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Hellblazer: Pandemonium is a one-shot with a cover date of February, 2010. It was published on December 16, 2009.
Synopsis for the 1st Story
Appearing in the 1st Story
Featured Characters:
- John Constantine (Flashback and main story) (Also in a vision) (Also in a dream sequence) (Dies) (Also as a spirit) (Resurrected)
Supporting Characters:
- Aseera Al-Aswari (Single appearance) (Also in a vision) (Dies) (Also as a spirit) (Resurrected)
- Chas Chandler
- Mi5
- Duwayne (Single appearance)
- United States Government (Behind the scenes)
- CIA (Also in a dream sequence)
- United States Air Force (Also in a dream sequence)
- United States Army (Also in a dream sequence)
- United States Marine Corps
- Lieutenant Brad (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Iraqi insurgents
- Mesopotamian Gods
- "Blind Fish of Fate" (Unnamed)
- "Cunning Eastern Wolf" (Unnamed)
- Ishtar (Also in a dream sequence)
- "Hydra of Despair" (Unnamed)
- "Prideful Eagle of Sunset" (Unnamed)
- "Starved Dog of Terror" (Unnamed)
- Nergal/Erra/Meslamta-Ea/Lugal-Irra/"The Great Sheik"
- Djinns
- Uridimmu (Single appearance) (Also in a dream sequence)
- Griffins (Also in a dream sequence)
- Hellhounds
- Djinns
Other Characters:
- Al-Aswari family (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Aseera Al-Aswari's father (Single appearance) (Deceased)
- Aseera Al-Aswari's mother (Single appearance) (Deceased)
- Nouru Al-Aswari (Single appearance)
- British Army (Cameo)
- British Museum visitors (Cameo)
- Iraqi Armed Forces
- Martin "Destructo Vermin Gosback" Peters (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Metropolitan Police (Cameo)
- Souls of the dead
- Thomas Constantine (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Unnamed Zimbabwean museum guard (Single appearance; dies)
- Ali Baba (Mentioned only)
- Lieutenant Brad's mother (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Death (Mentioned only)
- Dinka Elder (Unnamed) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Eriskgal (Mentioned only)
- Joey Bonetti (Lieutenant Brad's acquaintance) (Mentioned only)
- Joey Bonetti's father (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Lugal-Irra (Mentioned only)
- Dr. Mengele (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Meslamta-Ea (Mentioned only)
- Mnemoth (Mentioned only)
- Mucous Membrane (Disbanded) (Mentioned only)
- Gary Lester (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Renee Chandler (Mentioned only)
- Pazuzu (Mentioned only)
- Scheherazade (Mentioned only)
- Saddam Hussein (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Dreamtime
- Mesopotamian Underworld (Unnamed)
- Kutha (Single appearance)
- Vertigo Universe (Unnamed)
- 1950s
- Late 2000s (See Notes)
- England
- London
- Camden
- London Underground
- Russell Square (Cameo)
- Martin Pieters' Apartment
- Westminster
- Big Ben (Cameo)
- Heathrow Airport (Mentioned only)
- Ravenscar (Mentioned only)
- London
- Iraq (Also in a dream sequence)
- Baghdad (Flashback and main story)
- Baghdad University (Mentioned only)
- Tel-Ibrahim (Single appearance)
- U.S. Base (Single appearance)
- Abu Ghraib
- Abu Ghraib prison (Mentioned only)
- Sadr City (Mentioned only)
- Baghdad (Flashback and main story)
- Afghanistan
- Bagram (Mentioned only)
- Jordan (Mentioned only)
- Syria (Mentioned only)
- United States of America (Mentioned only)
- New Jersey (Mentioned only)
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan (Mentioned only)
- New York City
- Uzbekistan (Mentioned only)
- England
- 2001
- United States of America
- New York City
- Twin Towers (Destroyed) (Mentioned only)
- New York City
- United States of America
- Hell (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Alcohol
- Constantine's Lighter (Mentioned only)
- Drugs
- Game of Ur coins (Also in a dream sequence)
- Silk Cut
Vehicles:
- Chas Chandler's Taxi
- The Tube
Events:
- Iraq War
- September 11 attacks (Mentioned only)
Concepts:
Notes
- The temporal setting of this story is unclear:
- According to Constantine, this story takes place twenty years his last visit to the British Museum during the events of Hellblazer #1, placing it in 2007; Agent Duwayne's words imply that Ravenscar is not a hotel yet,[1] which places this story before Hellblazer #230, which marked the beginning of Andy Diggle's run.
- However, Constantine stating that he last visited the British Museum in 1987 is a continuity error because his latest visit has occurred on New Year's Eve 1999, which was shown in Hellblazer #250.
- The John Constantine: Hellblazer guide at the end of the issue doesn't mention Paul Jenkins and his Hellblazer storylines.
Trivia
- Despite also being alternate names of Nergal, Lugal-Irra and Meslamta-Ea are actually different Mesopotamian Gods.[2][3]
- Patrick McDonell aka Martin "Destructo Vermin Gosback" Peters originally appeared in Hellblazer Annual #1 and, then, in Hellblazer #33.
See Also