Slowly but unmistakably the tension of community and sodality waxed among them, as if a loose mesh of threads weaving about between the different individuals was being drawn tighter and closer, further isolating them from the rest of the world, and from Pendlebury: the party was advancing into a communal phantasmagoria, as parties should, but in Pendlebury's experience seldom did; a sombre chinoise of affectionate ease and intensified inner life." I like the art sometimes, but there are also times where I couldn't tell who was who. Several times I thought someone else was talking only to realize it was Constantine, but he was drawn in such a way that he looked like one of the other characters.

Ian Rankin’s dialogue is good; he pretty much nails Constantine’s scouse nihilism, but the story, which starts with great promise, falls flat at the end. Hell comes across as an inconvenience rather than torturous eternity. This is partly due to the artwork and writing. For the majority of the contestants to escape at the end seemed too bright for a Constantine story. Her expression indicated that she was one of those people whose friendliness has a precise and never-exceeded limit.The story follows a dozen or so contestants, neither of which remembers how he/she agreed to join the show and each of which is haunted by his/her own demon. The characters are well-flushed for the book's short length, and their dialogs are generally amusing. Constantine enters the house briefly after his arrival and begins interacting with its tenants to investigate the strange happenings. The focus periodically shifts to the showrunners and viewers as well, showing a few supporting characters that also contribute to the plot. Vertigo Crime που διαβάζω, το οποίο όμως ξεφεύγει από τα στενά όρια του αστυνομικού, μιας και πρωταγωνιστής είναι ο John Constantine, ή αλλιώς Hellblazer, ένας ντετέκτιβ παραφυσικών φαινομένων με ξεχω��ιστές δυνατότητες. Η αλήθεια είναι ότι παίζει να είναι η πρώτη φορά που ασχολούμαι με τον συγκεκριμένο χαρακτήρα, μιας και στο παρελθόν δεν έτυχε να διαβάσω κάποιο κόμικ με αυτόν πρωταγωνιστή και δεν έχω δει καν την ταινία με τον Keanu Reeves. Θα επανορθώσω όμως! This sentence speaks volumes about the tension between the two characters of "The View," but also of the sensitivities of each character toward one another. One should not be surprised, then to find that "The View" is winsome and absolutely heart-rending. It has caused in me a genuine fear of growing old, something I have never really felt before. This is more from the sense of things past and lost than worry about future decrepitude. This is the empty hole at the center of nostalgia, a true existential dread. This story bit deep into my heart. It hurt, and I am better for it. Dell’edera’s artwork is solid throughout, although a bit confusing at times: I found it difficult to differentiate between Constantine and Ishmael at times - with them both being white with fair hair. Also, it’s not entirely clear where they are in the house at times as it all looks the same.

Ian Rankin είχα διαβάσει μέχρι τώρα (αν είναι δυνατόν!), ούτε κόμικ με ήρωα τον John Constantine, παρ'όλα αυτά το απόλαυσα πραγματικά. Η ιστορία μου κίνησε το ενδιαφέρον από την αρχή και το κράτησε μέχρι το τέλος, μιας και η πλοκή είχε αρκετό μυστήριο και ωραίες αποκαλύψεις, ενώ και ο χαρακτήρας του Constantine ήταν ιδιαίτερα ενδιαφέρων, κυνικός και σαρκαστικός. Το σκίτσο μου φάνηκε αρκετά καλό και απόλυτα ταιριαστό με το ύφος της ιστορίας, με απλά και καθαρά ασπρόμαυρα σχέδια, δίχως αχρείαστες λεπτομέρειες και σκιές. Apro il commento con un sincero elogio alla casa editrice: non è da tutti rilanciare i nomi di autori classici vinti dal tempo. The story I most enjoyed in "Dark Entries" (His second collection of stories following "We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories") is the story called "The View" (Which was originally printed in his first collection "Six Ghost Stories"). The story concerns the protagonist a gentleman named Carfax a vulnerable and exhausted man who needs to get away from the hectic life in the city. He meets a beautiful woman on a sea voyage who invites him to stay with her in her home. As the story evolves we glimpse Carfax's voyage from imagined self doubt into the fringes of madness, yet hopelessly madly in love with his Femme Fatal. This is one great story. Dark Entries is one of these self-contained graphic novels featuring characters from DC comics in an alternative, more relaxed universe. Specifically, Dark Entries tells the story of how Constantine was invited to contain a situation where the haunted house on a horror reality show began to act on its own. While it is immediately given away that the gentlemen who invited Constantine had a lot more in mind than a simple exorcism, I found the plot developments that followed to be least expected and quite enjoyable.I think my favorite story in this collection was the last one, "Bind Your Hair". I'm still thinking about it. I'm still thinking about "Ringing the Changes" as well. Don't ask me why, because I don't know...but it's still turning round in my noggin just the same. This graphic novel is about John Constantine trying to do find out the real deal behind the unscripted hauntings in a reality horror show. But as he works it out, horrors from his past come running at him, jaws open, literally ;)⁣ The book also contains a couple of non exceptional ghost stories which are none the less well written. And a psychological haunted house story which begins the book called the "School Friend" which is more full of implications and innuendo than actual fright.

I say music - the musical elements of the writing seem at times as important as the words, and the effect of the stories is similar. Recounting the plot - there's no such thing as a "spoiler" in these stories, and the stories are about their style. I could tell you how they end, and it would change nothing of the effect. He's not writing to tell a gripping yarn, he's providing an "impression" which can be beautiful (exceptionally so), or unsettling, or terrifying. Mystery pervades, if you're looking for answers to the questions, you are missing the point of the story. A train passenger who has to spend the night in a waiting room connects with the dead and finds that there seems to be an unspoken assumption of understanding between him and them. Read about the Faber story, find out about our unique partnerships, and learn more about our publishing heritage, awards and present-day activity. Introduction by Glen Cavaliero, "The School Friend", "Ringing the Changes", "Choice of Weapons", "The Waiting Room", "The View" and "Bind Your Hair".

The first half of this was really good. But once we found out what was going on, the whole thing fell apart. Completely. The tale of “an ever-open mouth of a house”, which gets hold of a middle-aged woman, plunging her into madness and tapping her vitality, told by her former school friend who learns that it may not be too wise an idea to pry too closely into other people’s life. It may be that the narrator’s friend is a victim of domestic abuse but it may also be that the house is possessed by an evil force that tries to feed on her. Before DC pulled the plug on their adult-oriented horror line, Vertigo, they were still doing some really interesting things. In 2009, Vertigo started a Vertigo Crime series, a digest-sized hardcover graphic novel series written by well-known authors in the crime/mystery genre. Yeah, spoilers. Boilerplate, polite version: I promise I don't "spoil" anything about this book that would have bothered me had I known about it in advance of reading this book. That said, I cannot think of anything I have read in my life that would have been spoiled had I known the plot-advancing facts. And this is not, I promise, a mini–Cliffs Notes–style detailed summary of the story. Perhaps the only real way to "spoil" a book is to detail any serious flaws in logic, to the extent that you then can't get them out of your head as you read the book. I can't promise that I don't to that -- but neither can anyone else.]

Ringing The Changes: The atmosphere of slowly building oppression and the growing sense of dread kept me on the edge of my seat. What really makes the story are the little, weird details about the characters the couple meet in the hotel, adding to a sense of reality out of joint. As a friend noted, the main characters aren't particularly interesting. The mystery, which appears to really mean "puzzle" here, is what it's about. The characters are puzzle pieces, and it is neat to see how they fit together, and Rankin did a really good job of rationalizing all that into the Hellblazer mode (tying it to one character who is the fulcrum for it all). But, yeah, the characters have no development, aside from shifting from not knowing their fate to knowing it, and from us misinterpreting their dreams to being told flat-out what those dreams "symbolize" (a direct causality that is too clean-cut even for Freud, and utterly disinterested in the ambiguity inherent in the surreal). If anything, the characters change depending on what the story needs. At times, just in time for whatever the imminent joke needs. Ringing the Changes has a town that embraces the undead, and a couple that becomes trapped there. it has a suspenseful and eventually hair-raising narrative. but it is not about the undead; it is about the distance between two lovers, the distance that becomes apparent when contrasting the new and the old. a younger woman sees things her way, and rushes forward; she may quail in fear but she will dance with the dead. an older man sees his age, his ineffectuality; he will try to cross a gap and he will fail, impotent.In tal senso, un racconto come “La scelta delle armi”, piuttosto raffinato nell’evidenziare con minacciose allusioni la scarsa consapevolezza di sé nel momento dell’esercizio sentimentale, avrebbe guadagnato nella portata drammatica con un’atmosfera surreale meno pervasiva e, al contrario, più attenta ai dettagli del contesto reale. he . . . did not risk another of those so natural interrogatives she so lightly made to seem so heavy and unnecessary. Faber & Faber was founded nearly a century ago, in 1929. Read about our long publishing history in a decade-by-decade account. I've tried to read John Constantine/Hellblaizer comics a few times and they just don't grab me. This is an OK, self-contained story. I can't really say much about it, because there are some major twists and turns that shake things up at several points. Let's just say, Constantine is brought in to investigate some weird events. There's come vague commentary on Reality TV. Strangeness happens.