Editing Hellblazer (section)

===2007–2009===
==== Andy Diggle (#230–244, #247–249)====
[[Andy Diggle]], having previously written the ''Hellblazer'' special, ''[[Lady Constantine]]'', and Vertigo titles ''[[The Losers (comics)|The Losers]]'' and ''[[Swamp Thing]]'', took over the title in 2007,<ref name="Ref_c">[http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=88058 Andy Diggle Joins ''Hellblazer'' With #230], [[Newsarama]] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929134934/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=88058 |date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref> another former writer for ''2000 AD'' to have done this. He left the title in 2009 after accepting an exclusive contract with [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]].<ref name="Phegley2009">{{cite web|first=Kiel |last=Phegley |url=http://www.marvel.com/news/moviestories.7311/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103232918/http://www.marvel.com/news/moviestories.7311/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 3, 2013 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Diggle on Daredevil |publisher=[[Marvel.com]] |date=March 26, 2009 |access-date=March 27, 2009 }}</ref>

The run starts by introducing two main antagonists, an aging politician, who is using a strange portal to enter other people's minds and commit crimes,<ref>{{cite book|title=Joyride|publisher=Vertigo|author=Andy Diggle|year=2008|isbn=978-1-4012-1651-1}}</ref> and Mako, a cannibalistic mage who devours other magicians in order to obtain their power. Constantine's attempt to play them off one another only succeeds in making them join forces in a further plot.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Laughing Magician|publisher=Vertigo|author=Andy Diggle|year=2008|isbn=978-1-4012-1853-9}}</ref> Constantine then traps them both with considerable ease, and questions how this has been so easy. It then becomes apparent that he has been manipulated by the 'Golden Child', his twin who did not survive childbirth, and has been manipulating events for the whole of the series, including his battle with cancer and many other events. He declines his twin's offer to merge souls, suspicious that his twin has been weakening his will in past years to make him accept this offer, choosing instead to take control of his own destiny.<ref>{{cite book|title=Roots of Coincidence|publisher=Vertigo|author=Andy Diggle|year=2009|isbn=978-1-4012-2251-2}}</ref>