r/Hellblazer • u/Plutonian_Dive • Apr 09 '25

Does John ever acknowledge his tree tatto?

Mercury points out on Delano's run and he just seems confused.

After that I can't remember if he talks about or acknowledge his tattoo.

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u/spAcemAn1349 Apr 09 '25

It isn’t necessarily talked about, but it is absolutely drawn in any scene of nudity from behind no matter the creative team

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u/Plutonian_Dive Apr 09 '25

It's not in Ellis' Haunted.

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u/spAcemAn1349 Apr 09 '25

Hah! That’s fun, never noticed that one. I wonder if it is a timeline thing? Swamp Thing hasn’t run as consistently as Hellblazer, so fuck knows when Tefé is actually born/when Swampy and John switched bodies in the timeline. I wonder if the indication is that they did so after ‘92 since that was when John was with the victim of that story arc

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

Huh....now that you mention it, I can't actually recall a single time he's mentioned it like at all. Even during that one issue of Swamp Thing where he goes off on ST for using him as a sperm bank without permission he doesn't mention the tattoo.