{"id":248,"date":"2006-05-13T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=248"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:58:21","slug":"hellblazer-original-sins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/248","title":{"rendered":"Hellblazer: Original Sins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hellblazer<\/a>: Original Sins<\/em> (1987) Jamie Delano<\/p>\n

\"Original<\/a><\/p>\n

So. Well. <\/p>\n

I first came across Constantine in the Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes<\/a>, when Constantine helps Morpheus get his bag of sand back. He was a strange character, and I wasn’t sure about him. But I was curious.<\/p>\n

Then we watched “Constantine” which was an okay action movie, although I didn’t think Keanu Reeves fit my brief memory of Constantine. I was right. Now that I’ve read the first Hellblazer, I have to say that the movie and the character of Constantine in Original Sins<\/em> have nothing to do with each other. Blonde. British. Chain-smoker. Rake. Movie didn’t get any of those things. (Oh, Constantine had cigarettes in the movie, but Keanue Reeves cannot smoke. At all.)<\/p>\n

So, aside from that, how did I feel about Original Sins<\/em>? It was eh.<\/p>\n

Some of the stories I found confusing, and some things didn’t make any sense to me. I wasn’t sure whether it was because I was missing something that had happened elsewhere, or whether I’d accidentally skipped a page and totally missed a pertinent piece of information. (I am much more likely to do that when reading comics than when reading books, much to my confusion.)<\/p>\n

Additionally, the resolution at the end of this story really sucks–as in, there is no resolution. Not really.<\/p>\n

So, Michael picked up a a couple of other volumes, so I’ll read the next one, and see how I feel about it, and then decide if I want to keep reading or not.
\nRating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hellblazer: Original Sins (1987) Jamie Delano So. Well. I first came across Constantine in the Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, when Constantine helps Morpheus get his bag of sand back. He was a strange character, and I wasn’t sure about him. But I was curious. Then we watched “Constantine” which was an okay action movie, although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,291],"tags":[424,522],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-paper","tag-hellblazer","tag-vertigo-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-40","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":250,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/250","url_meta":{"origin":248,"position":0},"title":"Hellblazer: Rare Cuts","author":"Michelle","date":"May 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Hellblazer: Rare Cuts (2005) various Rare Cuts is a collection of John Constantine stories spanning 1988 to 1994. 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