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A review by laurla
Hellblazer, Vol. 5: Dangerous Habits by Garth Ennis, Jamie Delano
3.0
-3.5 stars
Collecting: Hellblazer 34-46
# 34 the bogeyman - john visits marj and mercury in terrible shape.
# 35 dead-boy's heart - young john finds a stone shaped like a dead boys heart in the middle of a dead boys skeleton.
# 36 the undiscover'd country - mercury confronts john and shows him a peek at death. "the only hell is in how you choose to live your life now."
# 37 man's work - a vegetarian teenagers butcher father tries to force him to join the family business butchering hogs. "minds can be like emotional reactors - tremendous sources of energy, but fierce and unstable."
# 38 boy's games - the father turns brutal when the martin refuses. merc saves martin and uh, hexes archie who goes home and tries to rape his wife but can only see pigs and ends up in the looney bin, much to the relief of the wife and son.
# 39 the hanged man - john confronts the 'golden boy'. supposedly he was a twin but his mother and twin died in birth. john goes on an acid trip and goes back to the womb and lets his brother, the 'good' twin, live instead of him.
# 40 the magus - things dont exactly go better and the twin, the magus, decides to do the same thing, and runs into adult john. they argue and decide to work together this time to do it over. and the cave john was in likes buried in stone, with a grave marker for john.
# 41 the beginning of the end - john discovers he has end-stage lung cancer
# 42 a drop of the hard stuff - john goes to visit his friend brendan finn to see if he can help with the cancer. instead john ends up saving brendans soul and pissing off the devil.
# 43 friends in high places - john meets ellie, who sends him to the snob, who is apparently gabriel. gabriel owes him some favors but wont pay up, says john doesnt deserve it. john still does him one last favor on his way out.
# 44 my way - john visits his friends and family before pulling one last trick on the devil before he dies
# 45 the sting - john has sold his soul to three different devils who would each start a war to claim it, and a war in hell would tear it apart and then heaven would step in and end it/them, making the three devils be slaves in heaven. so they're forced to cure his lung cancer to avoid a war. he has tricked the devil.
# 46 falling into hell - john wakes up alive and goes on a bender. runs into kit, brendans exwife. "that wasnt the only stupid thing i did. i'm john constantine after all. i do stupid things in packets of ten. i'm stupid in style."
"we watched our friends grow up together. and we saw them as they fell. some of them fell into heaven. some of them fell into hell. - the pogues"
Collecting: Hellblazer 34-46
# 34 the bogeyman - john visits marj and mercury in terrible shape.
# 35 dead-boy's heart - young john finds a stone shaped like a dead boys heart in the middle of a dead boys skeleton.
# 36 the undiscover'd country - mercury confronts john and shows him a peek at death. "the only hell is in how you choose to live your life now."
# 37 man's work - a vegetarian teenagers butcher father tries to force him to join the family business butchering hogs. "minds can be like emotional reactors - tremendous sources of energy, but fierce and unstable."
# 38 boy's games - the father turns brutal when the martin refuses. merc saves martin and uh, hexes archie who goes home and tries to rape his wife but can only see pigs and ends up in the looney bin, much to the relief of the wife and son.
# 39 the hanged man - john confronts the 'golden boy'. supposedly he was a twin but his mother and twin died in birth. john goes on an acid trip and goes back to the womb and lets his brother, the 'good' twin, live instead of him.
# 40 the magus - things dont exactly go better and the twin, the magus, decides to do the same thing, and runs into adult john. they argue and decide to work together this time to do it over. and the cave john was in likes buried in stone, with a grave marker for john.
# 41 the beginning of the end - john discovers he has end-stage lung cancer
# 42 a drop of the hard stuff - john goes to visit his friend brendan finn to see if he can help with the cancer. instead john ends up saving brendans soul and pissing off the devil.
# 43 friends in high places - john meets ellie, who sends him to the snob, who is apparently gabriel. gabriel owes him some favors but wont pay up, says john doesnt deserve it. john still does him one last favor on his way out.
# 44 my way - john visits his friends and family before pulling one last trick on the devil before he dies
# 45 the sting - john has sold his soul to three different devils who would each start a war to claim it, and a war in hell would tear it apart and then heaven would step in and end it/them, making the three devils be slaves in heaven. so they're forced to cure his lung cancer to avoid a war. he has tricked the devil.
# 46 falling into hell - john wakes up alive and goes on a bender. runs into kit, brendans exwife. "that wasnt the only stupid thing i did. i'm john constantine after all. i do stupid things in packets of ten. i'm stupid in style."
"we watched our friends grow up together. and we saw them as they fell. some of them fell into heaven. some of them fell into hell. - the pogues"