Hellblazer #300 (1988)

Foul! I call Foul! For 299 issues I have watched my favorite angel/devil/sage/conman through all of his adventures. So I expect more from his final Vertigo installment. Instead I am offended by this lame duck attempt to close off the newest set of open plot points before closing down the flagship of the Vertigo line. Vertigo was a wonderful place where all manner of things could happen as long as they were just a tad bit off. (Remember the demon possessed guy who ate his comic collection!) The Vertigo line became the award winning hot property once upon a time and John Constantine lead the way. (Heck, he even got his own movie out of it!) So, I cant believe the rot that this swan song is trying to cram down my throat! And for what, so the perfect example of the anti-hero can finally go mainstream in the Justice League Dark? Bah! Go ahead, give him a new issue #1. Make him more user friendly. And so a quick 'hey I'm back from the dead to settle some accounts and move on" ending isn't going to cut it. If Milligan had really wanted to bring this to an end, he should have written having Constantine taking a bunch of money and legal advice from the corporate big shots at DC (showing them explained that they were finally bringing the whole Vertigo line to an end) and then stepping through a portal taking him from the dirty, gritty world of Camuncoli's Vertigo art to the shiny New 52 world where he would reappear in a freshly ironed trenchcoat drawn by Scooby Doo artist Sclott Neely! Cop Out, BS, call it what you will, I'm grabbing a copy of the Fear and Loathing Trade and relive the good old days!