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Summary: GET THIS BOOK!
Review: At last we find out why Tulip hated guns so much, we finally find out Cassidy's shady past, Hoover returns, and the stage is set for the concluding story arch "Alamo" As always there is smart dialogue, with just enough violence, and a sprinkle of humor. This 8th volume is a MUST HAVE, so get this book!
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Summary: No quite in hell, no quite out of it...
Review: Ennis fans won't like what I have to say: the book is fair and that is it, like with almost all the ohter books in the series. Ennis likes to repeat himself, likes to go "to far", well that is old too and a cliche too. I understand teenagers beeing impressed by blood and cursing, but what is underneath is what matters... and there is nothing much underneath. Writers like Gaiman, Morrisson, Sim and Moore always have something to say in their stories. Ennis has a lot to show... little to say. His philosphy is childish and uneducated. And a cold bloded killer like Jessie being all mature and critical about the world... that makes no sense at all and is very, very old (the bright criminal who is so cool because he knows the truth!). The book is fine. I missed Cassidy, the most intresting of the three, and I don't care for tulip or her friend. If being a tough woman means having a gun but going after the macho Custer and his bigger gun... then the world is lost, man.
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Summary: molerate
Review: garth has done it again with the new preacher TPB .. not as good as war in the sun but better then any other comic out there ... too bad it has to come to a end.
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Summary: Absolutely amazing..
Review: Having followed this series from the beginning, I have to say that this installment keeps the series at the same high level of action/romance/intrigue as before. Steve Dillon's artwork is among the finest in mainstream comics, and Garth Ennis' writing just keeps getting better and better with each issue. But sadly, this is the next to last trade paperback that will be published when the series ends with issue #66. So, by all means, do yourself a favor and pick this one up, as well as the rest of the series if you haven't already. It's by far the best offering from DC's Vertigo imprint, and an unforgettable part of comics history.
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Summary: Ain't Got That Old Feeling
Review: I had really high expectations for this volume. It didn't quite measure up.
Okay, yeah, the characters are great. Fine. But the Tulip backstory feels obligatory and pointless, and I don't think it develops too much about her. It really didn't require two issues, that's for sure.
The rest of this volume seems kind of useless, repeating all the themes that have gone before. And between this volume and the last one, I'm wondering when Ennis will stop feeling the need to include sexual perversion in every issue. I'm not a prude, I just think it's a little past the point where it enhances the stories. It just feels repetitive now.
There's no real action in this book, and not a lot of solid story.
Finally, the action Jesse takes at the end of this volume, together with his actions towards Gunther at the end of Salvation make me truly question Jesse as a hero. This would bother me less, except that Ennis seems to think these actions are fine and jim dandy.
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Summary: Ex-Lover
Review: I've been reading Preacher from the start, and I used to love it. But this last one is a piece of s**t. Boring to the bone. Where's God? What happened to the original plot? It's starting to look like a soap opera with gore. Or maybe "Dukes of Hazard" with lots of blood and guts, I don't know. It's so stupid. Please Garth, I really loved Preacher as it was, would you bring it back?
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Summary: The Calm Before the Storm
Review: In this, the penultimate instalment to the remarkable Preacher run, Garth Ennis sets the scene before it all comes crashing down in The Alamo. An interweaving of narrative focuses on things that were: the younger lives of Tulip and Cassidy; the last story, `Tall in the Saddle,' looks at a younger Jesse, Tulip, and Amy, and shows the extent of Jesse's moral imperatives. Jesse's Texas-style justice borders on the sadistic in much of these pages. Nothing new there, I suppose, but there's some pretty graphic stuff, which further makes difficult the ability to unequivocally embrace Jesse as 'the hero.'If Preacher can 'mean' anything, surely the interrogation of whether good people can do bad deeds must be one of its hallmarks.
There's an undercurrent of themes here, most notably, the grand vision of America as the home of second chances and fulfilled dreams. That such a naïve suggestion could even be seriously articulated in as cynical and dark a text as Preacher (particularly when it's delivered by an ex-porn actor), shows the broadness of the canvas with which Ennis paints. Although Ennis clearly does believe in the notion of redemption, as witnessed by Jesse's spiritual rebirth in the appropriately-titled `Salvation,' and Tulip's deliverance from her own personal hell in these pages, our good buddy Arseface, though, is a living example of what happens when we too-openly trust and believe in goodness and decency. And people like Cassidy demonstrate the morality of people who manipulate that trust for their own benefit...
All in all, this is a good read. I would have liked more plot and less background (did I really need to know all I did about Tulip? And why is her father's hand inexplicably replaced by a hook?), but I can see Ennis playing the role of maestro here, having things quiet down before the finishing crescendo.
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Summary: Latest Edition is Full of Romance, Vengeance, and History.
Review: In volume 8 of Ennis and Dillon's "Preacher" series, Jesse finally gets his act together enough to come find Tulip. Tulip seeks her own inner strength, and we learn more about the past of Cassidy, everyone's favorite Irish vampire. Many characters we haven't seen in ages (and most of us have forgotten about) resurface in "All Hell's A-Coming," and fit so beautifully into the story that it is as if they couldn't possibly be anywhere else at that moment.Ennis continues to craft one of the best long-running stories in comics, giving us characters who are both flawed and heroic, in a classical sense. No, there are no cape-wearing supermen in these books, but we get treated to people who seem to love, and hate, and _feel_ the same way as the rest of us, if perhaps a bit more intensely. "Preacher" the comicbook series is drawing to a close, and this trade paperback collects the stories leading up to the final story arc, "Alamo." The characters meet one another again, preparing for the final act of this story, and spend most of "AHA-C" reflecting on their own pasts and learning what each other have been up to in the intervening months. The characters have to accept where they've been before they can prepare for where they're going, and it's safe to say that a vast majority of the readers will be along for the ride. Dillon's art in this book is on par with the rest of his efforts in "Preacher" thus far. Eight big books in and he still shows no sign of slipping. Even the superficial obscenity and violence come across well from his drafting table, making "All Hell's A-Coming" one beautiful book.
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Summary: Latest Edition is Full of Romance, Vengeance, and History.
Review: In volume 8 of Ennis and Dillon's "Preacher" series, Jesse finally gets his act together enough to come find Tulip. Tulip seeks her own inner strength, and we learn more about the past of Cassidy, everyone's favorite Irish vampire. Many characters we haven't seen in ages (and most of us have forgotten about) resurface in "All Hell's A-Coming," and fit so beautifully into the story that it is as if they couldn't possibly be anywhere else at that moment. Ennis continues to craft one of the best long-running stories in comics, giving us characters who are both flawed and heroic, in a classical sense. No, there are no cape-wearing supermen in these books, but we get treated to people who seem to love, and hate, and _feel_ the same way as the rest of us, if perhaps a bit more intensely. "Preacher" the comicbook series is drawing to a close, and this trade paperback collects the stories leading up to the final story arc, "Alamo." The characters meet one another again, preparing for the final act of this story, and spend most of "AHA-C" reflecting on their own pasts and learning what each other have been up to in the intervening months. The characters have to accept where they've been before they can prepare for where they're going, and it's safe to say that a vast majority of the readers will be along for the ride. Dillon's art in this book is on par with the rest of his efforts in "Preacher" thus far. Eight big books in and he still shows no sign of slipping. Even the superficial obscenity and violence come across well from his drafting table, making "All Hell's A-Coming" one beautiful book.
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Summary: Title says it all: "Hell" is "coming", so we wait...
Review: Like all readers of this book, I've been following the Preacher Saga since "Gone To Texas", and for the first time I have to agree with the negative reviewers: this is not exactly the best Preacher chapter but that is not to say that is bad either,'cos it's pretty good. Many feel that the "Salvation" storyline was just a waste of valuable time but I disagree. It was a needed pause after the "War in the Sun" fast and violent events and a cool sort of sequel to "Until the End of the World". The problem with "All Hell's" is that it has slow plot development AFTER another kindda slow one. "Salvation" had suspense, weird enough characters and when Jesse eats the peyote and remembers his encounter with God... You are GLAD to have the trade in your possesion! "All Hell's" ties many loose ends but it lacks real movement until we see certain irish vampire again. The Starr parts are, as always, hilarious and the Jesse and Tulip "early days" story is okey. But I think we've hear enough about how they love each other and how America is so great that all hitchickers are extravagant and very American people. I found that part sort of preachy and repetitive. Maybe the books before has been so great that we complain when they're only normal, maybe we're so anxious to read "Alamo" that everything else just doesn't seem to matter. Anyway, this is a must for any fan of the series and I bet the next book will be so shocking and memorable that we'll be talking about it from years to come.
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