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6.5/10
Constantine seems to have met his match in the magiphage Mako. The cameo appearance of Lord Calvin Burnham is such a devilish delight. This cliffhanger ending though is unbecoming.
Love me some Hellblazer. First story "The Smoke" is a VERY Changeling-esque story, which I loved. I'm a little lost on the story ending, but the problem with Hellblazer graphic novels have ALWAYS been that they do not have numbers for continuity's sake.
The book was certainly excellent.
Duas aventuras perturbantes, num tom profundamente negro. Na primeira, Constantine mergulha na Londres das sombras, uma cidade paralela acessível através de resquícios de um urbanismo esquecido, onde as lendas mais obscuras ganham vida. Na segunda, defronta um temível mago vindo dos campos sangrentos do Sudão, no meio do submundo londrino do tráfico humano. O tom negro das histórias é sublinhado pelo traço expressivo e escuro da dupla Leonardo Manco e Danjel Zezelj.
Another good volume, and pretty gruesome even for Hellblazer. There's a wicked magician in Africa, one who inherits the memories and powers of other magicians by eating them. And he's now looking for Constantine...Constantine thinks he's got it all figured out, but thing's don't work out quite the way he thinks. I have a feeling the events in this volume are going to be revisited soon, and not in a good way for Constantine.There's also a pretty cool story about an alternate, darker London that...
Loved the artwork. The story was nice enough.
My mind is slowly changing about this Diggle guy. I am starting to appreciate his stories. The last man standing trope is starting to break a bit and I wonder how he will stretch it.
Constantine'i kassi-hiire mäng teravaks ihutud hammastega sõjamaagi ja magofaagi Mako'ga jätkub. Hellblazer juhib esialgse laksu hoopis eelmisest köitest tuttava kurja inglise lordi peale, kes aga ootamatult ühendab maagidesööjaga jõud ja Constantine on sunnitud asjade lõpilkult selgekstegemiseks mööda maailma juhtlõngu koguma minema. Ilgelt hea liin, üks mõnusamaid kogu pika saaga vältel. Kulminatsioon (ja Andy Diggle'i autorluse lõpp) järgmises köites.
I haven't read any Hellblazer since Warren Ellis' run. I loved the Garth Ennis run -- in my mind those are the key Constantine stories. So, when I saw this was available thru the library, I thought, let's see what Mr. Constantine is up to. The character is still the same, but I felt like I came into the middle of something more -- the whole stuff with his fetal twin, Map, the neighborhood murders. Guess I should have researched a little. Next stop Wikipedia.I did enjoy the first story in the col...
Just so-so. Still loving the artwork, though.
Andy Diggle, best known for his Vertigo series 'The Losers', tackles one of the longest running series in DC with his run on Hellblazer. It's a damn good run, too, seeing as how it comes of as completely effortless. Like Diggle was born to helm this book. It just felt right. As right as when Ennis was it's supreme architect. Diggle's issues are about as close to the Constantine that you want without bringing back Ennis as a reader can get. But, as with too many Vertigo series, it suffers from an...
(Recently reread the monthlies)I'm finding latter-day Hellblazer hard to rate. On the face of it, this volume really isn't much of a departure from the series's past; yet it feels less vital, somehow - perhaps because it isn't much of a departure; any series over 20 years of age shouldn't just tread water.Good things first: the one-shot "The Smoke" is a pretty great example of the recently somewhat crowded genre of London horror. Love the art by Danijel Zezelj, too. The rest of the volume collec...
If you want more of Constantine's back story, this is one you want to read.
Fans of "Joyride," Diggle's first venture into the world of HELLBLAZER may have glimpsed it as a collection of three rather disconnected stories with John Constantine himself as the hub.With "The Laughing Magician," Diggle proves that he's got a bigger canvas with which he'd like to paint, but the colors simply don't seem to be coming together fast enough to keep the readers' interest.To be clear, the nature of the stories published as "Joyride" were good, though a little hurried in some regards...
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An African war mage who takes other magician's powers by eating their brains comes to England in search of Constantine. I like Andy Diggle's writing, but I have to admit it's mediocre compared to Mike Carey's run on the series.
An interesting story as a John Constantine at the top of his game ... continues to get played the fool.
John Constantine is only a self-proclaimed dabbler in the Dark Arts, so it comes as a surprise to eveyrone when he becomes the target of a magic-stealing mage who is convinced that Constantine is the famed "Laughing Magician" who reappears throughout the ages. Considering that he isn't the first of his family to play a major (if unheralded) role in world events we readers buy into the theory a bit easier than everyone else - even if Constantine does seem to literally laugh in the face of his mag...
So far one of my favorite Hellblazers.
