Constantine: City of Demons: A good beginning

At WonderCon, DC premiered Constantine: City of Demons and dropped the first five episodes on CW Seed.

John Constantine is a character who I’ve wanted to dig into more ever since Constantine aired on NBC. If I’m being honest, I haven’t gotten around to that as much as I would’ve liked. However, his appearances on Arrow and now Legends of Tomorrow have been able to tide me over. Constantine: City of Demons is a new animated series on CW Seed and there are now five episodes that you can watch.

Matt Ryan voices Constantine in the show and it keeps it feeling like what you’d expect from the character based on his live-action performances. Each episode only runs about five minutes and J.M. DeMatteis tweeted out that there are seven more episodes. Each episode only runs about six minutes, so the first five only take about half an hour to watch. Hopefully, they release the next five episodes soon.

The story itself is fairly simple. Chas has a daughter who is in a coma and he has this feeling that magic is involved. He takes Constantine to the hospital and he confirms that quickly. They then make their way to LA, where Trish actually is. She’s being held there by a demon named Beroul.

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That’s the broad strokes of what the first five episodes entail, but the show moves quickly and gives you only the information you need to know. Asa the Healer and Renee (Trish’s mother) stay behind with the shell of Trish’s body that’s in the hospital. Asa gets information out of Renee by force and she tells her about Constantine’s time in Newcastle. In Newcastle, Constantine tried to save a girl named Astra, but he failed when he let out Nergal and didn’t complete the spell properly. He then went insane and found himself in Ravenscar Secure Facility. This is a piece of John’s history that he never talks about.

While this is an animated show, John Constantine is never really a character meant for children. His comics are on the Vertigo imprint at DC Comics, which is their mature line of comics. Considering it’s a CW Seed show, the show is more mature than the majority of their content, if not all of it. It’s unapologetically brutal and graphic.

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The fifth episode leaves us with a little bit of a cliffhanger. Constantine makes a deal with Beroul to take out his competition and that’s where things end. The second half of the season will pick up from there and the hope is that Beroul keeps up his end of the deal and they get Trish back.

Constantine: City of Demons is now streaming on CW Seed.