Zatanna: Everyday Magic

I'm tempted to put LOL above, but I've got no idea how mods would respond so....er, sorry, back on topic. The DC/Vertigo Magical Universe and its charachters usually don't get much attention or readership from me. I mean, I've checked out The Books of Magic and a few Hellblazers, but I've never really gotten into them. This book....oh wow. While I have no outstanding super awesome etc. comments about the art, it's okay, and maintains a cartoonish, but still realistic style. Now the writing, you better not be drinking (anything) while reading. You'll be laughing from pretty much page one. Everyday Magic is in the tradition of those "day in the life" tales in Batman or Wonder Woman (and other series I can't think of right now) where the purpose is to follow said charachter around for a day, and see what makes them tick. Apparenty for Zee, this is full of Stage Shows, Evil Demons, John Constatine (drunk, of course), Magical Con Women, and Constantine ruining any of her attempts at a personal life. The Pacing is good, the vilian isn't totally unreadable, and Paul Dini fills the story with one-liners, awkward situations, and swear words inserted at precisely the right comedic timing. To some, it may seem a bit overplayed for laughs, but if you ignore all else and just enjoy it, you'll find a wonderful little yarn worthy of several rereads.

This book is a rare release that saw Zatanna in the Vertigo world.  Fanboys rejoice!  Everyone's favorite magical eye candy now told in an Adult story.  
 
This is a great Zatanna story.  You can see Paul Dini's love for the Character.  He makes her strong! He makes her fearless!  He makes her a led in a series, something that wasn't seen for a long time.
 
This story seemed like a Hellblazer script in reverse, it is not told in John Constantine's prospective, but Zatanna's.  This unfortunately miss represents John Constantine.  He is not a babbling Drunk womanizer all the time, he is just a womanizer.  John Constantine, the master of bad luck, gets a hex on him and asks Zatanna to help.  John Constantine is not playing the damsel in distress and not the con-artist he is known to be.  This plot makes it play out like a comedy, everyone is out of character it seems.  Even Zatanna is a harder character because his is not restrained to the pages of the DCU and the more mainstream fans expectations.  
 
Rick Mays interior art was quite easy to follow.  The script Paul Dini created for him was not as text heavy as other books.  I didn't like Brian Bolland's cover to be honest.  Zee looks all legs and no trunk to me and is it just me or is the left arm to short?
 
The fact that John Constantine is extremely out of Character I have to remove 1 star.  The story itself is Fun, not not worth a full 4 remaining star rating, so I will give it a 3.5 out of 5.   Read this for a Zatanna Fix not a John Constantine Fix 
 
*Cheers*