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Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips Hellblazer collection out next March

By John Freeman on December 4, 2025 • ( 0 )

DC Comics has announced the impending release of the John Constantine, Hellblazer by Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips Omnibus, the award-winning creators entire run on the series next March, in a massive omnibus collection.

Paul and Sean, who also worked together on Batman: Jekyll and Hyde for DC, helmed the Hellblazer series from 1994 to 1998, recasting Constantine’s powers as a curse that leads him into numerous conflicts across time and space.

“No one carries guilt like Constantine – and no one escapes it quite like him,” we’re told.

“Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips’ run on Hellblazer forged a uniquely human John Constantine – flawed, self-loathing, and fiercely clever – who navigates trauma, time, demons, dreams, and England’s haunted soul. From Aboriginal gods and King Arthur’s ghosts to personal reckonings in pubs and hellscapes, Jenkins reimagines Constantine’s magic not as a tool, but as a curse – and dares him to use it anyway.”

*Comics writer and author Paul Jenkins. Photo: META Studios*

Eisner Award winning Paul Jenkins, the founder of META Studios, a collective of innovative creatives, began his career at Mirage Studios, working on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He has since written some of the biggest characters for Marvel and DC Comics, including Spider-Man (on Spectacular Spider-Man), Batman, Incredible Hulk, Wolverine and Hellblazer. He is best known for reviving The Inhumans as part of Marvel Knights, and creating The Sentry for Marvel Comics, which was re-released in a new collection earlier this year.

*Coming soon: Sidekicks, an animated superhero satire*

Paul also writes science fiction, his novel, Curioddity, published in 2016, and for video games on best selling hits like The Darkness, Radical Entertainment’s Incredible Hulk, and God of War. His latest project, the animated superhero satire series Sidekicks, announced in July, is being produced by Solipsist Films.

Drawing comics professionally since the age of fifteen, multiple Eisner Award-winning Sean Phillips has worked for all the major publishers. — *Sean Phillips*

Drawing comics professionally since the age of fifteen, Eisner Award winning Sean Phillips has worked for all the major publishers. Since drawing Sleeper, Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, Marvel Zombies, and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, he’s concentrated on creator-owned books including Criminal, Kill Or Be Killed, Incognito, Fatale and The Fade Out, regularly working with writer Ed Brubaker.

The baby on the cover of this Hellblazer collection is now artist in his own right, Jacob Phillips! — The baby on the cover of this earlier Hellblazer collection is now artist in his own right, Jacob Phillips!

Sean Phillips cameo in Hellblazer #120 | Via John Constantine Cameos - http://www.qusoor.com/hellblazer/cameos.htm — *Sean Phillips cameo in Hellblazer #120 (via John Constantine Cameos) and the cover of The 2000AD Art Of Sean Phillips*

The 2000AD Art of Sean Phillips - Cover — *Sean Phillips cameo in Hellblazer #120 (via John Constantine Cameos) and the cover of The 2000AD Art Of Sean Phillips*

Some of his earliest work featured in 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine, and Rebellion have just published The 2000AD Art Of Sean Phillips, a retrospective of his work for the titles, showing how his art evolved from the fully painted work and collage of the early 1990s, to the familiar style he employs on hit books today.

The John Constantine, Hellblazer by Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips Omnibus, which runs to over 1200 pages, is one of author and editor Rich Handley’s favourite eras of the series, and DC invited him to write the book’s afterword, providing an historical context for the stories contained within.

This is his second contribution to the US publisher’s Hellblazer collections, collaborating with Sting on the 30th Anniversary Collection in 2018 – something he still can’t believe happened.

“I’m quite proud to be involved in this project,” Rich says, and I sincerely thank my good friend, editor, and frequent collaborator, Alex Galer, for allowing me to be a part of it.”

John Constantine, Hellblazer Omnibus 1 (DC Black Label)

John Constantine, Hellblazer Omnibus 2 (DC Black Label)

ICV2 reports DC’s John Constantine Hellblazer by Jamie Delano Omnibus, released last year, was one of the top 20 graphic novels (dollar sales) in ComicHub in its release month. A second volume was published in July.

• John Constantine, Hellblazer by Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips Omnibus will be published on 24th March 2026 and is available to preorder now from your Local Comic Shop or bookshop | ISBN 978-1799507642 | 1256 pages | Preorder from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link) | UKBookshop.org Affiliate Link

John Constantine, Hellblazer by Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips Omnibus collects Hellblazer #51, #85–128, #250, Vertigo: Winter’s Edge #1, and Hellblazer: Books of Magic #1–2.

Thanks to Rich Handley for the heads up

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.