This was my first introduction to Etrigan/Blood and I was totally hooked. It's a shame that the character really hasn't been back to these heights yet.

Could be a double inside joke, as I seem to recall Constantine was based on Sting. I know that was covered in Legends revealed, but I can't begin to think of where.

I might have to just go with the intro page, one sample page of the sex and then the finale page, with, I guess, the finale page being "the" moment, but that would require leaving out pages and pages of awesome stuff.

EDITED TO ADD: By the by, Alan Moore probably has the most moments on the list so far, so it's not like we've been without Moore moments up until now!

Yes, that's my explanation. Sting happened to be visiting.

Anyway, I bet that this issue is one of the top reasons that Etrigan shows up as much as he does these days.

Jason says near the end of this arc that he and Etrigan made a compromise of sorts about their different natures: "I have become more like Etrigan... and he, too, has become more like Etrigan."

This was the first time I saw The Demon in action. I knew of him through Who's Who and internet bio pages. And what an introduction. The artwork on these pages are so powerful, they just jump off the page. The page with the swordfish being unwrapped is great on so many levels, artistically speaking. Reading that page I can hear the car screech as I view the page and the swordfish, while the actual event of flying off the car and impaling that guy would have taken an instant, in my mind's eye it's in slow motion in that way that you can only fully appreciate in the moment of a terrible/shocking event.

Great pick for today.

This was an image from a Francis Bacon painting. And Totleben would later turn it into one of the two demons ("Muttlecraunch and Flutch") that Etrigan and Swamp Thing would meet in Hell, in Swamp Thing Annual #1 in 1984.

So, same thing -- Totleben using a backgrounds to sketch an idea ahat would later be fleshed out more fully.

Doug M.

See, artist John Totleben had become interested in drawing a character that "looked like Sting". (It's not clear if he was a fan, or just thought that Sting was visually interesting.) So he made a first stab with this panel, putting "Sting" in the background to see how it worked out. (I don't know why he couldn't have just done a bunch of sketches, but then I'm not an artist. Maybe putting it in actual page pencils lent verisimilitude, or something?)

So anyhow, the character here is Sting, or A Bystander Who Looks Like Sting -- but not John Constantine, who didn't exist yet. Notice that he's wearing a striped t-shirt -- not something we would ever see on Moore's Constantine -- and is missing the trademark trenchcoat and cigarette? So, think of him as a very preliminary sketch or rough draft for Constantine.

Doug M.

The impalement page is brilliant.

Excellent moment though with all the payoffs.

That was creepy sequence was one of my favorites over the years.

Just read these for the first time this past spring-- really wonderful stuff even though I had been completely unfamiliar with the characters at that point. The one quibble I do have about this excerpt (and indeed, this first volume of Moore and Bissette's runn) is that Abby's accent is only defined as "not from Louisiana." Only after looking at the wikipedia entry did I learn that she was from Transylvania.