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Lately, I've having a hard time suspending disbelief for Hellblazer. I started reading back in the very early 90's and remember Constantine turning 50. This means he's nigh 70 now. The latest artist has been drawing him older and craggier, which I appreciate, but on a basic level, I'm having a hard time believing a man approaching 70 can bounce back from beatings and whiskey benders that quick and that he has a surplus of women young enough to be his grand kids chasing him. as a result, I just can't get into it the way I used to. the world needs more morally ambiguous working class mage stories. Hell, I was the one who made a Stagio so good, people I rped with had trouble separating me from my poor messed up ecstatic. I keep thinking it feelsw like time to kill Constantine off, or, I don't know find a way to reset, because I just can't buy the story arc anymore. I particularly hate saying this, as it's really the only regularly produced comic I have left, and some of the older stories were so full of power and dark beauty I could have wept. Now the pump feels dry, like they are just going through the motions out of habit.