![]() ![]() I made the Batgirl comparison, but a comparison to DC's Harley Quinn series is also apt given the choice of moving forward by plot or fiat of character, Constantine: The Hellblazer seems to choose the latter every time. ![]() That's all before the last issue, a series of one-panel sight gags while Constantine plays exorcist-for-hire. But of those five issues, about a sum total of one issue is spent on flashbacks to Constantine's early life (perhaps not entirely unexpected), one is spent on Constantine tricked into the middle of a supernatural business dispute, and one spends an extended sequence on a tour of haunted New York. Going Down is ostensibly about a demon shadowing John Constantine and his travels from New York to London to try to get rid of it, over five of the book's six issues. It comes off for me like John Constantine by way of Batgirl of Burnside, which admittedly might have been exactly the tone this book was going for, but the complexity isn't sufficient to stand up to those halcyon days of DC's in-universe "Mature Readers" titles. ![]() 1: Going Down is mature and clever, but also meandering and perhaps a tad too hip. ![]() Ming Doyle and James Tynion's Constantine: The Hellblazer Vol. The "DC You" Constantine series is likely closer to what ardent Hellblazer fans are looking for, but my sense is the series still has a ways to go to achieve that Vertigo tone. ![]()
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