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    Character » John Constantine appears in 1561 issues.

    John Constantine, the Hellblazer, is a working-class magician, occult detective and a golden-tongued con man. He is well-known for his scathing wit, endless cynicism, ruthless cunning and constant chain smoking. A roguish counterculture anti-hero, Constantine is also a strident humanist driven by a heartfelt desire to defend mankind from the forces of evil.

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    #1  Edited By Billy Batson
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    A thread for discussing the series Hellblazer. Old and new. You know you want it. Hopefully this will get more than 10 different people.
    So, now that Another Season in Hell ended, what were your thoughts?
    And yes, I'm smug enough to name this after myself.
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    #2  Edited By ragdollpurps

    Yesssssssssssss.

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    #3  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    I haven't read Hellblazer since the enchanted trenchcoat shenanigans, I found that rather silly. I'll probably catch up soon enough. 
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    #4  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    @ragdollpurps said:

    Yesssssssssssss.

    Go read Ennis' run to see the best John before squeaking. :P
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    #5  Edited By Billy Batson

    SMH. I liked it. I think you might like the latest arc. Gemma's still a b!tch a though.
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    #6  Edited By ragdollpurps

    @Morpheus_: Kiss my arse.

    Gemma is btch. I wanna talk about what she did in yesterday's issue.

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    #7  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    @Billy Batson said:

    SMH. I liked it. I think you might like the latest arc. Gemma's still a b!tch a though.
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    Gemma hasn't been good since Delano or maybe Carey, so I'm not really surprised.
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    #8  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    @ragdollpurps: I had the perfect retort, but I'll abstain from using it. 
     
    Use spoilers if you do. :P
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    #9  Edited By Billy Batson

    @Morpheus_ said:

    @Billy Batson said:

    SMH. I liked it. I think you might like the latest arc. Gemma's still a b!tch a though.
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    Gemma hasn't been good since Delano or maybe Carey, so I'm not really surprised.

    Hah, she was only a kid during Delano's run. Didn't really do much anything :p
    Hardly remember from Carey's run.
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    #10  Edited By cattlebattle

    Is this thread about that Keanu Reeves movie??
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    trolling like a boss.....

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    #11  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    @Billy Batson: That's exactly why she was good. :P 
     
     
    Spoiler for the as of yet uneducated cat's benefit.
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    #12  Edited By Billy Batson

    @cattlebattle:

    Pfff that would been more fitting if this was called the Constantine thread.

    @Morpheus_:

    At least she's getting used. I'm either hoping that she snaps out of it or becomes batsh!t crazy and becomes a new enemy of John. That would be fun since John could use more enemies.
    Which reminds me that the First of Fallen is back so there's a reason to get caught up with the series.
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    #13  Edited By ragdollpurps

    @Billy Batson: With what happened in yesterday's issue, it looks like she's going the villain route.

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    #14  Edited By Billy Batson

    So who else read the latest issue? Thought it was pretty cool myself.
    And if anyone's interested, the new edition ofFear Machinecame out.
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    #15  Edited By ragdollpurps

    Piffy<3

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    #16  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous

    Man I need to catch up

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    #17  Edited By Saren

    I liked the latest issue, thankfully it was a one-shot so I can jump on from here since I haven't been following for a while now.

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    #18  Edited By Afro_Warrior

    This thread is actually perfect. I've only just started reading Hellblazer and i'm currently on the Family Man (I've read everything preceding it including the annual). So anyway, i was hoping that i good get a few suggestions about good arc's that i should read first.

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    #19  Edited By Billy Batson

    @ragdollpurps said:

    Piffy<3

    Those curves <3

    @spiderbat87 said:

    Man I need to catch up

    What was the latest issue that you read?

    @CitizenBane said:

    I liked the latest issue, thankfully it was a one-shot so I can jump on from here since I haven't been following for a while now.

    Blasphemy! Weren't you buying it regularly?

    @Afro_Warrior said:

    This thread is actually perfect. I've only just started reading Hellblazer and i'm currently on the Family Man (I've read everything preceding it including the annual). So anyway, i was hoping that i good get a few suggestions about good arc's that i should read first.

    Pretty much everything is worth a read except for Denise Mina's run, issues #216-228.
    For long runs go with Delano's, Ennis', Azzarello's, Carey's and Milligan's runs.
    Diggle's and Ellis' short runs were also great.
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    #21  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous
    @Billy Batson: Last one I read was #289 but I'm also trying to fill out my collection with back issues and TPBs 
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    #22  Edited By Billy Batson

    @spiderbat87:

    you can read the latest issue if you want since it isn't related to the past story arc.
    and since you use comixology, they've been putting old and new issues out.
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    #23  Edited By ReVamp

    An astounding success.

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    #24  Edited By Billy Batson

    @ReVamp said:

    An astounding success.

    It's a given.
    More replies than your Nightwing thread...OH WAIT.
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    #25  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous
    @Billy Batson said:

    @spiderbat87:

    you can read the latest issue if you want since it isn't related to the past story arc.
    and since you use comixology, they've been putting old and new issues out.
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    I'm just going to splurgh some cash and get all the issues to catch up, have a big Hellblazer marathon. Yea I'v been slowly working my way through older issues as I go.
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    #26  Edited By ReVamp

    @Billy Batson said:

    @ReVamp said:

    An astounding success.

    It's a given.
    More replies than your Nightwing thread...OH WAIT.
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    You don't want to go there bro. You don't want to go there.

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    #27  Edited By Billy Batson

    @spiderbat87:

    Going to do same thing soon. Trying to read the whole series during the summer.
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    #28  Edited By Billy Batson

    @ReVamp said:

    @Billy Batson said:

    @ReVamp said:

    An astounding success.

    It's a given.
    More replies than your Nightwing thread...OH WAIT.
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    You don't want to go there bro. You don't want to go there.

    Neither did you, apparently ;)
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    #29  Edited By ReVamp

    @Billy Batson said:

    @ReVamp said:

    @Billy Batson said:

    @ReVamp said:

    An astounding success.

    It's a given.
    More replies than your Nightwing thread...OH WAIT.
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    You don't want to go there bro. You don't want to go there.

    Neither did you, apparently ;)
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    All I know is that my last Nightwing blog got more comments in a day than this did in a month. ;)

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    #30  Edited By Billy Batson

    @ReVamp:

    Ah yes, the butt blog.
    What's the next, dat mullet blog?
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    #31  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    @aztek_the_lost: You're the guy who presumes to rank Milligan's run above Ennis'. Get away from me, son.
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    #32  Edited By ReVamp

    @Billy Batson said:

    @ReVamp:

    Ah yes, the butt blog.
    What's the next, dat mullet blog?
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    Awh.
    U Jelly now?

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    #33  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    Pretty confident that I already suggested a mullet blog. It would help ReVamp's posts retain the high quality we are all accustomed to.
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    #34  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous
    @Billy Batson said:

    @ReVamp said:

    @Billy Batson said:

    @ReVamp said:

    An astounding success.

    It's a given.
    More replies than your Nightwing thread...OH WAIT.
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    You don't want to go there bro. You don't want to go there.

    Neither did you, apparently ;)
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    or anybody else for that matter 
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    #35  Edited By Billy Batson

    @ReVamp:

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    @spiderbat87:

    ha, nice.
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    #37  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    @aztek_the_lost said:

    @Morpheus_: you're the one with the rose-colored glasses here, living in the past old man, accept that someone can do better then the guy who came first and you'll find that every so often someone does

    I will gladly accept it when it actually happens. 
     
    And being technical, Ennis outdid the guy who came first. Burn.
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    #38  Edited By ReVamp

    @Morpheus_ said:

    Pretty confident that I already suggested a mullet blog. It would help ReVamp's posts retain the high quality we are all accustomed to.

    Everybody's a critic.

    @Billy Batson:

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    #40  Edited By Billy Batson

    @aztek_the_lost:

    have you read the latest issue yet?
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    #42  Edited By morpheus_  Moderator
    @aztek_the_lost said:

    @Morpheus_ said:

    I will gladly accept it when it actually happens.

    And being technical, Ennis outdid the guy who came first. Burn.

    I knew you were going to mention that but my point remains valid, it happens in any medium, everyone likes the earlier guy but never the first because the first person had to break the ground for the next guy to be the first to produce a crop and once one guy does it, everyone after them will be second best

    anyways, Milligan's run is better, it's a simple fact and I don't wish to embarrass you for having an opinion but I think you'll always be stuck on Ennis because he's the most recent Hellblazer you knew for too long and you ended up comparing everything to him

    A broad generalization does not correspond to every case - as you well know. Case in point, I don't care much about Delano's work on Constantine. It's important and highly influential, yet contrived and flat out boring. 
     
    Nah, you embarrass yourself already by thinking your opinion is fact. When we already know that only applies to my own. :P
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    #43  Edited By Afro_Warrior

    @Billy Batson:

    Cheers.

    Guess i'll just keep slogging through the back issues then.

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    #44  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous
    @Billy Batson said:

    @aztek_the_lost:

    have you read the latest issue yet?
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    I'm not sure what I think about last issue yet tbh
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    #45  Edited By ApatheticAvenger

    Overall, do you guys prefer Ennis or Carey's runs? I gotta go with Ennis.

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    #46  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous

    I gotta say Ennis but Milligan is catching up (except the last issue)

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    #47  Edited By Billy Batson

    Pish posh, last issue was a fun one-shot. What didn't you like about it?
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    #48  Edited By Billy Batson

    Dem solicits~

    HELLBLAZER #296
    Written by PETER MILLIGAN
    Art by GIUSEPPI CAMUNCOLI and STEFANO LANDINI
    Cover by SIMON BISLEY
    On sale OCTOBER 17 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
    Sex and horror in Ireland as urban mage John Constantine – along with his alchemically gorgeous wife Epiphany – finally finds his long lost nephew, an alleged occultist serial killer driven bad by blighted Constantine blood. But what is the secret of the real killer? All will be revealed in Part Four of “The Curse of the Constantines.”
    HELLBLAZER VOL. 4: FAMILY MAN TP NEW EDITION
    Written by JAMIE DELANO, GRANT MORRISON, NEIL GAIMAN and DICK FOREMAN
    Art by DAVID LLOYD, DAVE McKEAN, MARK BUCKINGHAM, SEAN PHILLIPS and others
    Cover by BRIAN BOLLAND
    On sale NOVEMBER 14 • 288 pg, FC, $19.99 US • MATURE READERS
    In this new volume collecting HELLBLAZER #23-33, a twist of fate sends John Constantine into the path of a serial killer called the Family Man, who forces the con man mage to make a shattering choice.

    They're really bumping those new editions :)
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    #49  Edited By ragdollpurps

    @Billy Batson: Thank youuuu, the solicit they have on the site for this... is for Fables. -____-;;

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    #50  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous
    @Billy Batson said:

    Pish posh, last issue was a fun one-shot. What didn't you like about it?
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    I don't know, there was just something about it that felt forced 

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