Bellis

Justice for All is the 5th book, Rock of Ages is the 3rd.

Rock of Ages is the high point of the series, but I agree that the entire of Morrison's series is well worth reading.

I felt Morrison's whole run on JLA was just pure fun, and the Mark Waid run was also really good. Then, it was all downhill.

Oh I dunno, I thought Joe Kelly's run had a lot to recommend it and I preferred it to Waid's, Tower of Babel aside. Two Minute Warning I'd count as one of the best JLA stories I've ever read, Golden Perfect was a terrific examination of Wonder Woman, and while The Obsidian Age had a mildly disappointing ending it was pretty excellent, ideas-heavy, epic stuff. Great treatment of Plastic Man and J'onn too. I'm not sure Kelly adding his own characters quite clicked and it felt like it ended earlier than it was intended, but overall I think it's pretty great, underrated stuff. And Doug Mahnke's art was fantastic.

After that though it definitely went downhill and it still hasn't recovered - DC are really mishandling the book at the moment, I think.

Hello everyone! I've already posted, but I thought it was a good idea to introduce myself properly.

I'm British, I'm a student, I like lots of geeky stuff.

I've been lurking around here since I first got into Hellblazer in late spring last year. I saw Constanteen back in the cinema when it first came out, but as I had no real interest in comics in those days I didn't really follow up on it. Like svenomous I became interested in the character after his appearance in that early issue of The Sandman, and this was interest grew after I read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run. I decide to actually read Hellblazer mainly because I was unemployed and bored, and ended up getting ridiculously obsessed. And here I am.

I've started to collect the trade paper backs, and have decided not to worry about chronological order, only that I buy all of one author's run at a time. So far I have Ennis, Delano and half of Carey. That said, once I get the rest of the Carey trades, are the Mina trades worth buying? I have not heard much good press about them.

I'm a completist, but even I couldn't sum up enough willpower to pay money for Mina's run. I own all the other Hellblazer trades and a lot of uncollected singles, and they were all absolutely worth however much I spent on them, even the really controversial Azzarello run. But Mina's, I just really, really didn't like, and my complete dislike of it pretty much totally overpowered my Hellblazer fanboy completist nature. I'd really recommend just skipping it and going straight to Andy Diggle's first trade out in February.