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Summary: sick, funny violence, and twisted religion
Review: My God, this is sick! It's also funny as hell, even though I still feel slightly disturbed that I actually laughed at some of the things that happen."Preacher: Gone to Texas," is the first of the trade paperback collections of the comics series. I haven't read any of the others, so I really have no idea what happens later, but after reading this first volume, I plan to buy the next ones in the very near future, and continue to not believe I'm laughing. This stuff is addictive. From what I can tell so far, "Preacher" is the story of preacher Jesse Custer, his ex-girlfriend Tulip, and Cassidy, an Irish vampire. At some point, an angel and a demon had a child named Genesis. Genesis was a new idea, as powerful as God Almighty; it has escaped its heavenly prison and bonded with Jesse. Now Jesse, a moral person despite his many flaws, is searching for God. He plans to ask some serious questions. "Gone to Texas" falls roughly into two parts. First there's the introduction, where we meet the three main characters, and others, such as the Saint of Killers. Then the three hitchhike to New York City, where they start looking for God and get involved in a serial murder case. There are times when the gore and cursing get too thick, so they're tiresome instead of funny; that's why I'm not giving this five stars. Still, "Preacher" is one of the best comics I've read in a while, and I'm looking forward to the next collected volumes.
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Summary: Preacher Is Part Western, Part Crime Noir, Part F**ed Up
Review: The critically acclaimed Preacher series by co-creators Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon is one [messed] up strange trip. As described in the foreword by Joe R. Lansdale, Preacher is "part Western, part Crime story, part Horror story, and partly just [messed]-up strange. Well, a lot [messed] up strange actually." Preacher, like the best of literature, is an experience. Ennis and Dillon are able to draw you into the Western atmosphere that dominates this book immediately and you'll find yourself unable to put it down(I read the entire book in one sitting). Preacher Vol.1: Gone To Texas is the introduction to the three main protagonists of the Preacher series, Jesse Custer- a man who has lost his faith who is endowed with the power of the word of God, Cassidy- a hard-drinking Irish vampire, and Tulip- a strong-willed woman who can hold her own with any man. From Texas to New York, Preacher: Gone To Texas is one big trip that will not disappoint. And who wouldn't love a series with a character named Arseface?
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Summary: great reading!
Review: read volume's 1 and 2.loved them!found volume's 3 to 9,bought those quick.haven't read yet,but eagerly waiting to.want a good story?read the "Preacher" series,you want be dissappointed.
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Summary: One hell of a road movie
Review: This is one of my all-time favorite comics. I would hide this one from the easily offended on account of the premise, the gore, and the profanity, but I'd recommend it to everyone else. Four reasons: Its outrageous plot: The mother of all quests!
Its human characters: Tulip is hands down the most badass female comic book character I've seen, not just another screamy bimbo or eerily perfect Amazon or robobabe with too much attitude. Cassidy reminds me of an ex of mine. And Jesse... Well, I was half in love with Jesse by the end of volume one.
Its wicked, wicked sense of humor. It's very often crass and sometimes just plain nasty, but it's unbelievably funny.
Its warmth. People paint this series as a hard-hearted gorefest, but this story's about as romantic and uncynical as Garth Ennis gets. It downright tugs the heartstrings watching Jesse and Tulip fight for each other. I certainly don't want to warn women off this one; I'm tired of being told that women don't like violent comics. Hey, I'm female, and Preacher makes my day.
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Summary: A rollercoaster ride of a comic
Review: Writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon bring to life one of the most twisted, offensive, action packed, and unrelenting comic sagas that you'll ever read. This first chapter in the Preacher saga introduces us to Jesse Custer, a former preacher who teams up with his gun toting ex-girlfriend Tulip, and a hard drinking Irish vampire punk named Cassidy. Jesse is on a mission to find God, but not for the usual philosophical reasons one might expect. The action is graphic and very violent, and Ennis' dialogue can be chilling in one scene, and laugh out loud absurdly hilarious in the next (Cassidy's antics will have you busting a gut laughing). All in all, those looking for a different kind of comic and have unique tastes should definitely give the entire Preacher series a look, and they should start here.
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Summary: Began quite so good...
Review: What to say about preacher? I think this series was one of my great disappointments with comics in the last years! I was one of the guys that bought all the trades in this series. I loved this first trade, and I was anxious to buy the other ones... In some moment, though, the charm of the stories began to vanish to me, and not too many trades later, I began to realize that the stories were getting worse and worse... But, anyway, it was a limited series, let's see if it gets better towards the end... And I continued buying... And I found out that it didn't get better, much on the contrary, this series stinks in the end!
Man, and it didn't even last 75 issues!!! I mean, some people criticize Cerebus, but Dave Sim was getting awards until issue 186 (but then there was the mysoginistic thing, etc...), when Gaiman finished Sandman he still had good ideas in mind (and, recently, we've had a new trade), etc...
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What I can tell about this first trade is that it is really engaging. Unless you get shocked for some reason, or think it is blasphemous, etc, you really will want to follow the series.
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The basic premise (I will tell, for the sake of completeness of this review) is that one angel and a demon decided to make sex and they had a baby (funny this part... now we know the sex of the angels and demons!!). This baby (Genesis) is so powerful that makes God leave heaven fearing it...
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By some reason this creature possesses a preacher (Jesse Custer) in the middle of a ceremony and kills everybody in the church...
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Then Jesses's girlfriend shows up, with a new vampire friend, they take Jesse, just to be confronted later with a lot of police guys and the Saint of Killers...
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Man, I really liked that part with the Saint killing everybody, and Jesse using his new power of commanding anyone that hears and understands him... It had as much action as any other mainstream comic. I thought: "hey that's great, why didn't anybody make other comic book so explosive like this?" (or like Cerebus, reading the work of Garth Inniscent, "this is great work, after all, the author is so creative that he kills a lot of guys in different ways in each issue").
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Garth Ennis really had a great original idea to play with. He had a powerful guy looking literally for God, a crazy girfriend that knows how to use a gun (that later in the trades will become a very shallow character, because Garth Ennis don't know how to write a woman - I still hate to have waisted my time reading her story... and that ridiculous part with her father dying, with another shot in the head? - it could be, just to change a bit, a shot in the heart... - and that friend of her being raped? hahahaa. hahah... - man this guy really began to lack imagination), you've had angels, vampires, a Saint of killers (some kind of death angel, that was able to kill the Devil, any angel, even God himself - he just couldn't kill Cassidy!!!!). An stupid "Arse-Face", a boy that decided to shot his head to imitate that Nirvana singer. John Wayne also appears to counsel Jesse. Later, we will have Starr, a guy so powerful that can force the United States president to throw an atomic bomb anywhere in the planet (even in the USA) when he sees fit... (HAHHAHAHAHAHAAHhhaahha... haha... :) I'm sorry guys, I know that this is just a comic book, but that Graal thing, and they controlling all leaders in the world was ridiculous).
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I really don't know how Garth Ennis lost completely his creativity to be able to screw up things... I recommend this first trade, and some others, but I would recommend anyone to stop after the "War in The Sun" trade. That trade, in my opinion, is where the story gets its climax, but after that it falls completely and never gets even so-so anymore...
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Someone talked about the Kevin Smith's introduction to the second volume of the series... He talks about Preacher's intelligent and provocative commentary on religion. Man, Preacher has no religious commentary at all... I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Garth Ennis never even bothered to read the bible to make these stories...
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I think some problems with preacher begin just in this trade. We see very fast that Preacher is just vulgarity by the sake of vulgarity, violence by the sake of violence, F-words for the sake of F-words, shots in the heads of characters by the sake of shooting the heads of characters (this happens so commonly in the stories, that later you get bored). You just don't notice in the first read. Actually, this is quite a trade in the Vertigo line... A work with these features is surely not a work for children (that is, should be read by a mature reader), but just because a work has a F-word, it doesn't make the work mature either (that is, it wouldn't necessarily attract a mature reader).
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I'll finish paraphrasing what other guy here said... Do the comics community a favor, when you're looking for something to give your non-comics reading friend to introduce them to the genre, leave Ennis for later (better than that, don't show it at all). Stick with Gaiman, Moore, Sim, and others, instead; Preacher's exactly the sort of thing that makes the non-comics reading public think comics are nothing but sex, violence, blasphemy, and garbage.
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PS. I was forgetting to mention the "art" (art?!)... The art in Preacher is something that also begins very creatively, and you even think that Steve Dillon is a good artist... But, not too many issues later, you will notice that intead he's a very limited artist... Most of the women in the stories have the same Tulipa's face (he just changes their hair), the shots in the head are all the same, besides he doesn't even know how to draw someone that took a shot by a higher caliber gun... It's always the same, you see a guy with a big hole in some part of the body, but the bleeding effect is missing...
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Summary: sick, funny violence, and twisted religion
Review: My God, this is sick! It's also funny as hell, even though I still feel slightly disturbed that I actually laughed at some of the things that happen. "Preacher: Gone to Texas," is the first of the trade paperback collections of the comics series. I haven't read any of the others, so I really have no idea what happens later, but after reading this first volume, I plan to buy the next ones in the very near future, and continue to not believe I'm laughing. This stuff is addictive. From what I can tell so far, "Preacher" is the story of preacher Jesse Custer, his ex-girlfriend Tulip, and Cassidy, an Irish vampire. At some point, an angel and a demon had a child named Genesis. Genesis was a new idea, as powerful as God Almighty; it has escaped its heavenly prison and bonded with Jesse. Now Jesse, a moral person despite his many flaws, is searching for God. He plans to ask some serious questions. "Gone to Texas" falls roughly into two parts. First there's the introduction, where we meet the three main characters, and others, such as the Saint of Killers. Then the three hitchhike to New York City, where they start looking for God and get involved in a serial murder case. There are times when the gore and cursing get too thick, so they're tiresome instead of funny; that's why I'm not giving this five stars. Still, "Preacher" is one of the best comics I've read in a while, and I'm looking forward to the next collected volumes.
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Summary: A fantastic start
Review: There's a Tarantino-esque quality to Preacher. Beyond the most obvious similarity- the gratuituous violence- there's also a fascination with dialogue. Note the coarse language; the raw, edgy humour; the emphasis on storytelling; and it's almost like you've entered a down-home version of Pulp Fiction. Ennis is clearly concerned with replicating the words as we would actually hear them. Particular speech patterns are inserted into the text, making the characters' words more credible (particularly noteworthy is Ennis' insistence on having us read a speech-challenged character's words as they would actually sound. The words are 'subtitled,' though). I think that Ennis' usage of dialogue is what makes this a great work. One small fault is that, as other reviewers have noted, Ennis occasionally misses with his characterization of the Texan accent. Nevertheless, he should be applauded for his intriguing and unique construction of dialogue, a too often overlooked feature in the medium. Ennis is clearly a very gifted storyteller. He uses the archetypal figures of movie westerns we all know (the John Wayne type, the bad-guy gunslinger, the stern, tough-as-nails cop) and places them in absurd situations. How he came up with such unique characters as Arseface or the Saint of Killers I'll never know. They certainly added to my interest in the story. The 'hints' section really made me want to pick up the next installment to figure out how the tale develops. A tip of the cap should also be given to Steve Dillon. His clean and detailed lines were sometimes touching, sometimes disturbing, but always tastefully done. His visual interpretations of the characters are right-on: I couldn't possibly imagine a more appropriate looking Jesse Custer or Cassidy. In short, this is a brilliant start to a brilliant series. This is one very rare case where you can actually believe the hype.
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Summary: great reading!
Review: read volume's 1 and 2.loved them!found volume's 3 to 9,bought those quick.haven't read yet,but eagerly waiting to.want a good story?read the "Preacher" series,you want be dissappointed.
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Summary: This is comic book utopia.
Review: I love this book.
I really love this book.
I reeeeeeeaaaaaaally love this book because of these reasons:
First of all, the story's fantastic.
Two, so is the art.
Three, the characters are wonderful and charismatic.
Four, when it ends you know there are eight more books to read.
I would recommend this book to anyone.
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