Category: Hellblazer
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All of a sudden, Delano seems to decide he needs to make the comic about Constantine. Not immediately, of course. He opens with a little about the cultists kidnapping Constantine’s lady friend, though she’s been reduced to a chess piece at this point. Then Constantine hallucinates–and Delano gives the reader some hints of the backstory…
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What’s with Delano and all the globe trotting? It gets outrageous this issue, with Delano carting Constantine over to Gotham to have it out with his ghosts. He’s upset he’s got demon’s blood running through his veins, but only because one of his ghosts explains that condition to him. The way Delano writes it in…
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This issue, rather inappropriately, feels like a rip-off of a Swamp Thing standard. Well, I think Moore did it once and Veitch did it once, but it’s still a standard. There’s no supernatural situation of the week this issue, instead a friend of Constantine hacks into the evil fundamentalist’s computer network but he does so…
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After last issue’s trip to America, Constantine is back–without explanation–in London. Luckily, he stumbles into a situation where he can learn more of the B plot. Delano’s story is somewhat lame, but at least it features Constantine in a substantial role. It ties a little into Swamp Thing, but in a slight way. What Delano…
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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…
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Delano’s way too tricky a writer for a monthly comic. He introduces a new character–the guest star who’s apparently the subject of the issue. Hellblazer, at least so far, has a supernatural gimmick of the week. Then Delano moves over to Constantine. He’s having a night on the town, which doesn’t exactly play into the…
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Well, Delano certainly can write a lame comic. The writing itself isn’t so bad, it’s Delano’s plot and most of the characterizations. He also requires Constantine to be stupid for a while. The issue ties into British politics, specifically Margaret Thatcher being about as bad as the demon of flatulence. Actually, wait, I think she’s…
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This issue’s rather surprising. There’s no conflict to it. And when I say no conflict, I mean none. It finishes up the story from the first issue, has Constantine encounter some more ghosts–all of whom are from Swamp Thing and Delano doesn’t write Constantine at all the same as Alan Moore did so there’s a…
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I’m not sure how seriously Jamie Delano takes Hellblazer. Well, maybe he takes the story seriously, but not John Constantine. The issue opens with a demonic incident–bugs, since it’s a Swamp Thing spin-off, but to be bugs–and it takes a while for Constantine to show up. When he does, Delano’s writing style changes. He intentionally…
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