Sean Phillips

Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips give Hellblazer a grimy, human texture: John Constantine as liar, survivor, manipulator and magnet for every bad thing he pretends he can handle. The horror here is not only demons; it is guilt, class, friendship, addiction, memory and the cost of always being the cleverest man in the room.

Collects the entire Tangled Web anthology (2001-2003), the series that handed Spider-Man to some of comics' strongest voices and let them look away from the hero. Garth Ennis and John McCrea's Rhino two-parter, Greg Rucka and Eduardo Risso's noir, and Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo's tales sit alongside work by Brian Azzarello, Darwyn Cooke and Paul Pope, all in one hardcover.