From the moment John Constantine set foot in the pages of DC Comics, fans have been enamored by his low-brow, high-concept adventures as the world’s premier chain-smoking mage. Like so many others of his ilk, however, John Constantine has undergone some major changes in the decades since his debut, most of which have resulted in a more palatable albeit infinitely less edgy version of the character. Now, The Sandman Universe is bringing the Hellblazer back to his roots, and it is exactly what he has been in desperate need of for years.John Constantine: Hellblazer – Dead in America #1 (by Simon Spurrier, Aaron Campbell, Jordie Bellaire, and Aditya Bidikar) to St. Augustine, Florida, where the titular mage meets with an animated statue within the dank caves of a Fountain of Youth attraction under the cover of darkness. As strange as that meeting might be, things don’t get truly unsettling until after the arrival of a wandering Girl Scout who is anything but what she appears. Soon enough, Constantine, his son Noah, and his friend and confidant Nat are embroiled in a set of supernatural circumstances with Dream himself at their heart. By the time Morpheus has explained the issue at hand to Constantine, as well as why the mage owes him its resolution, it is made clear that this story is set to be a more classically warped Hellblazer tale than it is a supernatural epic as the DC Universe is accustomed to, and that just so happens to be its biggest strength.Kicking off with 1988’s Hellblazer #1 (by Jamie Delano, John Ridgway, and Lovern Kindzierski), John Constantine took to the center stage of his self-titled series that ultimately spanned 300 issues, various limited series and one-shots, and multiple literary universes. Though Hellblazer was introduced as a DC title, the series made the shift to the then publisher’s then-budding Vertigo imprint upon its formation in 1993. This made it that much easier for writers and artists to focus more heavily on the overtly graphic aspects of Constantine’s story, which at that point were defining aspects of his character.
From the moment John Constantine set foot in the pages of DC Comics, fans have been enamored by his low-brow, high-concept adventures as the world’s premier chain-smoking mage. Like so many others of his ilk, however, John Constantine has undergone some major changes in the decades since his debut, most of which have resulted in a more palatable albeit infinitely less edgy version of the character. Now, The Sandman Universe is bringing the Hellblazer back to his roots, and it is exactly what he has been in desperate need of for years.
John Constantine: Hellblazer – Dead in America #1 (by Simon Spurrier, Aaron Campbell, Jordie Bellaire, and Aditya Bidikar) to St. Augustine, Florida, where the titular mage meets with an animated statue within the dank caves of a Fountain of Youth attraction under the cover of darkness. As strange as that meeting might be, things don’t get truly unsettling until after the arrival of a wandering Girl Scout who is anything but what she appears. Soon enough, Constantine, his son Noah, and his friend and confidant Nat are embroiled in a set of supernatural circumstances with Dream himself at their heart. By the time Morpheus has explained the issue at hand to Constantine, as well as why the mage owes him its resolution, it is made clear that this story is set to be a more classically warped Hellblazer tale than it is a supernatural epic as the DC Universe is accustomed to, and that just so happens to be its biggest strength.
Kicking off with 1988’s Hellblazer #1 (by Jamie Delano, John Ridgway, and Lovern Kindzierski), John Constantine took to the center stage of his self-titled series that ultimately spanned 300 issues, various limited series and one-shots, and multiple literary universes. Though Hellblazer was introduced as a DC title, the series made the shift to the then publisher’s then-budding Vertigo imprint upon its formation in 1993. This made it that much easier for writers and artists to focus more heavily on the overtly graphic aspects of Constantine’s story, which at that point were defining aspects of his character.
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