Constantine: The Hellblazer Collection
This is the comic adaptation of the film Constantine, itself based on the classic comic book series Hellblazer. While the film adaptation takes up the vast majority of the book there are also three original Hellblazer stories, written by Jamie Delano, Neil Gaiman and Garth Ennis.
The film plot is alright I suppose, not terribly involving and probably a lot more thrilling with the big budget effects of the big screen. The Delano and Ellis stories are only brief sections of much bigger plotlines and are presumably included in that form in order to tempt people to buy the older collections. They are both pretty damn good from what you get to read. The Neil Gaiman one is a stand alone short story and is excellent.
This is one to buy if you loved the film, or if you are a Hellblazer or Gaiman completist. I’d recommend that you do what I did and borrow it from your local library.
If it were just the film adaptation itself I’d say to give it a miss, but the extra content makes it worth your time.