Justice League Dark and Wonder Woman...also Zatanna had her own solo series for a while.
you pretty much nailed it though.
I mean you got 300+ issues of Hellblazer to go through.
Justice League Dark and Wonder Woman...also Zatanna had her own solo series for a while.
you pretty much nailed it though.
I mean you got 300+ issues of Hellblazer to go through.
"You don't ever quit. Not even to your last drop of blood. You got folks relyin' on you then you just can't afford to." Sean Noonan-Hitman #47
I really liked the new 52 JLD.
Also, people say that Demon Knights is quite good, but i haven't read it.
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I liked Demon Knights alot. You could also look for the Shadowpact series.
Of the books you've listed and haven't purchased yet, Madame Xanadu is far and away the best book.
Swamp Thing during Crisis on Infinite Earths was really good. As was the annual around that time.
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Alan Moore's Swamp Thing isn't all magic, but I think a lot of the magic books these days owe a huge debt to it. That's where Hellblazer came from and opened the door for Sandman.
Also worth noting is Promethea which is basically half superhero comic and half Alan Moore giving a lecture on "Magick". Personally I really enjoyed the superhero stuff and found the Magick stuff a bit boring - but a lot of people love it.
Not really. Good concept, terrible execution. I read up to around #18 and had to quit afterwards: characters are thin/bland, good plots but terrible execution, Constantine is an unlikeable character and the authors clearly favor him above everyone else who are neutered or written to be lesser than him as he is basically the main character of the book.
I have no idea how the book is doing now but I definitely don't like the first half of it.
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JSA had a lot of excellent magic based villains and storylines.
I have to agree here. I really really tried to like this book but it just feels hollow most of the time. Like John Venus said it basically became a Constantine book with the rest of the team as supporting players. I liked the book a lot under Milligan and it was still pretty good under Lemire, but ever since DeMatties came on board with issues 24 the quality just kept falling until I dropped it with issue 32 (and I probably should have dropped it about 5 issues sooner to be honest)
It didn't really turn into a Constantine book, it was always a Constantine book. Even in the first arc, he is the one who figures out and solves the problem. You could remove all the characters and it would make little difference. In a team book, you think everyone would play a part in saving the day.
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That first arc wasn't really about saving the day, and even John didn't have much say in whether they were going to be a team. Brand and Dove, Shade and notKathy, these weren't things that John Constantine was going to step out of the shadows, light up, and fix. The horrors and anxieties of the book more or less weren't fixable. To me, that was the hook, much more than dealing with a small crisis or temporary whirlwind of human teeth.
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How was it not about saving the day? Enchantress was going crazy searching for June Moon.
Everyone but Constantine was shown to be ineffective in that scenario and that continues into the other arcs. Never mind how one dimensional every single character in the book is.
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Alisa Kwitney's Phantom Stranger oneshot is really good. Zatanna's Search that stretched title to title to introduce her, which has a nice slender collection. Vietch's The Question mini is a wonderful comic about magic, greed, jealousy, hope, the sun and the earth, and Lois Lane. The Zatanna mini from Seven Soldiers is more blatantly a discourse on magick and an adventure story, but all of Seven Soldiers is pretty thick on magic, spooks and spirits and faeries and things.
JLD, for me, was fantastic under Milligan. Creepy, sweet, weird, silly, scary, and some great character moments.
It fell apart for me within a few pages of Milligan's replacement.
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