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Title: Hellblazer Tainted Love by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Glenn Fabry ISBN: 1563894564 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83
Rating: 5
Summary: Garth's Stand-Alones are the Best
Comment: I'm not sure why everyone's so disappointed with this collection. I think it ranks right up there with DANGEROUS HABITS, Ennis' first collection. The mutli-part epic Hellblazer stories are always good, but you cannot beat Garth Ennis for small, personal stories, which TAINTED LOVE has in spades.
"Down all the Days" and "Rough Trade" are from issues #68 and #69 and feature the King of the Vampires (first introduced in #50). Forget Buffy for a second, Garth's take on vampires is fantastic and truly original (as fans of PREACHER already know). The King is as great a vampiric character as any ever created.
"Tainted Love" was a short story from VERTIGO JAM #1. A great little horror story from John's past featuring a demonic adversary familiar to Constantine fans.
"Heartland" is from #70, and focuses on Kit's return to Ireland. It's a testament to Garth's writing that a story about the main character's girlfriend is every bit as good as any regular issue. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't read a comic about Spider-Man's wife.
"Finest Hour", from #71, is another all-time favorite story of mine. And again, John is barely in it (only a coincidence, it's not like I don't like him or something). John falls asleep near the grave of a fighter pilot and relives the last few moments of his life.
"Confessional" is from the one-shot HELLBLAZER SPECIAL. It features a teenage John, an insane pederast preacher, and the First of the Fallen, and leads into the story arc "Rake at the Gates of Hell" from #78-83 (never collected, unfortunately).
So yeah, John is drunk and homeless the entire time, there are no big demons or magic tricks, and no cons pulled. But these are still some damn good stories for fans of horror, drama, comedy and...well, just entertainment in general.
Rating: 2
Summary: This is not Preacher
Comment: It is worse. It tries to be Preacher, it tries to be Hellblazer... it is naught. Constantine is one of the coolest and most awful characters ever created. When the torch passed to Delano from Moore, there was no loss. Delano's run was just great very intelligent, and the violence vas never to show off or to be a bad boy, it was used when necessary, as a part of the story. But here we have vomit, urination, gore etc. Things a b movie or gore movie fan might find exciting, but which an intelligent reader finds boring. Yes, not a scandal or rebeliuos, just plain boring. It is a sad fact that Ennis, who wrote the amazing "Dangerous Habits" story, sunk so childishly low.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sure it's depressing, but...
Comment: ...but that's the whole point of it. And if you actually read it, instead of just looking for the most Preacheresque or horrific panel, there's a really touching story about the difficulties of fitting personal demons (not necessarily of the hoofed kind) and a sensible love story in the same life. Oh, and reading this book does make any subsequent cocky exploit of mr. Constantine even more exhilarating to read. Really.
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Title: Hellblazer: Fear & Loathing by Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, Steve Dillon ISBN: 1563892022 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: John Constantine Hellblazer: Damnation's Flame by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Glenn Fabry, William Simpson, Peter Snejbjerg ISBN: 1563895080 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits by Garth Ennis, Bob Kahan ISBN: 1563891506 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Original Sins (Hellblazer, Book 1) by Jamie Delano, Bob Kahan, John Ridgway, Alfredo Alcala ISBN: 1563890526 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: John Constantine, Hellblazer: Hard Time by Brian Azzarello, Richard Corben, James Sinclair, Clem Robins, Tim Bradstreet ISBN: 1563896966 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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