- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (21 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840239743
- ISBN-13: 978-1840239744
- Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 16.4 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #46 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Characters & Series > Hellblazer
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Leeds Guide 09 Mar-24 Mar 2005: "...excellent, shade-heavy art from David lloyd." www sci-fi-online.com review by Nick Smithson:" This is one of the best Hellblazer collections I've read to date. 9/10." Big Cheese Magazine April 2005: " ..this is one that fans of the comic book and soon-to-be fans of the movie won't want to miss."
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Soon to be stepping from the shadows into his own live action movie (starring Keanu Reeves) comes a classic comics character: John Constantine, the enigmatic chain-smoking mystic! Rare Cuts assembles six spellbinding stories that have never before been collected, including the horrifying events of Newcastle, 1978, that ended with Constantine confined to an asylum and, amongst others, a tale of Constantine's rough-and-tumble childhood and the beginnings of his unique skills. Created by some of the most popular and critically-acclaimed writers and artists in comics. Also includes a Constantine timeline and a map of Constantine's London.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Look out! Confusion below...,
By Mejo "Trust me" (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Constantine: Hellblazer - Rare Cuts (Paperback)
Customer reviews for two separate Hellblazer compilations seem to be cropping up together.
Hellblazer: Rare Cuts, is a compilation of genuine Hellblazer stories, including the important #11 "Casa Nova" story that formed a backstory to much of Constantines development. This is the collection reviewed positively by Joakim Jahlmar. Constantine: The Hellblazer Collection, is a dodgy knock-off put out to tie in with the dodgy knock-off movie, and is reviewed negatively R. A. Murtagh. Hope that clears things up! My star review is an average of the two.
22 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good introduction to both the series and the character,
This review is from: Constantine: Hellblazer - Rare Cuts (Paperback)
In connection to the release of the film Constantine, DC has made a decision to promote the Hellblazer comic to the masses. One of the TPBs and hard cover collections that has been published is Rare Cuts, a collection of six separate issues of the comic book which in turn form five narratives as two of these issues are connected. Of these five stories, three - "Newcastle: A Taste of Things to Come" (#11), "Dead-Boy's Heart" (#35) and "In Another Part of Hell" (#84) - are written by Jamie Delano. These three, all of which explore events in Constantine's checkered past, are the best ones in this collection and they provide a good perspective on the character's background.The inclusion of the "Newcastle" story was, as an aside, the primary reason why I ordered this album. I read it many years ago when published in a Swedish anthology title and have ever since wanted to read it in original. It is unfortunately a shame that DC seems so reluctant to publish a second collection of Delano's run on Hellblazer to follow where Original Sins ends, but at least they have now had the good taste to include this episode which that previous collection constantly refers to (i.e. the events in New Castle). Rare Cuts also contains a double episode - "Early Warning" and "How I Learned to Love the Bomb" (#25-26) - written by Grant Morrison. Unfortunately this story is by no means one of Morrison's better works and it leaves me rather untouched, which feels sad, both since it takes up a third of the space of the collection and since Morrison definitely has a much better capacity than this story reveals. Garth Ennis's "This Is the Diary of Danny Drake" (#56) is much better, although it also falls slightly short beside the formidable Delano stories. Nevertheless, it does show Ennis's talent as a writer in general and of Hellblazer in particular (to those who have not read Ennis's run on the title I strongly recommend buying the TPBs available, with the possible exception of Son of Man which does not compete entirely with the others).
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