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The star of JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK and HELLBLAZER--the longest-running Vertigo series--John Constantine has suffered a major loss at the hands of a former protégé. With his vault of mystical weapons now in the hands of his greatest enemies, John Constantine must battle with Sargon and the Cult of the Cold Flame with all he has left -- his wits! Review: Good, but patchy as a collected edition. - John Constantine is a great character and I came into this collected edition having read and enjoyed the earlier hell blazer series. What makes this collected edition tough is that you can’t help feeling that you’ve missed some of the storyline, which may have taken place in other titles. This feels like you’re reading a small chunk of a big DC crossover. It’s fine when you’re in the middle of it but it renders a collected edition a bit disjointed and pointless without the other tie in stories on hand. Review: Awful, absolutely not worth the time. - Awful. I will be quick so this doesn't devolve into a rant. 1. the story is just hard to follow. it jumps to following this cult which is sort of mentioned in the previous comics but now constantine is in a full blown battle with them. The story does technically follow but the pacing is awful. Then there is this battle after am implied sex scene which feels very out of place while constantine is still in boxers at which point we get a deus ex machina moment and he wins with a special blade never mentioned before and never mentioned again. So it is all set up for him in a strong position and he is going to fight this cult proper against a man named Ah. Nope the story flies forwards to fighting a creature named blight, the justice league destroyed and then constantine goes to meet God, then to a secret base, then back in forth in time. It is honestly a mess. A consistent story works if Constantine was fighting the cult, this mismatched group of stories destroys anything good about the series. Art - the scenes are overdrawn and visually confusing. The use of magic spells may look pretty but once you have ten characters, all of them casting spells and then action throughout that through time you end up just skipping the page because you don't want to spend a day dissecting this confusing mess. Aco should be ashamed of himself. Finally ties in with other characters. This being New 52 you enter into it as a reboot and it has to be judged on that merit. That being said it is awful. Characters come and go with barely a textbox to explain them and we are assumed to know who all of these characters are and all their powers and all the ways it could effect the situation. It just makes everything a nightmare as the story has so many deus ex machina moments from powers pulled out of nowhere that any sense of immersion or suspension of disbelief is practically impossible. Don't buy, stick with Hellblazer.
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B**B
Good, but patchy as a collected edition.
John Constantine is a great character and I came into this collected edition having read and enjoyed the earlier hell blazer series. What makes this collected edition tough is that you can’t help feeling that you’ve missed some of the storyline, which may have taken place in other titles. This feels like you’re reading a small chunk of a big DC crossover. It’s fine when you’re in the middle of it but it renders a collected edition a bit disjointed and pointless without the other tie in stories on hand.
W**N
Awful, absolutely not worth the time.
Awful. I will be quick so this doesn't devolve into a rant. 1. the story is just hard to follow. it jumps to following this cult which is sort of mentioned in the previous comics but now constantine is in a full blown battle with them. The story does technically follow but the pacing is awful. Then there is this battle after am implied sex scene which feels very out of place while constantine is still in boxers at which point we get a deus ex machina moment and he wins with a special blade never mentioned before and never mentioned again. So it is all set up for him in a strong position and he is going to fight this cult proper against a man named Ah. Nope the story flies forwards to fighting a creature named blight, the justice league destroyed and then constantine goes to meet God, then to a secret base, then back in forth in time. It is honestly a mess. A consistent story works if Constantine was fighting the cult, this mismatched group of stories destroys anything good about the series. Art - the scenes are overdrawn and visually confusing. The use of magic spells may look pretty but once you have ten characters, all of them casting spells and then action throughout that through time you end up just skipping the page because you don't want to spend a day dissecting this confusing mess. Aco should be ashamed of himself. Finally ties in with other characters. This being New 52 you enter into it as a reboot and it has to be judged on that merit. That being said it is awful. Characters come and go with barely a textbox to explain them and we are assumed to know who all of these characters are and all their powers and all the ways it could effect the situation. It just makes everything a nightmare as the story has so many deus ex machina moments from powers pulled out of nowhere that any sense of immersion or suspension of disbelief is practically impossible. Don't buy, stick with Hellblazer.
K**R
Hellblazer with a few story gaps makes for a confusing experience.
This was a pretty good collection, I loved the artwork in parts 4 & 6 but not a massive fan of the others. Watching Constantine try to be one step ahead of the Cold Flame was pretty cool in the first few issues but then the story jumped into a Justice League Dark story about the Blight. Really confusing knowing what was going on without the missing issues so a bit of an up and down collection for me personally.
C**Y
One Star
Badly written
M**N
Meh
Love Hellblazer. Read it in floppy form as a teen. This is a poor continuation, hope it improves.
D**K
Marvel style Doctor Strange
Rather than Vertigo John Constantine we know and love, this is Doctor Strange done in early 90's Image style. Nuff Said.
L**E
He is too pc, when I'm reading a comic/graphic ...
He is too pc, when I'm reading a comic/graphic novel focussed on John Constantine. Not Diet Constantine, just one calorie. Not Constantine enough
E**A
Sprunghafte Story, schlechtes Tie-In, schlechtes Crossover, wechselhaftes Art-Work
Ich bin kein 'Comic-Traditionalist' und halte Neu-Auflagen und Weiterentwicklungen von Figuren für legitim, bei Constantine geht das nach dem guten Auftakt der Reihe allerdings arg daneben und Constantine Vol.2 ist ein wirkliches Ärgernis, was vor allem an zwei Dingen liegt (Achtung es wird gespoilert!): 1) Die im Vol.1 aufgenommene Story, die auf die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Constantine und der 'Cold Flame' fokussiert, wird quasi unterbrochen, um Constantines Verankerung im DC-Universum zu unterstreichen, nachdem man die Figur aus dem Vertigo-Imprint heraus geholt hat. Es erfolgt eine Einbindung in das Forever-Evil-Event, die für mich nicht nachvollziehbar war. Während angedeutet wird, dass irgendwo das Syndicate gegen die Superhelden von Prime Earth kämpft, gibt es auf einmal auch einen Kampf der okkulten Welt, deren Energien abgezogen werden sollen. Wer die Forever-Evil-Story-Line nicht kennt, der hat wirklich keine Chance zu verstehen, worum es gerade geht, weil der Comic dazu nichts erklärt. Wer hingegen weiß, was es mit Forever-Evil auf sich hat, der hat immer noch kaum eine Chance, die Geschichte hier zu verstehen, wenn er nicht das gesamte Forever-Evil:Blight-Tie-In verfolgt. Wem die Begriffe, die gerade gefallen sind schon zu viel waren, der sollte direkt die Finger von dem Comic lassen. Forever Evil: Blight ist tatsächlich eher Ärgernis als gute Geschichte und scheint nur zum In-Szene-setzen der Justice League Dark zu dienen (für weiteres Interesse dazu, einfach mal "10 Reasons 'Forever Evil: Blight' Makes Me Hate DC Comics" googlen). 2) Und hier sind wir beim zweiten Problem: Das Crossover Constantine/JLD/Trinity Sin erzählt die Geschichte in den verschiedenen Bänden. Wer (wie ich, da ich die JLD eher uninteressant finde) nicht alle beteiligten Hefte liest, kann einmal mehr der Story nicht folgen, da sie so sprunghaft ist, weil ganze Teile der Geschichte in JLD weitererzählt werden, der hier besprochene Paperback-Trade aber nur Constantine-Hefte sammelt. Das macht das Ganze aufgrund der großen Erzähllücken fast unlesbar. Wenn man die größeren Events des DC-Universums als Crossover gestaltet, dann sollte man die Paperback-Trades anders veröffentlichen. Vielleicht liest man dann einige Sachen mal doppelt (wie z.B. in der 'Death of the Family'-Story der Bat-Familie), aber man KANN es wenigstens lesen. Das Art-Work des Bandes ist ebenfalls nur teilweise gelungen. Die Hefte in denen Aco als Zeichner fungiert, bieten mit 'Effekten' überfrachtete Panels, die eher unansehnlich gezeichnet sind aber vor allem auch oftmals verwirrend aufgebaut, dass man sich wirklich viel Mühe geben muss, um einen Eindruck zu bekommen, worauf der Zeichner eigentlich hinaus will. Der Rest ist in Ordnung, sieht halt anders aus als Hellblazer, aber das ist ja erstmal nicht schlimm. Wer Constantine Vol.1 gelesen hat und die Reihe weiterverfolgen möchte, sollte auf jeden Fall direkt die Trinity Sin und JLD-Hefte mitbestellen und dann parallel lesen, um wenigestens nachvollziehen zu können, was passiert - ich würde aber davon abraten, denn die Story ist einfach nicht gut.
J**G
Constantine at it again!
The story was intense and dramatic. The transitions are great and the art style is still amazing. Constantine is really shown to hold his own against the other "main" DC heroes. I highly recommend purchasing this copy!
E**O
Buen cómic
Es buen producto
D**R
While it is very hard to follow a crossover story ...
While it is very hard to follow a crossover story from only one title if you are only interested in following the Constantine title this book will do a passable job of letting you know what happened to John during the blight event. If however you are interested in the blight story in it's entirety then you should search DC comics blight and just purchase the whole crossover event bound in one book. If you are just following the blight story that will give you much more bang for your buck. You should however be aware that if that is the route you choose you will miss some of the Constantine issues contained in this volume.
E**U
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