Constantine: The Hellblazer #4

Constantine: The Hellblazer (Single Issues)

by Ming Doyle, James Tynion IV, Riley Rossmo (Cover Art)

Some very, very, very bad news sends John Constantine on a magical bender through the darkened streets of London. This one's gonna hurt in the morning.

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

23 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 9, 2015

About the author

Ming Doyle was born in 1984 to an Irish-American sailor and a Chinese-Canadian librarian. Since earning her BFA from Cornell University in 2007, she has depicted the sequential exploits of zombie superheroes, demonic cheerleaders, vengeful cowboys, and dapper mutants. TANTALIZE marks her first full-length graphic novel as well as her first encounter with a were-opossum. She lives in Boston.

Reviews

[Solace Winter · Rating 3 out of 5]

And back down we go.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Flashbacks show more of magic being used for music and the ethical questions surrounding it. We also get John in a drunken state as things happen.

[Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

As Constantine takes a drunken walk through his past, the ghost killer strikes again.

This issue continues to shed some light on Constantine's younger days and how the seduction of magic began to lead him down the path to the character we know in the present. Power and tragedy has followed him for a long time, and he spends a lot of time wallowing in that this issue. He is self-destructive, resentful and all so very human.

Not exactly an uplifting chapter, but a compelling character study.

[Chris Conley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. Still not feeling it.

[Mao · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a huge fan of the art style in this issue. Could be just a little bit more polished.