A very Constantine Christmas.

Peter Milligan wrote both the best, most consistent ongoing series DC Vertigo ever produced and one of the twin pillars, with Morrison’s ‘New X-Men’, of the most remarkable aspect of the Marvel revival.

I’ve only just been able to catch up with the most recent ‘X-Statix’ storyline, and to my great delight the title is back to its old self…

‘Human Target’ has become one of the easiest monthly books to pick up without knowing anything about it beforehand – it is dense, involving and brilliant…

I’ve decided to just throw myself in at the deep end with this new ongoing series…

Unluckily, he says, hitting cliche instantly, #13 shows, for the first time, ‘X-Statix’ dropping the ball.

If this issue had featured Princess Diana, as it was intended to, it would have gone down as one of the greatest, most audacious comic books in Marvel’s history.

At the risk of sounding greedy, does our regular dose of ‘X-Statix’ have to be postponed so that this can come out?

Well, they’ve gone and done it. This month the price of an issue of ‘X-Statix’ has gone up from $2.25 to a whopping $2.99…

‘Shade, The Changing Man’ is a lyrical, chaotic delight which engages with issues and ideas through surrealism and metaphor. Where else could one find a JFK Sphinx?

Anybody who caught these issues first time around will remember the letters pages…

X-Statix is, of course, Pete Milligan and Mike Allred’s X-Force in all but name and number. As expected, the writing is as smart as ever, the artwork is as eyeball tingling good as we’ve become used to, and the combination of satire and soap…