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John Constantine, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell

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Been looking for a copy at a reasonable price for years. Condition was like new. One of the two best Hellblazer stories written by Ennis

More masterful writing by Garth Ennis. You really should read the ealier stories to be up on whats happening in this one, but Garth puts his signiture shine on it.

Garth Ennis, John Constantine, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell (Vertigo, 2003)

And finally, after all these years, the venerable team of Ennis and Dillon are done with their part in the ongoing saga of John Constantine. As such, it's to be expected that Rake at the Gates of Hell is a book for tying up loose ends, and so it does. Constantine has to face down Satan one more time and, more fearsomely, meets up with Kit again. Meanwhile, a depressed suburb in London, in which Constantine has no end of acquaintances, is on the verge of an all-out race riot between the inhabitants and the police. The book also contains a bonus story, "Heartland," about Kit's post-fleeing-to-Belfast adventures.

It's Ennis and Dillon, so you know it's going to be good. It answers lots of small, nagging questions. It's full of the mental gymnastics Constantine has to go through to rationalize his behavior. What more could you want? *** ½

I read it, I love it. Ennis couldnt finish his plot in other way but that, we have to see that since Dangerous Habits everything started to become an huge snow ball... Its more then a fair ending, its a perfect ending. So, why I didnt rated 5 stars? Because I think it was an fast ending, Ennis give us the impression that he is trying to finish the history in a tight schedule, or that he doesnt want to prolong too much, leaving too short the ending. Besides the killing of almost everything that he created in Hellblazer universe (leaving almost a blank restart for the next writer) in a surprisely short time (few editions...), the history is amazing .Maybe the fact that the history is so short is that made of it such an great one.