Delano name drops Swamp Thing early on this issue. Maybe he’s trying to remind readers why they picked up this book in the first place, maybe he’s trying to remind them Constantine is actually a character. Because he’s useless in this issue of Hellblazer. Besides whining about being a coward in his internal dialogue and interceding once… he’s pointless in his own book.
This issue is a horror comic about Vietnam. I’ll bet it’s not the first of its kind, with a guy going nuts and the outcome being terrible.
While Delano does tie it into the B plot about a fundamentalist, capitalist church being up to no good, it could stand alone. In fact, it would be stronger if it did stand alone because then Delano could have spent time establishing characters.
The scenes are competent enough and Ridgway’s art is fine, but Delano’s unable to define the comic.
CREDITS
When Johnny Comes Marching Home; writer, Jamie Delano; artist, John Ridgway; colorist, Lovern Kindzierski; letterer, Todd Klein; editor, Karen Berger; publisher, DC Comics.
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