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devon_marie's review
4.0
Garth Ennis, I love you. You are wonderful. These collections are everything I wanted them to be. Gone is Mopey John, replaced with A**-kicking John. The dialogue is tighter, the scenes more descriptive, the characters fuller, deeper. Everything about Garth Ennis’s takeover is fantastic.
violetturtledove's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
crowyhead's review
4.0
Some good early Hellblazer that I hadn't had a chance to read before. "The Pub Where I Was Born" is a solid story with a really great beginning that shows Ennis understands what makes a good pub a crucial part of life, but it's horribly marred by Mike Hoffman's art for the second installment -- seriously flat, awful stuff, and the coloring's bad, too. All I can think is that Will Simpson must have missed his deadline and Hoffman came in and did a rush job. The art's otherwise good; classic stuff from Will Simpson and Steve Dillon, although the coloring will be jarring for folks accustomed to today's shiny paper and brilliant colors. Of particular note is Simpson's art for Hellblazer #50, "Remarkable Lives" -- it's just beautiful. "Royal Blood" is a delightful four-parter that involves demon possession, the Royal Family, and one solution to the mystery of Jack the Ripper. And "Guys & Dolls" is definitely worth noting, not only because it's a great story and important to the Constantine storyline, but also because it's clear Ennis already had some of the seeds of Preacher percolating around happily in his brain here.
pjmurphy3's review
5.0
I love reading this comic series especially after having read the Sandman because John Constantine is in those and they talk about Morpheus in the Constantine comics those are interesting to see the cross at work between the two
murderbot42's review
3.0
This was okay, but a not so great one overall, I think. I really didn't like the Royal Blood storyline, but the rest were okay. And the bits throughout with Constantine and his lady friend are always fun even though I'm sure the day is just around the corner when she's about to be eviscerated horribly by one of his demon enemies. (Because it's just that kind of comic, you know.) But regardless, I find them immeasurably cute and love their little interactions stuck throughout this volume.
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