Roots of the Swamp Thing: Your Portal to the Universe of Swamp Thing, The Un-Men and John Constantine: Hellblazer 

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Warren Ellis' Unpublished
Hellblazer #141: "Shoot"

As infamous to Hellblazer fans as Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing aborted issue #88 ("Morning of the Magician") is to readers of that series (click here for more information), "Shoot" has a similar publication history and resulted in the premature and unceremonious end of Warren Ellis' run on Hellblazer.

In the wake of the Columbine high-school shootings, Vertigo opted not to publish this similarly themed story, deeming it too uncomfortable a subject. Ellis quit as a result, just as Veitch had done, and this story ended up in comic-book limbo, even though it had already been illustrated and laid out.

Despite Vertigo's attempt to remove "Shoot" from the Internet, several fan sites (including this one, from which the pages below were taken) have made the pages available online. A more detailed account of the comic's history is available here.

Click on the thumbnails below to see larger versions of each page.


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