I am rating this issue as an extension for the rest of Jamie Delano's and Garth Ennis' run. I really do not understand the appeal in the way these men write. Mike Carey really nailed what I think great Hellblazer adventures should look like.
As far as Ennis and Delano, the amount of text on a single page and even worse, an entire issue, is daunting. Ennis and Delano don't seem to understand that less can be more sometimes. The real kicker is that with so much text, you would expect something of value; to feel like you have gleaned major or minor plot points after committing time and energy in each page. However, pages of text can fly by with barely anything happening. Exposition, not for the sake of story, but exposition for the sake of exposition. I think they fashion themselves as poets. Much akin to a New York Times article that spans a dozen paragraphs when two paragraphs would have sufficed. It is self indulgent writing. Some would call them writers who like the smell of their own farts.
Different strokes for different folks. I am just glad that more fun writers got a chance. more