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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780515085129
ISBN: 051508512X
Label: Jove Pubns
Manufacturer: Jove Pubns
Publication Date: 1986-04
Publisher: Jove Pubns
Studio: Jove Pubns
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It's tough to chose which Hellblazer titles to get and which ones to drop, but this one you should definetly bring home, especially if it's your first. This is a quality stand-alone story with most all of the elements you need to know about Constantine: magic, London, violence and dead friends.
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This is DEFINITELY my recommended starting point for new readers of Constantine.
It's a kind of vigilante murder investigation, with a cold splash of black magic for good measure!
John's on a mission to discover who brutally murdered his ex-lover, a young girl who turned junkie towards the end. To reach his goal, he combines Columbo-style investigating with his dark knowledge of the occult. Someone has to pay for this attrocity, but the cops don't seem bothered, so John delivers ...
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I was running a bit low on new comic material so I decided to order this book - as I am a bit of a Hellblazer fan.
On first impression it is a particularly nasty piece of comic fiction, but then again that's what Hellblazer is all about. Constantine is his usual self, totally centred on what he belives to be right and only caring about those people he belives to be his friends.
People are mutilated, people are slaughtered - the ending is horrific.
Fantastic - just what a ...
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The publishers seem to be having difficulty with where to take John Constantine next. The previous two volumes had him incarcerated in a US Prison in a Natural Born Killers finale kinda way. Then released into Texas redneck territory in an interesting, well drawn, but not entirely convincing story. Characterisation was pretty good in both.
Now he's back in a gritty London which is cast as a modern day urban hell. There's originality. He's investigating the murder of a former lover who was at least ...
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