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Robert Venditti on story, Renato Guedes on art.

That's a shit move, if you ask me. Hellblazer was the longest running Vertigo title. What does that say for the future of the impring?

MOTHER MOTHER MOTHERFUCKERS!

The imprint is dead now.
Also, not really interested in the new creative team (what's Venditti done?). That, and how will they keep the actual Hellblazer feel going? No way that whole dark and grim will move along with the character to the DCU.


FUCK.

Well, The Surrogates was pretty good.

But I don't like Guedes. I'll stick around for the first arc, probably.

Correction: I'll not be around for it.


This, in other news, doesn't really bode well for Saucer Country, now does it? Remember the times when the Vertigo news was by far the most interesting news coming out of a con?

Yeah, that was ages ago, wasn't it? Thank God for Image Comics!

Someone on Bleeding Cool collected all the comic industry's reactions to it and most were pissed, especially the Brits who never got to work on it (most said "you're not considered a true Brit comic writer until you do an issue of Hellblazer").

One brought up a good point saying that Vertigo is dying because all the good books are going to Image instead of Vertigo as they would previous go.

Lame!

And yes, I agree that cancelling Hellblazer is a shitty move. A lot of creators are rightly upset. In Vertigo Hellblazer was unique. in DCnU, it'll get shitcanned in about a year.

Unless DC wants to 'prove' they were right, I don't see this book survive 20 issues. Who's interested in it? Hellblazer readers were reading it because of the edge and the character. If you're not into one of those, why grab Hellblazer lite?

Someone brought up a good point, who exactly is reading Hellblazer now? For September, it didn't even break into the Top 100 comics sold. I read what they're currently doing with Constantine now and was shocked (hair now white, he cut off his own thumb, he's married, etc). Doesn't really sound like the Constantine I loved to read in the late 90s, early 2000s. I stopped reading about 70 issues ago, maybe someday I'll go back and reread the whole series once it's finished.

Hellblazer peakd a while back, that's true. But it's been climbing out of a hole the past 2, 3 years. It's actually pretty good right now. Also, he's married to a girl in her 20's. That's completely Constatine.

Somehwere I read someone commenting on how it all might be a ploy to restart Hellblazer in a year or 2. That, I simply doubt.