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Monstro

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  1. ...and the TPB's remain permananently in print....

     

    Did I say permananently...? And I'm not even drunk :insane:

     

    More importantly, why aren't Hellblazer back issues more highly valued than Sandman?

     

    1) Started years before Sandman

    2) Still running today!

    3) Most of the series remains un-reprinted

    4) Has had a movie starring Keanu (much as we wish it hadn't)

     

     

    i always wondered about that. i have never read Hellblazer but i did see the movie and thought it was pretty good. how does it compare to the comic?

     

    I enjoyed it, I did. The movie is a quite fun in its own right, and has some really great turns by Tilda Swinton and Peter Stormare.

     

    But it isn't Hellblazer. Keanu's Constantine is nothing like the JC of the comics. Put it this way, in the movie Keanu was trying to earn a place in heaven by doing 'good deeds' *cough splutter*. JC would probably rather take his chances in Hell than kowtow to that stuck up miserable little ponce 'god', you get me?

     

    Furthermore the movie was way too entrenched in Catholic dogma. JC's universe is far more eclectic and mixed up, and has no special respect for any particular religion.

     

    A real Hellblazer movie (or better still a TV show) could be low-key, low budget, dark and irreverent, and bloody brilliant.

     

     

    (thumbs u

     

    interesting, Hellblazer is definitely on my to read list

     

     

  2. ...and the TPB's remain permananently in print....

     

    Did I say permananently...? And I'm not even drunk :insane:

     

    More importantly, why aren't Hellblazer back issues more highly valued than Sandman?

     

    1) Started years before Sandman

    2) Still running today!

    3) Most of the series remains un-reprinted

    4) Has had a movie starring Keanu (much as we wish it hadn't)

     

     

    i always wondered about that. i have never read Hellblazer but i did see the movie and thought it was pretty good. how does it compare to the comic?