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The Sandman Presents #0
Hellblazer: Marquee Moon
British writer Peter Hogan, best known to comic-book readers for his work on 2000 A.D. and The Dreaming, wrote a followup to his popular miniseries, The Sandman Presents: Love Street, in 1997. Unfortunately, The Sandman Presents: Marquee Moon, as the one-shot John Constantine and Mucous Membranewould have been called, has never been published, even a decade after it was first solicited.
Love Street offered insight into John Constantine's youth in the 1960s, setting the stage for the cynical magician he would one day become. Marquee Moon would have revisited Constantine's early years, showcasing his brief fame as a punk rocker in the band Mucous Membrane. The future mage's prominence in this story, however, would have been reduced, compared to his starring role in Love Street.
Marquee Moon would have chronicled Constantine's 1977 encounter with an American woman with a secret—the main character of the story and the mother of a young girl featured in The Sandman's "The Hunt"—who'd moved to London and discovered punk-rock music for the first time. Had this 56-page one-shot seen publication, it would have featured The Clash's comic-book debut.
Love Street offered insight into John Constantine's youth in the 1960s, setting the stage for the cynical magician he would one day become. Marquee Moon would have revisited Constantine's early years, showcasing his brief fame as a punk rocker in the band Mucous Membrane. The future mage's prominence in this story, however, would have been reduced, compared to his starring role in Love Street.
Marquee Moon would have chronicled Constantine's 1977 encounter with an American woman with a secret—the main character of the story and the mother of a young girl featured in The Sandman's "The Hunt"—who'd moved to London and discovered punk-rock music for the first time. Had this 56-page one-shot seen publication, it would have featured The Clash's comic-book debut.
56 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 1997
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Peter Hogan
236 books48 followersPeter Kenneth Hogan is an English writer and comics creator who started out as editor of cult political British comic Revolver in 1990–1991, before working for 2000 AD and American comic book publishers Vertigo and America's Best Comics.
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November 4, 2015
This was a cool, edgy-enough story that was totally let down by its fairy tale ending. I enjoyed it, up until page fifty, then it went downhill from there. I feel, SANDMAN PRESENTS: LOVE STREET was a better story.
April 25, 2009
A one-shot comic-book written by Peter Hogan, author of "The Sandman Presents: Love Street". This was the first intended story arc in the Sandman Presents series, and "Marquee Moon" would have taken place in 1977, featuring the mother of a werewolf character from "The Sandman", as well as John Constantine (as modelled after Sting) from "Hellblazer".
Tamara wants to explore other parts of the world (mostly europe) and ends up staying with relatives or what her family would refer to as "of the people." She ends up in London and stays with Judy. The latter it turns out is no longer a teacher by profession but someone who offers "personal services" for a price, of course. Tamara muses over Judy, that, "We spend most of the time hiding our wildness, but she was proud of hers..." She eventually finds what she's looking for...
[For reasons never made public, Vertigo opted not to publish the story after it had already been written, fully illustrated and solicited. Therefore, in 2007, Hogan allowed Rich Handley, owner of the Web site "Roots of the Swamp Thing", to post tbe script and complete artwork online. The script and images can be viewed at: http://www.swampthingroots.com/marquee_p01-8.html ]
Book Details:
Title The Sandman Presents: Marquee Moon
Author Peter Hogan; Neil Gaiman (Consultant)
Reviewed By Purplycookie
Tamara wants to explore other parts of the world (mostly europe) and ends up staying with relatives or what her family would refer to as "of the people." She ends up in London and stays with Judy. The latter it turns out is no longer a teacher by profession but someone who offers "personal services" for a price, of course. Tamara muses over Judy, that, "We spend most of the time hiding our wildness, but she was proud of hers..." She eventually finds what she's looking for...
[For reasons never made public, Vertigo opted not to publish the story after it had already been written, fully illustrated and solicited. Therefore, in 2007, Hogan allowed Rich Handley, owner of the Web site "Roots of the Swamp Thing", to post tbe script and complete artwork online. The script and images can be viewed at: http://www.swampthingroots.com/marquee_p01-8.html ]
Book Details:
Title The Sandman Presents: Marquee Moon
Author Peter Hogan; Neil Gaiman (Consultant)
Reviewed By Purplycookie
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February 1, 2011No entiendo en qué formato se supone que se publicó esta historia, o si llegó al papel alguna vez. Pero los laburos de Peter Hogan en general me gustan y Hellblazer es una serie que tarde o temprano quiero leer completa, así que queda como to-read hasta nuevo aviso.
January 27, 2014
Cool premise, good start, but there just wasn't any meat to it.
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