Here's a quickie....

I'm meeting some friends for dinner tonight, so I gotta make this quick and painless.

Thursday night I made another trip over to the nearby comic shop and picked up a trade paperback of some issues of one of my old favorite comics, "John Constintine: Hellblazer". Keep in mind that this comic has VERY LITTLE to do with the Keanu Reeves movie that it is very loosley based on. John Constintine (or JC as he'll be henced called within this particular blog post) is not a Los Angeles paranormal detective who runs around hunting evil spirits with a golden machine gun that is in the shape of a cross. He is a witty, troubled Englishman with a strong penchant for cigarettes, ale, trenchcoats and women (in that order). He also happens to be a modern day mage who has a couple drops of demon blood coursing through his veins who supposedly looks like a slightly younger Sting (back when he was a punk, before he went all yoga-rainforest boy on everyone).

This character and comic have been around for almost 20 years now (late 80's, I think). Hellblazer reached its pinnicle when Garth Enis took over the writing on it. That lasted quite a few years. When he left it took a turn for the worse. Instead of it being about a tortured man who had to deal with the darker side of the occult, JC was suddenly hanging out with faries and the ghost of Robin Hood. Whoever took over the comic wanted it to be more like Neil Gainmen's Sandman. That's when I lost interest. Now that they have had a few new writers since the whole Robin Hood debacle, I'm going to try and catch up to the story line with the compiled stories in trade paperback form.

So far so good with the current JC. Let's hope no fop-writter comes along agian.

After my comic shop visit, where I was a good boy and bought only one comic, I went down to a cigar shop and was a very bad boy, swiping up about 10 Cuba Libes during a "get 3, get 1 free" special. Smoked up one just last night. Ahhhhh..... good times.

Gotta go eat, drink, be merry. See ya!
Zangz.