Dark Entries (comics)

Dark Entries (comics)
Dark Entries
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Cover to Dark Entries by Lee Bermejo
Publisher Vertigo Crime (DC Comics)
Date 2009
Main character(s) John Constantine
Series Hellblazer
Page count 216 pages
Creative team
Writer(s) Ian Rankin
Artist(s) Werther Dell'Edera
Letterer(s) Clem Robins
Editor(s) Karen Berger
Will Dennis
Mark Doyle
ISBN 1-4012-1386-3

Dark Entries is a 2009 original graphic novel written by Ian Rankin, and is the author's earliest work in the comic field. It was one of two books to launch Vertigo's Vertigo Crime line, along with Brian Azzarello's Filthy Rich.[1] Italian artist Werther Dell'Edera created the interior art and Lee Bermejo painted the cover for the book.[2]

The story involves John Constantine, best known from the Vertigo series Hellblazer.

Contents

Plot

The plot of the novel involves John Constantine being convinced to enter a reality television program which has suffered several strange hauntings, a thinly veiled satire of British programmes Most Haunted and Big Brother.

This turns out to be not a television programme made for humanity, but for the denizens of Hell, and John must work out a way to escape from this.[3]

Publication history

Rankin has explained how the project came about:

"I got an email out of the blue from Titan asking me whether I had ever thought about writing something like this," says the author. "My first love when I was a kid was comics. I had been waiting 40 years for this opportunity. I just pitched ideas at them; eventually we both agreed on one that would work."[4]

Release details

Reception

Paul Gravett has said "Ian's story was a bit hackneyed; it reminded me of the 1959 horror film House on Haunted Hill; this old thing of whether you will survive the night."[4] Craig Taylor reviewed the book for The Guardian and says the graphic novel "does offer a few clever ideas and some rough, energetic black and white artwork," however, he felt the plot was slack and the setting "feels dated and unworthy."[5] Also at The Guardian Ned Beauman suggested that Dark Entries "does at least overcome most of the limitations of its own suicidally unpromising premise" and "despite some lapses in characterisation ... Rankin does seem to have a basic feel for his adopted hero. But beyond that, there's very little to praise, particularly not the clumsy dialogue."[6]

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