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A review by fangsfirst
Hellblazer, Vol. 7: Tainted Love by Garth Ennis
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Ugh.
Ennis on Hellblazer years too late and after loving Delano is the absolute worst. The book started to circle a character, Kit, who is never developed and yet is somehow treated as the emotional crux for a Constantine who receives no earned development himself. This was miserable and laden with the same characters, themes, and attitudes endemic to Ennis's writing which I seem to have utterly soured on at this point and find deeply unpalatable in this book, where Constantine is arbitrarily re-written without warning into Jesse Custer in Beta version 0.4.2, not quite ready for release.
People complain about self-pitying Constantine under Delano, but this takes the cake—and that it resolves itself abruptly with an excuse to tell an Ennis™ historical military story about his pitying worship of soldiers (alongside another historical military story that is shoehorned in as being about an earlier Constantine)...just no.
Throw in a whole issue about Kit going home to Ireland and I'm left absolutely baffled at why anyone would love this run, until I remind myself it was probably the first version of the character they saw, and thus defined him for them.
Unfortunately for me, I read from the beginning to start and this stuff sucks.
Ennis on Hellblazer years too late and after loving Delano is the absolute worst. The book started to circle a character, Kit, who is never developed and yet is somehow treated as the emotional crux for a Constantine who receives no earned development himself. This was miserable and laden with the same characters, themes, and attitudes endemic to Ennis's writing which I seem to have utterly soured on at this point and find deeply unpalatable in this book, where Constantine is arbitrarily re-written without warning into Jesse Custer in Beta version 0.4.2, not quite ready for release.
People complain about self-pitying Constantine under Delano, but this takes the cake—and that it resolves itself abruptly with an excuse to tell an Ennis™ historical military story about his pitying worship of soldiers (alongside another historical military story that is shoehorned in as being about an earlier Constantine)...just no.
Throw in a whole issue about Kit going home to Ireland and I'm left absolutely baffled at why anyone would love this run, until I remind myself it was probably the first version of the character they saw, and thus defined him for them.
Unfortunately for me, I read from the beginning to start and this stuff sucks.