The Hellblazer #16

The Hellblazer (Single Issues)

by Richard Kadrey, Carrie Strachan (Colorist), Jesús Merino (Cover Art)

“THE BARDO SCORE” part one! Another one of John’s magician friends has died—with a smile on his face and the words “thank you” scrawled in his own blood beside him. He wants to nail the killer and get revenge. But it happened in San Francisco so, above all, he wants to go home before he drinks himself to death in that loathsome city.

Genres: Comics

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 22, 2017

About the author

Richard Kadrey is a writer and freelance musician living in Pittsburgh, best known for his Sandman Slim novels. His work has been nominated for the Locus and BSFA awards. Kadrey's newest books are The Secrets of Insects, released in August 2023; The Dead Take the A Train (with Cassandra Khaw), released in September 2023; The Pale House Devil, released in September 2023.

Reviews

[Letande D'Argon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Surprisingly meh. Remember two previous issues? Forget about them. We're going back to much brighter Hellblazer. Which wasn't a bad thing to me, since I liked "Hellblazer Light". Unfortunately, we have a different writer again and I can't help but feel that Richard Kadrey turned Hellblazer into some sort of B-horror movie. That scene in church... pathetic... It's not completely awful and I want to know what'll happen next (aside from John getting into more troubles), but really, this one is bad. Feels more like a Scooby Doo parody than Hellblazer.