GUEST POST Constantine #18 review by Colin Smith Part 2

In which the guest blogger continues a look – begun here – at how John Constantine, Hellblazer, is faring in his transition from DC’s Vertigo line to the New 52 range. If Ray Fawkes’ script is patently not ready for prime-time, then Jeremy Haun’s art is a baffling mix of surface gloss and structural confusion. […]

GUEST POST Constantine #18 review by Colin Smith

Why can’t the cool be distilled from the challenging, the attitude from the provocation, the pleasurable shiver from the unnervingly taboo, the comfortingly lad-thrilling from the tragic and the confounding? Why not John Constantine, super-magician? Skill, a cunning change of genre and a clear sense of purpose can transform even the most unsettling of characters […]

Batman 23.2 – The Riddler #1 review

Most of DC’s Villains Month specials aren’t the work of the regular creative teams, they’re an opportunity for them to skip a month, thereby getting ahead of the production schedule. And while this doesn’t automatically mean we’re getting sub-par work from the subbing writers and artists, it does mean they tend to be divorced from […]