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HELLBLAZER: THE DEVIL YOU KNOW VOLUME 2 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Jamie Delano | 264 pages | 03 Jan 2012 | DC Comics | 9781401233020 | English | New York, NY, United States Hellblazer, Volume 2: The Devil You Know by Jamie Delano It doesn't feel as expressive or creative as it was the first time through. There's a lot of empty space and rough linework. It feels sloppy and bland to look at. The writing is good though and the conclusion feels appropriate and suitable, tying all relevant loose ends, allowing John to move on to new pastures. On the Beach: John's having a bit of a walk along the beach, all while a group of protestors stand against a nuclear power plant built in their town. And then the power plant explodes. This one feels like an odd duck in the volume. You could take John out of the equation and replace him with some other character and it would hardly skip a beat. You can clearly see Delano's personal politics on full display here and while its not a bad story, its a little too on the nose to be anything but a distribe, albeit a beautifully poetic one. The Bloody Saint: Set back when John was still in and out of Ravenscar Asylum, the story tells of John's struggling to deal with a changing world, his place in it and his connection to one of his ancestors, colourfully dubbed The Bloody Saint. This story is an interesting little piece. A bit of Arthurian legend here, a slap of dark fantasy there, Delano's trademark poetic writing and what do you get? An interesting if a little disjointed story about how sometimes the apple doesn't fall far. If I can say anything specific, it's that sometimes the art style looks a little too detailed. It ends up looking grotty. The story ends with a little glimpse into what Mucous Membrane John's former band were like and honestly, I didn't care much for it. The art was decent but it just felt like song lyrics in the vein of the Sex Pistols, something I don't have a lot of interest in. Chalk this one up to personal taste. The Horrorist: Something bad has come into the world. Something that embodies all the hatred, violence and cruelty of the world. Every war, every conflict, every rape and pillaging. It's turning the world upside down. And John has to find it. This is a separate issue that was bunched in with this volume and it's probably one of the best pieces I've read. The horror is on point, building the tension to sudden horrifying events that the artwork captures beautifully. Delano's prose is on point, haunting and cruel and beautiful all at the same time. So that's it. Nothing spectacular. Nothing horrendous. The Horrorist was the best of the bunch. On the Beach was probably the weak link. See ya soon for The Fear Machine. Jul 25, Steven Werber rated it it was ok. Apr 11, Kelly W. Things I Liked 1. Politics: Like the last volume, this one brings up a lot of politics in ways that were fairly evident and mind-bending. I really like a John Constantine who is embedded with the concerns of his day. In others, things seemed to be wrapped up too cleanly and too quickly. I also wanted to get back to reading about Constantine himself, not just him in a past life. Jun 11, Wombo Combo rated it liked it. This one is really kind of a mixed bag. Issues 10 and 12 are fine. The John stuff is really great, but This one is really kind of a mixed bag. The John stuff is really great, but the ancestor stuff is pretty stupid. This trade ends with a miniseries, The Horrorist, that was written years after the rest of this collection. I really love how John is written as numb and completely unlike his normal self, but the second half of the series doesn't have John in it enough and just ends up being depressing, even though it's meant to end on a hopeful note. The art in this collection isn't very good. Issues have kinda of dorky, but not completely horrible art, the annual looks very gritty and isn't very good, and the Horrorist's art is nice, but it's difficult to make out what's going on in a couple of scenes, though it's pleasant for the most part. This collection is fairly weak as a whole. After the excellent stories of Original Sins, this collection is a rather big disappointment. I wouldn't be surprised if there were boatloads of people who gave up on this series after reading this; after all, this is the second volume in the series. Oct 10, Rena Sherwood rated it it was amazing Shelves: five-star-fiction , otherworldly , art-of-some-sort. In late August of , my beloved old dog had her first seizure. Right there and then, I knew the clock was ticking and whatever she had would eventually kill her, which it did a year and four days later. During the time before her death, I went on a wild eBay and Amazon shopping spree. Because when you're miserable, John Constatine makes for good company. Honestly, when you're greiveing or d In late August of , my beloved old dog had her first seizure. Honestly, when you're greiveing or dealing with really bad news, don't some books just seem too damn happy? You can't help but hope that a sudden terrorist attack hits these yokels that author any random self-help book. You don't have to worry about Constantine or any other character getting too happy here. Here we have demons, crazy fundamentalists are there any other kind, really? All in vintage DC Vertigo style. This is a key graphic novel in the series, explaining why among other things Constantinte never seems to age, so if you're wondering what the Hellblazer backstory is, go here. This is the cover of the reprint edition, which is easier to get than the original edition. Dec 09, Mari rated it liked it. Fragmented, a little confusing and somewhat boring. Didn't really find myself wanting to read this at all unlike the previous collection, which I devoured. The actual Hellblazer issues were quite alright, but nothing too special. I had much bigger expectations for Newcastle. The whole abused girl trope is just so old, I'd love to see someone come up with a new story for once. I hated The Bloody Saints, it was just all around ugly, uninteresting and repulsive to me. As for the Horrorist issues, I Fragmented, a little confusing and somewhat boring. As for the Horrorist issues, I can't really decide yet whether I liked the story, it didn't really manage to suck me in emotionally and atmospherically as it was supposed to in order to work but maybe I was still annoyed in the aftermath of The Bloody Saints and the fault might therefore be in me. I did enjoy the ambient art with amazing colour choices though. Feb 13, Quentin Wallace rated it really liked it. In this volume we get to see a conclusion to the storyline started in the first volume with the two "cults" on Earth. More importantly, we get a flashback explaining the ghosts that haunt Constantine. Theres an annual reprinted in this volume that I didn't care much for. As usual, art fits the story very well. Overall another enjoyable volume. Dec 07, William Thomas rated it did not like it. Nov 25, Sierra Dean rated it really liked it Shelves: ebook , comics , noir. That fever dream on the beach, yo I love this series something fierce. The art is pretty terrible okay, not terrible, but very of an era and I don't love it. But I love Delano's writing so very much. Sep 30, Robert rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics-graphics , xseason. Good collections of short run issue story arcs, not needlessly complicated by an overarching narrative. Mar 13, Adam Stone rated it liked it Shelves: non-superhero-comics , sandman-swamp-thing-hellblazer. After a promising start, wherein we see the Newcastle incident mentioned repeatedly in volume one, this volume gets caught up in trying to use mythology and dream imagery to tell fairly mundane stories. Delano is a great writer but using a Dream Sequence for most of an issue is pretty lazy, especially when it's too make a very generalized point about environmentalism. I know this is Early Days in comics trying to send this sort of message, but Delano was fully capable of using demons to make his After a promising start, wherein we see the Newcastle incident mentioned repeatedly in volume one, this volume gets caught up in trying to use mythology and dream imagery to tell fairly mundane stories. I know this is Early Days in comics trying to send this sort of message, but Delano was fully capable of using demons to make his point, or just, you know, showing a rain of birds, or the actual effects of radioactivity, rather than having Constantine dream of bad things happening in the environment. The annual, in which we see the Constantine of Merlin's time was excruciating. Too long a tale with no payoff. The Horrorist storyline at the end was beautifully rendered by David Lloyd but didn't have the crust storytelling if they previous volume.