Paul Watson reviewed Dark entries by Ian Rankin (Vertigo crime)
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2 stars
In Rankin's hands John Constantine is re-imagined as a detective who solves a detective story by deduction.
It's not a bad story (when viewed separately from the rest of the Hellblazer canon) and the author is obviously a good writer, but for me it fails because Rankin doesn't seem to understand that Constantine's character is an untrustworthy Trickster archetype, not a Detective (a literary archetype in itself) who methodically solves crimes.
In Rankin's hands John Constantine is re-imagined as a detective who solves a detective story by deduction.
It's not a bad story (when viewed separately from the rest of the Hellblazer canon) and the author is obviously a good writer, but for me it fails because Rankin doesn't seem to understand that Constantine's character is an untrustworthy Trickster archetype, not a Detective (a literary archetype in itself) who methodically solves crimes.
