Do you prefer the Delano or Ennis run? I thought Delano went a little too overboard with Constantine’s interior monologue to the point it was detracting from Ridgway’s art. Also I’m a huge sucker for “Guy outwits the Devil” stories so I’ll hand it to Ennis.
>>150110590I've only read Delano (up to The Fear Machine) and I don't like it.
>>150110590Delano, he’s an actual working class stiff who had to grow up in England during the sixties, seventies and eighties, had to sell drugs while working as a cabbie and it shows in his writing. It’s what gives his John Constantine legitimacy while Ennis is a Gen X cocksucker who writes for other Gen X cocksuckers.
>>150111037I gotta be honest I did not get that impression from reading the Delano run. I thought his interior monologue was too professional, like I was less reading John’s thoughts and more I was reading something being described by a third person narrator. He does a great job letting Ridgway go wild with some of the crazier stuff with his art, which I feel is one of the advantages he has over Ennis. The art in Ennis’s run in general just feels much flatter.
>>150111037Really? Because I feel like Ennis' internal monologue for John sounds way more working class than Delano's verbosity
>>150110590I like the overall classical comic book energy of Delano's run. Ennis had a great grasp of horror, but most of his run feels deconstructive, in comparison.
>>150112039Ennis' horror was a decline from Delano's tho. Ennis is just gore and seeing fucked up shit. Pic related is the scariest issue in Ennis' run and it was not even written by him.
>>150112616>Ennis is just gore and seeing fucked up shit.Big fan of Ennis and I agree completely. I think he’s just more interested in character drama. I prefer the way he writes Constantine but I like the way Delano dabbles with the occult more.
>>150112616That wasn't scary.
>>150110590Black Pill: Delano is boring. Ennis is fun.So Ennis.
>>150110590I guess Ennis?
>>150115166Ennis' run is John being in a relationship with FemEnnis.
>>150117303>Creating a self-insert to have sex with your self-insertDangerously based
>>150110590neither
>>150110590Nice cover
>>150110590I would piss and shit myself if we had ANYTHING comparable to either runs nowadays. Oldhead comic fans were spoiled.
>>150120362DC doesn't it in them to do another Hellblazer run
>>150120362Same. Goddammit, bros...
>>150110590Delano and it's not close.
>>150118224Which he made into a habit.Dillon's long face art is so tiring.
>>150122217Nah. Dillon was great.
>>150120362Maybe you should read more good comics then…
>>150110590Delano. Not contest.
>>150120362Hellblazer can only exist in the late 80s/early 90s.
>>150123816His same face works for something like Preacher, not Hellblazer.
>>150124405There's nothing even close today.
Funny how people keep talking about Ridgway's art when talking about the Delano issues, when the best Delano issues were drawn by Bryan Talbot, David Lloyd, Sean Phillips, or Steve Pugh. Maybe read past the first nine issues? Delano wrote horror comics and Ennis made Constantine into a superhero, even if he doesn't see it that way.
the most menacing and fearfull Costantine's villains was a simple serial killer
>>150127479>Ennis made Constantine into a superheroMan beats the Devil is one of the oldest stories around it’s not capeshit
>>150127479The Steve Pugh ones were the worst, worst issues in that run was that 2 parter with that boy Mercury liked, the preachy animal rights story.And yeah, the Ennis run felt capeshit-y, how he gave him a "supporting cast" out of nowhere, how he always dressed the same like it was a superhero costume and it felt like he was fighting for the world instead of being a depressed dude trying to juggle a regular life with his life on the fringes. Even the way he uses magic in the Ennis run felt cape-y, and then Ellis ran with it and ruined the character.
