- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Vertigo (1 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 156389971X
- ISBN-13: 978-1563899713
- Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 0.9 x 25.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This has to be one of the most under rated Hellblazer graphic novels for me. The main story `Freezes Over' is Constantine at his very best. He plays the various players in the story like a puppet master. Without doing anything dramatic he creeps you out. His confidence is his power and I can think of few of the Hellblazer stories that capture this as well as this one does. After all the demons of hell aren't scared of Constantine because of his vast power, but because they know that just as they think they've won he'll pull some ace out of the hole that will wipe them out...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Another Constantine classic
22 July 2003
Format:Paperback
`Freeze's Over' is a great addition to any tpb collection. In this volume, you get not only the four-part title story, but also two others.
"...buried" is a single shot story, illustrated by former Preacher and Hellblazer artist Steve Dillon.
"Freeze's Over" centers on the legend of the `iceman', a killer reputed to have existed for over a hundred years. Outside a small town bar, a man is found impaled on an icicle, and John Constantine fast becomes a suspect. But when a group of strangers arrive, the true killer may be harder to identify.
"Lapdogs and Englishmen", featuring guest artist Guy Davis (of Sandman Mystery Theatre), gives us a glimpse of John's old days as a punk rocker.
Overall, this book may not stack up as a great when compared to some of the other Hellblazer trades, but this is still a very worthwhile book. The writing, all by Brian Azzarello, is snappy, and the multiple artists do nothing to distract from these stories.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Title story (and then the same again. And again)
17 April 2009
Format:Paperback
Hellblazer: Freezes Over (Azzarello / Frusin / Dillon / Davis) collects three story arcs in Brian Azzarello's run on the famous London occult detective.
The collection takes place midway through Constantine's travels across America. In all three stories, Constantine serves more as the catalyst than the protagonist - a type of narrative device that will be familiar to Azzarello's work on 100 Bullets. All three stories share a similar structure as well - an establishing set-up with the non-Constantine characters, the introduction of Constantine as an agent of change and a mysterious 'twist' ending that leaves some mystery alive for the future.
Individually, all three of the stories (especially the title one - "...Freezes Over") are pretty good. However, as a collection, it becomes a little repetitive. Three story arcs, each straight out of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, each with an unresolved mystery. This is too much of a good thing, and just changing artists isn't enough to disguise it.
The collection takes place midway through Constantine's travels across America. In all three stories, Constantine serves more as the catalyst than the protagonist - a type of narrative device that will be familiar to Azzarello's work on 100 Bullets. All three stories share a similar structure as well - an establishing set-up with the non-Constantine characters, the introduction of Constantine as an agent of change and a mysterious 'twist' ending that leaves some mystery alive for the future.
Individually, all three of the stories (especially the title one - "...Freezes Over") are pretty good. However, as a collection, it becomes a little repetitive. Three story arcs, each straight out of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, each with an unresolved mystery. This is too much of a good thing, and just changing artists isn't enough to disguise it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Constantine still freezes our souls...
4 Jan 2004
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Brian Azzarello (Eisner Award-winning writer) is the author of the 3 stories in this book. It's nice to see John Constantine in different atmospheres and situations, and how he deals with them.
The first story, "... And Buried" goes very well, but left an undefined end (or at least a question: "And so?"). Artist Steve Dillon does a good work on it. It's a shame he doesn't work on all the other stories.
"Freezes Over" is the second one, divided in four parts. It's interesting because it shows how John Constantine can involve magic in some atypical situations of the real world. He doesn't put rabbits out of the hat, nor generates lightning from quick gestures of his hands. His influence in the facts is almost subliminal, but persuasive (just reading to understand what I mean). His cynical smile is present all the time, like a logotype. Myth and reality are very connected in this tale, and very hard to distinguish one from the other.
Finally, "Lapdogs and Englishmen" is divided in two parts, and shows Constantine's rebel youth, when magic was yet a parallel activity and not a course. You'll see that he almost had his chance to know what harm all this magic stuff would cause to his life, but sometimes destiny is stronger. Very frightening!
This book is a good reading for all John Constantine fans, even the less informed about the character. The different artists styles in each story is a little disappointing (as I said, I'd rather prefer Steve Dillon to work on them all). But the rhythm and the creative arguments compensate any deficiency this book may bear.
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