Hellblazer #171

Vertigo's Hellblazer earned Wizard's "Best Anti-Hero, Best Writer" honors in 2001, and issue #171 shows exactly why — Tim Bradstreet's cover presents a scarred, intense figure looming over a table bearing a handgun, a tape recorder, a coffee mug, and what appears to be a booking file labeled "Constantine, John," complete with mugshot photos. Brian Azzarello and Marcelo Frusin continue "Ashes & Dust in the City of Angels" with this second installment, and the interrogation-room atmosphere Bradstreet conjures suggests John Constantine is caught in circumstances that are equal parts dangerous and grimly mundane.