Things You Won't See In A John Constantine Comic Book Again

[Comicsfan101]

They should try put hellblazer in a trade format. Or reprint old stories

I don't know exactly how many, but there are several Hellblazer trades out there.

[Cavemold]

I don't know exactly how many, but there are several Hellblazer trades out there.

Maybe like the first ones? They also need reprint nightwing year one damn it

[thekeith82]

Maybe like the first ones? They also need reprint nightwing year one damn it

I believe there is, to use a technical term, a shitload

Amazon.com: hellblazer: Books

[Comicsfan101]

I believe there is, to use a technical term, a shitload

Amazon.com: hellblazer: Books

I know there are at least 6, but I didn't keep going far enough to see if we hit shitload, or just something closer to a metric asston.

[thekeith82]

I know there are at least 6, but I didn't keep going far enough to see if we hit shitload, or just something closer to a metric asston.

As far as I'm aware, the only significant chunk of it that so far remains unreprinted in English is the Paul Jenkins run. I think there might still be a couple of gaps here and there (No idea if the four issues Eddie Cambell wrote have been reprinted), but it's pretty well represented in trades.

[AsesinoBrujoMaldito]

Maybe Jim Lee will design it

The problem is not a new book. Just don't read it. The problem is teh cancellation of an old book, an irreplaceable book.

[juncruznaligas]

As far as I'm aware, the only significant chunk of it that so far remains unreprinted in English is the Paul Jenkins run. I think there might still be a couple of gaps here and there (No idea if the four issues Eddie Cambell wrote have been reprinted), but it's pretty well represented in trades.

I think the reason why the Jenkins and Campbell runs aren't being reprinted is that they weren't "horrific" enough, which is a shame as I always did feel Jenkins's touchy-feely new agey Constantine was a furthering of one of Delano's many handles of the character, not to mention a long (and much-) deserved rest from what had been a thoroughly relentlessly crass run by Ennis and Simpson and Dillon (not an insult). Which kinda explains somewhat the "I'm shagging a lesbian" moment excerpted here - I read this as a meta-commentary from Ennis (practically the entire SON OF MAN was), of the character "returning to form" after three or so years of being a new agey Arthurian Jack-in-the-Green whathaveyou (also paving the way to Ellis's run). Also missing: Darko Macan's couple of issues.

Also, Sean Phillips's (and Warren Pleece's) art in that run was very very beautiful.

(And I think that's the same reason why they're only just now reprinting the rest of Delano's run - not horrific enough, ie, not like Ennis's run)

But yes, everything else more or less is available in trades.

[thekeith82]

I think the reason why the Jenkins and Campbell runs aren't being reprinted is that they weren't "horrific" enough, which is a shame as I always did feel Jenkins's touchy-feely new agey Constantine was a furthering of one of Delano's many handles of the character, not to mention a long (and much-) deserved rest from what had been a thoroughly relentlessly crass run by Ennis and Simpson and Dillon (not an insult). Which kinda explains somewhat the "I'm shagging a lesbian" moment excerpted here - I read this as a meta-commentary from Ennis (practically the entire SON OF MAN was), of the character "returning to form" after three or so years of being a new agey Arthurian Jack-in-the-Green whathaveyou (also paving the way to Ellis's run). Also missing: Darko Macan's couple of issues.

Also, Sean Phillips's (and Warren Pleece's) art in that run was very very beautiful.

(And I think that's the same reason why they're only just now reprinting the rest of Delano's run - not horrific enough, ie, not like Ennis's run)

But yes, everything else more or less is available in trades.

I have mixed feelings about the Jenkins run. On the one hand, it's the point I started reading the monthly (somewhere around #100), so I'll always have a fondness for it. Phillips and Pleece on art is never a bad thing, either. That said, clarity of storytelling wasn't always high on the agenda, Kim felt like a bit of a retread of Kit (the ever-so-normal girl who wanted nothing to do with the crazy parts of his life that OF COURSE he would inevitably fuck things up with), and oh my god is there a law that every single British character in comics get associated with King bloody Arthur at some point?

It had its moments, but it's a long way from the comic at its best.

[JaHawk2009]

Vertigo/DC are currently reprinting it in chronological order from the beginning, with Volume 4 being released later this month.

[Joe Kalicki]

I had a look at CBRs estimated sales figures for September ( Sales Estimates for September, 2012 - DC Comics Zero Month Scores Big - Comic Book Resources ), and whilst Hellblazer came in at a little under 10,000 copies, the top selling Vertigo book (Fairest) is only shifting about double that. DC's top selling book (Batman) is shifting about 116,000. Mature readers books don't traditionally sell big (Walking Dead being the notable exception), and I'm pretty sure Vertigo has more or less always relied on books being perennial trade sellers rather than the monthly unit shifters. Yes, less than 10,000 seems low, but it's not like that's the whole story.

It's been obvious for a while the DC wants rid of Vertigo. It was pretty clear when Karen Berger didn't get a seat at the table when they had the management reshuffle. They've reincorporated all the former DCU Vertigo characters into the New 52, they've trimmed back on deals for creator owned books (to the point where otherwise rock solid DC man Grant Morrison is taking his creator owned stuff to Image), cut their range to almost nothing, and have Berger editing at least one New 52 book (Dial H). They've been winding it down slowly so as to not cause a fan outcry during a major transitional period for their big moneyspinners, but Vertigo is undoubtedly not long for this world. Tp be honest, on the balance of things, it's a minor miracle that Hellblazer is being allowed to go out on a milestone issue.

I don't see the evidence for DC wanting to get rid of Vertigo. They just announced a handful of new titles from Snyder and Lemire among others. Morrison said he took his book to Image because Berger wouldn't like the content and that he's working on new Vertigo titles too.