A review by vylotte
Constantine: The Hellblazer Collection by John Ridgway, Jimmy Palmiotti, William Simpson, Steven T. Seagle, Garth Ennis, Jamie Delano, Neil Gaiman, Mark Pennington, Dave McKean, Ron Randall

3.0

John Constantine has long been one of my favorite anti-heros, and I picked up this novelization of the movie hoping it fleshed out the story more. As with any novelization coming after the movie, you get either a basic word-for-word, shot-for-shot remake, or you get something more. I was thrilled to find something more: depth and back story and detail, for a start, and an author that cared about the rich and ample source materials that bring John Constantine to life. This novel was far more a companion to the Hellblazer comics than the movie itself was, though I am one of the few people on the planet that enjoyed the movie for what it was. And sometimes you just want to give your brain a nice dose of junk food, and this book based on the movie based on the comics fit the bill precisely.