John's story in this arc is wrapped around that of a family that died from the plague in London, circa 1665. There's a construction site in Kent where their building for the Olympics. It just happens to be over top of some of the plague pits. Anyways, as this story has progressed we've watched what this family did during that time to try to survive and stay together. John thinks he's found the ghost of one of the plague doctors, but actually it turns out to be the father from this family. He's asked John to move the bones from the grave because of the terrible things that he'd done. It turns out when it wasn't sure that they'd all be able to escape London safely, he killed his wife and daughter, and then himself, so that they wouldn't be torn apart. When John finally learns the whole truth of the man's story . . he refuses to help. "You killed the people you loved . . rather than risk losing them. You're just a fu#$%ng coward Fernby. Far as I'm concerned you can rot here for eternity." The point of this whole story though was to show Constantine that what he's been doing with Pheobe, is pretty much along the same lines. He's been pushing her away because he figured it wasn't going to work out anyways, so why prolong it? But . . he really likes her. Now he's wondering if he isn't handling things the same way that Fernby did. I thought it was a pretty intelligent story. Peter Milligan did a fantastic job. But then . . I didn't expect anything less. I also thought that Goran Sudzuka did a good job on the art. It really had the feel of the 'old' Hellblazer stories . . you know, from back in the beginning of the series. This title is on it's way to becoming one of my favorites again. I'm really enjoying it, and look forward to it every month. Whodathunkit? . . . some 20 years later.
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