Comic Title: Hellblazer #22
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: September 1989
On Sale Date: July 25, 1989 Shipping Date July 27, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #168

Shipping Date July 25, 1989
Source: Previews, #5

Direct Market Date July 27, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #106, #108

Copyright Date July 25, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Balance"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Penciller: Mark Buckingham
Inker: Alfredo P. Alcala
Letterer: Elitta Fell
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted In:
John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Fear Machine TPB (2008)
John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Fear Machine TPB (2012)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; next appearance in Swamp Thing #84)

Supporting Character(s)

• Zed (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; no further appearances)
• Errol (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; next appearance in Hellblazer #34)
• Geoff Talbot (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; no further appearances)
• Mercury (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; next appearance in Hellblazer #34)
• Marj (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; next appearance in Hellblazer #34)
• Eddy (last appearance in Hellblazer #16; no further appearances)
• The Freedom Mob (last appearance in Hellblazer #16; no further appearances)
• Myra (last appearance in Hellblazer #16; no further appearances)
• Jo and Sam (last appearance in Hellblazer #16; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Jallakuntilliokan (no further appearances)
• Davis (dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #21; no further appearances)
• Mr. Webster (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; no further appearances)
• Bartholomew Carter-Browne (dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #21; no further appearances)
• A group of freemasons (Tyler named; no further appearances)
• The Terror-Thing (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Followers of the Pagan Nation (last appearance in Hellblazer #21; no further appearances)
• Sergei Antonov (dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #21; no further appearances)

Comments:
The Fear Machine, Part IX

This story is continued from Hellblazer #21.

Synopsis:
John is awakened after his encounter with the Terror-Thing by Zed. Although John has given up, Zed convinces him to fight. Zed explains that the God of All Gods, Jallakuntilliokan, is a creature of balance. The rogue freemason Webster is attempting to free only half the creature. To combat this half, Eddy leads the Freedom Mob and members of the Pagan Nation to destroy the stones which power the Terror-Thing. Mercury, Marj, Zed, and John stay behind. The women use female magic and John's body to create an egg containing the female half of Jallakuntilliokan. When the male half is released, the women set free their half from the egg. The two halves are joined in a union of spiritual upheaval. In the aftermath, balance is restored.

John is later picked up by a fishing boat and taken home.