{"id":117,"date":"2007-03-29T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=117"},"modified":"2013-03-14T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T10:03:41","slug":"hellblazer-papa-midnite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/29\/hellblazer-papa-midnite\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellblazer: Papa Midnite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hbz.jpg\" title=\"Hellblazer: Papa Midnite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hbz.jpg\" alt=\"Hellblazer: Papa Midnite\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Mat Johnson<\/strong>, <strong>Tony Akins<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Dan Green<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Vertigo) ISBN 1-84576-265-7<\/p>\n<p>Papa Midnite was a character first seen in the premier issue of John Constantine&#8217;s own comic, but it was really the movie that sealed the deal on this solo outing for the Voodoo lord. Despite all that, however, this is vintage Hellblazer material, as a ghostly visitation leads to a trip down memory lane and we discover the deeply disturbing early life of the slave and his equally gifted sister, Luna.<\/p>\n<p>As ownerless slaves they scrounge out an existence in 18th century Manhattan, surviving on wits, bravado and a smattering of magic learned from their mother. Always seeking the main chance, they become <em>agents provocateur<\/em> in a slave uprising, the repercussions of which still challenge Papa Midnite three centuries later. The resulting climax of three centuries worth of bad karma and blood debts provides a good, old fashioned supernatural revenge thriller pay-off.<\/p>\n<p>Although no masterpiece, this is a solid addition to the <strong>Hellblazer<\/strong> canon, so followers of the franchise and horror fans in general should applaud another mystic anti-hero strutting his street-wise stuff in our grim and gritty modern world. He&#8217;d probably look better on screen, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2003, 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Mat Johnson, Tony Akins &amp; Dan Green (Vertigo) ISBN 1-84576-265-7 Papa Midnite was a character first seen in the premier issue of John Constantine&#8217;s own comic, but it was really the movie that sealed the deal on this solo outing for the Voodoo lord. Despite all that, however, this is vintage Hellblazer material, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/29\/hellblazer-papa-midnite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hellblazer: Papa Midnite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hellblazer","category-vertigo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}