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Summary: Brilliant
Review: 'Ma'am, is this your husband's scrotum?' This is a real line from this book, and an example of it's sick sense of humor. Quite possibly, the most pleasing generally apealing graphic novel i've ever read, and it's sequel is great too! It reads like a movie, and should be made into one. If you like blood, bad language, twisted jokes, and watching a religion get turned on it's head, tune in next time.
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Summary: Just plain evil (but in a good way)
Review: Picture the late great Bill Hicks, Quentin Tarantino and Loki the Trickster staying up late one night drinking a lot of Turkish coffee. Say they decided to write something; something with action, suspense, religious overtones, and mind-paralyzing acts of violence. Suppose they decided to make it shockingly offensive and gut-bustingly funny at the same time. Preacher: Gone To Texas is that book.
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Summary: Not for the sqeamish...
Review: Preacher mixes thought-provoking ideas with great (but very violent) action scenes and snappy conversation. If you're easily offended, this book is not for you. But if you don't mind violence and a cynical view on Faith, read this book and enjoy the ride...
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Summary: It was the time of the Preacher... Book #1
Review: Do you like to read? Do you like movies? Then why don't you try Graphic Novels? Comics you say? Don't say that. This stuff is art. Do you like to read? Then why not Graphic Novels? Do you like movies? Then why not Graphic Novels? Why not? Why? Because it can be... "More fun than going to the movies" - Kevin Smith, Director Clerks.
Book #1 must be checked out. It is a DC comic's publication. The title - "Preacher: Gone to Texas", is a two story book introducing us to three core characters, Jesse Custer, a minister who has been zapped with the pseudo power of god by a fallen angel that drops down on his congregation during a meeting, finds himself after in a bar with Tulip, a road bandit and also Jesse's ex-lover, along with an Irish vampire, Cassidy, who has hitched in on the ride, the trio find themselves up against Sheriff Root, the law in Texas, with a demon on their tail who has been unleashed from heaven to track down the escaped pseudo power of God. This story is quite action packed, very funny fowl language and has a sense of humour, although don't expect it to be a very deep character analysis (you will have to fill in much of the gaps for yourself) although the second half of the book about a serial killer at large does not quite capture the ferocity of the first episode, is none the less a very interesting segment that is sort of telling you that the Preacher series can, and probably will go absolutely everywhere and anywhere, and as someone who has yet to read any more in the series I must say that I would get Volume 2 just on the bases of what I have enjoyed here.
Preacher: Gone to Texas is an amazing piece of art to own. It can proudly sit along side any classic volume of literature or sit beside the Mona Lisa. Draw your attention to the cover, Glen Fabry, offers 10 other graphic plates in the book that are almost worth buying another copy for, just to tear out those pictures and put them in a frame, the guiding light for any future budding graphic novel animators, those images are sublime and worth the cost of the book alone.
Even though Fabry is replaced by the core artists, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion do an amazing job of the layout, meaning do not turn pages in this graphic novel, as some pages are surprises designed to grab you... and they do, so at least allow yourself to be stunned by not looking ahead, okay. That is a general good rule for the Preacher graphic novel anyway... others like Johnny The Homicidal Maniac: The Director's Cut you could spend days jumping back and across through but these ARTY graphic novels tend to have less plates and more high impact artwork, sometimes covering whole pages, meaning that it is easy to spoil Preacher with just glancing through it once.
I found Preacher to be one of the most engaging Graphic Novels I have seen. It really does bring the next frame or page along at a shocking pace with many scenes leaping out at you and grabbing you buy the throat, WOW! to go along with the illustrated POW! See you at Preacher #2 for a review if you enjoyed the first episode like I did.
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Summary: Preacher
Review: The entire Preacher saga, in my opinion, is simply one of the greatest stories ever told. It is so much more than what you think it is when you start reading it. It's not so much a story of religion and one man's literal search for God as it is a story of honor and friendship. About being a real man and admitting your mistakes and shortcomings. About respect for women. About treating your lady as a lady should be treated, but not being so macho as to not let her back you up when you're in trouble. But most importantly, this story is about the redemption of the characters involved. As they searched for God, their redemption was found in each other rather than a blessing from a deity.
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Summary: Overrated series but good first volume
Review: Maybe it's just that I reread this series in the wake of rereading Neil Gaiman's massively superior Sandman, but Preacher does not deserve the hype it has been given. The story is about Jesse Custer, an irreverent minister who merges with a mysterious being called Genesis. This gives him the power to command anyone who can understand him. Together with his girlfriend Tulip and Irish vampire Cassidy, he sets out to find God (literally).The word "gratuitous" hardly begins to describe virtually everything to be found here. Blowing off someone's face gets a little boring after seeing it (or some other equally gruesome death) for the twentieth time. Sexual depredations are used for cheap shock value and have little emotional impact. And writer Garth Ennis seems to have a running competition with himself over how many times he can use the f-word in one page. All the sex and violence (very often acted out by the main characters) only serves to detract from the moral and religious messages of the comic. I am also forced to conclude that Preacher is sorely lacking in the creativity department. The premise is interesting enough, but not a whole lot is done with it. Jesse Custer spends most of the comic just sort of wandering around, running afoul of various sickos and conspiracies. So much time is spent making sure the reader knows that Jesse is a Real Man that his villains usually end up looking like total losers. The exceptions are the Saint of Killers, who's fairly cool, and Jody (from the second collection), who is a nearly perfect comic book bad guy. Starr, theoretically the main antagonist of the series, is totally worthless; I can't remember him succeeding in anything he tried to do at any time. And the less said about other bad guys, like Jesus de Sade and Les Enfants du Sange, the better. Jesse is a fairly good character, and many rave about the portrayal of Tulip as a strong female comic character. (Though I personally thought she wasn't even vaguely realistic.) This first volume deserves four stars, because it has some drive and focus. Overall I would probably recommend this collection and the first half of the next one. (That contains the story of Jesse's upbringing and has far and away the most powerful writing in the series.) But the later collections are pointlessly drawn out and don't fulfill the promise of the beginning of the series.
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Summary: so much promise
Review: I like this book a lot, but it's part of a larger arc and that larger arc really starts to sag a few books later. What we find here isn't too uncommon in serialized stories like comics or television shows that actually have a long narrative planned in advance, and that's that the stage setting proves to be much more fun than the resolution. I can't say when it gets really bad but it does and it seems to do so over a long period of time. Or possibly Ennis' whole schtick and his characters, never quite as fresh as those of Gaiman to whom he owes a large and obvious debt, get tiring after awhile. You probably won't go wrong with this one, but I wouldn't suggest buying all the books at once.
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