Thursday 14 January 2010

Dark Entries: A John Constantine Novel by Ian Rankin, art by Werther Dell'Endera

Magical jack of all trades Constantine and famous crime writer Rankin, creator of Inspector Rebus, is a mouthwatering combination and it doesn't disappoint. In Dark Entries Constantine is hired by the slick Matthew Keene when the new hottest reality TV show 'Haunted Mansion' begins to go wrong. The fame desperate kids in the Mansion are encountering hauntings the production team haven't created. So Constantine signs the waivers and goes in as a mole, but being Constantine he soon figures out the darker truth behind the hauntings, terrifying enough in themselves. Watch for when the borders of the frames turn from black to white. Rankin does a great job of keeping Constantine in character, Dell'Edera's black and white strips are stark and elegant and the whole is a brilliant indictment of the hunger for reality tv.

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