Hellblazer Tainted Love TPB

 

TITLE-Hellblazer vol 7 Tainted Love

SOURCE-Vertigo TPB

Hellblazer is a title I read off and on for most of it's run. Been trying to get the full run in TPB form and working my way thru the TPBs I have.

This is part of the Garth Ennis(Writer) and Steve Dillon(Penciler) run. Which besides Jamie Delano's runs is the best.

John has met back up with Kit. They move in with each other. He celebrates his 40th birthday and after that all goes to shit. Kit leaves him to head back to Ireland. John gives up and becomea  drunk living on the streets.

Still you got the Hellblazer touches. Like Archangel Gabriel showing up and losing his heart. Or the vampire storyline where thanks to something from previous issues John defeats an ancient vampire. One that has been around a long time. 

Ennis and Dillon blend words and art so perfectly in this. And even coming into the middle of a long storyline I didn't feel lost.

Yea I know the Keanu film isn't that loved. It is ok. The TV Show was amazing but so few saw it. Seems the only way to get the true form of John Constantine is in vol 1 of Hellblazer.

Hellblazer Tainted Love gets a A.