Ellis takes over, and he offers us a very different sort of Hellblazer: it's deeply personal, not about any great crises; and it's very human, not about demons and faeries. It's also much more decompressed than the Jenkins run, going 6 issues for a small story.The focus on character works well, as we really get to appreciate Constantine at his best and worst. Constantine's inner dialogues are often written at length, and they feel very true to the character. As for that story: it's grotesque at

The usual hardboiled nonsense. Two white blokes fighting over a dead girl - a junkie prostitute, in this case. Lots of incomprehensible English slang and soliloquies about the dark side of London.

John Constantine is one of the more unique comic book characters. An anti-hero in every sense of the word. No super powers to speak of Constantine is a foul, and foul-mouthed, chain-smoking part wizard, part detective, part demonologist. His is a world lower than the most seedy underbelly. He's a man who has seen the kind of death, sorrow, and evil that would drive the average man insane, and perhaps has already done so to Constantine.This Warren Ellis tale tells of an old lover named Isabelle w...

Sheesh that was gory. Having only seen the movie prior to reading this, I was definitely NOT ready for the amount of blood and snot in this very graphic graphic novel. Constantine learns that an ex girlfriend has recently been brutally murdered and suspects that the murderer is a fellow magician. He gets help locating the bad guy and tortures him. I'm not used to reading graphic novels outside of the Marvel/DC verses but despite the dark subject matter I am definitely intrigued.

The image of London in this story is of a dreadful, bleak place where some people die easily and are forgotten instantly. John seems to have the ability to see people's darkest sins and he takes advantage of that information to force them to help him. He can also send a psychic message to someone far away and apply inventive psychological torture to his enemies. Basically, this seems to be John 2.0, but it's a welcome addition to an already cool character.John reads in the newspaper about the de...

"I've seen Hell blaze through these streets."There are few “Hellblazer” stories that end with anything remotely resembling a “feel good” ending, and yet that’s just the sort of feeling that “Haunted” evoked, even if the happy ending still involved a murdered innocent woman.What.A.Tale.

This is the first collection of Warren Ellis' run of Hellblazer stories, and if ever a series and a writer were made for each other, this is it. The story concerns the brutal, sadistic murder of one of Constantine's past loves, and no detail is spared in the graphic description of this murder, and Constantine's ensuing quest for vengeance, which results in his suffering quite a beating from some thugs. Part of the horror in this book is from the details of the story itself, but much of it also c...

John Constantine I am sick of your ex-girlfriends.

HAUNTED is a particularly dark and violent tale, even for HELLBLAZER. An ex-flame of John Constantine’s is found murdered, spectacularly mind you, and, suspecting magic was involved, John goes on a rampage to find her killer in order to bring peace to her ghost. In typical Constantine fashion, John’s retribution is turned back on him in a most physical way as he burns yet another bridge or two while coercing the assists he requires. John Higgins remains as the artist on this arc, and whereas hi...

Excellent distillation of John Constantine. Ellis gets this character, but I took one star off for the crummy art.

This volume brings with it the slight paranoia of Ellis along with the asides. It is different layouts than previous volumes. This one has a bunch of repeats towards the end. And some of the melancholy and nostalgic stories feel like filler. The newness of the layouts add a cinematic feel to the stories and also serve to separate us from John a bit. Not sure if it adds to the loneliness that seems to be coming from the sad fucker but there is something about this style that gives a new twist to

Constantine on the revenge warpath. I love it!

As much as Constantine claims that London is haunted by the ghosts of murders past, it's also haunted by the living. The murderers, schemers, and the corrut are the spooks in the night even more than the supernatural because their existence can't be denied and wished away. Even Constantine is one of the haunts because of how he affects the city; not in a large way, but in the lives of those he touches he causes and change and becomes their living ghost until the time when they die and they in tu...

Warren Ellis presents a more traditional style Hellblazer story. In this one Constantine's ex girlfriend is sacrificed in a horrible manner, and John is out for revenge. It was pretty nice to read a straight forward revenge story after a lot of metaphysical type stories in prior volumes.Overall a good read with decent art. Curious to see where else Ellis takes the series.

John Constantine, con-man and magician, finds out his ex-girlfriend from seven years ago has been killed. He calls in some favors from friends - to find the murderer and give 'im hell.Now it's the first book of Hellblazer written by Warren Ellis. And the first Ellis piece I've ever read too.Ellis' Hellblazer is a lot darker than that of Garth Ennis, and that of Delano, and even that of Moore. But... I might be a bit skeptical at first, reading a new author when you think you know all the good on...

Brutal but very well written as usual.

This is my favorite Hellblazer story arc...maybe it's just because I really like Warren Ellis...

Brilliant and very disturbing story. Warren Ellis at his best.

This is a great book. Effective writing skills. Just love it

I love Constantine. Apocalyptic themes. Good. Evil. God themes. Peter Stormare. Booze. Cigarettes. The movie is my favorite great bad movie (well second favorite after Army of Darkness, but AOD is a classic existing in its own realm of awesomeness so it isn't really a fair comparison). Anyway, this shit was good. Constantine fans everywhere should check it out and whatnot.