{"id":1298,"date":"2007-10-25T06:40:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T06:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2007-10-25T06:40:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T06:40:53","slug":"hellblazer-hard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/10\/25\/hellblazer-hard-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellblazer: Hard Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/hellblazer-hard-time.jpg\" alt=\"Hellblazer: Hard Time\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Brian Azzarello<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Richard Corben<\/strong> (Vertigo)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-255-2<\/p>\n<p>John Constantine is many things: Magician, con-man, world-saver, hero, villain, thief. He&#8217;s a chain-smoker who&#8217;s tricked the doctors and the Devil, but can&#8217;t ever seem to keep a friend. Not as friends and usually not even alive. He&#8217;s walked through a world of death and horror, leaving a clear trail of bloody footprints.<\/p>\n<p>So when he ends up in a grim high security jail in the USA, nobody&#8217;s surprised. But in a universe of deadly men and extreme factionalism nothing can cow him and nobody can divine his intentions.<\/p>\n<p>The brutal cage-behaviour of deadly men with nothing to lose is as nothing to the subtle horror of John Constantine unleashed and teaching scum what intimidation and punishment really means\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Brian Azzarello and alternative comics legend Richard Corben plumb the darkest depths of humanity in this savage prison drama, blending mystery, thriller and horror genres and presenting a compelling example of just how nasty a comic-book can get.<\/p>\n<p>Superb storytelling, but not for the faint-hearted, easily shocked or under-aged.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2001 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian Azzarello &amp; Richard Corben (Vertigo) ISBN 1-84023-255-2 John Constantine is many things: Magician, con-man, world-saver, hero, villain, thief. He&#8217;s a chain-smoker who&#8217;s tricked the doctors and the Devil, but can&#8217;t ever seem to keep a friend. Not as friends and usually not even alive. He&#8217;s walked through a world of death and horror, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/10\/25\/hellblazer-hard-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hellblazer: Hard Time&#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":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-hellblazer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-kW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","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=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}