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Hellblazer Vol. 11: Last Man Standing TP by Jae Lee

HELLBLAZER VOL. 11: LAST MAN STANDING TP
Written by PAUL JENKINS
Art by SEAN PHILLIPS, CHARLES ADLARD and WARREN PLEECE
Cover by JAE LEE
On sale AUGUST 12 • 336 pg, FC, $24.99 US • MATURE READERS
In these tales from issues #108-120, Constantine summons sinister beings with terrible consequences. Plus, cattle mutilations in Yorkshire lead John to discover that one of the villagers has become a werewolf, but this case of lycanthropy is only a sign of worse to come…

Hellblazer – 07. Jamie Delano, John Ridgway, Brett Ewins, Jim McCarthy.

Constantine is a character grounded in a tradition of British horror and the weird and unabashedly post-code era of comics.

Most mainstream comic fans only know of John Constantine from his brief appearance in the first book of Gaiman’s Sandman (and perhaps from his recent adaption by the mainstream DC universe); but he’s an old character, his first appearance was in 1985. Though his modern media incarnations (notably the mostly terrible film) tend to focus on Christian mysticism, he dealt with cults, world dragons, and mysticism from all over the globe before angels ever become chic. Though it seems unlikely, I hope that the new TV show will look towards the more global tradition, instead of the relatively narrow path of traditional Christian ghost stories.