Justice League Dark Volume 3: The Death of Magic written by Jeff Lemire and Ray Fawkes and art by Mikel Janin
John Constantine and the rest of Justice League Dark mount a rescue operation to get Zatanna and Timothy Hunter from an alternate dimension where magic is abundant. When the crew gets there, they are all affected by the magic, including Deadman becoming alive again, Madame Xanadu becoming old (she's been living for centuries and now starts looking like it), and Constantine becoming uncharacteristically honest (with comic results). Only Frankenstein's Monster is unaffected, presumably because he is a creature of science, not of magic. The alternate dimension has a crusading army of scientifically-advanced people who fight with all things magical, thus making them enemies of Justice League Dark. Meanwhile, Timothy has been hailed by the local magical creatures as their king. He leads them as an army against the science people. The story is exciting and filled with lots of drama and fun action.
A second story details the theft of Constantine's House of Mystery, which causes all sorts of nightmarish horrors all over the world. The Justice League Dark has to set things right, with some help from The Flash and Swamp Thing. This story is interesting but does not have the epic feel of the first story, though they try to pass it off as such.
Mildly recommended.
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