Having read Carey's own graphic novel series the Unwritten and Lucifer I was familiar with his obsession with the idea of the collective unconscious/human mind/subconscious. To defeat their foe - an unnamed being from the primeval world - Constantine's allies tap into the the creature's own powers of mass mind control to re-create the beast's foe (the dog demon thing). Surprisingly, Constantine acts more as a distraction to the beast, but it can't always be him who saves the world. Though he should get credit for getting the whole effort going in the first place. But now he's lost his mind, so we're off on another random adventure! ( )

A suitably apocalyptic conclusion to an ongoing story arc. Carey's plotting is sharp, with a fair number of twists, events which read differently in retrospect and 'oh, should've spotted that's. Only real problem - after the widespread traumatic effects of this story, how does this world come even close to being functional? ( )

This was really great! I mean, I enjoyed Red Sepulchre and thought Black Flowers was even better, but this is one excellent climax to the events in the two previous books. Both Marcelo Frusin's and Doug Alexander Gregory's artwork have a bolder, more stylized look than I'm accustomed to with this series, but once I got used to it I liked it. Frusin's work on "Bred in the Bone" (the first storyline in this book) is particularly effective. My only complaint with Gregory's artwork is that it sometimes made it hard to differentiate between Gemma and Angie -- they're both slender and dark-haired, and with Gregory's tendency to simplify facial features it sometimes made it hard to tell them apart. ( )