{"id":499,"date":"2007-06-18T07:42:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T07:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=499"},"modified":"2007-06-18T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T07:42:12","slug":"constantine-hellblazer-rare-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/18\/constantine-hellblazer-rare-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Constantine: Hellblazer Rare Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/rarecuts.jpg\" alt=\"Rare Cuts\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Various<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-974-3<\/p>\n<p>A solid representative selection of the life of John Constantine can be found in <strong>Rare Cuts<\/strong>, a collection of one-off stories that have managed to escape being reprinted thus far. Contained within these pages you can find <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Newcastle: A Taste of Things to Come\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> (<strong>Hellblazer<\/strong> #11) by Delano, Richard Piers Rayner and Mark Buckingham, which is something of an origin story for the character and sets the thematic scene for all the issues to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is the excellent two-parter <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Early Warning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> and <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How I Learned to Love the Bomb\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> (#25-26) by Grant Morrison and David Lloyd, a truly eerie tale of political subversion and occult possession. Delano and Sean Phillips produced <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Dead Boy&#8217;s Heart\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> (#35), wherein little Johnny Constantine has his first traumatic glimpse into how the world really works, and issue 56 by Ennis and Lloyd provides <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the Diary of Danny Drake\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>, a moody, chilling tale of the terrors of parenting.<\/p>\n<p>The last story is from <strong>Hellblazer <\/strong>#84 (<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In Another Part of Hell\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>), wherein our &#8216;hero&#8217; and his good mate Chas experience a truly macabre event featuring an old house, an old bag and a monkey in a wig. With a timeline and map of Constantine&#8217;s London to round out the package this is a wonderful way to introduce yourself to Vertigo&#8217;s most successful publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005 DC Comics. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Various ISBN 1-84023-974-3 A solid representative selection of the life of John Constantine can be found in Rare Cuts, a collection of one-off stories that have managed to escape being reprinted thus far. Contained within these pages you can find \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Newcastle: A Taste of Things to Come\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Hellblazer #11) by Delano, Richard Piers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/18\/constantine-hellblazer-rare-cuts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Constantine: Hellblazer Rare Cuts&#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-499","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-83","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}