This volume brings the end of the story started in Original Sins and that fact alone earns it 4 stars. The other two stories included are a bit unfortunate - Blood Saint has an interesting take on history of Christianity in England yet drawings are Swamp Thingish, which make it much less attractive ...
I confess that I started reading this series out of order. I can't say if that affected my rating. I will say I was disappointed with this first read of Constantine in the graphic novel format. I have read a novel with him Hellblazer: War Lord, and I liked that more.In all honestly, I am completely ...
Honestly, I'm not really sure what to say about Hellblazer anymore. This is the third volume I've tried to read and it seems to me they get longer and longer. Not only that, it's just incredibly boring. I can't believe that something with such a high concept and plenty to strive for, could be so ins...
After having read the first volume of the New Editions of Hellblazer, I wasn't really expecting too much from this second volume. The problem that I had with the first reoccurred here, because again I found myself struggling to make much sense of what was going on. I definitely understand that this ...
I'll be honest, I just didn't like this one much. Delano is a talented enough writer, true. But it's simply not to my taste. It's far too unrelentingly dark and visceral, with characters that dance on the line between merely unlikeable and entirely obnoxious. Yes, even Constantine. I wonder if I lik...
I haven't seen the movie, but it's possible that the ridiculously dynamic art in this book is actually more cinematical than the film based on it.
See my blog post on it here: http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/02/booknote-road-to-perdition.html
Saw the movie last night and thought it might be interesting to compare the movie with the graphic novel. Book and movie were quite dissimilar. I did not really like either. The book was mu...