupie since he first appeared in Swamp Thing. He's not good, he's not evil, he's human. He survives on knife-edge wit as much as he does by magic. He looks like Sting. (Which is why the choice of Keanu Reeves still peeves me.) He looks smashing in a trenchcoat. And he used to be in a punk band.
Lucien and Constantine.
(Lucien is also the name of the leader of the lycans in Underworld. I like his tragic, melanin-challenged style. There's always been a soft spot in my heart for intense wasted Goth boys.)
Lucien, librarian to Morpheus, is a geek. He watches over all the books that have yet to be written. I think of him as a portal of potential, the guardian of possibilities. He is not a main player in the Dreaming. He has no puissance, although he does have funny conversations with Merv the scarecrow pumpkin head cleaning guy and Matthew the ex-convict ex-magician-gone-bad raven.
I've been a John Constantine groupie since he first appeared in Swamp Thing. He's not good, he's not evil, he's human. He survives on knife-edge wit as much as he does by magic. He looks like Sting. (Which is why the choice of Keanu Reeves still peeves me.) He looks smashing in a trenchcoat. And he used to be in a punk band.
Lucien and Constantine.