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Like the traditional epic hero, John Constantine??s problems arise from both his own character flaws and the particularly grueling fate allotted him. Since childhood, he has been able to recognize the ghoulish “half-breeds” who, as hybrid demon-human creatures, can cross the border between heaven and hell and upset “the balance” between God and Satan’s bid for human souls. Young Constantine??s terrifying visions classify him as a psychotic, and as the result of the trauma of his visions and equally...
...fall of Constantine??s city reads like an epic. Constantinople had stood as the center of an empire that traced its lineage back to the Caesars. The army which broke into its gates was drawn from a dozen nations and was over a hundred thousand men strong. A rag-tag assortment of Venetians, Genoese, and Greeks, numbering barely seven thousand, defended the city against this horde, fighting bravely to thwart an outcome they knew to be inevitable. The last Christian Emperor died fighting, casting himself headlong into the oncoming enemy, a death that allowed the Byzantine empire...