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Horrible art; unenjoyable stories. Bad.
I have a love/hate relationship with Milligan. I think this was a great trade. I loved all of the little twists which is something I love about Milligan. I just am not a major fan of some of the things he does with John and woman. I think Phoebe is a fun character and I already know what happens to her but it still messes with my opinion on his choices as a writer. I guess what I'm going with is he makes strong women than kills them off or makes John manipulate them way more than John had been w...
Sort of a split review: 2 stars for the title story, 4 for the latter two in this volume.
Bloody hell.. These stories are quite awesome innit?
A couple of good dialogue lines here and there, but for the most part, Peter didn't really shift the needle with this volume. It's everything we've grown to expect of Constantine, nothing more. SCAB was okay, REGENERATION not so. . .
As with any Hellblazer, I didn't completely understand everything, but I enjoyed the ride, and I enjoyed Constantine sticking it to the people that really needed it (including himself).
Hellblazer is really at its best when it is doing social commentary. This did also have the added bonus of reading a bit like a Stephen King short story as well. In all the good ways, of course.
6/10
Peter Milligan has suffered the fate of many eighties 2000AD writers: tempted to America by the big publishers but without quite the same level of power as a Moore or a Morrison, he’s ended up writing superhero books he’s very obviously been deeply bored and uninvested in. It’s no surprise he’s been happy to return to the prog of late where freedom allows him to indulge his skills as a writer within certain parameters. This is the beauty of 2000AD: it basically forms its own constraints for a wr...
Short, quick, sweet.
Good but typical Constantine collection that features our favorite English magician/con man dealing with his first real girlfriend in years, an outbreak of magical fungal growth over his torso, some ghosts from the Black Plague, and A Very Special John Constantine Christmas. It's as messed up as you'd expect it to be.
Lo había arrancado (y colgado) hace bocha, pero finalmente, en mi maratón milliganesca oportunista terminé cayendo de nuevo. En resumen, es un tomo algo introductorio pero bastante entretenido, con un Constantine que no está todo lo magnificent bastard que podría pero sienta las bases para las guachadas que va a hacer en el tomo siguiente. La primera y muy interesante saguita, "Costra", sirve para presentar a la novia nueva de John; la segunda, para meterse en el pasado sucio de Londres y el esp...
A decent start to Milligans run. While I like Giuseppe Camuncoli’s art, I’m not as crazy about Grant’s coloring of it. John also appears a bit too young. The new girlfriend seems like a bit of an odd choice, but I’m interested to see where it goes.
With a new writer and a new lead artist comes a whole new Constantine. Or may be not, since he's still wreaking havoc in the lives of those who get close to him (this time a young doctor named Phoebe) and getting unwittingly caught up in magic he knows nothing of. The plot is a lot simpler than I'm used to in the Constantine series, but it's only just getting started. I have high hopes that we'll move into something a little less pulpy soon and if not what the hell - it's still interesting! The
Vertigo legend Peter Milligan hits the ground running with his introductory run to HELLBLAZER in a story simply called "Scab," in which our favorite anti-hero has moved beyond the mind-bending tragedies of the past few years (which include the death of his sister, the loss & reinvention of his memory, and an onslaught of just about every demonic bad guy you could imagine), found new love, and acquired a mysteriously itchy addition to his flesh that is somehow linked to his past.To be fair, Milli...
Really enjoyed this tidy little TPB. Set at a latter time in the John Constantine timeline (and I am grateful that I am not a person who has to know exactly 'when' things happen in Hellblazer), this story arc gives John the opportunity to have a standalone story outside the normal Demon stuff. A interesting and diverse collection of secondary characters, a couple of good smaller story arcs (my favorite was Plague Doctor) all make for a satisfying read.
A good stepping-in point for the Milligan run, as he launches with a couple classic Constantine concepts.We all know how this relationship is going to end up.
This was another good volume, although a little gross. In the first half, Constantine has literally developed a giant scab covering most of his body, and of course it's not just an allergy. He has to find out what's causing this as he knows it's magical. Toss in some children made of dead skin and you have a creepy Hellraiser tale.The second half has a tale which deals with ghosts going back to the days of the Black Plague. Another eerie tale.The art was a little different in this volume, with a...
This is a really downturn for quality in the Hellblazer series. I guess there's some interesting potential in turning JC into a drug addict, though nothing interesting is done with it. All the new characters are boring and/or stupid. No way is it as bad as what Peter Milligan does next with JC, but it's still pretty bad... and boring.
This is not the John Constantine I know and love. Milligan seems to still be finding his groove in writing Constantine, painting him in broad, hard-boiled detective strokes and leaving out the nuances that make the character so lovable. In the context of setting up the rest of Milligan's ongoing Hellblazer story-line this book is acceptable, but as a standalone graphic novel it leaves much to be desired, both in terms of characterization and story. Not un-enjoyable but a definite low point of th...
