This is one of those very few volumes where JC is outsmarted by his foe. It's fun to see what the rematch will look like. Great work Andy!

Not bad at all. After all the angst of the Carey run and Mina's gloomy tales, Diggle brings back the kickass, Scouser Constantine.

Borrowed from Karen.After all the crummy comics, I've read recently, it was nice to see that John Constantine is still putting together a solid run. I'm a little underwhelmed by the forces he's put up against in this book (and apparently the next as well), but it's just plain fun to see the biggest badass in comics strutting his stuff.

A return to the old school John Constantine as he decides to drop a lot of the self-pity and begins to reassert himself as a player in the occult.

Interesting juxtaposition of people stealing a car and people skinriding other people.

Excellent stuff from Andy Diggle, he captures both the darkness of the stories and the humour of Constantine perfectly. Enjoyed the first half of the book the most, but overall a great read. Suitably murky art complements the writing.

Two arcs in this volume. Both classic Constantine.

Reading this I couldn't help but draw some comparisons between it and my brief (very disappointing) foray into the Madam Xanadu comics. Both following similar dark occult plot lines.Where John Constantine, for all his crusty edges, is a joy to read. The same cannot be said of the otherwise rather beautiful Madam Xanadu comics. I think one of the biggest (and least political) differences between them is that while Constantin's mythos is made up of all traditional parts - his story is original. Ma...

Reread the three stories that make up this volume in floppy formThis volume collects three stories - or two, if you count the first two as parts of a larger whole, which they essentially are. I was a bit underwhelmed by the return to Ravenscar - for a resolution to such a formative part of John Constantine's life, it felt too slight. The five-issue story that lends the trade paperback its name is pretty solid, though, and so is the two-parter in which Constantine tries to talk his way out of bei...

Investigating the death of a fellow magician leads Constantine to a man who has the ability to possess other people's bodies. Despite making Constantine more powerful than he's ever been before, Andy Diggle's version of Constantine comes off as more ineffectual than previous writers' treatments. This volume is somewhat political as it deals with class warfare. The ending isn't entirely satisfying, but I get the impression Diggle is building up to something.

Good volume. Starts out with good old ghost/zombie raising, then we see Constantine finally bury some of the badness from his past. Then we end up in the body switching story that gives this volume its title. A group of magicians (or one magician and his minions) are able to body hop and use the bodies of other people for revenge or other nefarious means. What looks at first like an altruistic but twisted offer to help a grieving family turns out to be something much darker. The ending of this v...

Two stories as I continue my reading of the series. Tighter stories that don't engage with the whole mythology of John. The first has a bit as we find out what John would want if he could have anything he wants now. Diggle has less words and the art is cleaner and bigger than it has been for a bit. It is a worthy read and a volume that I liked in terms of all the others around it.

Standard fare, going through all the motions. No real resolution though, and it just made John seem like a bystander throughout this storyline. If I read the next chapter, hopefully there's a finite ending to what was started here, or at least we learn the antagonists are recurring.

Wow! Andy diggle is following well into Ennis’ footsteps here. Ennis is still the master but Diggle rocks pretty hard

Okay can't wait for Constatine 2

A pretty good start. More grounded. The main antagonist feels a little too similar to the previous run, but it could still end up fine.

Writer Andy Diggle, who, at the time of this writing, is tackling Marvel's DAREDEVIL and brought THE LOSERS to Vertigo and the big screen, takes a shot at HELLBLAZER and in inimitable fashion, continues to develop the mythology and potential of Vertigo's longest-running series.Aided by artist Leonardo Manco, Diggle undertakes a small handful of tasks that immediately set his run on the series as unique.The first of which is the two-chapter story that marries a crime noir-ish approach to Constant...

Ah, what a treat! My second one of the Hellblazer series and I am simply loving John Constantine. An unconventional hero, his actions, his dialogues, his thought process, everything is a delight to observe. Andy Diggle has pulled off a marvelous story in Hellblazer: Joyride, where each action is delicately connected to the other such that it makes the reader pause for a moment to frame the whole scenario again. There is the whole angle of "an occult at work" ingrained in the story but it raises

Not a joyride in the traditional sense, but a spiritual one for the Constantine storyline. Constantine runs into a group of absolute butters who seem to think that it's a good idea t take revenge for people by putting their conscious' into the perpetrators' bodies (basic astral projection with body-occupying capabilities) and making them commit attrocious crimes that harm themselves. Taking vigilante justice is one thing, but wouldn't it just be easier to possess the bad guys and make them confe...

Really captures the inate coolness of John Constantine as he regains his mojo and gets back to work. Still hoping for a true Constantine movie. The one we got wasn't bad, but it was more of an occult Keanu Reeves movie and not all that true to the character at all. Once againn makes you wonder why studios spend all that money to buy the rights to a an established character only to NOT make a movie about that character.