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Dick Mason said:
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Cleopatra was a 4 at best.

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Nick Obre said:
But this is not true at all. It was so Tim could sneak John giving the offensive British 2 finger gesture
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I'd expect the Marvel yanks to completely miss the V's even when they get waved right in their faces but Vertigo was british, right? Sneaky Tim, great anecdote. I quit Hellblazer after the Delano and Ennis run, did the book stay good after those? I might have to pick it up again.
 
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The Feline Solution said:
Cleopatra was a 4 at best.

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I'd expect the Marvel yanks to completely miss the V's even when they get waved right in their faces but Vertigo was british, right? Sneaky Tim, great anecdote. I quit Hellblazer after the Delano and Ennis run, did the book stay good after those? I might have to pick it up again.
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Vertigo was American, just an imprint of DC. It had a disproportionate amount of Brit writers and artists though.

And Hellblazer was good all through to issue 215, the one from the anecdote.
After Ennis, the next long run was Paul Jenkins who wrote a story much more mundane than the others, but I really liked it for how human it made John; I've heard others (in our own Comic Sperging thread, at that) complain that it was too much going to the pub and chilling with the lads. Then it was Warren Ellis, which was good but got cut short by the Shoot controversy I mentioned. Then it was Brian Azzarello, which was... I'll say it had high highs and fucking low lows. Then it was Mike Carey, who had I think the longest and most consistently good run in the book. And that's where it stops being worth reading. It functions as a great ending to the series if you wanna end it there.
After Carey comes Denise Mina, which was terrible and didn't quite get the character; then Andy Diggle, which was better but still not great and pretty forgettable; then it was Peter Milligan, who despite having demonstrated knowing how to write John during his Shade The Changing Man run, completely fucked the last stretch of the book. In some ways it's better than Mina and more memorable than Diggle, but it also wrecks every character it touches and has a terrible, terrible ending.

Aside from John being (horribly) integrated into DC continuity, and a bunch of not great attempts to restart Hellblazer, a couple of years ago they did this linewide revival of the "Sandman Universe", and they gave Simon Spurrier, who I usually like, the new Hellblazer book. I'm just starting it, so I don't know exactly where it's going, but while it's not terrible, I'm not loving it.
What I do really like is Spurrier's own original book, Damn Them All, which is a fucking transparent attempt to replace the Milligan ending with something more in character for John and his closest cast members, except with different names and a thin coat of paint to hide it. It's still being published, after selling well and getting upgraded from 6-issue mini to ongoing series.


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