Hellblazer #89

Hellblazer: Colección Vertigo

by Paul Jenkins

John Constantine: Hellblazer -Dreamtime-

Genres: Comics, Horror, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics

First published February 1, 1995

About the author

Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was quite impressive, although short. It picks up from where Eddie Campbell's Warped Notions stops. It follows Constantine staying back, under the beckoning of Jeffo, to help the indigenous Aborigines fend off a land grabbing scheme by some large corporation. It's funny for the most part, Constantine as a tree hugger. But most of all, him, a whitey meddling with black magic.

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

John visits the psychedelic dreamtime with a couple of Australian aboriginies' help. It's a magical place where John gains a better understanding of the world around him and the destructive effect the white man's civilization has on nature. A serpent from the dreamtime is out to punish the white man and John's goal is to save him from it. At the same time, a wengeful woman intends to force the aboriginies to move their homes and aquire their land.

Even though the aboriginies fear the serpent, their song and dance power it. John figures this out and gets the serpent to play by his rules and scare the woman and her lackeys.

[Grayson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm counting this as issues 89 and 90 of Hellblazer, as it's a two-part story about Constantine in Australia. He goes into the dreamtime of the aborigines. I think it's played pretty well; unlike the typical "white man must save the natives" storyline of movies like Dances With Wolves and Avatar, John is there to save his own people from the aboriginal god the Rainbow Snake. Yes, she needs his help, but he needs hers as well; although being John, he can't resist being a bastard if he can get away with it.

Pretty good story, and Sean Phillips does a great job on the art. It's a shame these aren't collected...

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Edición en castellano que traduce la saga "Dreamtime".

[Rizki Maulana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Constantine and aboriginal occult? Wicked. Also recommended for the bushmen's sense of humour in this story