2.5 starsI asked my husband if he knew who Constantine was. He said, no.Therefore, I'm counting him as a B-Lister. In all fairness to this character, he also didn't know who the Flash was till I started forcing him to watch the show with me. And he still thinks he's a Marvel character! Bless his heart.So. *shrugs*My library didn't have volume 2, so I don't know what the hell happened to bring us to this point in the story. More than likely, it wouldn't have mattered if I'd read it, though. Becau...

Finally this book is good. I am not sure if the stink of all the crossovers in previous volumes has made this appear better than it is, but I had great fun and did not feel confused or like I needed to read 4 other books to understand the story at any time herein. Based on the tease for next time though, it seems to be going right back into the cross-over crapper.

I still find the writing in these books confusing, but the stories kept my interest more than Blight, and I wasn't quite as lost. Constantine encounters some real characters in the magical underworld, which I always find fun in a rubbernecker sort of way. Each story seemed better to me, and the Doctor Fate story packs a pretty good punch. Perhaps this series is finding its feet. I've been watching the NBC Constantine series on DVR, and it's a nice combo to do it this way. I definitely hold a gru...

OK well it's better than the last one story-wise, but there's a glaring problem in that there was a huge Cliffhanger that didn't get resolved at the end of the last volume...the start of this volume is the very next issue...I fucking HATE crossovers where they get to the point that you can't go from issue to issue without doing research.This isn't the way to get me hooked. He's supposed to be with Zatanna, to make him better as a person, yet we don't see her at all. He's just working to turn eve...

After the abomination that was vol 2, vol 3 was actually halfway decent.

I don’t know why I’m still reading New 52 back issues since everyone’s long since disavowed it and they have pretty much no bearing on Rebirth. After this, I think I’m calling it a day. This issue in particular sees the retcon of John’s past - instead of his mother dying in childbirth and his father being a no account alcoholic criminal, John seemed to be a perfectly normal kid who was somehow led astray by a magician and forced to kill both of his parents in exchange for power. Further we have

Dirty tricks and double-crosses, as gutter-mage John Constantine has sold himself out to the Cold Flame rather than die horribly at their hands. DC's mystical con man lays plans and alliances on the line to extract himself from the deal.

2.5 stars

I lost the thread of the story and so much seemed like evil lairs and double crosses and the like. Not my cup of tea. Not looking for a superhero comic or some type of cosmic magic clone war... Nope. I'll read the last one in the series but I am glad this one didn't make it out.

I love the character of John Constantine, but damn are these stories all over the place.

I just read this and couldn't tell you what happened besides "magic stuff". They've completely lost the essence of the Vertigo character with this series. John Constantine is a conman who knows a bit of magic. None of the characters have any motivations besides "I'm evil". The only decent story was the Future's End issue. It was actually the only Future's End story I've even liked. Unlike the other issues in this collection, it actually told a story.

This is the third volume of the New 52's Constantine. It's a very uneven mess, to be honest.I don't have a problem with this John Constantine basically being a magic-based super-hero. I think it sucks it comes at the expense of the mature and insightful Hellblazer Constantine, but it is what it is. Personally, I love the magic based heroes. I always have. But let's be honest: most comic book mages use what essentially comes down to magical deus ex machinas to defeat the antagonists. It takes a v...

I mean ...it was great that it wasn't just a bunch of random crossover stuff they crammed together and called a volume *cough*lastvolume*cough* but also I didn't really care about anything that was happening soooo ??? Honestly if I had read this several months ago I think it would have gotten a 3 star rating, but I think I'm just slowly burning out on Constantine stuff - both old and new - so maybe I need to try to take a break or something.

Did I miss something? The ending to Vol. 2 did not pick up here or anywhere else in this volume. Ugh. Good story stuff, though. Except for the superheroes. Still feels very false.

I still wouldn't say this series is good, but this volume is at least better than the first two. The story is much easier to follow (after the crossover nightmare that was Blight) and is actually interesting.

Read this as single issues and whilst Constantine may be no Hellblazer (I have filed this under the Hellblazer shelf for convenience purposes), the book continues to be pretty entertaining. The mostly done-in-one stories are pretty solid and Fawkes' Constantine is relatively strong as well. Whilst it's dissapointing to see John get dragged into the mess that is World's End in #18, it does allow the potential to see Constantine meet his Earth 2 counterpart, which should certainly be interesting t...

Issue 13 - “Spellbound” Little different art style, like it a little more? Mindscape thing is neat. Better, more interesting imagery and art and concepts. Interesting storytelling, using the present and the mindscape to tell the past. Something that they probably should have done earlier, to connect previous continuity with the presentness of a reboot. I thought he went to Hell at the end, though. Like the idea of the metamorphosis before, and how they’re bringing it back, now. Some self-awarene...

Reprints Constantine #13-17 and Constantine: Futures End #1 (June 2014-November 2014). John Constantine is an unwilling servant of the Cult of the Cold Flame. While working as their agent, John is trying to find a way to work out from under their thumb. With Mister E as his prisoner in the Moonblade, Constantine has a plan…but he could end up taking the strangest trip of his life.Written by Ray Fawkes, Constantine Volume 3: The Voice in the Fire follows-up Constantine Volume 2: Blight. The colle...

Bloody shite. That’s kind of how I feel about the DC New 52’s iteration of “Constantine” under writer Ray Fawkes. Volume 3, “The Voice in the Fire” is, not to put too fine a point on it, bloody shite.There’s so much weirdness going on in this volume, I don’t know where to start. Constantine, working for some group called the Cult of the Cold Flame, is hopping around the world trying to stop evil magic-users. That’s his thing now.Frankly, I don’t care. I’ve almost completely lost interest in this...

Finally Constantine gets a rest from Crossover Mania, having spent the previous, I don't know, 200 years fighting Blight in the Forever Evil spin-off. Now he's back on his own mission, combatting the Cult of the Cold Flame, in what often feels like a decent comic book, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized how little it actually works.This book is structured almost like a heist movie. Constantine, having been forced to join the Cold Flame, is now trying to combat them from within,...