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  <title><![CDATA[Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Denise Mina]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Constantine makes his way to Glasgow, where something rather nasty is brewing. There's sickness in the air, and it's driving people mad: they're being made to feel what others felt in the moments before their deaths. It's the last thing Constantine needs: empathy really is a liability in his li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16393082">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Denise Mina has taken Mike Carey's place as the writer for this series. I'm a little sorry to see Carey go, as I think he did some excellent things with the character, but I'm excited to see what directions Mino takes things in. This is a good start. Mina's John Constantine is a little more vulnerab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14736730">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first exposure to Denise Mina's run on the comic.  She writes comics like you would expect a mystery writer to write comics--the plot is a little bit slower and more melodramatic than usual.  Granted, John Constantine is in his mid-fifties now, so a change of pace is to be expected.  How...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/755000">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Oct 25 08:42:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 25 08:48:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story felt a bit padded out.  For a book that reprints 6 or 7 issues, there isn't a lot going on.  Plus, there wasn't much of an ending to the book, as it simply sets up the next story.  Unfortunately, I am not interested enough to see what happens.  Leonardo Manco's art is really nice though.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 03 11:43:41 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mike Carey was doing a helluva job writing the book, and he left. Denise Mena took over and just destroyed it. It doesn't help that Leonardo Manco's art is sloppy, too big, and very inky. It looks lazy. After the cinematic style of Marcel Frusin, Manco's looks like pish. Skip this one and wait for t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9887482">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Constantine book, and I enjoyed it -- particularly the slow pace.  The imagery was a bit disturbing (gave me nightmares) but the book was pretty enjoyable.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 04 13:12:43 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Shame's a luxury of hindsight, John. It's cheap to look back and despise yourself.&quot;<br/><br/>Excellent writing (if a little slowpaced). Recommended reading for all nihilists.]]></body>
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    <review id="3070309">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very by-the-numbers, slightly-too-long story for Denise Mina's first half of her run on <strong>Hellblazer</strong>. Not bad, per se, but not setting the world on fire either.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3070309]]></url>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't grip me as much as other Hellblazer comics.]]></body>
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