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The darkest comics sometimes deserve the brightest light. If you're a site editor and your team inexplicably hasn't been covering #JohnConstantineHellblazer, email me. And if you/your team has existing JCH reviews that you want to get more attention on, email me. https://twitter.com/sispurrier/status/1295721801721483266
. @Newsarama on John Constantine: Hellblazer #1: "Vertigo may be shuttered, but the spirit of one of its icons is alive and well in the pages of John Constantine: Hellblazer...He’s back to doing what he does best, which is conning his way through shocking tales of British horror."
. @ComicBook on John Constantine: Hellblazer #2: "There’s ample violence, crude humor, and displays of prejudice in this comic, and it adds up to a vision of London that feels quite real, especially in the wake of the recent election."
. @AIPTcomics on John Constantine: Hellblazer #3: "it feels like Si Spurrier is taking a character that has been around for over three decades and is fleshing John out in ways that feel fresh and relevant to the times."
. @DCComicsNews on John Constantine: Hellblazer #4: "This is a near perfect issue. Readers of the original Hellblazer are sure to get a kick out of this. Beyond that, any comics reader in Britain really need to be reading this. Spurrier is crating masterful work here."
. @Comicsthegather on John Constantine: Hellblazer #5: "The Hellblazer world and mythos continues to expand. Spurrier manages to take our expectations and still shock us with twists and turns."
. @ComicsBulletin on John Constantine: Hellblazer #6: "Spurrier’s script is able to take a multitude of issues and give them a thorough and nuanced look within the span of a single issue. Hellblazer #6 is a reminder of the powerful storytelling the comics medium is capable of."
. @BlkNrdProblems on John Constantine: Hellblazer #7: "The kind of sobering gut punch you’d expect from a Constantine story with a 17+ rating. It’s the perfect script for an hour of television that can be consumed in 15 minutes without losing any of the magic along the way."
. @DCComicsNews on John Constantine: Hellblazer #8 "This is one of the best ongoing comics in 2020. Few comics really get a feel for contemporary life. John Constantine: Hellblazer is one of the most current comic books on shelves today."
Eisner Award-winning @wwacomics on The Sandman Universe Presents: Hellblazer #1: "It’s a comic about uncomfortable truths, in some senses, and capturing every gash, bit of stubble, and fleck of spit renders this abrasive honesty clearly on the page." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/01/the-sandman-universe-presents-hellblazer-1/
. @wwacomics on JCH #1: "the key to saving the future is to not be such a garbage bag of a person." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/01/john-constantine-hellblazer-1-dark-dangerous-and-delightful/
. @wwacomics on JCH #2: "There’s a particular kind of a delight to be found in watching characters do exactly the right thing, and another to be found in stories where characters only do the wrong thing." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/01/in-john-constantine-hellblazer-missteps-set-the-series-up-for-something-greater/
. @wwacomics on JCH #3: "When racism and xenophobia and nationalism appear in speculative fiction, it’s often allegorical. In John Constantine: Hellblazer, it’s not the angels or the tulpamancy that’s the real issue, it’s the racism, the hatred." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/02/john-constantine-hellblazer-3-features-a-remarkably-uplifting-ending-for-hellblazer/
. @wwacomics on JCH #4: "It’s a series deeply ridden with cynicism, dark and gross and seedy." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/03/appearances-are-deceiving-in-john-constantine-hellblazer-4/
. @wwacomics on #5: "...wears its relationship to the real world with pride by way of shame, pointing to the rotten things in our society and forcing us to stare directly at them..." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/04/john-constantine-hellblazer-5-perfectly-ends-an-arc-without-solving-anything/
. @wwacomics on JCH #6: "a story that is not only horrifying but explicitly political; its villains are demons and devils, yes, but aided by the literal powers that run our world’s most corrupt systems." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/06/john-constantine-hellblazer-is-full-of-complications-and-compassion/
. @wwacomics on JCH #7: "The horror is the actions that occur within—grisly violence, yes, but also the trickle-down of hateful rhetoric spewed by those in power to the working class, which begets the grisly violence." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/07/john-constantine-hellblazer-7-the-only-time-youll-read-gamete-package-in-a-comic/
Thanks to everyone at @wwacomics, and especially to @MelissaBrinks for reviewing every issue and to @CoriMarie21 for delivering them.
"The heart of Hellblazer has always been a deep and uncomfortable, sometimes clumsy, examination of political issues." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com
"The heart of Hellblazer has always been a deep and uncomfortable, sometimes clumsy, examination of political issues." https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com
