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Loading... John Constantine, Hellblazer: Reasons to Be Cheerfulby Mike Carey
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. As I suspected, all is made perfectly clear in this book : Constantine has in fact fathered 3 demonic children whose purpose in life seems to be destroying him. They haven't started actively going after him yet, instead choosing his closest friends and family as targets - all the better to break you with, my dear. But for some reason the demon Nergal - Constantine's first demonic foe and the grandfather of the offspring - has chosen to take the side of good, so these children must be for more than Constantine's personal destruction. Something tells me that Nergl has an ulterior motive in all this... ( ) You all know by now that I love John Constantine, and I really, really love Hellblazer. But I found this installment to be disappointing. I mean, how many times are we going to do the whole "evil being(s) can't attack Constantine directly, so they try to kill off all his friends" thing? It's particularly disappointing given how strong Mike Carey's work has been on the series -- the arc of Red Sepulchre, Black Flowers, and Staring At the Wall was just such excellent storytelling. This, though... it really feels like Carey's phoning it in. Also, what's with the abrupt change in art style? Issues 201-205 are extremely realistic, and then all of a sudden it goes all cartoony for issue 206. I dunno, I mean, I'm always glad to read more Hellblazer, even sub-par Hellblazer, but I had really expected more out of this one. no reviews | add a review
Written by Mike Carey Cover by Lee Bermejo Art by Leonardo Manco, Giuseppe Camuncoli and others Collecting issues #201-206 of the signature Vertigo series. Follow John Constantine as he tries desperately to control the damage wrought by his demon-spawned children on the world at large - as well as on his friends and family. Advance-solicited; on sale April 18 - 144 pg, B&W, $14.99 US - MATURE READERS No library descriptions found. |
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