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Hellblazer #11
A single, disturbing experience has haunted John Constantine his entire life and in this issue, that experience is revealed! The full story behind the mysterious Newcastle incident begins to unravel here, in part 1 of a 2-part tale.
23 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Jamie Delano
459 books351 followersJamie Delano aka A. William James began writing comics professionally in the early 1980s. Latterly he has been writing prose fiction with "BOOK THIRTEEN" published by his own LEPUS BOOKS imprint (http://www.lepusbooks.co.uk) in 2012, "Leepus | DIZZY" in April 2014, and "Leepus | THE RIVER" in 2017.
Jamie lives in semi-rural Northamptonshire with his partner, Sue. They have three adult children and a considerable distraction of grandchildren.
Jamie lives in semi-rural Northamptonshire with his partner, Sue. They have three adult children and a considerable distraction of grandchildren.
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November 30, 2024
Wow best single issue in Hellblazer so far.
The scariest maybe even the only scary story in Hellblazer so far.
This was just too good.
Also content warning: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape.
I won't mention the murdering and blood as content warning as they are pretty common in this series.
But this story was just too good, I don't want to spoil it, so I'll just shut up.
Oh also, this story is totally readable without knowing anything about Hellblazer.
It's kind of an origin story, you don't have to know anything before or after.
The scariest maybe even the only scary story in Hellblazer so far.
This was just too good.
Also content warning: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape.
I won't mention the murdering and blood as content warning as they are pretty common in this series.
But this story was just too good, I don't want to spoil it, so I'll just shut up.
Oh also, this story is totally readable without knowing anything about Hellblazer.
It's kind of an origin story, you don't have to know anything before or after.
August 12, 2014
I can't be sure if Jamie Delano intentionally writes John Constantine as a character you don't instantly like and rarely sympathize with, but I'm rather enjoying that approach because such a flawed mechanism of a character has been advantageous to the stories Hellblazer has told us so far. It's worth noting that Delano did not just decide to write our titular protagonist this way without some backstory to affirm the characterization so far. So, finally, we get the issue that explains it all--yet it's also a story that manages to leave us some disconcerting realizations of our own regarding John Constantine as the central character of the series. During the first nine issues, there have been mentions of 'Newcastle' here and there and from what we can understand, it seems to hint some sort of mysterious and tragic event that happened in John's past which ultimately claimed the lives of his friends who were a part of it. It certainly has a I Know What You Did Last Summer vibe to it (that is if you grew up in the nineties like me and that's your go-to pop culture reference pertaining to this kind of horror trope).
I have stated previously that this issue is the very first Hellblazer story I ever encountered and it's coincidentally one of the significant issues in the series because it revealed an arc that will play out for the upcoming issues.
This won't be a spoiler-free review.
After all, it would be impossible to review this issue without discussing several points that I want to inspect closely, all in direct considerations of John's role in this bloody mess and how his characterization in the current timeline was actually validated through it, and in consequence of what happened in Newcastle. So here we are in issue #11, otherwise known as "Newcastle: A Taste of Things to Come".
First of all, what the hell is 'Newcastle'? It's a place in north of England. Nothing ominous to it, really, except of what happened in its location, specifically in The Casanova Club, a nightclub where John Constantine and his band Mucous Membrane (have I not mentioned he's a punk musician too?) has performed in once. The owner failed to pay the band so the MM returned the next day to collect the money. However, based on John's monologues, he also secretly decided to come back to the dreary place because of his suspicions concerning the owner Alex Logue and his daughter Astra. And he wasn't wrong.
He was joined by characters we have seen in the previous issues like Gary Lester (issues #1-2), Ritchie Simpson (issue #7) and the ghosts who have been haunting John like Benjamin Cox (a teenage occult expert) and Anne-Marie (who later became a nun). The only two characters that newly appeared for this issue alone were Frank North, a biker, and Judith, a tantric magician/ocassional fuck-buddy of John. Together they broke in to the place and uncovered a foul massacre in the basement. John quickly finds the little girl Astra and hypnotizes her to understand what happened. As it turns out, Astra was indeed being sexually abused by her father and he would often force her to participate in orgies with his other elder friends and the hookers who frequent the club. Unknowingly, due to the extreme pain and suffering, Astra had somehow conjured a demon named Norfulthing who manifested itself in earthly plane and butchered her father and the rest of consorts.
Things got even more horrific when they realized that Norfulthing was still lurking around and ends up raping Ben before Frank rescues the poor boy and shoots the demon in the face. John asked Judith (with help from Gary Lester) to summon a demon to fight Norfulthing. Unfortunately, due to reckless arrogance or plain ignorance, John was unable to name the demon properly and bind it. THIS IS IMPORTANT. THIS IS A SCREW-UP THAT YOU CAN'T JUST GET AWAY WITH IT.
So after this unnamed demon seduces Anne-Marie by disguising himself as John (it is mentioned that Anne-Marie is infatuated with John), he pours acid into her face and made her jump out of a window, rendering Astra vulnerable so this new demon possesses her body and kills Norfulthing. When John tries to exorcise it, the unnamed demon claims that because he didn't name him properly, he has no power whatsoever to command him. To further spite Constantine, this demon decided to take Astra's body and soul with him to Hell. John immediately volunteers himself as replacement but the unnamed demon taunts him and shows him a glimpse of what he will have to endure next to Astra.
Meanwhile, his friends try to desperately close the portal where the unnamed demon had come from. John drags Astra with him as he runs to get out of the strip of Hell he was transported to along with the child. He manages to jump out just in time as the portal closes. For a brief moment he thought he succeeded in saving the little girl but then Judith hysterically pointed out that all that John was holding onto by then was a piece of her arm and that the rest of her had been locked in, delivered to the clutches of the unnamed demon. John was devastated but they all agreed never to speak of the incident again.
Still, each of these occultists were punished by their own guilt one way or the other. John committed himself into a mental facility for two years. Ben never recovered from the rape and became a pronounced stutterer. Badly scarred, Anne-Marie became a nun and never spoke to John ever again. Judith joined a cult which consumed her eventually. Gary Lester became a heroin addict and was killed off when John sacrificed his body as a vessel for a hunger demon to live in (as seen in issue #2). Ritchie Simpson became an underground hacker until he finally met his end from issue #7. Only Frank was relatively unharmed until he joined Ben, Anne-Marie and Judith in a Swamp Thing issue to fight an oncoming apocalypse but none of them survived. It's often funny how karma settles the score.
So that's basically what happened in Newcastle. It's the backstory we needed to get a better understanding of why John Constantine's overall countenance since we met him is sour, dismissive and often depressed. Do I think that such a formative event justifies how he acted in the succeeding events, starting from the second issue with Gary Lester until the ninth issue where he became indirectly responsible for Zed's death (after having sexual intercourse with her, soiling her vessel that she was unable to receive divine copulation from an angel who viciously kills her in the end)? NO. ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOT. I don't excuse his heinous and selfish decisions to sacrifice these people he supposedly cared about. I also consider it mercy-killing when he unplugged the computers where Ritchie Simpson's consciousness was entrapped in, all because he couldn't tell his friend that he had burned his body. I may sound vehement at this point but it's only because I am torn with my love for Constantine in the later issues and my feelings for him now after I read the earlier issues.
Cowardly, blinded by grief and overpowered by fear, John is at his worst when we met him for the first time in Hellblazer, and we have yet to see him at his best. It's really not a mystery that we don't approve of John's actions in the context of his spiritual brokenness, most especially when it cost so many lives, particularly of the people he is intimately associated with. But at least the event in Newcastle has clarified some of the darkness, and allowed us to understand better what ticked him off and undid the seams in the first place. I enjoyed the highs and lows that Delano has constructed in just eleven issues of this series. I'm simultaneously intrigued, repulsed and saddened by how John Constantine is characterized so far.
Strangely enough, I think Hellblazer truly becomes groundbreaking when we are offered with morally ambiguous and grim stories such as this one. It becomes quite uncomfortable yet ultimately satisfying when we read a protagonist that keeps challenging our compassion and open-mindedness the way John has.
I think we are definitely on the right track--especially now that John knows who the fucking unnamed demon was and it's no other than .
RECOMMENDED: 9/10
DO READ MORE OF MY HELLBLAZER REVIEWS
I have stated previously that this issue is the very first Hellblazer story I ever encountered and it's coincidentally one of the significant issues in the series because it revealed an arc that will play out for the upcoming issues.
This won't be a spoiler-free review.
After all, it would be impossible to review this issue without discussing several points that I want to inspect closely, all in direct considerations of John's role in this bloody mess and how his characterization in the current timeline was actually validated through it, and in consequence of what happened in Newcastle. So here we are in issue #11, otherwise known as "Newcastle: A Taste of Things to Come".
First of all, what the hell is 'Newcastle'? It's a place in north of England. Nothing ominous to it, really, except of what happened in its location, specifically in The Casanova Club, a nightclub where John Constantine and his band Mucous Membrane (have I not mentioned he's a punk musician too?) has performed in once. The owner failed to pay the band so the MM returned the next day to collect the money. However, based on John's monologues, he also secretly decided to come back to the dreary place because of his suspicions concerning the owner Alex Logue and his daughter Astra. And he wasn't wrong.
He was joined by characters we have seen in the previous issues like Gary Lester (issues #1-2), Ritchie Simpson (issue #7) and the ghosts who have been haunting John like Benjamin Cox (a teenage occult expert) and Anne-Marie (who later became a nun). The only two characters that newly appeared for this issue alone were Frank North, a biker, and Judith, a tantric magician/ocassional fuck-buddy of John. Together they broke in to the place and uncovered a foul massacre in the basement. John quickly finds the little girl Astra and hypnotizes her to understand what happened. As it turns out, Astra was indeed being sexually abused by her father and he would often force her to participate in orgies with his other elder friends and the hookers who frequent the club. Unknowingly, due to the extreme pain and suffering, Astra had somehow conjured a demon named Norfulthing who manifested itself in earthly plane and butchered her father and the rest of consorts.
Things got even more horrific when they realized that Norfulthing was still lurking around and ends up raping Ben before Frank rescues the poor boy and shoots the demon in the face. John asked Judith (with help from Gary Lester) to summon a demon to fight Norfulthing. Unfortunately, due to reckless arrogance or plain ignorance, John was unable to name the demon properly and bind it. THIS IS IMPORTANT. THIS IS A SCREW-UP THAT YOU CAN'T JUST GET AWAY WITH IT.
So after this unnamed demon seduces Anne-Marie by disguising himself as John (it is mentioned that Anne-Marie is infatuated with John), he pours acid into her face and made her jump out of a window, rendering Astra vulnerable so this new demon possesses her body and kills Norfulthing. When John tries to exorcise it, the unnamed demon claims that because he didn't name him properly, he has no power whatsoever to command him. To further spite Constantine, this demon decided to take Astra's body and soul with him to Hell. John immediately volunteers himself as replacement but the unnamed demon taunts him and shows him a glimpse of what he will have to endure next to Astra.
Meanwhile, his friends try to desperately close the portal where the unnamed demon had come from. John drags Astra with him as he runs to get out of the strip of Hell he was transported to along with the child. He manages to jump out just in time as the portal closes. For a brief moment he thought he succeeded in saving the little girl but then Judith hysterically pointed out that all that John was holding onto by then was a piece of her arm and that the rest of her had been locked in, delivered to the clutches of the unnamed demon. John was devastated but they all agreed never to speak of the incident again.
Still, each of these occultists were punished by their own guilt one way or the other. John committed himself into a mental facility for two years. Ben never recovered from the rape and became a pronounced stutterer. Badly scarred, Anne-Marie became a nun and never spoke to John ever again. Judith joined a cult which consumed her eventually. Gary Lester became a heroin addict and was killed off when John sacrificed his body as a vessel for a hunger demon to live in (as seen in issue #2). Ritchie Simpson became an underground hacker until he finally met his end from issue #7. Only Frank was relatively unharmed until he joined Ben, Anne-Marie and Judith in a Swamp Thing issue to fight an oncoming apocalypse but none of them survived. It's often funny how karma settles the score.
So that's basically what happened in Newcastle. It's the backstory we needed to get a better understanding of why John Constantine's overall countenance since we met him is sour, dismissive and often depressed. Do I think that such a formative event justifies how he acted in the succeeding events, starting from the second issue with Gary Lester until the ninth issue where he became indirectly responsible for Zed's death (after having sexual intercourse with her, soiling her vessel that she was unable to receive divine copulation from an angel who viciously kills her in the end)? NO. ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOT. I don't excuse his heinous and selfish decisions to sacrifice these people he supposedly cared about. I also consider it mercy-killing when he unplugged the computers where Ritchie Simpson's consciousness was entrapped in, all because he couldn't tell his friend that he had burned his body. I may sound vehement at this point but it's only because I am torn with my love for Constantine in the later issues and my feelings for him now after I read the earlier issues.
Cowardly, blinded by grief and overpowered by fear, John is at his worst when we met him for the first time in Hellblazer, and we have yet to see him at his best. It's really not a mystery that we don't approve of John's actions in the context of his spiritual brokenness, most especially when it cost so many lives, particularly of the people he is intimately associated with. But at least the event in Newcastle has clarified some of the darkness, and allowed us to understand better what ticked him off and undid the seams in the first place. I enjoyed the highs and lows that Delano has constructed in just eleven issues of this series. I'm simultaneously intrigued, repulsed and saddened by how John Constantine is characterized so far.
Strangely enough, I think Hellblazer truly becomes groundbreaking when we are offered with morally ambiguous and grim stories such as this one. It becomes quite uncomfortable yet ultimately satisfying when we read a protagonist that keeps challenging our compassion and open-mindedness the way John has.
I think we are definitely on the right track--especially now that John knows who the fucking unnamed demon was and it's no other than .
RECOMMENDED: 9/10
DO READ MORE OF MY HELLBLAZER REVIEWS
June 2, 2024
این جلد (دوزخ افروز) از شمارههای مهم سری کامیکهای کنستانتین به حساب میاد اما من خیلی ازش خوشم نیمد...
July 17, 2025
(warning for spoilers)
So John sends a girl to hell.
Perfect for my first time at hell blazer.
We start with John in a junkyard followed by A flashback. And if you already had doubts that Delano can be political, he includes in the captions: “EXCITED, STRONG, THE WORLD WAS OURS TO SHAPE ACCORDING TO OUR WILL. BUT THAT WAS THEN. BEFORE THATCHER.
BEFORE THE FALKLANDS WAR. BEFORE THE
COLINTRY --STARVING--ATE OLIT ITS OWN HEART.”
Damn…….. weeks after reading I’m still looking back to those words. Personally I find myself relating for I too am looking back at a time that while lacked much of the political pain now contained all the personal pain that I feel today. Like Claremont, Delano has a way with making his comics wordy, but in my opinion unlike Claremont it has a more naturalistic more haunting tone and flow. And whoever is reading this review, I won’t bother with spoiling much, Just that the ending To the story is right to the beginning, this time with John reflecting, and this time with John knowing what he must do. It’s an incredible story especially when you know about the character. Can’t wait to read more of our favorite Chainsmoking haunted occult detective.
So John sends a girl to hell.
Perfect for my first time at hell blazer.
We start with John in a junkyard followed by A flashback. And if you already had doubts that Delano can be political, he includes in the captions: “EXCITED, STRONG, THE WORLD WAS OURS TO SHAPE ACCORDING TO OUR WILL. BUT THAT WAS THEN. BEFORE THATCHER.
BEFORE THE FALKLANDS WAR. BEFORE THE
COLINTRY --STARVING--ATE OLIT ITS OWN HEART.”
Damn…….. weeks after reading I’m still looking back to those words. Personally I find myself relating for I too am looking back at a time that while lacked much of the political pain now contained all the personal pain that I feel today. Like Claremont, Delano has a way with making his comics wordy, but in my opinion unlike Claremont it has a more naturalistic more haunting tone and flow. And whoever is reading this review, I won’t bother with spoiling much, Just that the ending To the story is right to the beginning, this time with John reflecting, and this time with John knowing what he must do. It’s an incredible story especially when you know about the character. Can’t wait to read more of our favorite Chainsmoking haunted occult detective.
November 15, 2025
Newcastle at last. I’ve seen a few interpretations/mentions of this across the animated and live action Constantine media, but experiencing it through this issue when it was first revealed is a completely different and tragic experience. In this issue we see John go back to the place where the Casanova Club once stood, now a car scrapyard. This is where it all happened, the large event that had been a stain on Constantine and the rest of his groups life’s and deaths. And now John is the only one left. One major benefit of reading John’s story through the comics like this is that a lot of his group from back then when he ran around with his band of occult scooby doo-esque misfits is that we’ve met a lot of them already and we’ve seen how they have died. And now through this issue we see the event that marked their death warrants. A few nights before tbh is event the band was playing for a Alex Louge, everyone in the occult circles knew about him and also new he was a major “crap-head” ev’I was a sec and drugs magician. But he had a club and they needed a gig. But then seeing the creepy way he touched and treated his daughter, Astra, and the rise of disturbances in the Newcastle area, this club seemed like the place to start. As they snuck inside they found the place empty but a feeling of disturbance towards the cellar. It’s so interesting seeing Constantine out of the trench coat and in his youth with all of the confidence to lead his group right into the pits of hell, and as they descend into the cellar they find only blood and carnage as Louge and a few of his associates have been ripped apart. Suddenly the group hears screaming upstairs and they run back up, only to find music blaring and the daughter, Astra, dancing in the middle of the room. As they turn down the music and calm her down, Constantine attempts hypnotism to get her to tell them what happened. As Astra describes her tale, she goes through the horrific aspects of her life led by her sexual abusive father who made her engage in explicit activities with his friends and him. It got to a point one day when one of the men became violent and began to hurt her and the other girls, she got scared and angry and called out for help that wouldn’t come…until it did, the norfulthing came to help her by her own accord. Partly a giant dog, partly a monkey, but even worse as it’s all inside out. It came and ripped all of the abusers apart, which is what the gang found in the cellar. As she comes to the end of this story, Constantine helps her into a sleep where she will forget all of this once she wakes back up. Frank wants to just torch the join and get it, but Constantine points out that the Norfulthing is a creation of Astra and it needs her to inspire it. So while she stays in a trance it should be quiet, as long as no one disturbs it. And then Constantine says the dreaded sentence that really sparks the events at Newcastle:
“So, what we’ve got to do is raise a really powerful demon to destroy it.”
Oh no. The gang is pretty split on this decision immediately, but Constantine has everything he needs for it out int the van. But as Constantine looks over to the youngest member of their group, Benjamin, he finds him gone: turns out he snuck away to the basement to try and get a picture of the creature, disturbing it in the process and ultimately being attacked by it. Frank’s quick action with his shotgun was able to drive the creature away in time for them to pull Benjamin away, but that was white a scarring event. Most of them are fully into the idea now for summoning the demon to fight it, so their roles are divided out. Frank refuses to be involved, so Constantine sets him up on torching duty. Burn the place down if it goes wrong. Ritchie doesn’t want to be involved either, so he is instructed to take Benjamin back out to the van and sort him out. Anna-Marie, true psychic with eyes for John, offers to look after Astra and Constantine sets up a protection circle for them upstairs. Judith will be working with John to prepare the spells, and since Gaz is the only one left and wants to help…John sets him off to find a living black cat outside for the sacrifice. John sets up the summoning circle and he dawns robes with Judith, he doesn’t believe that anything can go wrong. Describes casting spells as cooking, just have the proper ingredients and follow the recipe. Another thing said moments before disaster. Turns out Gaz was able to find a cat, but I’m fairly certain John just wanted him out of the way. But not that he is back, John tells him to let the cat free and join them. As they begin the summoning it seems that John has everything that he needs. He is able to cast out the right words and has the right objects, and calls on the demon to show itself in an agreeable human form to bend to their will. But as John finishes…nothing happens. He tries again calling to the demon Sagatana and even calling on the other lords of hell for it to obey his commands…and nothing happens. Unbeknownst to them the demon has appeared…upstairs with Anna-Marie and Astra. And it has appeared in the human form mimicking Constantine so that it may lure Anna-Marie out of the protective circle with the power of lust and then kiss her and infect her, causing her to jump to her death from the second story window. It then took over Astra’s body and walked downstairs. Constantine and the others were quite confused to see her, but Constantine made sure to hold them back from breaking the circle. They watched in horror as she called on the Norfulthing to come upstairs and then walked over to it and ripped its head off, killing it in the process. The demon completed its part of the task, but now it wants more. Here’s the big problem, the root of all power is in naming and the demon they so poorly summoned with their archaic tricks is NOT Sagatana. As the monster forms around them, Constantine gets the others to run so he may face this directly. He is confused and he has messed up and now the demon wants to take Astra straight to hell. Constantine tries to offer himself up, but because of how badly Constantine screwed up he has nothing to bargain with, his soul has already been promised to this demon. But if Constantine wishes to walk into hell with Astra in hand right now, they won’t stop him. Suddenly the gates of hell open up before them, and while holding Astra’s hand Constantine walls bravely forward. But it is impossible to walk into such a place with bravery. And with her still in his hand Constantine attempted to run, to flee the pits of hell and take her with him to safety outside all while his group outside is burning the club down. But right as Constantine runs out of the fire…all he is holding is what is left of Astra…her hand. Constantine yells for them to go back, they have to get her back, and Ritchie can’t help but remark that it looks like he never left. The demon calls from the flames, for them to remember that hell is their eventual home and this has only been a taste of things to come. Catastrophe from start to finish and Constantine only blames himself. The rest of his group paid their prices over the years with time in secure facilities, drug addictions, time with the holy orders, or whatever else and they have all died. Just as the demon promised he took all of them. But we all make mistakes and the demons’ mistake was finally telling Constantine his name!! Nergal. The Casanova club is where it started and this is where Constantine promises to finish it, the ground where he will take his revenge…as soon as he can work out how.
“So, what we’ve got to do is raise a really powerful demon to destroy it.”
Oh no. The gang is pretty split on this decision immediately, but Constantine has everything he needs for it out int the van. But as Constantine looks over to the youngest member of their group, Benjamin, he finds him gone: turns out he snuck away to the basement to try and get a picture of the creature, disturbing it in the process and ultimately being attacked by it. Frank’s quick action with his shotgun was able to drive the creature away in time for them to pull Benjamin away, but that was white a scarring event. Most of them are fully into the idea now for summoning the demon to fight it, so their roles are divided out. Frank refuses to be involved, so Constantine sets him up on torching duty. Burn the place down if it goes wrong. Ritchie doesn’t want to be involved either, so he is instructed to take Benjamin back out to the van and sort him out. Anna-Marie, true psychic with eyes for John, offers to look after Astra and Constantine sets up a protection circle for them upstairs. Judith will be working with John to prepare the spells, and since Gaz is the only one left and wants to help…John sets him off to find a living black cat outside for the sacrifice. John sets up the summoning circle and he dawns robes with Judith, he doesn’t believe that anything can go wrong. Describes casting spells as cooking, just have the proper ingredients and follow the recipe. Another thing said moments before disaster. Turns out Gaz was able to find a cat, but I’m fairly certain John just wanted him out of the way. But not that he is back, John tells him to let the cat free and join them. As they begin the summoning it seems that John has everything that he needs. He is able to cast out the right words and has the right objects, and calls on the demon to show itself in an agreeable human form to bend to their will. But as John finishes…nothing happens. He tries again calling to the demon Sagatana and even calling on the other lords of hell for it to obey his commands…and nothing happens. Unbeknownst to them the demon has appeared…upstairs with Anna-Marie and Astra. And it has appeared in the human form mimicking Constantine so that it may lure Anna-Marie out of the protective circle with the power of lust and then kiss her and infect her, causing her to jump to her death from the second story window. It then took over Astra’s body and walked downstairs. Constantine and the others were quite confused to see her, but Constantine made sure to hold them back from breaking the circle. They watched in horror as she called on the Norfulthing to come upstairs and then walked over to it and ripped its head off, killing it in the process. The demon completed its part of the task, but now it wants more. Here’s the big problem, the root of all power is in naming and the demon they so poorly summoned with their archaic tricks is NOT Sagatana. As the monster forms around them, Constantine gets the others to run so he may face this directly. He is confused and he has messed up and now the demon wants to take Astra straight to hell. Constantine tries to offer himself up, but because of how badly Constantine screwed up he has nothing to bargain with, his soul has already been promised to this demon. But if Constantine wishes to walk into hell with Astra in hand right now, they won’t stop him. Suddenly the gates of hell open up before them, and while holding Astra’s hand Constantine walls bravely forward. But it is impossible to walk into such a place with bravery. And with her still in his hand Constantine attempted to run, to flee the pits of hell and take her with him to safety outside all while his group outside is burning the club down. But right as Constantine runs out of the fire…all he is holding is what is left of Astra…her hand. Constantine yells for them to go back, they have to get her back, and Ritchie can’t help but remark that it looks like he never left. The demon calls from the flames, for them to remember that hell is their eventual home and this has only been a taste of things to come. Catastrophe from start to finish and Constantine only blames himself. The rest of his group paid their prices over the years with time in secure facilities, drug addictions, time with the holy orders, or whatever else and they have all died. Just as the demon promised he took all of them. But we all make mistakes and the demons’ mistake was finally telling Constantine his name!! Nergal. The Casanova club is where it started and this is where Constantine promises to finish it, the ground where he will take his revenge…as soon as he can work out how.
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January 18, 2015
Loved this issue. Favourite of all the issue I've read of hellblazer.
September 9, 2024
Glad to get back to the Bergerverse.
The art here is just so energetic and imaginative, and the writing has nice depth and introspection to it. I appreciate getting more of John's past, even if some of this material is pretty challenging.
The art here is just so energetic and imaginative, and the writing has nice depth and introspection to it. I appreciate getting more of John's past, even if some of this material is pretty challenging.
December 16, 2024
Damn. This was spooky. Now THIS is what I have come to expect from Constantine.
January 6, 2025
Finally we know what happened in Newcastle.
April 14, 2025
Pretty surreal.
July 28, 2015
The tension builds as we start to learn about Newcastle.
December 17, 2016
Me encantó ver esa diferencia entre el John joven y estúpido y el John actual. Uno de mis números favoritos hasta ahora.
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