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    Favorite Hellblazer Artist

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    DEMON CHAS08:

    It's time for me to judge whether or not Steve Dillon's art is good or not. Show me the best of Dillon.

     

    I don't think that's gonna work. By and large, Steve doesn't do knockout panels. The strength of his work lies in his mastery of storytelling, composition, and facial expression. How d'you adequately demonstrate those subtle qualities by sampling single panels or single pages? It's more of a cumulative effect over the course of an issue.

     

    - Jason

     

     

    But it's still good. I just wanna see the pics.

    Favorite Hellblazer Artist

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    Bradstreet is the best cover artist in the title's history, easily.

     

    Interiors, I gotta go with Dillon.  I love his style, but he's clearly very limited when it comes to making his charcters look different from each other, at least face-wise.  His run on HB seemed to be the one place he was able to get around that, and his style really lent itself brilliantly to the tone of the series.

    I always feel confused about the length of John's trench coat.Better yet,how did he get it?

    The Final Reviews Thread

    in Comics in other media

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    "Constantine" might have worked better in other hands. Different writers, for one thing, and a different director. (First-timer Francis Lawrence is a music-video veteran best-known for his work with Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.) And probably a different star, too." - MTV

     

    RT Update

    Reviews counted: 93

    Fresh: 40  Rotten: 53

    Average Rating: 5.5/10

    Caught that one by Kurt Loder as well. My respect rating for him has shot up considerably. Maybe he's too old for MTV, but the guy makes some excellent points, as well as mentioning the comic books. (Possibly a closet fan there, eh?) Also have it on VH1. com. Here's some more from the review:

     

    "Unfortunately, "Constantine" is a little too muddled and way too erratically paced (especially toward the end, where it sags woefully) to command much interest. It's a fairly expensive FX movie, and while some of the effects, as noted, are cleverly worked-up, the picture seems more often to be on CGI autopilot — the snarling fiends that creep through its fiery underworld are too cartoonish to be menacing, and one particular infernal creature — a complicated mess of writhing serpents and roiling cockroaches — is too ungainly a conception to register as anything more than run-of-the-mill computer-spawn.

     

    This is too bad, because the original material from which the movie is drawn is rich with promise. The character of John Constantine, a hard-boiled British occult investigator who does weary battle with Satan's evil, half-human minions here on Earth, was introduced in a 1985 installment of Alan Moore's groundbreaking series of "Swamp Thing" comics. He has since made his way, in a haze of cigarette smoke and bad hangovers, through more than 200 issues of his own "Hellblazer" books. "

     

    And more about his different star remark: "I've always liked Keanu Reeves. He may not have a lot of range as an actor (I know, I know), but with his throaty, confiding voice and his distinctively lagged reactions, he has a very particular screen presence. In a movie like "The Matrix," he can be perfect. But he's too guilelessly appealing to carry off the cold-bastard character of John Constantine. Even when he's icily informing Angela that her recently deceased sister is probably in Hell, being "ripped apart over and over, in screaming, brutal agony," you can't help thinking, "Hey, it's Keanu — he probably doesn't mean it the way it sounds." And then you think, "Hey, there are worse torments than that." Because you're sitting through one."

     

    Well said, Kurt.

    God bless,Loder :laugh:

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