Comic Title: John Constantine, Hellblazer:Original Sins TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2011
On Sale Date: March 2, 2011 Direct Market Date March 2, 2011
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Direct Market Date March 2, 2011
Source: Previews, #267

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 304
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Ghosts in the Machine"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Artist: John Ridgway
Penciller: Brett Ewins
Inker: Jim McCarthy
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted From:
Hellblazer #7 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Swamp Thing #74)

Supporting Character(s)

• Zed (last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Hellblazer #8)
• Ray Monde (dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Ritchie Simpson (first appearance; dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #11; next appearance in Hellblazer #12)
• Emma (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Gary Lester (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Frank North (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Benjamin Cox (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Sister Anne-Marie (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)

Villain(s)

• God's Warriors (last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Hellblazer #8)
• Elder Martin (name not revealed in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #4; next appearance in Hellblazer #8)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Hellblazer #6 and continues in part in Hellblazer #8. John appears briefly in Swamp Thing #74 between stories.

Synopsis:
John Constantine visits his friend and computer expert Ritchie Simpson to get more information on the Resurrection Crusaders. Ritchie is able to send his mind into the computer in an attempt to hack into the Crusuders' accounts. He encounters safeguards that protect the data. The traps cause Ritchie's body to catch fire. John puts out the fire, but the body is destroyed. Ritchie's mind is then trapped in the computer which John unplugs.

John leaves and boards a train. He is haunted by the spirits of his dead friends and associates. To escape them John opens a door. He steps through without looking and falls from the train.

Meanwhile Zed is staying with John's friend Ray. The Crusaders break into the house, kill Ray, and kidnap Zed.