Oh dear Constantine; everyone knows that raising the dead is never a good idea. They may have been perfectly preserved physically, but going to the other side changes things mentally. His poor gf Phoebe is no different since sheended up in Hell, so Constantine in his infinite stubbornness is insisting on bringing her back by whatever nefarious means are necessary. You would think that he would take a hint and stay out of it, because even Phoebe had the brains to leave him before things got too c...

Standard Hellblazer plot in which Constantine, despite his best efforts at reaching towards some sense of normalcy, ends up damaging everyone around him with terminal effects. Peter Milligan's pretty much the fag-end of the British comics revolution, lacking the intertextual genius of Gaiman, the balls-to-the-wall nastiness of Delano or the sheer bugfuck insanity of Morrison, and here he manages to portray Constantine's entry level bastardry without any of the deeper puckishness or frantic rogui...

john falls in love. john uses magic. it all goes pear shaped. enjoyable stuff that has some naughty words and action in it - but work just as well without. i read hellblazer every now and then and each time i can't help but think constantine would be better off getting a real job as most of the time magic seems to get him into more trouble than it is worth. failing that he should learn to buy a slightly more varied wardrobe - at least that would make him harder to find. the last two episodes in

John Constantine is in love. Isn’t that sweet? Uh….no. Anyone familiar with the real Constantine and not the pathetic abomination that Kenau Reeves inflicted on us in the movie theaters would know that anytime the English magician gets close to someone, really bad things happen. Especially after Constantine gets dumped and decides that he needs to use a love potion on his now ex-girlfriend.I had a problem with this one. Constantine has always been a cocky self-absorbed manipulator who has left a...

Welcome back John, we missed you. In "Hooked" Milligan really digs into what makes Hellblazer such a fun comic to read: putting John Constantine in a deep, shit filled hole and watching as he tries to claw his way back out. And of course, classically for Constantine, it's a hole he both dug and shit in. While still not up to the dragging-your-face-through-broken-glass black humor and blacker drama of the Delano or Ennis run on the title, this is getting back to what I enjoy about Hellblazer. Fin...

So the premise for this story is that John Constantine decides to be a date rapist. That could be interesting if it was presented with some sort of moral ambiguity, but the only rationale we get from Peter Milligan is "it's not for sex it's for love, so it's fine" and "John Constantine is a bastard" etc. Thing is, JC has always had some kind of moral core, and he's never had any truck with rapists. The whole book just seems disgustingly out of character. The artwork is shite as well.

In this tragic tale we see Constantine sink lower than low. When a lady won't return his affection, he actually uses a love potion. Of course, those things never work out right, and the results are predictably terrible.This is part of a larger storyline and leads into the next volume, so I'm not sure how everything will end up, but right now John is in quite the pickle, even for him.Art is nice as always. For some reason the art in Hellblazer always appealed to me. I don't know if Vertigo did th...

After reading Peter Milligan's first venture into the world of HELLBLAZER (unless you count his 1990's crossover with SHADE, THE CHANGING MAN), fans might not be quick to give the title further notice.After "Scab," few John Constantine purists would be hooked, to say the least.Luckily, some of the birthing pains that Milligan experienced with "Scab" dissolve and the writer manges to demonstrate that he does, in fact, have an idea of where the title and the character is headed. "Hooked" picks up

This started out as a 3 but got good. I think there's been a drop-off in the title under Milligan, but it's still solid.

I hadn't really read enough Hellblazer to fully understand what a complete arsehole Constantine is. But this one really hit his arseholedom out of the park. To such an extent that I think it kind of put off reading any more of these, because... addicts are arseholes. I don't want to spend any time reading about one.

'Blazeri lõpusirge Peter Milligani ja Giovanni Camunculo silme läbi. Sisse tuuakse iidne babüloonia deemon kergelt jaapanliku koolitüdruku näol ja Constantine'i järjekordne suurim armastus, kes aga tollesama deemoni käe läbi meie hulgast lahkub mistõttu Constantine pühendub tagajärgede likvideerimisele. Järgmine osa viib Indiasse. Tugev keskmine aga lõppvaatus olemise tõttu ei ole mõtet muidu lugeda kui Hellblazeri universum suht tuttav on.

Woefully disappointed. Just as the series seemed to be heading in a new direction, the same old shit disguised as something out of character happens again and drags it all all back to hell again. This plot turn was poorly done. It was too easy to kill off the character of Phoebe. It would have been much harder to keep her alive and have her be a foil to Constantine's bullshit, and apparently the authors weren't up to the challenge.

One of the less successful arcs in the whole series. Not a great start for Milligan’s run. It feels a bit like he’s throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.

Constantine gets hold of a love potion and uses it for what even he thinks are sketchy purposes. Things go horribly awry, of course! I totally feel for the guy, most of the time. But still, he really puts himself in the messes more than the messes put themselves on him.

Constantine decides to use a love potion for the girl that got away. Surprise! it doesn't end well.This is probably my favorite of Milligan's Hellblazer stories that I've read. It takes some unexpected twists and depicts Constantine as a real bastard. The art switches on us before the end of the volume -- at first depicting John with a more typical heroic appearance and then going for a grittier, noirish look in the later pages. Not Hellblazer's finest hour, but entertaining and engrossing to th...

So, not sure I like this turn of events. The love potion thing seems a little clunky. Maybe I am getting back into graphic novel burnout. Milligan ends up going to the end of this series and I have enjoyed a lot of his stuff, so we will have to see if this little hiccough will end up bothering me for longer than a few issues.

Andy Diggle, set Constantine back on track and let the character grow, and I was fearing that this was just going to go down the path of bogging the character down with with a tiresome addiction. The relationship's resolution felt a bit too predictable considering John's history of friendships. Who knows maybe something worthwhile might come of it, but this is a bit of a lag from the first book.

Oh John, you selfish bastard. How dare you! Using love potions to win the women and to fool the women into giving you what you want. At first, I thought you were a dick. But, as I read and the dick like behavior continued...I thought, "Whoa, this dude is so crazy insecure." I mean really. I just shake my head at you, sir.

El tomo anterior me parecio una muy buena introducción, y este un muy buen nudo, que a su vez incluye varios introducción-nudo-desenlaces de por sí. Y acá sí que Constantine está más turro y turbio, y se suman un par de personajes que lo enturran y enturbian más.Ah, y los dibujos siguen siendo muy buenos, quizás incluso hasta un poquito mejores, así que este tomo termina promediado para arriba.

6.5/10