As long as we're on Phil Jimenez, I might as well stick with hm, which brings me to my THIRD free page I received from buying some other pages. Yep, believe it or not (I'm walking on air), I got this page free as well. Actually, six of these pages from infamous BANNED issue of Hellblazer #141. This issue, which never saw the light of day, was a story about school shootings with a surprise ending. Written by Warren Ellis, a female psychologist researches a wave of premeditated mass killings in the American heartland, an enigmatic, chain-smoking Brit shows her that the roots of evil run deeper than she'd ever imagined. The story, called "Shoot", followed the psychologist as she gathers and prepares research work on the wave of 'schoolyard slayings' - children gunning down other children en masse that's slowly sweeping the country - for a Senate investigative committee. She's also writing a paper on not only the pathology of premeditated mass killing, but the psychology of the victims. Jonestown is her starting point. She's heard the tape of Jim Jones' last sermon while his followers were screaming out in pain, the poison chewing through their guts. The children were poisoned too. They screamed too." "In this unslept state of constant horror, she notices one cohesive factor in the last few instances of children blowing away their playmates in the playground. A lean, rumpled, middle-aged Englishman in a trenchcoat. She starts investigating him, suspecting a connection. But Constantine - the original, spooky Constantine, seen from a distance, enigmatic, appearing and disappearing at will - prowls round her, bringing her to understanding of what's really going on. He makes her look properly at the video evidence of the thing he came from England for (an old friend's son who moved to America was shot dead in one of these incidents)." Time-Warner did not publishing this issue in the wake of the Columbine shootings. Hysterical finger-pointing was rampant, and anyone in a trenchcoat was a possible motivator, especially those without the weight of mainstream America behind them. Warren, realizing that DC/Vertigo was not going to stand on a principle for him, decided to leave the title. So now, we are up to page three in our cheap art collection, have three historical pages, and have spent no money (or have ENDED up spending no money). As for the pages I originally purchased to get these 6 Hellblazer pages for free...
