Si Spurrier & Aaron Campbell Return To John Constantine: Hellblazer

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During NYCC, Si Spurrier and Aaron Campbell introduced their new Sandman Universe collection John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America.

During DC’s New York Comic-Con panel Coming Up within the DC Multiverse, creators Si Spurrier and Aaron Campbell introduced their new DC Black Label Sandman Universe collection John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America. The eight-issue comedian e book collection debuts in January 2024 and spins out of the occasions of author Si Spurrier and artist Aaron Campbell’s earlier John Constantine, Hellblazer comedian. Cancelled in 2020, on the time, Si Spurrier wrote:

Without a hint of conceitedness (nor, screw it, false modesty), I’m going to flat-out state that the tales we have advised possess real worth and significance, particularly in these strangest of occasions. They’re good, and I’m not simply saying that. By any metric, as much as and together with the fanciest on-line evaluation mixture, which at time of writing considers our Hellblazer work to be the best-reviewed collection presently on cabinets, this e book has been the proudest mission of my profession. It has felt at each stage just like the one pre-existing I.P. that I used to be naturally greatest calibrated to write down. It ends in November. I’m not prepared.

I suppose the underside line is that this: you’ll be able to’t write a narrative like Hellblazer with out taking it personally. That’s an issue when it is principally work-for-hire. oh, god, we had some plans. We had been greenlit for six points then we had been greenlit for six extra. In my naivety I assumed the pinnacle of steam we had been constructing would see us via to 18 or 20. Less a cancellation than a failure-to-be-renewed, if you wish to break up hairs, nevertheless it hurts all the identical. The locations we had been on account of go… the darkish waters we had been on account of discover…

So whereas #12 closes the tomb on all the most important plots, it additionally springs open a number of huge twists we have been diligently breadcrumbing for the reason that begin. Those had been, and are, meant to guide into the subsequent chapter, with a genuinely killer hook. A hook which won’t, it could now appear, be catching any fish.

I want I might say the writer has whisked my extraordinary collaborators and I onto larger, bolder, much less hazardous titles. Sadly, even earlier than the personnel cataclysm at D.C. final week, and the unconventional downsizing that adopted, alternatives had been scant. It’s not via lack of attempting, imagine me.

Well, it appears like they’re each going to capable of proceed their unique aircraft, and reunited with colourist Jordie Bellaire for the second act of their Hellblazer saga, which;

sees the notorious occult detective headed throughout the pond to the United States for extra supernatural misadventures with gods and monsters from the DC and Sandman Universes, together with Dream of the Endless and Alec Holland, the Swamp Thing. Each concern will function additional content material, with 28 story pages and no adverts, to pack in as a lot Hellblazer horror and humor as potential.

“Hellblazer is back. Between 2019 and 2021, Aaron Campbell and I chronicled John Constantine’s sly progress through London,” mentioned author Si Spurrier. “For 13 issues, the book dripped with heart and hate and rage—rage at the state of the world, rage at the state of our minds and lives. Those 13 issues were our poisonous love letter to the Constantines of the past—[Alan] Moore’s, [Jamie] Delano’s, [Garth] Ennis’s. It was the best work we’ve ever done. And then it stopped. On a note of death and despair, with—like all magic—a heavy price levied. And now it’s back. Because the cost doesn’t count if we don’t get to see it being paid. Because even dead things can make a difference.”

In John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America, John has cheated demise as soon as once more—however his coronary heart’s not beating, his physique is decaying, and he, his pal Nat, and his son Noah are on the run in America, wished for homicide. Naturally, it is all John’s fault—it all the time is. But because it seems, Dream himself wants John’s assist. Something horrible has taken root in America, and it is utilizing the sand from Dream’s pouch to impose its will. If John can put a cease to it, he may be capable to parlay that favor into an opportunity to avoid wasting all their lives—however he will need assistance from somebody he hasn’t spoken to in years. Someone he wasn’t all the time…all that sort to. Someone…or some…Thing?

“When the email came through informing Si and I that we had the greenlight to finish the John Constantine, Hellblazer story we began several years ago, I could hear something, just over my shoulder—a scraping metallic flick. Once, twice, three times a charm. Then a long, deep inhalation. I could almost smell the smoke and hear the words, ‘You really thought I was gone for good, mate?'” mentioned artist Aaron Campbell.

Continued author Si Spurrier: “There are two types of people, aren’t there? First, there are those who understand that the world doesn’t neatly divide into good and evil. That sometimes a bastard with a rotten heart is the best hope we’ve got. That we swim in an ocean of living, seething stories. That the tales whose labored breathing hints at mysteries and mythologies are the ones capable of delivering the highest highs and most tremulous takeaways. The ones which slither through nuance and awkward truths. The ones which present a recognizable reality, which can’t be improved through the expedient of punching. The good ones. The second group of people won’t be reading these words, so we needn’t worry about them. And we’re bringing back Hellblazer because maybe—there are more of the first type of people out there than we ever dared to believe.”

John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America #1 might be accessible at native comedian retailers on January 16, 2024, with variant covers by Jock and Sean Phillips, and a 1:25 variant by Matías Bergara, who additionally contributed to the collection artwork for John Constantine, Hellblazer again in 2020.

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