Constantine: The Hellblazer #7

Constantine: The Hellblazer (Single Issues)

by Ming Doyle, Riley Rossmo (Penciller), Ivan Plascencia (Colorist)

The team-up you demanded-and Constantine dreads! The increasingly deadly magical weirdness of New York City continues! Central Park has come to life-and it’s killing New Yorkers! Sounds like a job for Swamp Thing, but unfortunately for the plant elemental, he’ll need to enlist the help of the person he hates more than anyone else: John Constantine!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Fantasy

20 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 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

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally, Swamp Thing is in the picture. John's interactions with him were humorous. Having him call Swamp Thing Shrek was a nice touch.

[Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

People are dying in Central Park and the Swamp Thing has lost contact with the Green and can't enter. He turns to Constantine for help.

This is a pretty straight-forward story. John actually helps out, and with only one slightly crappy move everything gets pretty well taken care of. No unusual twists, no typical John betrayals, just a standard team-up. I suppose that in itself should be kind of refreshing, but it also wasn't really exciting. It seem that there's some force building magical power in New York, though, that speaks to a larger story, but that's for future issues.

Solid magical team-up, but nothing spectacular.