{"id":462,"date":"2012-04-15T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/theculture\/2012\/04\/15\/john-constantine-hellblazer-phantom-pains-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-11-19T18:59:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T18:59:26","slug":"john-constantine-hellblazer-phantom-pains-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/theculture\/2012\/04\/15\/john-constantine-hellblazer-phantom-pains-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"John Constantine: Hellblazer – Phantom Pains (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This book collects issues 276 to 282 of the ongoing Hellblazer<\/span> series. It was again written by Peter Milligan with art on the main story from Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Landini (one chapter has art from Gael Bertrand<\/a>) and art on the two single issue stories the bookend the volume was by Simon Bisley.<\/p>\n

Married life is not running smoothly for John Constantine. First his new bride finds his wound from his amputated thumb disgusting and runs off to console herself with a demonic spirit. Second his home-grafted thumb, taken from a dying car crash victim, has a life of its own and gets him involved with its previous owner’s affairs. And finally his niece, Gemma, is seeking revenge on John for the abuse she suffered at his wedding that she thinks was carried out by him. All of this while trying to avoid becoming indebted to his gangster father-in-law.<\/p>\n

Another enjoyable volume from Peter Milligan, though the two single issue stories are filler and pretty lightweight – which is a shame as the second concerning the demon Julian and his abuses of the prisoners could have been really interesting if it had been given more space to develop the tale properly. The main story has threads that don’t really go anywhere but overall it is very good with yet another person close to Constantine paying the price for his deviousness. The hints in this tale are that John might be about to head out on another of the dreaded road trips, possibly to America if he can’t put off his father-in-law, so that is something I am not looking forward to as I didn’t really like the last one when Brian Azzarello was the writer. But hopefully Milligan can pull it off as he has taken the character back to his roots and created some of the most entertaining stories for a long time in this long-lived series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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