This book is actually amanzing.

Some of the one offs collected. So, some I have read before but a few I hadn't seen.

For a volume made up of patchwork issues thrown together, this was really good.My personal favorite was a two parter where scientists unleash a weapon on a small town that turns it into Hell on Earth. Written by Grant Morrison, it was really creepy and reminded me of a Clive Barker story. There's also the story of what happened on that infamous night in Newcastle in 1978. There's also a story of Constantine's childhood and some other creepy one shots. Overall a really good volume showcasing that...

It was difficult to decide how to rate this. From an artistic standpoint this graphic novel is fine (emphasis on the graphic though). This is very dark and gritty. Admittedly, I picked this up to gain more back-story on Constantine because I enjoy the televised version of his character and wanted to go to the source. This is a disjointed collection and too violent for my tastes. However, I did fine the timeline and map on the last four pages to be a good way to get the background information on

As a first foray into the (printed) world of John Constantine, these standalone spooky stories are intriguing, stylish and a wonderful antidote to the interconnected universe obsessions I tend to find with DC comics. Not super, barely a hero and I'm ready for more.

This book is interesting and entertaining at the same time

It is perhaps a bad idea to jump into reading the Hellblazer series by grabbing at whatever graphic-novel collection I happen to come across first, but... ah, well. At least I know enough about the overall content of the series to keep my head above water, plotline wise."Newcastle: A Taste of Things to Come" (Hellblazer #11), written by Jamie Delango, art by Richard Piers Rayner and Mark Buckingham.Yay for the first story here being major background information. Thank you, publishing gods. I did...

'Dead Boy's Heart' is my favorite Hellblazer story of all time. Absolutely haunting. I feel as though Delano's writing is divisive, to say the least. Not everyone is going to take to it. I personally feel as though Delano, more than even Moore or Gaiman or Morrison, was the first writer to really take a DC character and move him completely outside of the DCU and place him in our world. Revisiting his stories, you get the strong sense of time and location whether it's Thatcher's Britain circa 198...

5 Stars to ennis' story about Triskele.4 to Azarello's story about Queenie.2 Stars to The one about Astra.1 Star to the other 3 stories.

030719: interested in hellblazer concept, i decide to look random, not rec, so no expectations. works in this collection. some great combinations of art and story, such as ‘early warning’, ‘danny’s diary’, most v good, more politics, social, religious, satire. have not read him before. will try more...

Saw the movie and series first which are high in my favorites, then I decided to get the comicbooks. Lucky with this sequence because I didn't expect the comics to be better. Overall I enjoyed the [comics] ride a lot. My favorite part are his narrative thoughts. Delano, Morrison and the other writers raised my reading standards with their choice of words and articulation, complementing the scenes and Constantine's personality. The words further draw the picture and are not redundant with the sce...

These awesome six stories are very pivotal to John being John.

This would be a disjointed first taste of JCHB, but it makes an excellent companion to the other series, movie, and tv. For example, the “Newcastle” incident is referenced constantly throughout the franchise but unlike Spider-Man or Batman, we don’t start every JC story with a flashback to an argument with parents or pearls rolling down an alley. Rare Cuts collects several of those moments that only appeared once or twice and fills in the gaps left by other sources. The writing and art is all a

Mehhh. Did like the art. The story was not impressive. I expect more from Ennis

Ever since John Constantine began his migration back from the Vertigo imprint to the DC mainstream (a process that took several years, beginning in the pages of Brightest Day and ended in Justice League Dark, and made official by the shuttering of Hellblazer and the recent launch of Constantine), I've been itching to see how interesting the character actually is.Earlier this year I ran across Constantine in the pages of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and liked what I saw. The end of Hellblazer had me wo...

The stories collected here are for for the most part very good and merit a special interest since they contain relevant information about Constantine's childhood and youth (e.g. the "Newcastle fiasco"). I'd rate the volume four stars, if it wasn't for the publishing policy behind the collection. I simply prefer reading the stories chronologically (in order of publication) in the context of the series than having to switch back and forth between volumes to find the next issue with some issues not...

"Rare Cuts" collects Hellblazer issues #11, #25, #26, #35, #56, and #84. Speaking as a long-time Hellblazer fan and collector, this collection has its ups and downs.This is a series that's been running for around 20 years now, with around 250 issues -- and most of those issues are not collected in trades, so if you want to read them, you have to spend years hunting around for the issues. So when I first heard they were making a Hellblazer book that collected some of the more hard-to-find issues

Jamie Delano is The Hellblazer writer imho

I first met John Constantine in Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Book of Magic, and immediately fell in love with the character. He's badass, yet kind to small children! He's a magician, yet wears a trench coat and chain-smokes! Also he is English. That always helps.So obviously I was very pleased to discover that the local library had finally got some Hellblazer paperbacks. I had read part of the first issue online, but the art was kind of lurid and the prose was kind of purple, so I wasn't immediatel...