Hellblazer: Quest to #300 - Complete 300 Celebration!

As the above video clearly states... LETS PARTY! 

 

There is perhaps only one reader that will get the joke and the video, but hey, it's message still stands.

So here we are... a complete collection of groundbreaking and beloved comic series; a series of which I can now proudly say I am glad to own. I bought the final two issues (#182 and #183) from local comic shop as a of gesture support and thanks for the brilliant service they have.

 

Spanning all the way from 1988 to 2013, from its high and lows and with a variety of artist and writers along the way, John Constantine: Hellblazer has been through it all.

 

To house this monumental collection, the comics themselves have managed to take up two and half small comic boxes. The remaining half of the third box will be filled will any Hellblazer related comics I collect; such as Hellblazer 'specials', issues were Constantine has any major appearance and the DC comics New 52 series 'Constatine'.

 

For me, I am extremely happy to finally have a complete collection of the original series and to have the chance to read from beginning to end unitterupted and to able to see the long reaching arc of John Constantine's development as a character and the many changes in the context and times the series was written.

 

So what happens now that I have got the complete collection the John Constantine; Hellblazer series?

Well there is the various 'specials' and 'spin-offs' and 'te-in' comics I will slowly collect to add to the collection.

I am planning to do a retrospective of Jamie Delano's (the first writer on the Hellblazer series) run on the series, as I have nearly read up to #40 were he then leaves the series. From the there I will do retrospective of each writer when their run ends on the series. In between these I will do special reviews of any individual issue or storyline I feel need special attention or if it offers anything special or interesting to talk about. 

 

So keep an eye for these and some up coming posts that just about comic and Hellblazer.

So y'all come back now ya hear!