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Aw, fuck you, Milligan! Fuck you and the battered panto horse you rode on!

So is Ice Cube. Ice Cube is deadly. He's a rapper.

But he's so cuddly now

Why won't he let go? Why? Does he enjoy tormenting us like those movie fuckers did?

Peter Milligan: "Fuck you all, that's why!"

They're killing him off again. I knew it. He has 5 days from the time issue 298 comes out. Is it cancer again? It IS called death and cigs.

 

I read the tea leaves. There's already a playlist for it...by the way, I hope you lot understand if the musical quality of the playlist may have gotten worse once Milligan's run kicked in. We had steam through Scab, but once India was over, it was what I think it must have been like to be the music coordinator for a Steven Seagal movie. Or maybe Jean Claude Van Damme. It got to be to the point of "do we want to insult Pavement by sticking it on a Milligan list. Then we'd go search for an older playlist with a less caliber song and switch them.

No...DEATH BY DIDIO!!

This is what John has become?

And this:

HELLBLAZER #299

Written by PETER MILLIGAN

Art by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI and STEFANO LANDINI

Cover by SIMON BISLEY

On sale JANUARY 23 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS

In part 2 of “Death and Cigarettes,” it’s the funeral to end all funerals! Epiphany finds herself alone, in basic black, mourning the loss of her husband, urban occultist John Constantine.

Seeing as there's no news on Milligan leaving anytime soon from NYCC '12 , we must prepare for the worst...

Adding insult to injury:

SWORD OF SORCERY #4

Written by CHRISTY MARX

Backup story written by MARC ANDREYKO

Guest art by TRAVIS MOORE

Backup story art by ANDREI BRESSAN

Cover by WALTER SIMONSON

1:25 B&W Variant cover by WALTER SIMONSON

On sale JANUARY 23 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T

Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for more information.

• Amaya travels home to Earth from Gemworld only to find new trouble! What will happen to her powers when she becomes Amy Winston again?

• Guest-starring John Constantine!

• And in the new backup story, enter a world of modern magic and terror with Stalker, the man without a soul!

Slinker's stripmining the forum !

 

Did anyone mention Constantine's age in the wedding story?

 

The events of Peter Milligan's run certaintly don't happen over 4 years.

Nor do Denise Mina's and Andy Diggle's issues take two and a half years.

There's always been time lags between writers and maybe even between stories, but the time line (which I last reviewed in Mike Carey's day) no longer has meaning for me. If I were a Vertigo comics writer needing an escape I'd back track everything to one night shortly before the end of Andy Diggle's run, or if you want True Nerd Plotting: the three writers since have written stories set in the alternative realities of issue 200.

So, Rosacarnis is still fucking with our boy's mind the whole time then...

Looks like I'll be making a date with Dredd this friday.

I've been hearing about this Raid movie by passing and I'm not planning on seeing that in my lifetime

This issue gave me Ponies

Did any of you watch the miniseries "Bullet in the Face" on IFC over the past two days? I hope so, as it was hilarious. The reason I ask is that I've discovered who should play John Constantine:

 

http://www.ifc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/max-williams.jpg

Dat smirk! It's perfect

you haven't heard? he's in at least til 300 if not longer. i would sigh but i'd blow out my hit too soon.

Didn't Warren Ellis say much the same before there was all of that fuss about the shitawful Shoot?

 

i wasn't reading it back then. i was still reading mostly punisher, spider-man, x-men, and x-men spinoff comics and heavy metal magazine. I can't believe how much marvel i used to read and don't read it at all anymore. of course, that was before Vertigo was its own line? what year did Vertigo begin, 1996?

'93

ENOUGH WITH THE TODD MCFARLANE BLATHER!! I wanna know when is Milligan gonna sling his fucking hook?

The last part of that passage is somber and ironic

R.I.P.

 

Angie SpatchcockPete Milligan's mom

Now, it's 20% funnier!

Oooh!

Ham-fisted motherfuckers!

That's far too harsh on John Nathan-Turner. I know the Whovian massive don't like him, but he was a pretty good producer who only resorted to trotting out drivel when the BBC refused to let him quit the job.

If you think mine's too harsh, read Thomas Cookson's reviews on both him and Russell T. Davies over at the Ratings Guide. That one shows no mercy (even I fully agree with him in the RTD review)

That's what I most wonder about.

Surely, Milligan must care about the character of John Constantine.

I can't see Milligan not reading, at least, the Delano and Ennis years of HB.

Especially considering that he's planning to stay on the title longer than any writer in history on HB.

Does he actually feel he's writing quality stories?

He seems to feel that he's writing a more nuanced and true-to-character version of John than is appearing on the page, based on interviews.

 

I don't know...plus, the fact that he was raving about that Mindwarp character he introduced in JLD...you just have to wonder where Milligan's head is at.

Was he actually serious in his comments about Mindwarp, or what that his wry sense of humour?

At one time, I'd have thought he was being sarcastic, but I seriously doubt he was.

I used to love his humour. I found it funny when many seemed to miss it. Now, it just makes me wonder.

 

How can he think that he was doing justice to the character he made his own, Shade, with the stories he's been writing with that character?

 

There has to be some sense of self-awareness. He's not a Howard Mackie, who never had the talent, and so is totally oblivious to the fact that his stories don't work.

Can't he compare his work in the past 6 years to his work in the 1980s and see that he's lost his passion?

Nor is he DiDio either (and he worked as one of the production crew for some ABC soap in the early 80s).

Somehow he must've snapped during the aformentioned six years. I almost listed him as one of the writers who could've been a shoe-in to write for the Doctor Who New Adventures range on Gallifrey Base's Timelash section two weeks ago. But then I look back on issues 251 to now and Morrison's Bat-Opus. I'm glad I didn't.

And another run from Denise Mina. The only difference between those two and Milligan is they never broke our ability to give a damn whether it's doggie blowjobs or pansy ass Steve Evans. The latter (coinsiding with the Comic industry equivilant of John Nathan-Turner that is Dan DiDio) suceeded to do just that.

 

Well put. Even though Mina's run wasn't much to write home about, I never felt like dropping the title completely. I read Azarello after his run ended, having only gotten into Hellblazer during Mike Carey's run, but I can imagine he was taxing in real time. Still, Mina's and Azarello's unholy fuckbaby-were their worst issues ever to mate and spawn-would be a lovely opiate compared to the horrible pcp/sniffing glue high imposed upon us by Millighast.

I, too, got into Carey's tenure whislt getting back issues of Azz, Jenkins, Ennis and even the Bad Seed TP (Diggle's first six issues). The first three arcs under Milligan signaled red flags at every turn to a point where it's self-stupidity.

This has me longing for the heady old days of Brian Azzarellos dogfucking.

And another run from Denise Mina. The only difference between those two and Milligan is they never broke our ability to give a damn whether it's doggie blowjobs or pansy ass Steve Evans. The latter (coinsiding with the Comic industry equivilant of John Nathan-Turner that is Dan DiDio) suceeded to do just that.

I feel betrayed by whoever thought Milligan would do the title justice. ...

Sorry.

 

Oh me too, but I suspect the people who made the decision are okay with their choice.

Fan favourite fan reviews are almost unilaterally positive.

 

Besides, the forum banner says it all - Mr Milligan warned us what would happen.

I saw it coming the moment Epiphany's blue-haired ass turned up.

Look I have dressed like a tart says Gemma.

Phwoar! Says the Demon Syd James.

 

+1

 

A "Carry on Constantine" comic!. With raping.

And the role of Angie Spatchcock will be now played by Hattie Jacques

I think those websites' scores are actually out of 10 but they don't trust those guys with the full 10.

Because they're Yes Men?

Apologies in advance to the gent whose copy of Hellblazer 291 I read and whose reading tastes I'm about to trash.

 

I've stated previously that Pete's Hellblazer isn't bad, just not what I want. Now I'm not so sure. 291 felt like it was written and illustrated by teenagers, for teenage readers. Or, as others said:

 

#291-That was just dumb.

I was having these recurrent thoughts that I was reading some Top Cow comic.

Random death scene of a scumbag guy who "deserved it"? Check.

Woman in lingerie shooting a demon? Check.

Multiple references to "dark magic"? Check.

...

 

[ Spoiler : So, John murders a fellow and cheats on his wife, bang bang, like that? ]

 

It was not sophisticated. It was not emotional. ...

 

I'm not certain what the nadir was for me, but it's likely one of the following:

• "Angie Spatchcock might have put on a few pounds, but she was still an able magician."
  
• "So I killed a man who beat his wife so badly she committed suicide."
  
• "...the whore she rented..."
  
• "Maybe she thought because I'd fucked the whore I'd fuck her too."
  
• "Angie's dart... smashes into the visual cortex."
  
• Constantine drawn like a fangirl's version of David Tennant as Doctor Who
  

 

As for Angie's ongoing complaints about how bad the church was: what the fuck?

 

 

#291-That was just dumb.

God damn, Milligan! Bad enough I had to stayed away from Nightwing due to Devin Grayson and later the Batbooks entirely with Morrison and his glorified Scrappy. Are you trying to keep my away from this book too? Cuz you damn well succeeded, you braindead fucker! Granted, Angie here looks like a Monica Lewinsky-Rachel Minor hybrid compared to Camuncoli's unflattering take in #275

And I fucking hate the Tenth Doctor!!