Angie Spatchcock

ANGIE SPATCHCOCK

Real Name: Angie Spatchcock

Class: Human magic-user

Occupation: Magician, waitress

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Jason Spatchcock (brother), unnamed father, unnamed mother

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Liverpool, England

First Appearance: Hellblazer I #175 (September, 2002)

Powers: Angie was knowledgeable about the occult, and was a beginner magician.

History: (Hellblazer I #186 (fb)) - Angie adored her younger brother, but at 14 he started exhibiting signs of schizophrenia, and as the years progressed his mental illness worsened. He was arrested for trespassing and assault on a police officer, and the prison doctors refused to diagnose his mental illness, fearing an appeal. He came out of prison a total wreck, and Angie was forced to put him in a mental institution, one of the hardest things she ever had to do.

(Hellblazer I #175, 176) - Angie was a waitress at Uncle Joe's who dabbled in magic. She met the magician John Constantine at Joe's and bragged about her mystic knowledge. He tried to warn her about how dangerous magic was, but she scoffed and said she was a nasty piece of work. John shared his worry about Elster Tower, where his sister Cheryl was now living as being a beacon of evil. She recommended he look at the Council's list of residents, and said she'd do her own snooping. John visited new resident Gladys Wren, who had mystic symbols on her door. Her son Nigel chased him away, but John knew something was up, and he reported back to Angie. She spied on Wren, but was attacked by her two sons who badly slashed her before John arrived and chased them off. John took her to the hospital, and John learned that her wounds matched those from a number of unsolved murders committed by the "Striptease Killer." John woke up Angie with an infusion of his demon-tainted blood, even though he knew it was probably a bad idea. She pointed him in Gladys direction, and Gladys even invited him in. He found the scraps of flesh her sons had taken as the Striptease Killers, all sealed in bottles. Gladys drank the good memories of the dead girls, and spilled out the bad ones, accounting for the sickness around Elster. Her son attacked him when he smashed one of the vials on his head, releasing the ghost of the dead girl, who haunted Gladys to death. John was saved from the other son by the reinvigorated Angie, who'd followed him. He told her the case was closed, but didn't elaborate, saying he'd get in touch with her if he ever needed a teen sidekick.

(Hellblazer I #178) - John called Spatchcock from London, asking if she'd be interested in taking down criminal sorcerer Domine Fredericks. She was still bitter over his "teen sidekick" remark, and when he told her how dangerous the mission was she turned him down flat.

(Hellblazer I #182, 183) - Angie was at a punk show with her boyfriend Leon when she sensed her brother Jason was in trouble. She had Leon drive her to St. Peter's Fields where Jason was a patient, but Leon kept trying to get her to sleep with him before she went on her adventure, so she kicked him out of his own car and drove away. Angie arrived at the hospital after seeing that the neighboring town of Stone Cross was being taken over by ghosts in the form of shadows that were possessing people. She made it onto the hospital grounds when she felt the darkness overtaking her, and was confronted by Gironnved, one of the shepards of the dead. The Gironnved were culling the possessed to return the displaced ghosts, and Angie had to save her brother from them. John Constantine arrived, and told her someone had opened the door between life and death, and he'd located the portal at St. Peter's. John knew a sacrifice would be needed to close the portal, so he killed one of the Gironnved to shut the door of death. John told Angie something epic was at play.

(Hellblazer I #184) - John and Angie visited the Vatican's secret library and the British Museum reading room to learn more about the shadow hound before heading to Juliema in the Amazon where John said he had someone to talk to. Angie wasn't happy with being kept waiting six hours while John tried to enlist Swamp Thing's help, and told John that his old friend Paho Bokhari talked to her, gave her a card, and hinted that he was doing something bad to Constantine. John took the card, a joker, and his soul switched with Paho's. Paho was playing cards with Goterrez , and the mystic cards that demanded sacrifice would not let either of them leave until the game ended. John raised the stakes with his soul, and Goterrez bet his soul, and the soul of Paho's friend Elena that he kept in his belt buckle. He assumed Paho's attempt to get out of the game meant he had a losing hand. John raised Angie's soul with her permission, because for some reason she trusted him. John's hand won to Goterrez 's surprise, and he was killed by Camilo, the manager of the game. John and Paho explained that they set up the whole scenario to make Goterrez overconfident enough to bet Elena. Angie was not pleased with being used as a pawn.

(Hellblazer I #185) - John and Angie went to Iraq, which contained one of the physical locations of the Garden of Eden on Earth. The Binei Gadol, supposed descendants of Cain, were guarding the entrance, and apprehended John for suspicion of stealing the Testament of Nephilm from them years ago. John saw this coming, and told Angie he needed some long-term insurance, took some of his hair, and told her to plant it close to the Garden. While awaiting his trial by ordeal in a jailcell he asked the Binei Gadol Ghursoon to tell him of her people's knowledge of the Garden. She alluded to the Beast, the only part of God's creation that refused to be named by Adam. Angie returned, and John's ordeal was to plunge his arm into boiling water while proclaiming his innocents, and he would be found not guilty if unharmed. He apparently passed, and was let go, but Angie couldn't believe he wasn't guilty of something he was accused of. John showed her his burnt flesh, he'd used meditation to block out the pain, but they had to start hiking should the Binei Gadol realize they'd been duped. Angie wanted to talk to him about the angel that guarded the Garden of Eden, but John said it would wait. Swamp Thing visited them, and told them two entities had recently escaped the Subtle Realms, and told them that they had been on Earth before, 200 years ago in Tasmania.

(Hellblazer I #186) - John and Angie visited Port Adams, Tasmania, where genocide had been perpetrated on Tasmanian natives. John needed to talk to ghosts since so full-blooded Tasmanian still lived, so he took psychedelic mushrooms and entered the dreamtime, while Angie watched his prone form. John encountered the ghosts of British soldiers, and realized his mistake choosing such a horrific location to find Tasmanians, clearly their ghosts would steer clear of the place. He tried to show the soldiers, who kept reliving their slaughter that they were only dreams of ghosts, but they thought he was talking treason and lines him up in front of a firing squad. Angie met a Tasmanian woman's ghost who heard the ruckus John was causing in the dreamtime , put a ghostly gun to her head, and told the story of how she'd been part of an uprising after her husband was killed and she was brutalized. Angie told a story in return, about how her brother's life was senselessly shattered, and said being shafted was part of life. The ghost rescued Constantine for Angie, discussed the Kua I'pa as she knew the shadow dog, and returned John to reality. He wondered why she would show him kindnees despite the pain she suffered, and she said hate was a starting point, not an end. John and Angie had a moment and embraced.

(Hellblazer I #275) - Angie, who was suffering from depression, gained a great deal of weight. She was invited to the wedding of John Constantine and Epiphany, and snarked during the ceremony, wallowing in her own misery.

Comments: Created by Mike Carey & Steve Dillon.

Angie Spatchcock had a cameo in Hellblazer I #280.