Vertigo may have shut its doors, but that doesn’t mean all of the imprint’s projects have been forgotten. The Sandman Universe books are set to carry on into their second year with the reintroduction of an old frenemy: John Constantine.

The iconic antihero will make his next appearance on October 30th in Simon Spurrier and Marcio Takara’s one-shot: The Sandman Universe Presents Hellblazer #1. The special issue, with a cover by Bilquis Everly, will be followed by a regular series to be penned by Spurrier and drawn by Aaron Campbell. It will launch on November 27th.

Constantine’s new story begins in a familiar place: the moment at which he appeared in Neil Gaiman’s original Books of Magic mini-series:

“John Constantine finds himself haggard, bloody, and dying in an epic magical war – a battle that will soon consume the world. As he lies there, the vision of a young Tim Hunter stands above him, the naive youth seeing firsthand what his destiny holds. Horrified, Hunter flees back into the past, and Constantine is left behind to die.

“Now, years later, Constantine reemerges, physically unaged but with all of his memories intact – and yet the world has passed him by. Constantine must now fathom a new world torn apart by the same old political and social woes, while attempting to discover how he returned after all this time. But most troubling of all are the rumors of a new young magician named Tim Hunter, a boy destined to be either the greatest sorcerer of all or the greatest threat to the world. If history is repeating itself, then is it John’s role to die all over again? Or is John here to stop the cycle—and stop Tim Hunter?”

Says Spurrier: “In this new era, everything is different. Everyone and everything he loved and knew is dead or despises him. Alone, angry, older, and wiser, he beholds a world that is clearly going insane. The shadows are deeper than ever. So he does what he does. He breathes smoke. He grins to himself. And he goes to work.”

November will also kick off new arcs in The Dreaming, Books of Magic, Lucifer, and House of Whispers, the first arcs of which will all be available in trade paperback by the end of July.

Hold onto your butts, folks. The Hellblazer’s back in town.