![]() Fate/Nabu (just the helmet, there's no wearer) into taking itself out. Then there's the Future's End story where Constantine tricks Dr. He ends up being ripped apart by 2 spells at once and ending up in some crazy place with Robots.is it Hell, brought to you by Radio Shack? I dunno. There's a bit of an exploration of his childhood, where it appears he burned down his house, killing his parents.because he was told to by the voices (who turn out to be one of the Mages/Magic Dudes that he's fighting with/for/against/for shits and giggles). I do think it's hilarious to have one of the bad guys trapped in his soul sword or whatever, but I also think it's ridiculous that he can stop dudes with trinkets he imbues with powers.like coins or a knot in a piece of string. He's just working to turn everyone evil against each other and have them all take each other out so he's left standing and free from the Cold Hand or whatever. He's supposed to be with Zatanna, to make him better as a person, yet we don't see her at all. OK well it's better than the last one story-wise, but there's a glaring problem in that there was a huge Cliffhanger that didn't get resolved at the end of the last volume.the start of this volume is the very next issue.I fucking HATE crossovers where they get to the point that you can't go from issue to issue without doing research. I'll probably get it eventually, but can't say I will be looking forward to it. There is one more volume of this before the reboot after Convergence. The art is generally very good, and saves this book from being a one star The last issue was a Future's End tie-in, though, and it was confusing as heck and I don't even want to think about it. It's just sad, and Constantine ends up being not much more than a two-dimensional Joe Blow who knows some magic or something. Sometimes he's a smart ass, sometimes he's a pathetic whiny loser, but never is he a clever expositor of witty dialog. Well, not really, but you get the drift.įawke's characterization of Constantine is drab as well. Constantine is always ineffective, always gets caught in a mess, then one scribbly-line word balloon later, it's all dandy again. Throughout this book, Constantine is fighting to get out of the grips of the Blue Oyster Cult or something as silly sounding, and gets bounced around the world ferreting out other mages who are targeted for extinction by the cult. There are a lot of instances in this book where a character "speaks" in some language that is a series of curlicues meant to portray some ancient, mystical tongue, but it's silly and rather boring. It takes a very skilled writer like Alan Moore or Jamie Delano to write magical tales where the solution is not something literally pulled out of thin air. But let's be honest: most comic book mages use what essentially comes down to magical deus ex machinas to defeat the antagonists. Personally, I love the magic based heroes. I think it sucks it comes at the expense of the mature and insightful Hellblazer Constantine, but it is what it is. I don't have a problem with this John Constantine basically being a magic-based super-hero. ![]() This is the third volume of the New 52's Constantine. Maybe if you're a bigger fan of the New 52 Constantine than I am, you'll get even more out of it than I did? I didn't think it was awful, but I also can't think of a good reason to recommend anyone read it. ![]() Fate helmet, and tries to trick it into killing itself.Įven with all of the stuff happening that I didn't understand, I was able to fly through this one. There's a Future's End story tacked on at the end, and it was probably the best of these stories that I've read so far. There are double crosses, triple crosses, and quadruple crosses in this. Possibly because I'm not a longtime follower of his comics?Īnd then Constantine meets up with a werewolf guy (or whatever he's called), and tries to get him to remove Zatanna's spell. The plot is one long tussle between Constantine and mages that (quite honestly) I either didn't recognize, or only barely recognized. He's under their power, while simultaneously being under a spell from Zatanna to Be A Better Person. However, since I have no proof of that theory, I'm going to pretend that everything would have made perfect sense, if only.Ĭonstantine is fighting a group of baddies called The Cold Flame. More than likely, it wouldn't have mattered if I'd read it, though. My library didn't have volume 2, so I don't know what the hell happened to bring us to this point in the story. In all fairness to this character, he also didn't know who the Flash was till I started forcing him to watch the show with me.Īnd he still thinks he's a Marvel character! Bless his heart. Therefore, I'm counting him as a B-Lister. I asked my husband if he knew who Constantine was.
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