Rating: 
Summary: Getting back on course
Review: Where the previous collection ("Salvation") was mostly a diversion from the main story, here it slowly gets back on track and sets things up for the big finally in the next and final trade paperback ("Alamo").The trade starts off with a big story about Tulips youth. It clearifies a lot about how she came to be what she is today, how the average Preacher reader knows her.
When the main story itself starts to continue Tulip goes to her friend Amy and gets to hear some rather unexpected news. It drastically changes her perspective. After that some other entertaining diversion stories are thrown in where Jesse keeps picking up hitchhikers who all tell them their rather uncommon stories. It makes for great laughs (if you're into the typical bizar Ennis humor) and points back to some events of the past. Jesse also meets a bum who tells him more about the dark side of Cassidy ,who she knows from long ago.
Herr Starr is also back (he's literally not half the man he used to be) and gets confronted with another big problem. Meanwhile all is not well in Arsefaces life. Another good volume which proves "Dixie Fried" was only a (minor) onetime slip. It's for a big part a funny diversion from THE story (where Jesse is after God) but it does set things up nicely for the next book which shall end the story. And it doesn't forget to intertwine several humurous sub-plots to keep things easy and light to read.
Steve Dillons art is as good as it has been all the way. If you don't read Preacher you're missing out on one of the best post-80's comicbooks. But like I said at most reviews of the other volumes: start with volume one ("Gone to Texas") because otherwise it's like you're starting to watch a movie which is already halfway.
Rating:
Summary: Getting back on course
Review: Where the previous collection ("Salvation") was mostly a diversion from the main story, here it slowly gets back on track and sets things up for the big finale in the next and final trade paperback ("Alamo"). The trade starts off with a big story about Tulips youth. It clearifies a lot about how she came to be what she is today, how the average Preacher reader knows her.
When the main story itself starts to continue Tulip goes to her friend Amy and gets to hear some rather unexpected news. It drastically changes her perspective. After that some other entertaining diversion stories are thrown in where Jesse keeps picking up hitchhikers who all tell them their rather uncommon stories. It makes for great laughs (if you're into the typical bizar Ennis humor) and points back to some events of the past. Jesse also meets a bum who tells him more about the dark side of Cassidy ,who she knows from long ago.
Herr Starr is also back (he's literally not half the man he used to be) and gets confronted with another big problem. Meanwhile all is not well in Arsefaces life. Another good volume which proves "Dixie Fried" was only a (minor) onetime slip. It's for a big part a funny diversion from THE story (where Jesse is after God) but it does set things up nicely for the next book which shall end the story. And it doesn't forget to intertwine several humurous sub-plots to keep things easy and light to read.
Steve Dillons art is as good as it has been all the way. If you don't read Preacher you're missing out on one of the best post-80's comicbooks. But like I said at most reviews of the other volumes: start with volume one ("Gone to Texas") because otherwise it's like you're starting to watch a movie which is already halfway.
Rating:
Summary: Getting back on course
Review: Where the previous collection ("Salvation") was mostly a diversion from the main story, here it slowly gets back on track and sets things up for the big finally in the next and final trade paperback ("Alamo"). The trade starts off with a big story about Tulips youth. It clearifies a lot about how she came to be what she is today, how the average Preacher reader knows her.
When the main story itself starts to continue Tulip goes to her friend Amy and gets to hear some rather unexpected news. It drastically changes her perspective. After that some other entertaining diversion stories are thrown in where Jesse keeps picking up hitchhikers who all tell them their rather uncommon stories. It makes for great laughs (if you're into the typical bizar Ennis humor) and points back to some events of the past. Jesse also meets a bum who tells him more about the dark side of Cassidy ,who she knows from long ago.
Herr Starr is also back (he's literally not half the man he used to be) and gets confronted with another big problem. Meanwhile all is not well in Arsefaces life. Another good volume which proves "Dixie Fried" was only a (minor) onetime slip. It's for a big part a funny diversion from THE story (where Jesse is after God) but it does set things up nicely for the next book which shall end the story. And it doesn't forget to intertwine several humurous sub-plots to keep things easy and light to read.
Steve Dillons art is as good as it has been all the way. If you don't read Preacher you're missing out on one of the best post-80's comicbooks. But like I said at most reviews of the other volumes: start with volume one ("Gone to Texas") because otherwise it's like you're starting to watch a movie which is already halfway.
Rating: 
Summary: Prelude to the apocalyptic finale to an epic
Review: With ALL HELL'S A COMIN', the name says it all. Garth Ennis sets up for the detonation of a graphic\literary atom bomb. There are a plethora of characters that have graced the pages of Preacher in its long stint as one of the greatest comic series in quite some time, and for Ennis to bring a conclusion to every single one of every single major\minor characters own genius little story would be absurd to assume. But he did it. And he starts here. I won't disclose the major points in the plot because I HATE reading these little reviews and seeing some inconsiderate ... give out a major plot twist, but I will say that Jesse and Tulip reunite again, and Cassidy has to face the Rev. for his actions regarding Miss O'hare. But enough about the plot, you can read that for yourself. This in my opinion is one of the better Preacher collections because of the deep content and great dialouge, and it has plenty of action too in a collected SPECIAL: High in the Saddle with guest illustrator John Mccrea which serves as a funny, violent conclusion to an all around satisfying chapter to the series.
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