#Damn them All

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cover art by anand radhakrishnan for ram v, simon spurrier and james tynion’s books

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Alex Maleev - Damn them All

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Dan Mora - Damn them All

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Been bagging and boarding all day and here are 10 covers that touched me in my Special place.

[osiiiris]

At work but thinking about Papas with reading glasses on

[tomoleary]

Damn Them All #1 by Dani (2022)

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Damn Them All #11 by Simon Spurrier, Charlie Adlard and Sofie Dodgson. Variant cover by Miguel Mercado. Out in December.

"In a macabre kaleidoscope of soul-seeking hallucinations, Ellie takes a theological hammer to the idea of satan, confronting her mind's interpretation of the absent and cruel Creator. If Ellie can find some internal salvation in all this, it might give her an edge against Cillian and his hivemind.

Regardless, she's going to discover something shocking about Alfie's fate…"

[wolfbearingroses]

I like the concept of gemma doing magic even though no one wants her to. Like hell yeah, become a mage, make your uncles life even more stressful.

So like, I perfectly understand why people don't like John having a mentee. He's a mess, better not have a kid get stuck in the chaos that is his life.

But at the same time, I think (before Milligan's run) they'd given her some really good trajectory to be an exception. Like, it wasn't John going "alright kiddo, here's how cool magic is, btw I'm your new dad", Gemma basically came into it on her own when he couldn't stop her, and became, in her words, not quite as big a bastard as John. In a way, it's wierdly fitting that what he'd see as one of his biggest mistakes was something he wasn't involved in but instead part of a legacy he left. But since at that point she was kind of stuck in it, (and already refused to stop once) he'd just have to be sure she doesn't end up like Gary Lester. They're the only family they have, and despite how much he'd beat himself up, John would stand by his niece.

But yeah, enough waxing lyrical. If we do get Gemma back, I'd really like her to be more like an update on Carey's Gemma. Rather than having her denounce magic, having her go in deeper to overcome the pain. An upcoming witch in her own right, who does suffer for it, but isn't just John's sidekick. A prominent part of the Hellblazer mythos again without being part of the crowd. Just give the girl her mallet and nails back haha.

In the meantime, Si Spurrier's Damn Them All is basically telling the story of Gemma having her own adventure with different names (highly encourage people to read it if you liked his Hellblazer run btw). So clearly there's someone working in the industry who sees this potential. Maybe the next person to writer Hellblazer can take a leaf from his book.

[extraordinary-heroes]

Damn Them All #5 (Cover art by Tonci Zonjic)

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Happy birthday to Charlie Adlard!

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Sebastian Fiumara - Damn them All

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Alex Maleev - Damn them All

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Revisiting all of Damn Them All volume 1 today

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[ultrameganicolaokay]

Damn Them All #10 by Simon Spurrier, Charlie Adlard and Sofie Dodgson. Variant cover by Alex Eckman-Lawn. Out in November.

"The 500 Club has a new world order in mind, and Ellie is caught in the middle; she's set up and without a prayer.

Cillian will stop at nothing to induct Bloody El into his demonic hivemind, and Ellie will have to try something unconventional with Glasya Labolas to shake things up… but will it work as expected?"