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brandonadaniels's review
1.0
I was pleasantly surprised by the first volume of this run, but this one dropped the ball hard. The art in the first two issues by Phillip Tan is quite good, but perhaps the most egregious mismatch of an artist and story I can recall, a terrible editorial blunder. I’m afraid it doesn’t get much better from there. The story spins it’s wheels in bizarre fashion, with Constantine and Mercury literally chasing a shoe for the better part of the book. Too many sub plots drug the story to a crawl, all for it to end in a clearly unplanned but deserved cancellation.
helpfulsnowman's review
2.0
This one's mostly about chasing after a book that we don't really know what it does.
Gotta be honest, I work in a library and I have more exciting stories about chasing down books than this.
Okay, that's not true. I just, if we're chasing a magic object for this long, I think I want to know the stakes a little more. How important is it? And what are we going to do when we get it? It's like, imagine if at the beginning of Indiana Jones, he stole that idol, but then the boulder didn't happen and Alfred Molina didn't get impaled, and Indy didn't run to a plane, and mostly he just walked around London, and then we saw some other guys walking around London.
Imagine a thing that's nothing like Indiana Jones, is what I'm saying, and I'm saying that a story of artifact recovery that's nothing like Indiana Jones may be making some mistakes.
Gotta be honest, I work in a library and I have more exciting stories about chasing down books than this.
Okay, that's not true. I just, if we're chasing a magic object for this long, I think I want to know the stakes a little more. How important is it? And what are we going to do when we get it? It's like, imagine if at the beginning of Indiana Jones, he stole that idol, but then the boulder didn't happen and Alfred Molina didn't get impaled, and Indy didn't run to a plane, and mostly he just walked around London, and then we saw some other guys walking around London.
Imagine a thing that's nothing like Indiana Jones, is what I'm saying, and I'm saying that a story of artifact recovery that's nothing like Indiana Jones may be making some mistakes.
alexbanham's review
3.0
I still think this needs some more magic, cos thats Constantine's whole thing, but this isn't a bad series so far. Just not especially mind-blowing. It's adequate, there's some pretty good dialogue, John is honestly a mood. I want more from it, so I'll probably continue.
depreydeprey's review
3.0
Felt like Oliver thought he had more time to tell his story. The first volume was like a slow food super hero story and while that continues for most of this volume it seemed rushed at the end.
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