This is the first of Milligan's run on this title that I've read. I've never been much of a fan - some of his Shade stuff was fun but on the whole his writing leaves me cold.
I'm distinctly unimpressed by his take on Constantine. Instead of the rogueish but comitted anarchist we have here what is generally known as a complete prick. He's just utterly unlikeable. Constantine is protrayed as in love but jilted so he send her wine laced with a love potion which is ridiculously out of character. There's a demon (left over from a previous book) roaming around, who JC also fucks over with the love potion and who subsequently off the love interest by which time I'd stopped caring. Finally there's another girl (the potioneer) who eventually ends up in a zombie induced coma much to the chagrin of her psycho gangster dad.
Garth Ennis wrote all this stuff years ago and way, way better. Only a couple of years ago Mike Carey did it better too. This is just weak.
The art in the first half is by 2 guys I've never heard of called Guiseppe Camuncoli & Stefano Landini. It's quite nice if a bit cartoony. The 2nd half is drawn by Simon Bisely. It's been a while since I saw anything new by him (Heavy Metal Dredd being the last) and this is OK but he typically does JC like some giant musclebound type which is simpy wrong.
On the whole this was poor bordering on piss poor or maybe even so far as 'pretty shit really'.
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