Constantine, Volume 4: The Apocalypse Road

Constantine (2013)

by Ray Fawkes (Writer), Edgar Salazar (Illustrator)

Trapped on a dying world, John will have to pull off the most daring escape of his life if he's going to survive! Don't miss the debut of new series artist Jeremy Haun (Batwoman).

Collecting: Constantine 18-23

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Horror, Fantasy, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 2015

About the author

Ray Fawkes is the critically-acclaimed author of the comics and graphic novels Underwinter, Intersect, One Soul, The People Inside, The Spectral Engine, Possessions, and Junction True, as well as Batman: Eternal, Constantine, Justice League Dark, and Gotham by Midnight (DC), Wolverines (Marvel), Black Hammer '45 (Dark Horse), Jackpot! (AfterShock) and more. He is an Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster award nominee and a YALSA award winner.

Ray has been making comics for over 20 years, starting with and continuing the tradition of DIY fiction as well as working for many major comics publishers in the U.S. and Canada.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though I didn't love the story, I think Fawkes did a decent job with what he had to work with in this story.
Constantine isn't really a hero in the traditional sense of the word. I mean he's mostly a selfish dick, right?
Warning: Spoilers



Ok, with that in mind, what would happen if he were suddenly to find himself on an alternate earth. Earth-2, to be exact. And right now, it's falling apart.

So Constantine's first order of business is to get the hell off of this world, and back to his own. But the only way for him to do that is to find his Earth-2 doppelganger.
Why, you ask?
Shush. I'm getting to that part.



Ok, it turns out that Earth-2's Constantine is a great guy. As in, he didn't futz around with magic, and instead became a musician.
What difference did that make?
Apparently, all the difference in the world. This guy has everything and everyone that our Constantine wishes he still had. He's happily married to the love of his life, has his best friends ready to back him up, and both parents...still alive and well. Plus, E-2 Constantine is a genuinely good guy. In other words, he didn't sell his soul for a bit of flash and bang.



Our Constantine gets a glimpse of what could have been, and sees his chance to save the alternate people that he couldn't save in his world. He's just got to do something horrible to make it happen.



Yep. In order for his spell to work, there can only be one John Constantine.
And, sure, he could sacrifice himself, but....
Besides, the other John doesn't even know how to do any magic. So, yeah, he's definitely gotta be the one to go. *cough*
Needless to say, it doesn't go over well with his friends and family.



I'm almost surprised that this title hasn't tried to gussy John up and attempt to squeeze him into more of a good guy role. I'm not saying this is a must-read comic or anything, but it wasn't as sanitized as I thought it would be at first.
In other words, he doesn't get a Happily Ever After.



This title was mostly pretty mediocre, so I'm not sad to see it go. Still, kudos to Fawkes for making this last volume as interesting as possible.

[Danielle The Book Huntress · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was definitely pretty intense. At times it was hard to follow what was going on with the story. The artwork was good, but the layout was disorganized, which detracted from my rating considerably. Constantine is definitively anti-heroic in this volume. He makes an ugly, mean choice that makes him the de facto bad guy to parties concerned, even if he believes it's for the greater good. I asked myself a few times if I agreed with his decision and on one level, I can't see it working out better the other way. That doesn't make what he did any better. I didn't understand the magic at all, but maybe that's good. I am sure that I don't need to know how to do sorcery anyway. I am studying Revelation at my Bible Study and we just finished Revelation 9, in which the angels are sounding the trumpets, and Constantine makes a reference to that. Who knew I'd have this kind of crossover in this week?

This is still not my favorite New 52, but I keep picking it up. That must count for something?

[Lost Planet Airman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Binge read of an interesting but non-gripping series finale. Constantine on Earth 2 and his trials and tribulations there. In the end, we restore, basically, the saved game in New York and it is back to being a fringe anti-hero in time for the next series.

[Dev · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well ...thank god I'm done with this run lol. This one is a crossover with the main DC universe and something called Earth-2 and I don't know if there are like ...other comics that focus specifically on what is going on in Earth-2 or if it's something they just pull out of their asses when they want to do something different, but I don't think you necessarily need any information beyond 'it's an alternate version of characters you know'.

The problem is that it's just a boring-ass story line that we've basically had 50 times, even if they never put the Earth-2 label on it before. I mean Constantine has met alternate versions of himself before or that whole thing with his dead twin or whatever back at the beginning and it's always the same thing 'oh is our John the good or the evil John blah blah blah how great would things be if John wasn't so useless and selfish' and like ...can we ever get a new story line for John for fuck's sake? It's like there's a dart board somewhere that says 'Astra, alternate version of John, John's father' and a few other things and that's ALL THEY CAN WRITE ABOUT EVER. I just want something new instead of rehashing the same old plot points over and over again.

We did get this though:





Fight or fuck your clone? Why not both?

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're going to turn Constantine into a superhero, you might as well go full-bore, and that's exactly what Fawkes does here … and the result is wonderful. Not only do we get Constantine tripping over to Earth-2, but we also get him fighting for the life of two worlds. But this isn't just superhero silliness. Fawkes looks more deeply into the concept of the two Earths than just about anyone has, letting Constantine examine an entire life unlived. Then we truly get to see the measure of what makes him a man.

Meanwhile, we get the constant undercurrent that magic has a cost. Sure, Constantine is still throwing around spells that would turn Stephen Strange green with jealousy, but there's a cost to every one, and his decision to pay it is another puzzle piece in his character.

Finally, I have to give kudos to Fawkes for truly making Darkseid scary.

This definitely isn't Hellblazer, but it's a story every bit as good as most Hellblazer stories, focusing on a character that's clearly another version of our own beloved classic Johnny.

[devon marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This. This I liked. John's more in his Hellblazer seeing here, though it still jars me that he's my age. What. And when his dad of Earth 2 says "I lived through the gas riots of the 80s," it's like, NO, JOHN DID. GAH. While the art in this series is vastly improved from Hellblazer, that's about it.

[Scott Rhee · Rating 2 out of 5]

The DC New 52 series “Constantine” written by Ray Fawkes, based on the long-running Vertigo series “John Constantine, Hellblazer”, was an abysmal failure. At least, I thought it was an abysmal failure. Plagued with crappy artwork and a storyline that made no sense due to cross-over events and, well, essentially poor writing in general, “Constantine” was a pathetic shadow of the Hellblazer that fans knew and loved from the old Vertigo days.

Thankfully, this 2014-2015 series ran its course over 23 issues, published in four paperback volumes. Volume 4, “The Apocalypse Road” (compiling issues #18-23) was shit, but I’ll give credit where credit is due: it’s much less shitty than the previous three volumes. Fawkes almost redeems himself.

Apparently, these issues follow a crossover with “Earth 2: World’s End”, a series I did not read and have no interest in reading because I fucking detest any and all DC crossover events.

Basically, Constantine has found himself in an alternate universe where his alter-ego is actually married and is a somewhat decent human being. He also finds that his mum and dad are still alive, his girlfriend Maureen isn’t a heroin junkie, and he hasn’t ruined all his friendships. Of course, the world is literally ending, thanks to Darkseid, but whatever…

Constantine can save them, but there is a price to pay, because there is always a price to pay with magic. Of course, Constantine is willing to pay the price because he is always willing to pay the price, usually because it means he’s saving his own ass in the process.

This final volume isn’t great, but it’s not fucking awful either. I know, strong praise, indeed…

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hated the beginning of this story. Out of the blue Constantine is in Earth-2 as it's being destroyed by Darkseid. That's fine but give us some context. Or even explain the deal on Earth-2. I shouldn't have to read the Earth-2 title to know what's doing on in Constantine.

On Earth-2, John has made it as a rock star. His life is grand, his parents are still alive, etc. In his Vertigo run, Constantine was the lead singer of a punk band, Mucous Membrane in his teens before discovering magic. Constantine's look was based on Sting so it was an interesting juxtaposition. But then we get a bunch of issues where John has to decide to kill his doppelganger or himself to get the spell to work and how John's a bad guy. We all know what's going to happen so let's get on with it.

Jeremy Haun's art was too scratchy for me. It, along with this book was mediocre.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ray Fawkes ends this Constantine run on a high note as John deals with huge world-ending matters and it really worked. John ends up in Earth-2 as Darkseid's forces are almost completely taken over. He runs into that world's versions of people he knows and it doesn't go well, because nothing does for John. I thought Fawkes did a great job showing off how much of a bastard John is at the same time showing how smart he is. The art was mostly by Jeremy Haun was very good. Overall, maybe the best volume in the series.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of Ray Fawkes' Constantine falls flat, if I'm honest. The previous volume had some good issues and some poor ones, but was overall decent enough, but the series has been on the downturn since it started, and even then it wasn't a massive hit like DC hoped it'd be. I'm hoping that his Gotham After Midnight might be better, but I don't have high hopes at this point.

This final volume of Constantine suffers from enormous decompression as a story that should take maybe three or four issues takes six instead so that it can capitalize on being a tie-in to Earth 2: World's End for longer than it needs to be. What makes even less sense is that this Constantine doesn't tally up with the appearance of the same character in World's End itself; and you can't even argue that that Constantine is the Earth 2 counterpart, because he ALSO appears in this Constantine volume. So yeah, well done there.

The rest of the book is a lot of John whinging, to be honest. Oh woe is me, I got all my friends killed and now I'm doing it all over again. You're Constantine, this is par for the course. The shining light in this volume is Doctor Fate, who is deliciously evil for the most part, and yet shafted halfway through and never appears again. Well done.

The artwork by Jeremy Haun is decent, and the fact that he pencils all 6 issues rather than just two then disappearing like he did on Batwoman. His Constantine's face seems to get eaten by sideburns for the majority of his panels though, which is off-putting, but his Doctor Fate is excellent - I'd love to see him draw the character more often.

So if you want Constantine, check out all 300 issues of Hellblazer rather than this. If you want a proper Earth 2 series, go read Earth 2 or Earth 2: World's End.

[Sean Kennedy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good end to the current Constantine run - plus we got a rather perfunctory confirmation of John's bisexuality (which always seems to be dependent on the whim of the current scribe). I just wish someone would have the guts to actually let him have a boyfriend for once.

[Krzysztof Grabowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ostatni, czwarty tom cynicznego magika z petem w ustach, który jest sztandarowym przykładem egoisty, dbającym tylko o swój interes, a jednocześnie posiadający ten zawadiacki i uwielbiany przez kobiety charakter i błysk w oku. John nie ma łatwo. Chroniąc się przed pradawną magią, która zwyczajnie by go zabiła, trafia wskutek kilka zbiegów okoliczności na inną Ziemię. Taką, na której nieboskłonie dumnie pręży się Apokalips i widmo zagłady jest bardziej niż realne. Kłopot w tym, że ucieczka z Earth-2 nie będzie tak łatwa, jak dostanie się w to zapomniane przez Boga miejsce.

Początek ja na Fawkes jest bardzo zaskakujący. Przysłowie brzmiące następująco” „z deszczu pod rynnę” pasuje tu jak ulał. Magik Wotan, znacznie potężniejszy i bieglejszy w tej materii zatrzymuje Johna i chce się za Jego pomocą wydostać z ginącego wymiaru. Najszybszym sposobem jest użycie Constantine’a jako przekaźnika. Szkopuł w tym, iż ten przekaźnik raczej tego nie przeżyje. Grając na ego przeciwnika Johnowi udaje się pewien zabieg, który jest piekielnie efektowny i … Mnie osobiście zatkało, a także nastawiło pozytywnie na resztę lektury. Szkoda, że takie sztuczki autor zostawił sobie prawie na sam koniec. Potem mamy nieco oddechu, bowiem widzimy jak nasz miejski magik rusza na poszukiwania… Rodziny, jaka z pewnością może żyć w tej wersji Ziemi.

I po drodze do celu mamy fenomenalny motyw z opuszczonym autem. John wiedziony „resztkami” jakiejkolwiek przyzwoitości postanawia sprawdzić co stało się z dzieckiem, które na bank musiało być na tylnym siedzeniu pewnego wozu. Jest to wątek bardzo sugestywny z gorzkim zakończeniem. Tego mi brakowało w tej serii, przez co ostatni tom jest dla mnie jednocześnie tym najlepszym w ramach serii New 52.

Na końcu podróży Constantine spotka tych innych rodziców i innego siebie, który ma wszystko to czego nie ma dobrze znany nam cwaniaczek. Dobre życie, żonę, bliskich. Jednocześnie trzeba uciekać z tej rzeczywistości, bowiem wojska Darkseida właśnie przypuszczają atak. Szkopuł w tym, że John nie może otworzyć wrót i ratować rodziców czy przyjaciół, dopóki żyje on, albo ta jego wersja z Earth-2. Magia wymaga poświęceń i kosztów. Niekiedy są one tak wielkie, że trudno się z nimi pogodzić. Ten aspekt był zaskakująco bardzo emocjonalny. Bardziej niż kiedykolwiek widzimy emocje i rozterki na twarzy tego zgorzkniałego cynika. Walkę z sobą samym. Zabić siebie czy kogoś, tyle że druga strona jest dobra i na wskroś zasługuje na życia. Sam magik już niekoniecznie. To główne pytanie, jakie stawia tutaj autor. W sprawę macza dodatkowo swoje palce Doctor Fate, co tylko komplikuje wydarzenia.

Końcówka jest sugestywna, ale i daje szansę na powrót do normalności. Do siebie samego dla bohatera. Ale to co mi się podobało najbardziej, to ten jeden ostatni trick, sztuczka jakiej nie powstydził się najlepszy mag w historii tego uniwersum, a która niewątpliwie uratowała tą jedyną, „właściwą” Ziemię przed zagładą. Nie była może wyrafinowana, ale genialna w swojej prostocie. Taki jest też cały ostatni tom.

Można nieco psiopczyć na to jak wyglądają miejscami kreski, ale całość relatywnie jest naprawdę spójna, a efekty powiązane z magią są chyba już zwyczajowo, najładniej wyglądającym elementem albumu. Seria Constantine nie miała szczęścia, jeżeli chodzi o New 52. Ale jak to się mówi: „prawdziwego mężczyznę nie poznaję się po tym jak zaczyna, a jak kończy”. John dał radę. Bardziej takie 3.5/5, ale da radę naciągnąć. Tym bardziej, że w zasadzie omawiany tom można czytać w oderwaniu od reszty, bo kwestię Kultu Zimnego Płomienia pozostawiono sobie samej (a szkoda).

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Apocalypse Road is the 4th and final installment of New 52's Constantine's run. Instead of dealing with the Cold Flames, John found himself on Earth-2 where he finds his alternative self: happy, healthy, a successful musician with friends and family to love him, and no magical involvement. Everything on Earth-2 is the better version of his life. But there is the problem of Apokolips, who is absorbing everything in this world, draining the humans to feed his energy. Constantine is trying to save them, to take them to his reality where they would be safe from the ongoing slaughter of Apokolips. However, there is a price, since there are two versions of John, one of them must die in order to not warp the realities together. Secretly, John is awaiting to kill his better half but he hesitates. Clearly, this is everything the OG John wished he had, and killing other John may imply something more deadlier for everyone if he does.

Apparently this volume is a crossover with the timeline of Earth-2 saga, which explains why there is nothing from volume 3 involved over. It's not bad, I enjoyed the story of clashing realities, but I wished there was some kind of connection to the other previous issues on here, which are only mentioned as afterthoughts. I am rather still confused on how Dr. Fate fits into this as well, as he still tries to persuade John to join forces, though he gets called out. The art is new one on here, though I rather like it well enough. While it ends with his plans pulling through, the ending really leaves a lot left open since there is no genuine closure for both either fighting with the Cold Flame or even with the aftermath of the survivors losing alternative John. Hence the 3 stars.

I guess the mixed reception/unpopularity of the New 52 Constantine made the series to be cancelled, as the new incarnation is a reboot again. Doing so, like I said, left a lot of the conflict that went on in these 4 volumes opened with no closure, though the conclusion is neither a cliffhanger much either. It's too bad, as I would've liked to see how things go down from here as there's more to Constantine's story than what was presented and I highly doubt the Hellblazer reboot would continue this saga off. Overall, this was an okay volume, but a somewhat weak ending to a series that couldn't live long enough to flesh out a proper saga.

[Max · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this to be a surprisingly enjoyable volume and probably one of the best things I've read on my dive into the Dark part of the New 52. This is a story that involves big sweeping multiversal events and a close look at Constantine's history and personality at the same time.

At the end of last volume, Constantine was hit by multiple simultaneous spells that did quite a number on him and dumped him somewhere surrounded by monsters. Turns out, that somewhere is Earth 2 and the monsters are parademons from Apokolips. Tying into the Earth 2 stuff that occurred as the New 52 wound down, Constantine suddenly finds himself on a world rapidly spiraling into hell as it's ripped apart by the forces of Darkseid. And yet ironically there's a shining bit of hope here, as Earth 2 Constantine is actually a perfectly nice bloke with a rock band and living friends and family. The guy is even married! It's a really fun concept to have our John Constantine come face to face with everything he could have had with a better life at the same time that that life is going right to hell as a result of things that are no fault of either John.

Of course this is a Constantine comic so nothing can go well. Once the two Johns are united, which takes a little while as Earth 0 John gets to see some nasty stuff on the Bad Road Trip of the Week, it turns out that while they can attempt to escape back to Earth 0, the spell won't work properly while there are two John Constantines around. So, of course, the John we've been following the whole time murders his doppleganger. I admit I'd been feeling like a lot of the time John's status as a total bastard was a bit too much tell and too little show but boy did this fix that. Things go further downhill as John tangles with Earth 2 Doctor Fate (nicely explaining his actions in the Future's End tie in) and even Darkseid himself.

In the end, this doesn't really feel like it fully wraps up the arc that the comic had been building for the first three volumes - the Cult of the Cold Flame is never defeated and I legitimately have no idea if they ever appear again in the next version of the DC universe. But the author does a good job of returning John to a reasonable status quo for the next series to pick up on while delivering a really enjoyable and emotional storyline. Again, I can't speak to how this stacks up against the proper Hellblazer stuff, but honestly I feel like this is the volume to read if you want to see John's time in the New 52 - I don't think it'd hurt much to skip the first three and just check out this.

[Hugo Emanuel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Collects the last issues of this short-lived title, which for some reason, was derailed towards becoming a tie-in/crossover story to "Earth-2: World's End".

While the new52 Constantine title tended to struggle somewhat with modernizing and sanitizing the character of John Constantine for the mainstream DC universe, the worse moments of the title were when at a certain point it became comprised of essentially crossover issues that were incomprehensible when read outside the stories they tied into.
Altough for a series of issues it kind of became more stand-alone, here it gets once again shangaied into tying into another series, namely "Earth2-World's End".

Suprisingly, though, Ray Fawkes, the writer on the issues here collected, actually manages to pull off a very decent and chohesive story, despite being shoehorned with the Earth 2 events.
There are some pretty intense moments, and a decent story, but once again, John's characterization faulters, as he becomes a bit too much of a bastard towards the last three issues, well outside his usual purvey. A specific action he takes doesn't feel really warrented or properly justified, and it feels like the writer grossly misinterpreted the idea that Constantine does "morally dubious things for the right reasons".

Despite that grating choice, its still a good read, and far better than the title it ties into, and can be read as a stand-alone.

While there are some intense moments, and the writing is actually good, it still leaves the sour taste of mischaraterization in the soul for a log time fan of the character, like I happen to be.

[Jacqueline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Constantine Volume 4: The Apocalypse Road is the fourth and unfortunately, final volume of the New 52 Era John Constantine (Hellblazer) comics and graphic novel series. Fortunately, Constantine has been introduced again in DC Rebirth - but the first graphic novel collection of the newest series won't be available until April. DC has, however, also collected the various Vertigo Constantine stories - so there is more to look for coming or available if you like the character and want to see different takes on him.
This story picked up after the cliffhanger from the last volume. John finds himself on an alternate Earth - and Earth where "John Constantine" isn't a Mage of the Third (or as John says in this volume) Fourth Order. Rather, this alternate John is a rock musician. Mage John's parents and his friends are still alive as well. Mage John is shocked by all this. However, no one is likely to survive for long - this alternate reality's Earth has been invaded by aliens, aliens using an atmospheric gas to produce feelings of doom, depression, and helplessness to make it easier to subdue the population. And once that is done, the planet will be turned over to Darkseid to destroy at his leisure.
As John's coming to terms with that, and meeting himself and his friends, and seeing his other path as potentially better but doomed - they realize he is a mage. At first full of anger, everyone from John's parents to his friends to the other version of John begs him to help them escape. Reluctantly, John agrees, but explains that Magic Always Has A Price. Unfortunately, no one really understands what that means. Mage John ends up paying a terrible cost, and makes a horrific sacrifice. However, his spell works and nearly everyone makes it back to our Earth. Unfortunately, Darkseid follows. John then pulls out the second spell in his pocket, metaphorically speaking. With it he manipulates Darkseid and saves our Earth. Again, the costs are very high.
Though at times this last graphic novel in the series felt a bit rushed; as if, knowing the series was cancelled they tried to wrap-up any loose ends. But it's still one heck of a roller coaster ride and nothing that happened felt out of character. In fact, some of the darkest moments of the book were that devastating because they felt so realistic to the characters and their behavior. I highly recommend Constantine both this book and the entire series, and it's companion series, Justice League Dark.

[Garrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestly, I think this was the best of Ray Fawkes run, no super heroes, no crossovers, just John Constantine being the prick we all know and love, I love the heavy themes of the cost of magic in these issues, it’s always in the back of the mind as it’s a staple of the series, and most magic stories. But to actually get to see how normal people are appalled by what his life has been for as long as he can remember, and not only that, it is alternate versions of his loved ones. Just when you think he can’t be that much of a bastard, he proves you wrong. Overall really good story, Art is consistently good, and overall best of the new 52 Constantine I’ve read so far.

5 helmets of fate of 5

[Jesse Baggs · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another not very good Constantine story that’s still better than most Constantine stories.

“The Apocalypse Road” is from a semi-recent reboot of the character, which ended John Constantine’s long-running “Hellblazer” series and continuity and started over again with a self-titled book. “Constantine” was also officially part of the DC Comics universe, which for practical purposes meant the character would cross over with the big name superheroes rather than just the occasional magic characters like Zatanna and Swamp Thing.

And that’s exactly how this volume works: Constantine running amok in the DCU. Some of it was quite fun.

[Dennis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chyba najlepszy z tomów w tej serii (chociaż story arc w pierwszym bardziej mi się podobał). Na szczęście to już koniec tego bałaganu. Podsumowując moją przygodę z tym runem, muszę powiedzieć, że był to jeden wielki patchworkowaty bałagan, na który ta postać nie zasługuje. Ciągłe crossovery i eventy przerywające serię, oraz ucinające się historie odbierają całą zabawę. Na szczęście te tom ma jeden spójny story arc (i oprawę graficzną), który był całkiem nieźle napisany.

[Evalyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a tough volume, a lot of sorrow, heartbreak, and Constantine being the broken but clever man that he is. Finding himself pulled into an alternate universe where everything is different, he finds his parents, first girlfriend, and friends are alive. The catch is that the apocalypse is happening and the human race has fallen into chaos. John, like usual, gets out of it, but not before sacrificing some lives along the way.

[Robert Hudder · Rating 2 out of 5]

Better than the previous volume. Something felt off. These costumes, as he says, seem to take away from the grit that is JC. It has always been a bit of a fantasy but connected more to working class. This series reduced that to a coat, cigarettes and mentioning it.

Not cool. And the whole Earth-2. Too big of a story for JC.

[Adrian Santiago · Rating 3 out of 5]

La mejor manera de apreciar a Constantine es no leyendo sus historias. En verdad que es un (sexy) bastardo.

la historia estuvo más o menos, no mala pero tampoco es como muy... no sé. Aceptable, diría. Y no entiendo qué pasó entonces con Worlds' End y la cosa que Dick le entrega para cuidar.

La parte de "batalla" estuvo genial. Eso sí me gustó mucho.

[Julien V · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ugh.

So they heard the criticisms: previous issues are too confusing, they're just action with no description, nothing makes sense, etc.

And then they decided to make this volume very slow paced, repetitive, "let's explain everything twice".... it's just boring and predictable, really.

[Joshua Sloan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series really pulled itself back from the brink after the second volume's mess of unfinished crossover plots. A solid final chapter that's in line with the Constantine being written in this series.

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Constantine vs Darkseid. One for the ages

Constantine is really going through the wringer. Rescued his old life from Esrth 2.0 and boy does it not go as planned as Darkseid tracks him down. Great story and ending. Top stuff.

[Lila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Intriguing cross over. The beginning set up was delightful. As always, Constantine is a rotten sod.

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

At least it's over, I guess.

[Paweł · Rating 3 out of 5]

Zdecydowanie najlepsza część tej serii. Odcina Johna od bieżącej fabuły i przenosi go na Ziemię 2, gdzie musi podjąć kolejne trudne decyzje aby przeżyć.

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a messy series that seems to be all over the place with it’s story telling. I love the character but not so much this series.

[Mao · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better than the rest volumes of this series