Title: But Hellblazer is not about this stuff anyhow
Product review: Hm. How can I tell you my opinion about this book without spoiling it? Hmm. Let's try like this.Hellblazer is not about this kind of stories. Not normally.This is a very dark tale about desperate men and women in a desperate town - and the impossibility of saving them from themselves.Sounds good, isn't it?Unfortunately, John Constantine (the main character) really doesn't fit in this tale, and all the efforts to turn the story into something "Hellblazerish" repeatedly fail. Worse than that, they turn the tale into pastiche with all that forced and unnecessary imagery of disturbing, dead and corrupted stuff.Oh. And the basic premise for the story is waaaay improbable, as soon as you stop to ponder it, and really just a gimmick to inject some (well, quite a lot of) shock value in the book.Not excessively bad, but Hellblazer is another kind of stuff.
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