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The book is intended Hellblazer: Pandemonium mark the 25th anniversary of the first appearance of Constantine in the pages of Swamp Thing and was written by Jamie Hellblazer: Pandemoniumthe original writer for the character's solo series Hellblazerwith art by Jock. The book has been delayed several times from the originally slated publication date of sometime in The graphic novel is a self-contained story, venturing into the political ground that Jamie Delano is well known for. The story starts with a scene in Iraqwhere a small town was bombed. The U. Army manages to detain a man said to be responsible. While being interrogated, the man unleashes a supernatural power that kills the soldiers and destroys the camp. In London, a chance encounter with a young Muslim girl leads a curious Constantine to the British Museum. The museum is suddenly bombed but Constantine and the girl manage to escape. Constantine invites Hellblazer: Pandemonium girl to his home when he suspects she is responsible. However, when they arrive, Constantine is taken by the authorities, having been framed for the bombing. Constantine is later handed over to MI6Hellblazer: Pandemonium they blackmail him to find the real culprit of the bombing, and send him to Iraq to investigate a supernatural entity plaguing the area. Having no choice, Constantine agrees. She and Constantine drive into an army camp to discuss the events. While on the road, Constantine deduces that the place Hellblazer: Pandemonium to be Hellblazer: Pandemonium ancient city, named Kutha, as well as a Sumerian temple. Assera tells him he's right, but also that the no Hellblazer: Pandemonium been in the place for a long time since the war. They finally arrive in the installation and settle down. As night comes, under the cover of darkness, John uses magic to sneak out. He travels to Kutha, where he discovers the city is actually a den of demons, before he is Hellblazer: Pandemonium by Hellblazer: Pandemonium. The next day, John and Aseera visit the mysterious detainee locked away. As John examines him, the detainee turns out to be inhuman. In fact, John deduces that Hellblazer: Pandemonium detainee is a djinn. The camp was suddenly attacked by insurgents, and John is able to trap the spirit inside a bottle. The installation was quickly overrun, but John, Assera, and Hellblazer: Pandemonium djinn escape. They are soon stranded in the middle of the desert with no one to contact. Constantine explains to Assera that Kutha is actually a city whose Hellblazer: Pandemonium worshiped a god named Nergal. Nergal also happens to be one of Constantine's longtime adversaries. John later invites Assera to sleep with him when night comes. The next morning, insurgents appear and kidnap both of them. They are later handed over to Nergal. Nergal welcomes John to Hell, where he begins a monologue explaining that he was collecting the souls of the dead to trap them in Hell, while the djinns were made as workers. Seeing that Nergal is running a casino in Hell, John challenges Nergal to a game of poker for the souls. Nergal and his confidants agree, Hellblazer: Pandemonium if John loses he will find Hellblazer: Pandemonium "cleaning [Nergal]'s ass with his tongue" for eternity. John cheats his way to victory, and Nergal is forced to free all the souls along with John and Assera. With his mission completed, John returns to London for his end of Hellblazer: Pandemonium bargain. In the MI6 headquarters he releases the djinn Hellblazer: Pandemonium intimidates the MI6 officials to free Assera in Iraq and give her a new life of luxury. Frightened, the officials agree. Reviews were positive. Comic Book Resources describes it as a "fun Hellblazer: Pandemonium egg", saying "a good, solid John Constantine book that looks great. Constantine, you might want to give this a look. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Comic Book Resources. Retrieved July 28, Alan Moore Jamie Delano. Book Category. Categories : graphic novels comics debuts Fantasy comics Hellblazer Vertigo graphic novels. Hidden Hellblazer: Pandemonium Comics infobox image Hellblazer: Pandemonium caption Graphic novel pop. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. February 10, John Constantine. HELLBLAZER: PANDEMONIUM | DC

Supernatural detective John Constantine has come a long way from hell since Alan Moore invented him 25 years ago in eco-horror comic book series Swamp Thing. It's an admittedly dicey setting for a graphic novel, according to Pandemonium writer Jamie Delano. As terrifying as it is, Pandemonium finds the year-old Delano in familiar territory. One of the early British writers to explode in the wake of Moore's '80s Swamp Thing revival, Delano was first to pen Constantine's ongoing dedicated series, Hellblazerwhich began in Delano's chilling work on that title, as well as Animal Man and Ghostdancing, has tackled genocide, imperialism, enviropocalypse and worse. Constantine's Pandemonium nemesis — the demon Nergalan old Hellblazer Hellblazer: Pandemonium — terrorizes Iraqis and Americans alike. Once Delano settled on his villain, "it became pretty inevitable that Constantine was going to reluctantly squirm around with the rest of the morally degraded players in the ugly but engrossing game of Hellblazer: Pandemonium he Hellblazer: Pandemonium. Delano's sometimes devilish protagonist is a comparative angel in such company. That philosophy is fearsomely put to the test in Pandemonium, as Constantine teams up with Hellblazer: Pandemonium equally Hellblazer: Pandemonium female Muslim agent in search of their common humanity, which is eventually found during a poker game Hellblazer: Pandemonium hell. Hellblazer: Pandemonium a fitting metaphor, said Delano, for a desensitized world not yet peaking with Hellblazer: Pandemonium fatigue. Who knows? People are strange. Smartass antihero John Constantine is Hellblazer: Pandemonium into a web of supernatural war in Hellblazer: Pandemonium, out now. Alan Moore Books and Comics comics horror Iraq. View Comments. Sponsored Stories Powered By Outbrain. More Stories. Author: Caitlin Kelly Caitlin Kelly. Author: Will Knight Will Knight. Author: Matt Simon Matt Simon. Author: Rhett Allain Rhett Allain. Author: Alisha Mughal Alisha Mughal. Gilad Edelman Deals. Hellblazer: Pandemonium - Wikipedia

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Hellblazer: Pandemonium Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Hellblazer by Jamie Delano. Jock Illustrator. Something terrifying and strange has occurred - outstanding even among horrors faced every day by John Constantine. Intelligence specialists have discovered elements of the Iraqi insurgency may be demonically possessed. No one in the intelligence agencies is qualified to handle this problem, and that means a private contractor must be employed. Databases identify only one Something terrifying and Hellblazer: Pandemonium has occurred - outstanding even among horrors faced every day by John Constantine. Databases identify only Hellblazer: Pandemonium potential candidate: John Constantine. Constantine is taken from the comfort of his London home to the brutal climates of Iraq due to military coercion, but also because of his interest in a mysterious, beautiful Iraqi agent whose true allegiances are kept in shadow. Get A Copy. Hardcover Hellblazer: Pandemonium, pages. Published February 16th by Vertigo first published February 10th More Details Original Title. Hellblazer John Constantine. Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Hellblazerplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating Hellblazer: Pandemonium. More filters. Sort order. Start your review Hellblazer: Pandemonium Hellblazer: Pandemonium. Apr 17, Marc Weidenbaum Hellblazer: Pandemonium it Shelves: comic. Jamie Delano didn't invent Constantine, but he invented him. He didn't invent him, because Alan Moore did, but he invented him the way the first person to play a character in a Broadway show invents the character, fills it with life. Sure Constantine appeared in Swamp Thing before he had his own series, but he was a mystery in Swamp Thing. In Hellblazer he's a cypher -- we know him but only so much as to know we don't fully know him. It's not that he has countless tricks up his sleeves, it's tha Jamie Delano didn't invent Constantine, but he invented him. It's not that he has countless tricks up his sleeves, it's that he has countless sleeves. There's enough back story packed into the first single issue Hellblazer: Pandemonium Hellblazer to play out for decades, and that has proved to be the truth. Numerous writers took on Constantine after Delano left the series, and here he returns with a standalone volume. In it, Constantine enters the vortex of the war on terror. The art is by Jock, who also drew the Green Arrow graphic novel I read recently and didn't think much of the retold origin story, Year One, one written by Andy Diggle. Here, it's as if he's a different artist. I have no knowledge of Hellblazer: Pandemonium direction he was given or the conditions under which he worked, but if Green Arrow is all loosely constructed poster pages that are the comic Hellblazer: Pandemonium of a movie filmed on Hellblazer: Pandemonium inexpensive multi-use set, Hellblazer: Pandemonium is a powerfully rendered graphic story, moving easily from public to private spaces, from the West to the Middle East, from Earth Hellblazer: Pandemonium Hell. Every other page has some stark image that you'll want to stare at for a moment before moving on. Constantine is Constantine here, older, wearier, less in control of himself, and still able to surprise. Despite the change of scenery and the adopted gravitas of an ongoing, real-life situation, the structure is familiar. There's a third act that goes a little too quickly, and a brief Hellblazer: Pandemonium one that provides Hellblazer: Pandemonium easy if rewarding comeuppance. What it isn't is fun. One thing the story lacks is humor. There was a wryness to Delano's Constantine at its best. Much of it Hellblazer: Pandemonium parody: of class, of convention, of superheroes, of yuppies it was of its momentof fantasy, of religion. There's no parody here, no laughs, not even dark ones. Perhaps humor Hellblazer: Pandemonium a casualty of war. View all 7 comments. This review was originally published by GraphicNovelReporter on March 1, John Hellblazer: Pandemonium has made deals with the devil, fought back the apocalypse, survived death itself, and been to the depths of hell and back again. In Hellblazer: Pandemonium, he finds himself in the center of a hell unlike any other he's Hellblazer: Pandemonium the displeasure of facing—the frontlines of the Iraq war. After a chance meeting with a Muslim woman, Aseera al-Aswari, and a bombing at the British Museum of Arts, Constantine finds himself co This review Hellblazer: Pandemonium originally published by GraphicNovelReporter on March 1, John Constantine has made deals with the devil, fought back the apocalypse, survived death itself, and been to the depths of hell and back again. After a chance meeting with a Muslim woman, Aseera al-Aswari, and a bombing at the British Museum of Arts, Hellblazer: Pandemonium finds himself conscripted by the British government to help interrogate a captive hostile. The hostile is a demonic scavenger caught rooting through the carnage following a car bombing, stealing the last bits of energy from Hellblazer: Pandemonium dying wounded. Hellblazer: Pandemonium interrogators are cursed with supernatural afflictions that drive them insane, leaving it up to Constantine and al-Aswari to unravel his secrets. Snarky and Hellblazer: Pandemonium, not to mention manipulative, Constantine is a strong anti-hero with a habit of playing both sides against one another in order to ensure he always comes out ahead. Equal parts sorcerer and scam artist, he is uncannily lucky, highly skilled at reading people, and oftentimes just a step or two ahead of everybody else. He's a bit of a supernatural detective built from the staples of hard-boiled crime fiction gumshoes like Philip Marlowe, clad in PI-standard trench coat with cigarettes at the ready. Hellblazer: Pandemonium Delano has a strong grip on the character, and makes Constantine effortlessly charming and relatable, despite his flaws. Having been the first writer on Vertigo's monthly Hellblazer comic book, he penned several years' worth of stories back in the s. In a series that will soon be closing in on Hellblazer: Pandemonium issue milestone, Hellblazer: Pandemonium set the stage for writers such as Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, and Brian Azzarello to come and play. Returning to the character for this original graphic novel, Delano is instantly Hellblazer: Pandemonium and comfortable with Hellblazer: Pandemonium old stomping grounds and wastes Hellblazer: Pandemonium time before shoving Constantine into a new environment to face familiar problems. His work is highly stylized, but not always consistent. His imagery of Iraq and London are both well-handled, each surprisingly beautiful Hellblazer: Pandemonium their own ways. The sunrises and Hellblazer: Pandemonium of Hellblazer: Pandemonium locale both give Hellblazer: Pandemonium reader an instant familiarity of life in those locales, and his imagery of Iraq brings forth clear reminders of the damage that has been inflicted upon both the country and its people. Hellblazer: Pandemonium scenery is incredibly well constructed and his page and panel layouts are easy to follow, but his portraiture is occasionally messy and inconsistent. Although it's easy to discern characters, details oftentimes become muddied and the geometrics of his characters undergo odd changes. Constantine is variably depicted as having a lean look with a strong jaw line, while at other times he appears more angular and sharply pointed, or rounder and softer. Hellblazer: Pandemonium that the lead character, writer, and artist are all British, it seems a no-brainer that Pandemonium has a very British sensibility to it and is immediately different from most American comics. Although it starts off with a bang, much of the story is more subdued, only briefly punctuated by big action scenes. There are moments of horror and violence, but the story itself is deliberately paced and wordy. This is not a bad thing by any means, but it Hellblazer: Pandemonium a book that requires Hellblazer: Pandemonium and effort and it will reward those with the initiative. It is a mystery story with overtones and glimpses Hellblazer: Pandemonium horror and supernatural fare. It is also highly political. The story being told here functions on several levels beyond just mere entertainment. Delano is crafting a Hellblazer: Pandemonium parable, presenting war itself as a high-stakes poker game in which human life is bet and wagered upon, drawing very strong parallels between the demons who thrive on mankind's follies and the politically powerful who make warfare possible. View all 5 comments. Jun 15, Hugo Emanuel rated it it was amazing Shelves: ownedfavorites. Being a huge fan of the Hellblazer title and Dealno's work on it, it was imperative that I got hold of this graphic novel. Delano's run remains one of my favorites because of his masterfull and balanced portrail of Constantine. Delano deftly writes the character as both someone who is, on the surface, an absolute bastard but who really is ultimetly a man who operates within a specific and actually very laudable moral code. He is characterized by Delano as someone with considerable flaws and addi Being a huge fan of the Hellblazer title and Dealno's work on it, it was imperative that I got hold of this graphic novel. He is characterized by Delano as someone with considerable Hellblazer: Pandemonium and addicitons be it compulsive smoking and drinking, an unresistable urge to poke his nose into the Hellblazer: Pandemonium the world exhibits on occasion and to adrenaline rushes but that ultimetly does the "right thing". He has a keen disregard for autoritive figures and is completly unprejudiced against everyone except Hellblazer: Pandemonium who impose their wills upon others, regardless of the consequences. Delano's characterization of Constantine is not the only thing that makes his work on the title stand-out, however. His stories often display a humorous sardonic wit and sharp political satire and criticism.