{"id":31536,"date":"2012-11-08T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=31536"},"modified":"2012-11-13T13:46:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:46:39","slug":"hellblazer-cancelled-john-constantine-joins-dcs-new-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/hellblazer-cancelled-john-constantine-joins-dcs-new-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellblazer cancelled, John Constantine joins DC’s New 52"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Constantine on the cover of Hellblazer<\/em> issue 225<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As of the New 52 erasing the unbroken runs of both the august Detective Comics<\/em> and Action Comics<\/em>, DC Vertigo’s flagship title, Hellblazer<\/em>, starring trenchcoated mystic and original Swamp Thing<\/em> supporting character John Constantine, was the company’s longest-running continuously active title.<\/p>\n

Well, no more. Hellblazer<\/em> issue 300, due February 2013, will be the last outing for the original hard-drinking, snarling sorceror\/conman, to be replaced by a more PG-13 New 52 title, Constantine<\/em>, depicting the younger character depicted in Justice League Dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At the risk of turning into everyone else on the internet, Jamie Delano and\u00a0Richard Piers Rayner’s Hellblazer<\/em> issue 11 and 12 (collected in the first graphic novel Original Sins<\/em>), where John returns to Newcastle to confront his literal and proverbial demons, wasn’t the first comic-book I ever read, but it was definitely the moment when I became aware of the sheer storytelling power of the medium.<\/p>\n

I loved the idea of superheroes, and the stylised worlds and ideas they represented, but those early Hellblazer<\/em> issues \u2013 and later ones too, the recent run with Peter Milligan and artist Simon Bisley is a definite renaissance for the title \u2013 seemed so dark and real and earthy, like the world they depicted was just in the corner of my eye.<\/p>\n

Former Hellblazer<\/em> writers and artists shared their thoughts on Twitter:<\/p>\n

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