It starts off grounded and very slow, but then picks up from issue 2.5 onwards. I loved how they setup the events in this and how they explore Constantine's personality, especially his weaknesses, in this story. The ending pays off quite well, though it felt a little empty, to be honest.

Overall, a good story full of twisted characters and events. Just not too memorable. ( )

Yeesh, that was a disturbing volume of the Constantine series. It's got pretty much everything in it: magic (the negative dangerous kind), betrayal, rae, murder, violence against children, mob ars, and to top it all off the anti-christ. Thank god Constantine's luck holds and he managed to off the little demonspawn before his "father" actually turns him into the next Messiah for demonkind.

Even though this was one of my least favourite Constantine graphic novels due to the storyline, I really enjoyed John Higgins' artistic style. There are moments of darkness and despair where the colouring reflects the negative aspects of the story, but these are offset by normal colour schemes and some that are strangely golden. Unfortunately, these don't seem to correspond properly with the story, but I found them to be more aesthetically pleasing than some of the previous artistic styles from the series. ( )

Hilariously disgusting and over-the-top. Some of Ennis' best work on the title. ( )

While I loved Ennis's story arc for this one, I did find the running monologue and Constantine's occasional turn to the reader and breaking the fourth wall distracting. It wasn't bad enought to break the story, but it was noticible, and detracted from total immersion in the tale. In addition, the tone of some of the art doesn't have the right feel for a Hellblazer story, particularly this artist's reimagining of Constantine himself as having more chiseled, cleaner features. In my mind, Constantine shouldn't have his rough edges smoothed and the effects of hard living softened. ( )

This probably has the most gross-out scenes of any of the other Constantine collections I've read thus far. The story's well done, though, and parts of it are absolutely hilarious in a sort of macabre way. ( )