The best comic book covers of the week – 04 November 2019

Posted on November 4, 2019

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If there’s one comic book series that I’m glad I got into when I had a chance to do so, it has to be Hellblazer. Here’s the scene: Local magazine chain CNA is having the mother of all comic book sales, and I decide to spend all my pocket money on a box of Hellblazer comics. All the good stuff is there from the time period, from Garth Ennis making John Constantine more human with his legendary run, Peter Milligan dialling up the weirdness and Jamie Delano’s benchmark-setting first run.

A mage who’s a bit of a bastard, Hellblazer comics at their best are part mystery, part supernatural adventure and all con-job as Constantine uses his wits to outplay the greatest forces that Heaven and Hell can muster against mankind. That’s a theme that’s looking to be explored once again in the latest Hellblazer run by Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell. Here’s the synopsis for the first part of their series:

John Constantine is back in London, back to his old tricks-and just in time, as things have become very dark indeed in his old stomping grounds.
A small-time gang lord has found himself dealing with a big-time outbreak of supernatural weirdness…and without any allies to call on and nothing left to call his own, John doesn’t have much choice about taking a paycheck from one of London’s worst, or accepting the help of one of the gang lord’s would-be foot soldiers. But what should be an open-and-shut exorcism turns out to be nothing but…and the author of this madness may just be getting started on their terrible masterpiece!

And here’s a sneak peek at the art!