| 1. John Constantine, Hellblazer: Son of Man | 
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By: Garth Ennis
Publisher: Vertigo
April 01, 2004
This is the worst Hellblazer I read so far.
It is disappointing because I read two other volumes written by the same author ---Garth Ennis--- (Dangerous habits and Fear & loathing) and both were very good. Unfortunately Son of Man is written like a parody: as if the author tried to ridicule its own work. The attempts at humour are lame (e.g. a demon insults Constantine's by telling him that... more
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| 2. Hellblazer: Good Intentions (Hellblazer (Graphic Novels)) | 
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By: Brian Azzarello
Publisher: Vertigo
March 01, 2002
The story told here is engaging, and Frusin's art is a delight as usual. Constantine, hitch-hiking through the backwoods of America, is at his best: cunning, devious, and sarcastic; more of a conman and a trickster in this volume than a magician (though he does play a rather satisfying trick on some nasty little boys).
The plot is as disturbing as Azzarello's plots usually are; there... more
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| 3. John Constantine, Hellblazer: Red Sepulchre |
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By: Mike Carey
Publisher: Vertigo
June 01, 2005
Everybody is after the Red Sepulchre. Acquaintances and strangers, friends and future foes of John Constantine have ostensibly merged their magical and mystical might in the pursuit of this enigmatic entity. The stakes are raised even higher when John's niece Gemma is manipulated to force him to enter the game, but on whose side. And that decision may cause yet another player, the mysterious Map, to... more
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| 4. John Constantine, Hellblazer: Damnation's Flame |
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By: Garth Ennis
Publisher: Vertigo
June 01, 1999
The Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon run on Hellblazer is a mixed bag. I like the focus on Constantine as a man (and not a mythic entity) and his weaknesses. I like the grittiness and the boozing and the dirt. However, I don't like how bizarrely ineffectual Constantine becomes at points in the story, and I often don't like the choppiness of the narrative.
In Damnation's Flame, these are... more
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| 5. John Constantine, Hellblazer: Tainted Love |
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By: Garth Ennis
Publisher: Vertigo
July 01, 1998
Garth Ennis, John Constantine, Hellblazer: Tainted Love (Vertigo, 1998)
Another collection of five issues of John Constantine, Hellblazer. While it's collected under a title, and thus (one would expect) has a theme to it, the theme of the book (which is basically John and Kit pining for one another) is addressed at length in only the third issue found here ("Heartland," which features... more
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| 6. Hellblazer: Freezes Over (Hellblazer (Graphic Novels)) |
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By: Brian Azzarello
Publisher: Vertigo
June 01, 2003
Hellblazer: Freezes Over (Azzarello / Frusin / Dillon / Davis) collects three story arcs in Brian Azzarello's run on the famous London occult detective.
The collection takes place midway through Constantine's travels across America. In all three stories, Constantine serves more as the catalyst than the protagonist - a type of narrative device that will be familiar to Azzarello's work... more
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| 7. John Constantine, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing |
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By: Garth Ennis
Publisher: Vertigo
February 01, 1997
Garth Ennis, John Constantine, Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing (Vertigo, 1997)
John Constantine and Garth Ennis seem made for one another, in some evil parallel universe. Ennis, of course, is the man behind the psyhchotically brilliant Preacher, and Constantine is, well, Constantine, the chainsmoking archwizard whose entire purpose in saving the world is so he has something to play with... more
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| 8. Hellblazer: Highwater (Hellblazer (Graphic Novels)) | 
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By: Brian Azzarello
Publisher: Vertigo
July 01, 2004
Okay. So I just finished Azzarello's run, and I have to tell ya... lots of ups and downs. Aside from the fact that John Constantine basically says that magic doesn't exist in the middle volumes, and aside from the fact that this volume wraps up horribly and seemingly unexplainable, there is one major problem here: Constantine isn't IN the end of the storyarch. It begins with him "dead," and at the... more
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| 9. John Constantine, Hellblazer: Rare Cuts |
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By: Jamie Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis
Publisher: Vertigo
February 01, 2005
Rather than a consecutive run of issues, this trade is more of an anthology selection.
Actually, there is one two issue run with 25-25, but th eothers are 11, 36, 56 and 84.
Issues range from town destructions, death of friends, to getting magical monkeys off backs.
A nice addition at the end is a timeline of Constantine's life, and also an overview of various... more
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| 10. John Constantine, Hellblazer: The Gift | 
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By: Mike Carey
Publisher: Vertigo
September 19, 2007
If you want a seminal, mind blowing but stand-alone Hellblazer story, Mike Carey's "All His Engines" is the place to start. This series is 3 or 4 trades long and comprises one of the best comic book stories I've ever read. This is the last chapter, which ends Mike Carey's run, and it left me simultaneously depressed that there would be no more and amazed that anyone would try and pick up where this... more
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