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The State of Hellblazer

Started by A. Heathen, Feb 16 2012 09:01 PM

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Poll: The State of Hellblazer (24 member(s) have cast votes)

Compared with the history of Hellblazer, it is currently ...

  1. Good (2 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  2. Okay (8 votes [33.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  3. Bad (14 votes [58.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 58.33%

Compared with most other current comics, Hellblazer right now is ...

  1. More interesting (10 votes [41.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 41.67%

  2. No different (7 votes [29.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 29.17%

  3. Less interesting (7 votes [29.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 29.17%

I carry on reading Hellblazer because ...

  1. of habit, I am not enjoying it (12 votes [50.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 50.00%

  2. I am enjoying it (7 votes [29.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 29.17%

  3. (I am not reading it any more) (5 votes [20.83%])

    Percentage of vote: 20.83%

Cake or Death ?

  1. Death (6 votes [25.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.00%

  2. Cake (18 votes [75.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 75.00%

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#21 Christian

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 12:33 AM

View Postdogpoet, on 27 February 2012 - 06:45 PM, said:

Who voted for death rather than cake?

ME, of course.
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 02:27 AM

Cake or death?

I'll have the chicken...  :boogie:
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 09:33 PM

View PostA. Heathen, on 27 February 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

It's death by mau mau.

I was thinking Snu-Snu, but Milligan robbed himself of that by his piss-poor writing.
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 09:56 PM

Death by Snu Snu...wasn't that an Azarello arc?

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 09:28 PM

View PostJohnMcMahon, on 27 February 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

View PostA. Heathen, on 26 February 2012 - 09:22 AM, said:

The CBR ones
I hit the front page of that site a couple of times a week to see if they've linked off to any interesting previews (the last one being for JLD, appropriately enough) and I've yet to see any links to a negative review of something, the blurbs tend to read along the lines of "XXX gives the latest issue of YYY four stars saying "I thought it offered a solid story with some above average art!"".  

They only seem to do positive reviews, is what I'm saying here.

To be completely fair:

http://www.comicbook..._review&id=4496
http://www.comicbook..._review&id=4484
http://www.comicbook..._review&id=4493

And a few more in the reviews' front page right now score fails as well.

#26 A. Heathen

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Posted 29 February 2012 - 10:33 PM

That's just nerd negativity.
Those are obviously rubbish books, probably deserving 0/5 etc and we all know that around 50% of the books they give 3 too are shite.
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It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."

#27 Christian

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Posted 01 March 2012 - 01:37 AM

I'm guessing those are three books that I don't even want to get near, nevermind read.
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Posted 01 March 2012 - 03:46 AM

that's because of the diseases you're likely to get from them if you do.
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Posted 03 March 2012 - 04:09 AM

The review of Savage Hawkman was quite well written.

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Posted 03 March 2012 - 10:36 AM

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From Justice League Dark issue 6. Is Pete taking the piss?

#31 slinker

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Posted 05 March 2012 - 04:45 PM

That's awesome.
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 10:13 AM

Cheap LOLs (my favourite kind!) aside, that preview for JLD is actually pretty good.
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#33 A. Heathen

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 10:16 PM

It is but the issue soon descends into being merely the 2nd least worst issue of JLD so far.
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"But that's the whole point, it's supernatural, these things happen.
It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 08:21 PM

You may well be overpraising it there, Ade.
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Posted 08 March 2012 - 09:42 PM

It was very bad. 2nd least worst? How are you able to differentiate the putrid odors of each turd in the JLD shitpile? This turd smells a little better than that one. BAH! They all spillt from the same asshole, they all smell equally bad.
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Posted 02 May 2012 - 03:28 PM

Hellblazer en espanol

I found it linked to the first mucous membrane video.
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Posted 08 May 2012 - 01:21 AM

So I'm correct in still not picking up the title?
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Posted 08 May 2012 - 03:40 AM

Very much so.
The only things you are missing are things you'd be better off not knowing about.
Some of us (like me!) are wondering why we haven't been able to muster up the fortitude necessary to leave the book behind.
At this point, you might never be able to safely pick up the title again.
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Posted 08 May 2012 - 05:34 AM

Sometimes a character goes through a total collapse before being rebuilt.. it happened to the Punisher in the late 90s, Daredevil became a joke for a while.. maybe this is this for Constantine, or at least we are going towards something like that.. and hopefully someone who cares enough about John will come and breathe new life into him. for some reason Jeff Lemiere comes to my mind, he seems to have an affection for Constantine.. let's hope Milligan writes something truly awful soon, and after that Doug Moench comes around to deal the final blow. Turn John into a vampire and Chas has to kill him with a holy-death gun.

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Posted 08 May 2012 - 05:55 AM

That horrible Punisher story, where he died and became an angel, or something like that...?
Apparently, Marvel wanted to destroy the character so that fans would be that much more excited to see Ennis take over the book.
It's a bizarre marketing tool. It seems more logical to just put the character away for a few years, rather than to try to make fans hate the character before he's rebuilt.
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