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Hellblazer: Staring at the Wall by Mike Carey

sisteray's review

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5.0

This is what Hellblazer is all about. The trade is the build-up from the last two and it comes together brilliantly. These kinds of stories are rarely found, but the reason I love Hellblazer so much is that it is such a great vehicle for the kind of thing covered here. I really don't want to say anything about what actually happens as most anything I could say would be a spoiler. Needless, to say Carey has done a great job recreating and developing a cast of supporting characters to paint the world that Constantine lives in. My only issue is that sometimes Gemma and Angie look a little too similar and I occasionally having a hard time knowing which one is which.

crowyhead's review

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5.0

This was really great! I mean, I enjoyed Red Sepulchre and thought Black Flowers was even better, but this is one excellent climax to the events in the two previous books. Both Marcelo Frusin's and Doug Alexander Gregory's artwork have a bolder, more stylized look than I'm accustomed to with this series, but once I got used to it I liked it. Frusin's work on "Bred in the Bone" (the first storyline in this book) is particularly effective. My only complaint with Gregory's artwork is that it sometimes made it hard to differentiate between Gemma and Angie -- they're both slender and dark-haired, and with Gregory's tendency to simplify facial features it sometimes made it hard to tell them apart.
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