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Summary: Best thing I've read since The Sandman ended
Review: Preacher is probably one of the best comics I've read in a long time. A combination of witty humor, religious satire and mild science fiction make this well worth the time and money you put into it.
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Summary: It really is "more fun than going to the movies."
Review: That high praise came from CLERKS director Kevin Smith. He is dead on about PREACHER, especially this, the second collection, which introduces Jesse's severely dysfunctional family and Herr Starr, the series' main villain. The 2 best moments here: the Preacher's fight with Jody, the sadistic farmhand who killed his father, and the orgy/party thrown by Jesus deSade, who must be read to be believed.
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Summary: Cooler than the First!!!
Review: The second istallment of the Preacher 9 part series collected by DC comics continues to be the most ambitious and most drastic version of all. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, are just having so much fun with this that they decided not to heed with anything anyone is saying. If there is any rating fro these comics like there is for movies, then this one would definitely be an R rated book. The jokes are over the top, the nudity and sex is everywhere, and the theme of divinity is just thrown out the window.The story is divided into two parts. The first delves with Rev. Jesse Custer's past. You get to meet one of his family members, though by the end of it, you may wish you haven't. The second part is just two screwy to try to describe. What's good about is that the vampire Cassidy is back after some disappearance. The story is wild. If I say more, I'll be ruining the story, though I doubt something so complex can be ruined with a couple of words. The book is highly recommended for everyone who loves comics that are over the top with a mature content and makes you think about what if some of the things being said holds some truth in the real world. All in all, Ennis shines with his writing skills. Anything I read now is just not as good as Preacher. I think it has raised the bar on what I expect from my books now. Even his recent Punisher books, just fails to grasp the magic of the Custer, Tulip, and Cass. Smart, sexy and in your face. That's what this installment of Preacher is all about.
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Summary: So far the best Preacher money can buy
Review: There are a number of great things about comics. One happens to be that you can get away with anything. Comics payed their censorship dues with the fascistic "Comics Code" of the 50s and 60s. The Code is impotent and ignored now, and comics, dismissed as rubbish by the masses, have become the medium in which anything goes. Hence Preacher. One of the best comics of the 90s, Preacher makes fun of religion, rednecks, the occult, and "wankers" in general in the filthiest way possible. "Until the End of the World" contains the comic's two best stories. "Family Matters" concerns ex-Preacher Jesse's insane, inbred and godblessed (literally!) family, contrasting Jesse's life story and struggle with romance and the vengeance of God. Very freudian. "Hunters" introduces the most powerful orginzation in the world, The Grail. They control the bloodline of Jesus Christ, and a rogue member wants Jesse to be the new Messiah. Of this I can say no more. If you have a strong stomach and suitably sarcastic sense of humour, this is your ticket.
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Summary: Meet the family
Review: This is only the second book of comics I've ever read (Preacher, book 1 was the first), but this is great stuff. In this second collection from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, we get to play a little catch-up after all the fast and furious medias res action of the first book. That isn't to say that there isn't plenty going on in these stories. We get to meet Jesse's weird, weird family (have you ever seen "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"?) There's also a resolution to Jesse and Tulip's knotty love problems. And we get to travel with Cassidy, our favorite bloodsucker from the British Isles, into the belly of the beast, where we learn more about the mysterious agency that is persuing Jesse. After you've finished this second book of Preacher comics, you'll still have many unanswered questions, but you'll have a little surer footing in Jesse Custer's strange world, and you'll have no choice but to go buy the third book.
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Summary: One eye & one ear down...
Review: This volume of the PREACHER saga is where the REAL fun begins for me! In the second half of this book, creators Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon intro my fave character: Herr Starr, the head enforcer of the world's most powerful covert organization! I consider him the most interesting and colorful 'heavy' ever to hit the four-color medium! His no-nonsense attitude and blunt & acerbic words as he tries to track down Reverend Custer make for some of the funniest moments in comics! His penchant for unbelievable misfortune also begins here: in this volume he loses an ear in a firefight at a high-society orgy, and involuntarily experiences the- um, joy- of the love that dare not speak its name for the first time! The loss of one's body parts & dignity doesn't get much weirder (or funnier) than this! But, let's not forget the first half of this illustrated tome, where we get an inside look at the Rev's past, from his being raised by a ruthless and sadistic 'family' to his eventual breakout from this nighmarish clan. Then there's the capture of the Irish vampire Cassidy by Starr & his mercs, which sets up the events chronicled in the next volume of the PREACHER TPB series. Yep, it's kinda like 'The Empire Strikes Back' of comics: a really compelling and wonderful adventure that alla sudden leaves you hangin'! But, unlike 'Empire', it has lots more naughty language, gory ultraviolence, naughty bits, and substance abuse. And it's not based in outer space, or 'a long time ago'. And the main hero's a bit tougher than that teenaged blond kid from that desert planet. Come to think of it, there really aren't that many similarities 'Preacher Vol 2' and ESB, are there...? Anyway, time for me to fall back to Earth. If you've already read the first PREACHER TPB and you feel like continuing the adventure, then I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed with this installment. It's got everything you've come to expect from the previous book, and then some! 'Late
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Summary: Heavenly
Review: This, the second Preacher collection is vile, depraved, revolting, disgusting and morally dubious. Up to the usual Ennis standards, then. The general plot, for those who don't know, is this: Jesse Custer, a small town Texas Preacher, has his soul bonded with Genesis, a creature born of a demon and an angel, giving him the power to command people to do his bidding. He meets up with his hit-woman ex-girlfriend, Tulip and an Irish (that's IRISH, not AUSTRALIAN) alcoholic vampire called Cassidy. Soon, this trio find themselves on the run from the FBI, the Texas state police, a super-secret conspiracy known as the Grail, an immortal cowboy and a hideously disfigured (yet strangely upbeat) teenager. If you thought that Reservoir Dogs needed a bit more blood and that Pulp Fiction was wholesome family entertainment, then you really need to buy this book, I can't reccommend it enough. Don't be fooled into thinking this is a brainless shoot-em-up suerhero comic,however, - it is a carefully characterised well written story which deserves to be read from start to finish and then over again. In it's time, Preacher has presented moral stories on alcoholism, drug-abuse, child-abuse, love, friendship and what to do when everything you belive in has fallen down around you. BE WARNED, though - this comic don't pull any punches.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Until the End of the World is the type of book that changes your perception of comics! Not only does it have some of the greatest dialouge in a comic book that I've ever read but it's also got one of the most addictive plots I've ever read. And the beuty of it all is that this is a comic book story that involves you in it from the first page and doesn't use Alien ships, time displacement, mutants, or radioactive spiders (not that there is anything wrong with that). I read this graphic novel on a whim. I also unsuspectingly read it first out of all the Preacher graphic novels (this is vol. 2), the thing that shocked me was how easy it was to jump in to this book when it's in the middle of an evolving plot! That's amazing when you consider how much back story you need to read a normal book by DC or Marvel!
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Summary: My favorite book
Review: What can I say about this book that hasn't already been said? It's violent? Yes. Is there a whole lot of cussing? Oh yeah. But is the violence and language really that gratuitous? Well the language is pretty much how people talk, like when the characters are just talking a f-word might slip occasionally but isn't that how normal conversations are? The language gets pretty rough but think of what the characters are going through. I'd be cussing just as much if someone just kidnapped me or just shot a roomful of people. And about the violence being gratuitous? Hell do you know what it looks like when someones head is blown off? Well let me tell you it's much worse in real life than in the book. So yeah it's a violent book but that justs shows how sick some of the characters are. The main characters resort to violence but never cold blooded murder. But beyond the gore and language there lies one of my favorite stories ever. The first story in this book about Jesse's family is my favorite story in the whole series. But the series as a whole is the reason I read graphic novels again. Best book ever, go pick it up.
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Summary: The best volume of the series!
Review: With 8 volumes already out, and a 9th obviously on the way,"Until the End of The World" is my personal favorite. Welearn the horrible secrets of Jesse's past, why he left Tulip out of the blue five years ago, we meet Herr Starr and The Grail for the first time, "The Sexual Detectives", and of course Jesus De Sade and his...interesting party. I won't reveal anything else, because you'll be more shocked when you find out on your own!
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