I have always enjoyed the character of the Phantom Stranger. I was worried the relaunch would change up the character to something without the mystery and unknown of the original comic. I was impressed with the way the new origin handled the character. i look forward to seeing how DC goes forward from here. Recommended

Excellent story a great read nice job dc

Reprints The Phantom Stranger (3) #0-5 (November 2012-April 2013). The Phantom Stranger is cursed to walk the Earth after committing the unimaginable sin of turning on betraying the Savior for twenty-pieces of silver. Despite working off his sin, the Phantom Stranger has decided to try to balance life among the living with his actions…but doing so isn’t as easy as it seems. As his past connections to the “Trinity of Sin”, the Spectre, and demands from John Constantine and Justice League Dark con...

Not strong but ok 2-3 stars. Cross over with justice league dark annoying JLD sucks. Loved old hellblazer but this Constantine is the most un-Constantine thing ever. This DC cross over nightmare has to end

Firstly, I have to congratulate the authors for managing to write a six-issue series about a character that is pretty clearly supposed to be an immortal Judas Iscariot without using Jesus' name once (and Judas only shows up once, in reference to a Judas Goat). That takes some skill. That being said, the story is only middling. The Phantom Stranger gets tied into several other characters' origins (The Spectre, Raven), and spends an issue arguing with Justice League Dark. There's also an attempt t...

I have absolutely no respect for books that try to get a cheap thrill by being sacrilegious.

When DC rebooted their line of comics for the New 52, they gave some peripheral characters their own books. This one was introduced at the end of Justice League, Volume One and it’s a gateway to a variety of DC’s supernatural characters. The main focus of the story is the Phantom Stranger, loosely based (they don’t spell it out for you) on Judas from the Bible. Because of the “ultimate” betrayal, he’s forced to betray others throughout eternity when he intervenes in their lives. Every time he be...

To begin, the book is not terrible. Had it been about some new magical character it might be more or less enjoyable. I liked the artwork. The problem here is that this book is fundamentally wrong about its title character. It’s the New 52 reimagining of The Phantom Stranger, and the approach seems to be to define him so specifically that he no longer resembles the ultimate magical man of mystery he used to be. Now, his backstory and identity are explicitly established. He is Judas, as in the bib...

Isn't there any button to change the rating to 10 out of 5?

I didn't know anything about The Phantom Stranger before this graphic novel, but now I find him fascinating. While it's only implied, his origin story appears to be that he was Judas and after his suicide was forced to again walk the earth in pursuit of assisting the greater good. Between his backstory and his attempts to right the wrongs of the world, The Phantom Stranger is a great character to follow, especially told through such amazing visuals.

So, the introduction of the Phantom Stranger to The New 52 is a bit of a miss. While the art was very good, as expected from Brent Anderson, the story is a random hodgepodge of DC mystical characters yelling at one another. There is obvious tension between characters but we, the readers, rarely know why. The back story of Phantom Stranger is a handful of pages that teaches us almost nothing. Overall, not a good way to hook new readers.

FINALLY! This book seemed to take forever to be read! Issue #0 was cool, but #1-3 were boring and I couldn't move along. Now the last two issues were a marvel, and sure I'll be reading the rest of the series.¡FINALMENTE! ¡Este libro parecía necesitar una vida para ser leído! El número #0 era fresco, pero #1-3 eran aburridos y no podía avanzar. Ahora, los dos últimos números eran una maravilla, y seguro que voy a estar leyendo el resto de la serie.

I've always enjoyed how the DC Universe is filled with near immortal alien beings, magical beings, power rings, physical manifestations of pure emotion, New Gods, old gods, a multiverse, and many, many other fantastic things, yet it has always been home to God with a capital G as well. I've long been a fan of characters like the Spectre (God's wrath) and the Phantom Stranger. I was a bit apprehensive when they they not only gave the Stranger an origin but made him Judas Iscariot of Biblical fame...

The #0 issue that leads off this book is shockingly bad. It sucks all of the mystery out of the character of the Phantom Stranger, offers up a horribly contrived and stunted origin for the Spectre, and makes God into a real jerk. Besides that, the writing is very stilted. And, things only get a little better from there. The scripting is awful until issue #3, when DeMattheis takes over, and the plotting never develops into anything coherent. Instead Didio continually throws as much as he can into...

Umberto Eco said that every character is defined by some precise traits; and even when you deconstruct its story or itself, there must be kept a minimum of those traits to make that character recognizable by what it is. Didio did not deconstructed the Stranger, he flipped and mirror-imaged it, so EVERY SINGLE of the traits was turned down. Wheter the Stranger was nearly omniscient, this version is absolutely clueless. Wherer the original was impossible to find and it manifestered whenever he wan...

I really enjoyed this graphic novel. I am not familiar with the Phanthom Stranger, but this was a great introduction to this character. The artwork was pretty good as well.

Tough one. This is getting 2.5 stars, rounded down, based on premise -- the Phantom Stranger updated for a New 52-era comic world. Strictly speaking, I can't claim a truthful 3 "really liked it" stars; I just "liked" it. However, the art is good, the dialog is witty and smooth and the plot makes sense. It just didn't catch my interest.Three sinners of myth and legend are sentenced by a council of wizards to walk the earth to pay for their respective sins -- a man of defiance who becomes The Ques...

So I figured I'd pick this up because I've been a little interested in reading some of the new 52 since it was a good starting point for new readers of DC and I don't read much DC. That is to say I don't know much but I do have some background.My question after reading this is: Who the hell is this meant for? I have enough working knowledge of DC characters that I wasn't completely lost but I was still a little confused by this book. I imagine that people that have been fans of the Phantom Stran...

He's an INFJ superhero... And, if you are an infj like I am, I know that's all you need to know to be persuaded to begin reading this comicbook this instant.

I knew this would be terrible before I even picked it up. It's part of the third wave of New 52 titles, so not even covered by my original foolhardy pledge to read all the Volume 1s I found in libraries. Worst of all, it lacks even the car-crash fascination which I have to assume was what compelled me to take it out. So much here should make for an entertaining clusterfuck, yet in practice, it's just poor, depressing in the same unexciting way as a wet Tuesday in November. The Stranger is a char...