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The star of JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK and HELLBLAZER--the longest-running Vertigo series--is unleashed in his own DCU title! Liar, cheater, manipulator...John Constantine is all of these, and yet he uses these skills and more to protect the world from the darkest corners of the DC Universe.
Collects Constantine #1-6
- Sales Rank: #244526 in Books
- Published on: 2014-02-18
- Released on: 2014-02-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.18" h x .23" w x 6.61" l, .57 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
About the Author
Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Jeff Lemire is the creator of the acclaimed monthly comic book series SWEET TOOTH published by DC/Vertigo and the award winning graphic novel ESSEX COUNTY published by Top Shelf. He also writes ANIMAL MAN, FRANKENSTEIN AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E. and SUPERBOY for DC Comics.
In 2008 Jeff won the Schuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist, and The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. He also won the American Library Association's prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal. In 2010 Essex County was named as one of the five Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade!
Recently named one of Wizard magazines 25 "rising stars", Jeff is also hard at work on a new graphic novel for Top Shelf called THE UNDERWATER WELDER, due in 2012. He currently lives and works in Toronto with his wife and son.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Great Hero and World Concept
By Mel Odom
I’m trying to settle into my summer (post-college semester) with reading and writing. So yesterday when I discovered that Constantine was indeed going to be making a small-screen appearance as a series in the fall, I thought about the first graphic novel of the “new” Constantine I’d picked up but hadn’t gotten around to yet.
The new John Constantine is the old John Constantine. Mostly. This is the version that’s been traveling around with the Justice League Dark series. I’ve read and reviewed the first two graphic novels of that series and loved them. Just discovered the third graphic novel was out, so I picked it up too because the last one ended on a cliffhanger.
This Constantine is ten years or so younger, has a romantic history with Zatanna (DCU’s backwards speaking magician), and has a lot of the same history as the original. The comic books are no longer called Hellblazer, dunno why.
The collection offers the first six issues of the series, led off by a three-issue arc that explores, more or less, Constantine’s present world. This arc is written by Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes, I guess as a sort of handoff from Justice League Dark that Lemire has been doing. The handoff is pretty much seamless in my opinion, because I had to go back to look where Fawkes took off on his own.
In this first arc, Constantine is presented at his best. He’s smart, selfish, and curious, and mostly out to save his own neck as things go bad. I enjoyed the ties back to Sargon the Sorcerer, one of the Golden Age’s heroes that I didn’t know about until the 25� 80-page giant comics back in the 1970s, although Sargon isn’t actually in this graphic novel.
This new Constantine appears to be a world traveler as well, globe-hopping with aplomb and knowing people everywhere. I like the idea a lot because it opens up all sorts of out-of-the-way places and world magics to climb into the coming stories. It only stands to reason because Constantine has access to the House of Mystery (see the Justice League Dark to get up to date on that).
I like the Cold Flame as a threat, especially with the new Sargon the Sorceress. I can tell they’re going to be around for a while. And I liked the confrontation with the Spectre, though I couldn’t tell exactly how this version of the Spectre fits into the new DCU. The Spectre is one of those characters I enjoyed a lot and look forward to.
The second story is a standalone, pretty much a-day-in-the-life-of scenario that works really well as it comes full circle. Constantine gets a chance to balance the scales here and there, and work his magic as he gets himself out of hot water with Papa Midnite, a voodoo-slinging character that looks to be another recurring personality.
As we see, Constantine’s on-again/off-again relationship with Zatanna is pretty much off, but it is nice to see her and get an idea of what she’s up to.
The next story is a two-parter that stars Constantine with Shazam/Billy Batson that on the surface looks like it wouldn’t work, but Fawkes does a good job of setting up all the whys and wherefores. Plus, we get a look at a Captain Marvel Constantine who is interesting to watch in action. I like the new Billy Batson too, and he’s kind of a chip off of the old Constantine because he’s not the St. Billy everyone remembers. He’s a kid who’s been in the foster system and gotten really jaded before he got his superpowers/magic. I do like the new hood he wears.
I’m also enjoying the fact that Constantine’s world tends to evolve and bring back old characters at the same time. In most comics series once a character is dead, that’s pretty much it. (Unless they’re brought back to life and turned into something really cool – like Winter Soldier.) In the last issue collected in this book, one of the victims of Constantine’s earlier machinations turns up from the afterlife looking for revenge.
For a time Constantine hovers on the brink of life and death, only to be helped by a former combatant. And that just sets us up for the cliffhanger ending.
One of the best things about this new series is Renato Guedes’ art. The panels and the pages simply pop. I also like the lighter treatment of colors everything is rendered in. It would be too easy to lose detail (or simply not draw it) if the strip was heavily inked. The colors here most of the time are a pastel hue that makes everything easy to see. Yet, even in these lighter hues, Constantine’s world is creepy and malicious.
I’m really hoping the new television series riffs off of this new series because there are a lot of fun characters in these pages.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Constantine: it's not hellblazer, but he's still blazing hell!
By krimbuskrogan
This is a very fun Constantine- straight out of the pages of the New 52s Justice Leauge Dark, replete with magic, intrigue, and the wry cleverness fans have come to expect from their favorite sharp dressed occultist. This book is not an update of the older Vertigo title, and isn't as dark, or esoteric and serious, as the original Hellblazer. But, it is FUN! It's a good comic- a well-done, beautifully rendered romp through a mystical world that walks the line between Lovecraft's vision of miasmal mist inundating a New England graveyard in a hour called the witching one and the accessible, well crafted comics of a modern master like Bendis, Fraction, or Remender. Basically,
No matter how you cut the (tarot) deck- this book is a must read, for fans of John and DC's darker side.
Jeff Lemire reinveted the ageing, hard-living magician- but in a manner sensitive to the charachters proper English heritage and penchant for trouble. Without any spoilers, I can say- fans of both the older books and the Constantine of the New 52 will find a book that is as familiar as it is innovative. Good stuff! A nice reboot for a great IP.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Less than spellbinding
By Sam Quixote
“Constantine” – right away you can tell DC have fiddled with the former Vertigo fan favourite by naming it after the atrocious Keanu Reeves picture from 2005. It used to be called John Constantine: Hellblazer and the name Hellblazer isn’t mentioned once in this comic. But it’s still recognisably the same character even though the character’s doomed soul isn’t mentioned as much in this reboot than it was before, and I’m not sure it’s once mentioned that he’s from Liverpool, just that he’s English (I’d have LOVED to have heard Keanu’s attempt at a Newcastle accent – if you’ve never heard it, google it and listen to how funny it sounds and then imagine the guy who mangled a British accent in Coppola’s Dracula attempting it. Woah!).
Instead, Constantine is portrayed as a supernatural Indiana Jones, globetrotting ahead of his evil magic rivals to collect the pieces of the powerful talisman known as Croydon’s Compass, a device that alerts its owner to the appearance of any mystical object first. As he travels to Norway, Myanmar and London, he’s chased by Sargon the Sorceress (daughter of Sargon the Sorcerer – imaginative, right?) and Mister E, and encounters other spooky characters like Papa Midnite, Zatanna and the Spectre along the way too.
The book does get a lot right by including a lot of magical action, duels, spells, and everything that should be in a story featuring sorcerers, spirits and wizards, and artist Renato Guedes does an excellent job of drawing these magical scenes really well. Also, Constantine’s devil-may-care, selfish, and roguish personality comes through strongly. Buuut… it’s just not a very interesting story. The first three issues at least have a story arc as Constantine gets the pieces of Croydon’s Compass, but it’s quite formulaic with few surprises along the way – how does Constantine get the pieces? Shows up at a shrine, cracks open a vase, and there it is. And then what happens at the end of the arc? He puts the compass on a shelf and sits in a chair. Oh. How…zzzz…. The remaining 3 issues are a bit of a directionless mess with issue 5 unfortunately being a Trinity War tie-in.
Trinity War was utter garbage but suddenly inserting Shazam into the series is just awkward, not least because it’s a terrible issue or that it has nothing to do with the series or even Trinity War, and is totally irrelevant. It’s just a cynical marketing trick to sell more copies, and fans of New 52 Shazam (there must be some) hoping for something out of the crossover with Constantine are treated to Shazam pushed to the side for the entire issue while Constantine fights a bad guy.
Jeff Lemire co-writes the first four issues with Ray Fawkes and it’s unsurprising that these are the best of the book with the last two containing so little moments of interest that I don’t think I’ll be following the series any further. Constantine, Volume 1: The Spark and The Flame is a decent book in that it’s accessible to new readers and Lemire/Fawkes have more or less captured the essence of the character, but it’s a shame that the series suffers from a lack of a strong narrative to give Constantine a sense of urgency or tension in his adventures. As it is, it feels like each issue of Constantine is the character treading water – not exactly riveting reading.
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