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Hellblazer
Sweet_Tooth
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Hey guys, I used to be a big Hellblazer fan, but for various reasons have been out of the loop for about 2 years now. I would really like to pick it up again but I'm not really sure where to start from. Does anybody have any recommendations? Thanks in advance!
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David_D
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The good thing about Hellblazer, I think, is that you can jump in anywhere. That is not to say there is not continuity, but sort of like the private investigator or detective in a series of novels, you can pretty well look in on Constantine and find he is still Constantine (though older, and with more blood under the bridge).
I am not sure if you were already reading the Milligan era before you jumped off (he has been on the book more than 2 years, I think). But you could either go back and start with the Scab trade (starts with #250), or if you want to jump onto a more recent point, the Bloody Carnations trade includes a big change in Constantine's life, as well as the seeds of stories that are playing out now.
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MikeGallagher
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I would say anywhere between issues 250 and 275. You want to start before the wedding. Epiphany is terribly important now.
The wedding, 275, is where everything going on now begins.Starting before will flesh out some of the characters and situations involved, but if you do not want to go too far back, start with the wedding. -
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Also, depending on how far back your Hellblazer reading goes, Vertigo is, for the first time (finally) getting everything into sequential trades, including a lot of early issues that had never been traded in the US. So now more than ever you can go back to the very beginning and (if they keep at it) eventually read it all. There are some fantastic stories to be had in those early years.
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