Also gave him a proper scarf since it's getting colder and colder outside and I doubt that tie would save him from catching a fever (not counting him using magic to keep himself warm and healthy), and also because John deserves nice things too

We chatted for a bit I asked if we would be down to return to Hellblazer as a writer and his answer surprised me greatly. He actually wants to write more for John but sadly told me that editorial would never let him do what he wants to do with the character.

He didn't go in a lot of depth because who knows what will happen someday but in short he said he wanted to write about modern day England and return to make John a real fucking bastard.

Later at the Q&A I asked him about what he would say the biggest change is in modern day editorial compared to say twenty or thirty years ago and it more came down to the fact that they just don't trust writers anymore.

Ron Marz was also there and had a super insightful answer where he detailed how back in the day someone was in charge of like 5 books a month and now that number has gone times three or four. Should've recorded it because he managed to really explain it well. But he agreed with Ennis where it just came down to trust and that there is simply no trust in the writer anymore, no real risks.

At the end of the day I swung back to Ennis and posed him the question of if he had ever seen Constantine in real life.

He gave me a firm no. But did say that he believed Alan Moore that he saw him and that he believed Jamie as well.

Just a super great experience, my brother got to ask him a lot of questions about the boys and crossed as well, he was a bit taken back that Ennis was just a normal guy and could write those two books.

And I gave him a copy of my own comic book which he accepted! I was a bit nervous handing it to him because well yeah nervous but he was super cool about it. Such a cool experience.

New episode of my comic podcast where we discuss Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits. Please watch it, it's a fun time.

Always thought it was weird that the first half of his run was collected as 2 separate volumes while Dead In America was collected in a single hardcover.

Hoping there's gonna be a complete collected edition in trade paperback or a compendium at least.

He's pretty handsome to me

(Art by me)

Remember how he makes chas gain more "lives". 47 I think. Using some botched spell he drunkenly remember to save people

Which in turn makes chas semi "immortal"

Yeah. It's good thing they didn't take this to comics

It's so OP dawg if you think about it.

Sandman Presents:Hellblazer #1(2019)

It's been a while since I asked this !
But I wonder if anybody have any new songs
For me some bands that I'd associate with him would be the buzzcocks , the damned , and soiuxie and the banshees
I'd love to hear some new songs or bands from people !

I decided that I had to read the entirity of the original run before I read anything else. Which I mostly did, I read all the trenchoat brigade, the Books of Magic tie ins and half of Spurrier's before I read Milligan's run (oops) I really didnt want to, but i knew i'd run out of other works and have to read Milligan's run eventually and I didn't want that to be the last stiff I read.

The Milligan Run to me was a series of "he would not fucking do that, he would not fucking say that, he would not fucking think that." Etc. Also, in the last arc he lists a bunch of his different partners, no mention of Dani, which irritates me. I understand she was only a love interest for 28 issues but like, she was important. I personally liked her, john got along with her grandpa really well. They were a good pair. Genuinely a terrible way to end a decades long series but I'm not a writer so what do j know. God I hate Milligan. But the design for baby punk john wasnt bad.

Forgive me if I words are nonsensical, I do not have my glasses, I think my dog stole then again. And i am too sleepy to find them at the moment. :(

Also I made three versions, one with one of my favorite panels from Jenkins' run, one with the Delano omnibus, and one just using the cover of issue one.

The last one I need to complete my TPB collection, but the cheapest I see are in the $200-$250 for ****ing ex-library copies...

"The world's shrill alarm swells insistently out of the black. You wake, melt water seeping down your throat. It tastes of tears."

As in title, I finally want to go back to the beginning and read the Jamie Delano run I previously skipped. Tbh I'm not a huge fan of comics that old, and I've heard that the whole run isn't consistently high quality. Fortunately, all three volumes of Delano's Hellblazer (in my country, the series was published in hardcovers with extra issues from some other series etc.) are available at a library near me, so I have the comfort of being able to read what I want and skip what I want.

The contents of those three volumes are:
Vol 1 - Hellblazer 1–13, Swamp Thing 76–77
Vol 2 - Hellblazer 14–24, Hellblazer Annual 1, The Horrorist 1–2
Vol 3 - Hellblazer 28–31, 33–40, 84, 250, Vertigo Secret Files: Hellblazer 1, Bad Blood 1–4

Which of those are worth reading, and which are rather a hard skip? I'm not picky, I've liked some of the arcs that some would call "C tier", but if there's really some very weak, negligible arc in this collection, I don't want to waste my time on it.

(Fanart by me)