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What's Up Rocketeer's Butt?

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tth2

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Okay, this is OT but you really need to read the first 100 of Hellblazer. You will be hooked. The writing has been bar none, the best. The art is more simplistic but affective. It is one wild ride.

screwy.gif Hellblazer was for much of its run the weakest of the British Invasion titles that DC came out with in the late 1980s (Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Sandman and Hellblazer), because Jamie Delano was the weakest of the British Invasion writers (Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman). The first 10-12 issues of Hellblazer were okay, and then the title meandered for ages until the then-unknown Garth Ennis took over and turned into the best comic going. And then the title went downhill after he left to go do Preacher.

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Okay, this is OT but you really need to read the first 100 of Hellblazer. You will be hooked. The writing has been bar none, the best. The art is more simplistic but affective. It is one wild ride.

screwy.gif Hellblazer was for much of its run the weakest of the British Invasion titles that DC came out with in the late 1980s (Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Sandman and Hellblazer), because Jamie Delano was the weakest of the British Invasion writers (Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman). The first 10-12 issues of Hellblazer were okay, and then the title meandered for ages until the then-unknown Garth Ennis took over and turned into the best comic going. And then the title went downhill after he left to go do Preacher.

 

You can make that argument but look at which title is still in existence? Sandman, is the only one of those titles that didn't fizzle on its own. I agree, all of those writers are better than Delano but the run(1-100) as a whole stayed interesting and consistently. To this day, it is an enjoyable read. Just the run from 101-130(? until Warren Ellis) did it lose its flavor.

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