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By Garth Ennis<\/strong>, Steve Dillon<\/strong>, William Simpson<\/strong> & Peter Snejbjerg<\/strong> (Vertigo) This collection of modern horror-thrillers follows the episodic Tainted Love<\/strong> collection (ISBN: 978-1-5638-9456-5) which deals with John Constantine’s descent into drunken dissolution and recovery following his break-up with love of his life Kit Ryan (see also Hellblazer: Bloodlines <\/a>– ISBN: 978-1-84576-650-4). Now back on track, if not fully up to snuff, the modern Magus decides to visit New York City for a break but is too busy kicking back to remember just how many enemies he’s made over the years.<\/p>\n Caught napping, he is ensorcelled by Voodoo Overlord Papa Midnite (see Original Sins<\/a> ISBN 1-84576-465-X and Papa Midnite<\/a> ISBN 1-84576-265-7), his consciousness sent on an allegorical trip through a hellish metaphorical America accompanied by the corpse of John F. Kennedy, whilst his physical body is left to the tender mercies of the NYC Social Services system.<\/p>\n This sharp, satirical shocker is by Ennis and Steve Dillon, originally seeing print in issues #72-75, which also produced the gently elegiac short flashback tale ‘Act of Union’<\/em>, illustrated by William Simpson, which describes the first meeting of Kit and Constantine, back when she was the girlfriend of the charming dipsomaniac Brendan Finn.<\/p>\n Steve Dillon returned for ‘Confessions of an Irish Rebel’<\/em>, another soft tale (but with a few sharp edges concealed within) which sees a reminiscing Constantine on one last pub-crawl in Dublin with the ghost of Finn, before the book ends with ‘And the Crowd Goes Wild’<\/em>, drawn by Peter Snejbjerg, (Hellblazer<\/strong> #77) a tense and funny portmanteau yarn that clears the deck for the final confrontation with the demonic First of the Fallen, who’s been lurking menacingly since his defeat and humiliation at the end of Dangerous Habits <\/a>(ISBN: 1-56389-150-6).<\/p>\n Garth Ennis had a long, impressive and humanising run on Vertigo’s nastiest hero. This captivating, irreverent, chilling compendium perfectly shows why it is so fondly remembered.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a9 1993, 1994 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, William Simpson & Peter Snejbjerg (Vertigo) ISBN13: 978-1-84023-096-3 This collection of modern horror-thrillers follows the episodic Tainted Love collection (ISBN: 978-1-5638-9456-5) which deals with John Constantine’s descent into drunken dissolution and recovery following his break-up with love of his life Kit Ryan (see also Hellblazer: Bloodlines – ISBN: 978-1-84576-650-4). Now … <\/p>\n
\nISBN13: 978-1-84023-096-3<\/p>\n