Constantine’s First Season Arc Comes Straight From Swamp Thing Comic Books

We’ve seen Doctor Fate’s helmet and the Ibistick in the trailer, along with Pandora’s box. Some of our readers even told us they’ve seen the Medusa Mask of the DC Comics villain Psycho-Pirate (we didn’t see it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it isn’t there).

There’s also a voice mail message out there on the Internet (you can listen at the link at the bottom of our story), in which series star Matt Ryan name-drops Alec Holland, the man who would be Swamp Thing. And that’s where producer Daniel Cerone comes in, telling Collider today that they’re adapting a lot of elements from John Constantine’s orignal Swamp Thing stories into the show’s first season, to the best of their ability in the context of a series that revolves around Constantine, who was a supporting player in those stories, rather than Swamp Thing, who was the lead in them.

Constantine premieres tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

You can hear the MP3 of his answering machine message here.