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I always return to these Hellblazers for inspiration. This is from #80, which, though published in 1994, still has a really 1980s feel to me. Maybe it's because my hometown of Marshall, Texas in 1994 was like a time capsule from 1987, or maybe its the color and Steve Dillon's pencils.
In these issues, Constantine is running from the devil against the background politics of impending race riots. I like his seeming vulnerability throughout, or, really, everyone's vulnerability in the confrontation.
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Before he got into working on celebrity themes with Kurt and Courtney and Biggie and Tupac, unfortunately two separate films, Nick Broomfield was known for his social documentaries. Though a bit earlier, 'Behind the Rent Strike' (1979) captures the public housing setting well. The scene of the officer giving a talk to children about 'the hate the police attitude' is priceless. He could have been a model for Dillon's work. These are the children of the housing projects being lectured to at school, first by the Gideons, then by a policeman:
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