Name : Map
First Appearance : Hellblazer #135, Haunted
Last Appearance : Hellblazer #177, Red Sepulchre
Who is he ?
When it comes to Map, it’s a case of appearances being very deceiving indeed.
Employed, courtesy of John Constantine, as a nocturnal worker on London’s Underground, he
seems quite content to spend his waking hours keeping the tube tracks clear of debris – a rather
mundane way for the being who could once have become the King of Magicians to pass the time,
don’t you think ?
Map found his peaceful existence disturbed when John Constantine came to him for information
on the murdering magus, Joshua Wright. Using his considerable power, Map divined the required
information for the Englishman and left him to his revenge, unaware that he still had a part to play
in John’s latest game.
Following a vicious beating at the hands of
some of Joshua Wright’s hired thugs, John tricks his assailants into going after the unsuspecting Map. The apparently
defenceless tube worker gives his would be assailants far more than they bargained for and dispatches them in a particularly
gruesome manner, leaving their remains spread out across a long length of tube track.
When confronted by the powerful being about the men, Constantine admits to sending them down
into the Underground in the full knowledge that Map would kill them for attacking him. The pair
parted on somewhat frosty terms.
Some two years later, John returned to Map’s lair in the Underground to enlist his aid in the ongoing
search for his missing niece.
When Map refused to acknowledge Constantine’s summons, John returned to the guesthouse in which he’d been staying
only to be confronted by the giant disembodied head of the being he had sought only hours before. Map
informs the slightly stunned John that he’s moved on from the Underground to a place that “doesn’t exist so much”
before warning him that the pair may be on course to clash as enemies during the magical gang war that had been
raging through London at the time.
Despite this initially frosty confrontation, John and Map were eventually able to work together to overcome Domine
Fredericks and end the magical range war that had threatened to tear London apart.
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Map works his mojo.
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Not quite human.
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