pious-smasher: taken from the netflix twiter. That description makes her sound modern and more like
pious-smasher: taken from the netflix twiter. That description makes her sound modern and more like Mainline Hellblazer. So they are doing the Genderswap maybe? Ancerstor or Earth-11, I could go either way. From Neil Gaiman’s blog post about the show’s casting:JOHANNA CONSTANTINE – Eighteenth Century occult adventuress, John Constantine’s great-great-great grandmother. This Sandman character became so popular that she even had her own spin-off series. I created her to fill the role that John Constantine does in the past. When we broke down the first season, given that we knew that we would be encountering Johanna in the past, we wondered what would happen if we met a version of her in the present as well. We tried it and the script was sparkier, feistier, and in some ways even more fun. So having written her, we just had to cast her. Jenna Coleman (she/her) gave us the Johanna of our dreams – tough, brilliant, tricky, haunted -- source link