John Constantine: Hellblazer- Reading Order (Original ‘Vertigo’ Series)
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- The complete reading order for Vertigo’s (RIP) groundbreaking, flagship series, ‘Hellblazer’, about my second favorite comic character, John Constantine!!! In this video I give the reading order for the entire, original 300 issue series, with the original 35 volume collected editions! I also try my best to explain what is collected in the newer, numbered series with fewer volumes that collect more books in one. I hope it’s not too confusing, I got it all as correct as possible, but most of all, I hope it helps all of you and gets you into this awesome and dark series about a cynical, chain-smoking, master of black magic con-man and mystic, John Constantine!!!
Enjoy!
the last TPB of the more recent reissues just came out. It's crazy how it was one of the longest running comics with a character who aged in real time. I shared your two faves, along with Wolverine, at least the more old school Wolverine
Yeah I’m keeping these. I’d rather have these old ones
I was waiting for this thanks 🙂
Of course! I hope it helps and glad you enjoyed it 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I love doing these
Whatsup? Also one of my fav characters. Just got back into collecting these tpb as well. Just wanted someone with knowledge to give me some more info. Glad i found this video. Thanks bro.👍
Glad it helped 🤘🏻
This is actually crazy, i never tought someone would have a similar taste, my favorite is also Constantine and Batman, the only difference is that i love Constantine way more haha i know it is weird and unpopular opinion, but i have like 300 comics from constantine.
Much appreciated brother
Thanks for the info!! I just asked my comic shop about getting in the line of fire, said it would need to be special ordered, expensive!!🤯 i was trying to find what tpb where in that one and you confirmed that you could only get vol 10, thanks again!!
i love this character
me too
All of the other format trades are in reading order if you have the main “OG trades” correct? I just started trying to see if I had to place anything in between them but so far it’s looking solid. Those volumes are now at 26 (announced) and ends at 291, so hopefully we get 27 that concludes the 300 issues plus the last set of spin offs. If we’re lucky maybe we’ll get more OG trades to finish off DCYou, N52, rebirth and the black label stuff. That last bit is a stretch but I can only hope. Dope vid brotha.
Also, have you read the entire run? I started it a few years ago but fizzled out, so I started it again last October n now I’m at vol 9 just cruising. Shits stupid fire so far.
Yeah they’re going to continue, no hopefully, they’re still coming out. Yes if you have the numbered ones, they’re in order already
Thanks man, I was looking to get into some Constantine but had no clue where to start
I’m glad this helped 🤘🏻🤘🏻 the original Vertigo series is the. Best
Ol'Johnny is severely underrated. (Also have you read The Doom That Came To Gotham).
No I haven’t. Is he in that?
@@BloodGuyReviews No, It's a lovecraftian elseworlds Batman story.
I know it’s Batman story. I just didn’t know if John showed up, because he does that sometimes, and that was the relevance
Damn I really just started of by buying the Garth Ennius omnibus🤦🏽♂️
Yeah everyone buys omnibuses to start with just because they’re nice and people are superficial. They’re not meant for reading, but collecting
Random tip: only read vertigo series do not read dc one. Because they butchered his character. They basically made him dr strange lite. It's not that intresting
I know. That’s why I only did this run.
yeah it's interesting Milligan was working on Justice League Dark and the final Hellblazer arcs at the same time. It almost reminds me of how they made Rambo into a Saturday Morning Cartoon for awhile back in the eighties, lol. My three favorite writers were Delano, Ennis, and for some reason I liked a lot of Andy Diggle's run. Now all 26 editions are out, I own them all, surprised but happy they put Bad Blood in there, not my favorite Delano story but it was pretty overlooked previously.
good video I have a question but I googled this and didn't found the answer but what does # means in comics? because I am used to reading manga so idk but does # means issue or volumes?
# is usually issue. Volumes usually have a subtitle like these do as well. Depends on what you’re looking at, depends on the context
@@BloodGuyReviews thanks
Now I know it’s ‘Sep-ul-KER’... Before anyone says it haha
what are your favorite runs of hellblazer?
Probably Ennis’. Azzarrello’s is dark and edgy like all his stuff... But it’s fits more here than with his Batman stuff
Where does the "sandman presents hellblazer" series fit?
That’s not part of the original run. That’s current. This is all original Vertigo run
Hi I'm new to buying comic and really interested in buying Hellblzer comic ( the first 300 issue by Vertigo) but is there a Tp for this 300 issue?
Yeah the last one (the final one I mention) in this video (this one)
I knew you meant 300 issue Vertigo, didn’t need parenthesis
are there books still easy to find at local comic shop?
That’s where I got mine. I haven’t bought any online
What is the difference between reading a novels and reading a comics book?
Between a novel and books?..... Pictures. Panels. The way it’s presented or written. You didn’t know they were two different things? Or do you mean a graphic novel and comic?
No I was talking about the normal novels and comics.
Ones a book and the other is a comic. What is there to know? One is all words, one is made up of pictured panels with words in them. I don’t get what you’re asking.... What do you mean what’s the difference between a regular book and a comic?....
But I didn’t mention any ‘normal’ novels in this video, so that’s another reason I’m confused as to why you asked
can I read any hellblazer book without reading volume 1?
It is more episodic, but he does get older throughout the series and relationships change. I would start with #1. Why not start at the beginning or jump around?
@@BloodGuyReviews I cannot find volume 1 wheras the other volumes are available
Is there a new 52 series?
Yes. But it sucks and I don’t own any. So just this
He reads the original Hellblazer but he pronounces it like that? @___@
That’s how Americans pronounce it. Always been that way
Aaaaand... What does reading the original series have to do with that? Implying if I read the newer series, I’d pronounce it differently? Despite his name being the same throughout? That’s stupid @___@
Also, seeing the Reeves film, the TV series and animated films all at the same time as when I started reading these, and they pronounced it the same way in those, further influenced that. I know the U.K. and original writers pronounce it ‘-TYNE’, but that doesn’t really make it wrong how I say it. I just don’t get what reading the original series has to do with it @___@ like readers of the original series are more... ‘In the know’? @___@?
@@BloodGuyReviews because the character himself corrects it in canon multiple times within the original series.
Yeah, And I still call him that out of habit. So, oops. I’m just as wrong as NBC and WB Animation
I wanna subscribe but you're at 666
Yup. Gotta stop now
Personally I found Original Sins really boring, it started picking up after that...
Still fun short stories