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HellBlazer #156 : Good Intentions, Part 6 of 6
Writer : Brian Azzarello
Artist : Marcelo Frusin
Richie hears Dickie's dog howling in the distance and takes off in a sprint through the woods. John
Constantine wipes a splatter of blood off Dickie's mobile phone with a leaf and calls Rose, asking her
to meet her in the old house in the woods. Following the continued howls of his brother's dog, Richie
comes across Dickie's horribly gored corpse up against a tree trunk. John once again comes face to
face with the naked woman chained up outside the old house, this time he works on setting her free,
only to be interrupted by Rose. She asks after the whereabouts of her husband and he casually informs
her that he's where he belongs - knowing full well what Constantine means, Rose cries for her dead
spouse. John returns to picking the lock on the chains binding the naked woman but again he's
interrupted - this time by the arrival of a large number of the town's residents.
Richie catches up with the boar and finds it locked in combat with Dickie's dog, as he arrives on the
scene the boar drives one of its tusks up into the dog's belly. Howling in anger, Richie casts his rifle
aside and pulls a knife before joining the fray. Rose delivers the denouement, explaining to Constantine how Dickie
came up with the plan of making nasty movies for the internet in order to fund the town's survival after
the mine was shut down. Nobody liked the plan but all agreed that they had no choice, that it was the
only way they could survive, so everybody took their turn being chained up and used as fodder for the
website. A bloodied Richie arrives on the scene, carrying Dickie's dead dog in his arms. Grief
stricken over the death of his brother, Richie collapses to the ground and cries over the dog's corpse.
An angry Rose asks John why he came to Doglick in the first place, he tells her about wanting to
apologise to Lucky's wife and she laughs at him - explaining that Marjorie (Lucky's wife) cashed in
Lucky's life insurance and got out of town just as soon as she could. Rose tells Constantine that Dickie
was so fond of having him around that he wouldn't have done anything to drive him away, which
explains why he never told John that Marjorie was no longer living in the town. John asks Rose to
leave Doglick with him but she refuses, saying its her turn to take her place chained to the tree. We get
one final flashback to London, where a young Constantine is seemingly unable to ask Rose to stay with
him so she leaves to return to America.
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