Hellblazer #18

It's not quite as slowly paced as the original Simon Oliver year-long run, but it lacks the wild, violent surrealism that Tim Seeley brought to the title (he returns for another arc next month). Read Full Review

Aside from a fairly fun exchange between John and a scary, blue demon, this issue offers more of the overly-complicated, barely-explained stuff we've been getting for the last two issues. Maybe I'd understand it better if I were a Buddhist? This comic fails on some basic comic book storytelling necessities, and the blame for that falls squarely on editorial. Read Full Review

This doesn't quite work for me. The beginning is promising. The other dimension is cool and the scenes there are engaging and contain strong dialogue. But the rest of the story is a little disappointing; it doesn't live up to the exciting cliffhanger at the end of the last issue. And everything just happens too easily for Constantine because it's the last issue of the story. I usually want comic stories to be shorter but I think this could have used another issue to really raise the stakes. Read Full Review

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln

Jan 27, 2018

An average Hellblazer story that does nothing to want to stand out. It was neither terrible or good. Just kind of a thing that exists. One thing that has been in this entire run and never really bothered me till now is the censorship of cursing. Sure, you can take a guess and find out pretty easy what he is saying, but this is an adult series. How can other DC books have gore and adult themes in Rebirth, yet the former Vertigo series gets harmless curses censored? Someone please fix this.