Blazing through Vertigo comics Hellblazer issues 1-4 and Mike tells the tale of Sister Rita Josepha.


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Radio Free Echo Rift is your the twice weekly Pirate Pop Culture Podcast brought to you from Deep Beneath the City of Philadelphia! We have thirty minutes to record each episode here in the confines of the Waiting Room - the only place our evil overlords, the Researchers, can’t monitor our activities. If we were ever caught, we’d be atomized for sure!


Download Episode 69: Hellblazer


00:30 - Intro
01:22 - Sister Rita Josepha Does Not Approve of Hellblazer
07:02 - Hellblazer (1988) Issue 1-2 by Jamie DelanoJohn RidgwayLovern Kindzierski
09:40 - Old color style, crosshatching
10:37 - Setup - Starving/Eating to Death
13:07 - Constantine's Trip to Tangiers
14:44 - Very ghastly story
17:04 - Papa Midnight Freaks Us Out
19:24 - Not a Superhero Comic, not even a Super Anti-Hero Comic
20:30 - Taking out the Demon Mnemoth, John makes a hard decision
22:58 - Hellblazer (1988) Issue 4 "Waiting for the Man"
24:30 - Very dark comic, seems to have boundaries
25:29 - John Constantine can get his butt-kicked
26:34 - What IS that Constantine Movie?
27:30 - English 80's Underworld - Movie that Should have Been
29:08 - Outro


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