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Gone to Texas (Preacher #1)

by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon (Illustrator), Joe R. Lansdale (Introduction)

4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 · rating details · 22,702 ratings · 592 reviews

One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is a modern American epic of life, death, love and redemption also packed with sex, booze, blood and bullets - not to mention angels, demons, God, vampires and deviants of all stripes.

At first glance, the Reverend Jesse Custer doesn't look like anyone special-just another small-town minister slowly losing...more

Paperback, 200 pages

Published March 1st 1996 by Vertigo (first published 1996)

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Nov 13, 2010 Kemper rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comics, sky-cake

Preacher has so much graphic violence that the makers of the Saw movies can’t read it without projectile vomiting.

Preacher has such profane language that Chris Rock would cover his ears if he heard it.

Preacher has acts of sexual perversions so disgusting that Larry Flynt once said he would have never taken his case to the Supreme Court if he knew that this was the kind of stuff that would get published.

But damn, is it a great story.

Jesse Custer, a reluctant redneck minister in a tiny Texas town...more

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Jul 06, 2012 Christian rated it 1 of 5 stars

My problem with some of these "comics for adults" books is that they seem like just that. Its as though a child wanted to prove how adult he was so he filled his book full of sex and swearing and crude jokes so everyone would know he was really mature. And so, as I have found with a lot of these adult comic books, it ends up feeling more juvenile than many of the ones that do not attempt to be labeled as adult.
I really wanted to like this book. I had heard it was funny and though provoking but...more

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May 15, 2011 Kenny Murphy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Great graphic novel. This is the first story arc in Garth Ennis's Preacher series. A angel and demon fall in love and spawn a new kind of creature, called Genesis. This causes a disturbance in heaven and God leaves his post, leaving his angels in charge. This new being, Genesis escapes heaven, goes down to earth and enters the body of Jesse Custer, a Texas preacher, and as a result gives him "the word of God", the ability to make people do whatever he says just by saying it. Meanwhile, back in h...more

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Dec 10, 2008 Jody Hampton rated it 4 of 5 stars

Angel-on-demon sex, spontaneous combustion of entire congregation, violence on a massive and disgusting scale, and a boy whose face looks just like an asshole. That my friends is just what a graphic novel about a Texas preacher should be about.

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Mar 31, 2011 oriana rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-with-pix, read-2011

book #11 for Jugs & Capes, and my latest entry at CCLaP!

First of all, I understand that it is totally unfair to read only the first two volumes in a series and purport to have a reasonable grasp of said series. My friend Keith, a crazed comics fan who has become the unofficial backseat-driver of my comics tastes, criticized Jugs & Capes for this when we read the first two volumes of Fables a few months ago. He sees this as a problematic pattern: the indie comics we're reading are all sel...more

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Jan 04, 2009 Imogen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Y'know, this was fine, and I'm into it- somebody sold the whole series to my store yesterday, and I'm still going to read all of 'em- it's just that there's this thing where minor characters use racial slurs all over the place, and it feels kind of gross. It's like, I get it, Garth Ennis, you're tough and gritty and not afraid to sling forbidden words! I felt that way when I was fourteen, too. Oh, you're not fourteen? Then all you're accomplishing with that language is empty provocation, and it'...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Ian rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fans of Philip Pullman, fans of Family Guy, fans of Michael Moorcock's "Behold the Man", teenagers

Shelves: graphic-novels, urban-fantasy, religion, horror, tripe

I honestly do not understand why this series was so beloved. I found it dull and derivative, with inferior art-work and unremarkable writing. I tried reading several volumes, but not a one of them reached above a "1 star" rating, and I've long since forgotten which they were. My advice: give this one a pass and move on to something better, like "The Sandman", "Persepolis" or "The Unwritten".

UPDATE: Upon reading many of the reviews I think I understand a little better the root of this series' pop...more

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Apr 10, 2009 Charlie George rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

I had thought perhaps Volume 1 was sub-par, occurring prior to either of my 2 favorite characters, the villains Starr and Jody. However I had forgotten what fundamentally classic Preacher moments were way back here in the beginning, prompting a revised rating of 5 stars. *spoiler alert*

Jesse first meeting Cassidy. Tulip first meeting Cassidy. Cassidy's two run-ins with the Saint of Killers (pow!). Basically Cassidy's character is just awesome in these issues. The whole storyline with Si (who in...more

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Jul 01, 2008 Seizure Romero rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-graphic-novels

I've already read separate issues of the Preacher series, but I just scored a pile of the graphic novels for cheap at a library sale and I'm going to read the whole thing in order. Currently, my opinion is that they're good but not great; I enjoy the plot twists and the story is fairly original. I enjoy Ennis' warped sense of humor, but his penchant for nutball violence from the mentally bent can get old after a time. I've got nothing against using random acts of senseless violence as plot drive...more

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Mar 04, 2008 Matthew rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who enjoy watching car wrecks or animals being slaughtered

Shelves: comics

I listened to the hype. I bought this first volume of the Preacher series and volume two off of eBay in a bundle because the price looked right to me. I was so unimpressed after finishing volume one that I didn't even bother browsing through the pages of volume two before I sold them off again on the same auction site.

Preacher did absolutely nothing for me (besides disgust me, I suppose). I didn't care for the plot, which seemed haphazard and slapdash. Save for one or two of them, the characters...more

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Mar 21, 2009 Pedro Víctor rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-and-or-graphic-novels

Preacher conta a história do pastor Jesse Custer que, depois de ser possuido por uma entidade chamada Gênesis, descobre a criação de deus-todo-poderoso abandonada pelo mesmo. O pregador, agora dividindo sua mente com a entidade, poê-se à procura de Deus-todo-poderoso para chutar sua bunda e fazê-lo pedir perdão a toda sua criação por tê-la deixado a deus-dará. Quando você lê resenhas sobre Preacher, você sente que essa busca será bem interessante, mas você não espera se deparar com a porralouqui...more Preacher conta a história do pastor Jesse Custer que, depois de ser possuido por uma entidade chamada Gênesis, descobre a criação de deus-todo-poderoso abandonada pelo mesmo. O pregador, agora dividindo sua mente com a entidade, poê-se à procura de Deus-todo-poderoso para chutar sua bunda e fazê-lo pedir perdão a toda sua criação por tê-la deixado a deus-dará. Quando você lê resenhas sobre Preacher, você sente que essa busca será bem interessante, mas você não espera se deparar com a porralouquice que está por vir, não mesmo.
Jesse não é normal, o que é bastante normal em Preacher, já que ninguém o é. Atormentado por seu passado, durante um de seus cultos recebe Gênesis. Como mágica, toda a cidade na qual pregava a palavra do bom Deus-de-amor, simplesmente pega fogo. Explode. E só resta Jesse, no meio dos mais de 200 cadáveres em sua igreja. Com o massacre, ele se viu abençoado com a "voz de deus", que, ao ser proferida, faz com que aquele a qual é proferida obedeça o pastor, que as usa para fazer justiça no "bom e velho" estilo americano-cowboy de ser.
Em sua busca literal por Deus, Jesse não está só. Ele conta com a inesperada ajuda de sua ex-namorada, a qual ele abandonou algum tempo antes, sem nada dizer, sem se despedir. Onde e quando se encontram mostra que as coisas para ela não iam muito bem. Junto de sua ex, Tulipa, vem um estranho irlandês, Cassidy, que, depois de um tempo, alguns insultos trocados e algumas vidas salvas, torna-se o melhor amigo de Jesse.
Eu não sou bom em analisar roteiros, até porque esse não é meu campo, não sei bem como começar, e não pretendo fazer uma abordagem típica da obra. Posso dizer que Preacher é um quadrinho incrivelmente fantástico, que as palavras de Garth Ennis te mostram como é que é ser um cara simples do Texas querendo viver a vida ao lado de sua bela amada. A arte de Steve Dillon, nas 66 edições que desenhou, é magnífica, você sente muito bem as expressões dos personagens (okay, eu não sei criticar arte, mas tudo bem, eu não usei nenhum foda, ainda e isso é um avanço).
Em termos gerais, Preacher é foda. Realmente fodástico. E te faz perguntar várias coisas sobre Deus e tudo mais que todos tanto supervalorizam ao invés de simplesmente viverem suas vidas.
Ao longo do caminho para Deus, Jesse, Tulipa e Cassidy encontram as mais bizarras criaturas, do Santo dos Assassinos, passando por um adolescente com a cara de cu, a um pervertido líder da igreja católica (não, nada de papa.). Todos com suas histórias bem desenvolvidas por Ennis ao longo da história e complementada com os 6 especiais. (Sacou, 66 edições, 6 especiais, 666, brincadeira com o demo!) Enquanto você lê Preacher você se identifica com seus personagens e eles se tornam próximos de você, como amigos, você fica puto com quem aparece, sente nojo do que é nojento e quer socar um filhos da puta, como Jesse, Cassidy e, eventualmente, Tulipa fazem. Você encontra a verdade nos quadrinhos, nos diálogos, encontra o amor, o ódio, a honra, a traição, a feladaputagem e a redenção. Encontra anjos e demônios e até Deus, se é o que você busca e o que você acredita, você encontra vez ou outra.
O quadrinho do selo Vertigo já foi lançado algumas vezes, a última delas foi pela Devir. Agora, quem detem o título é a Media Pixel, que já lançou um especial com a história do cara-de-cu e uma história sobre Jesse e Tulipa tempos antes dele abandoná-la para se tornar pastor.
Nietzsche disse: "Deus está morto!". De acordo com Garth Ennis, escritor da série Preacher, ele está errado. Deus não morreu, apenas saiu para fugir de sua responsabilidade.(less)

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Mar 06, 2009 Erik rated it 4 of 5 stars

It always fun to be able to enjoy a comic book series after it has completed its ground-breaking run. (Waiting for each individual issue is painful, as I experienced with the last half of Gaiman’s Sandman series back in the 90s before its conclusion.) Somehow along the way, I missed all things Garth Ennis. But with the recommendation (if not complete adulation) of this British writer by a close friend and fellow comic-geek while down at the famed San Diego Comic-Con, I finally (and recently) pic...more

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Apr 07, 2013 Omri rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

You never know what you are going to get with Ennis. No... wait a second... that's not right. Allow me to rephrase.

You always know what you'll get with Ennis - crazyass mindblowing eyebugling s*&^t. Seriously. There's no other way to describe this amazingly crazy story. So Preacher -

Preacher is that one classical comic-book series which turned classical for doing everything which is not classy. It's that thing that you have at the dark corner of your mind, and sometimes, at strange hours at...more

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Aug 30, 2012 Eliza Victoria rated it 5 of 5 stars

Jesse Custer, a preacher from a small town in Texas, is possessed by a powerful supernatural being named “Genesis”. The force of the possession hits his church like a nuclear bomb, and the members of his congregation are reduced to bones. Jesse, however, leaves the site unscathed, and with the new ability to command anyone with only his words. Witnesses call this the “Word of God”.

Jesse later learns that Genesis is the offspring of an angel and a demon, a creation of Heaven and Hell, and on its...more

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May 14, 2012 Ryan Crute rated it 2 of 5 stars

This isn't a good comic. There are extremely few good comics. Despite all desperate claims to the contrary by authors, creative types and nerdy apologetics alike, comics are not aimed at a specifically 'young' audience so much as an immature audience. The young are included in their target audience by virtue of their age, but any under-developed man-child with a hero fantasy is shamelessly pandered to by the excruciating predictability, stubborn invariability and patently ridiculous patterns of...more This isn't a good comic. There are extremely few good comics. Despite all desperate claims to the contrary by authors, creative types and nerdy apologetics alike, comics are not aimed at a specifically 'young' audience so much as an immature audience. The young are included in their target audience by virtue of their age, but any under-developed man-child with a hero fantasy is shamelessly pandered to by the excruciating predictability, stubborn invariability and patently ridiculous patterns of human interaction of comic books. Preacher is the series which brought this cycle painfully to my attention, after a fortnight-long period where I foolishly believed comics were to be a hugely important part in my future literary consumption.

Filled with violence, sex, swearing and vampires, Preacher pushes all the buttons the modern man-child needs pushed to thrust him into the 'scream incoherent praise' stage of fanboyism, which seems to be all that proponents of this comic (and indeed most comics) can generate. It is the most base, primal platform from which one can live vicariously, showcasing the shallowest and most primitive aspects of testosterone. As a proud bearer of testosterone, I get a bit irate when somebody holds such goddamned ridiculous ideals about what the pinnacle of manhood 'should' be. According to Ennis and his deformed ideal, all problems can be solved through defiance of every form of authority at every turn and/or relentless violence. Ennis was either masturbating furiously and constantly as he wrote this drivel; or he was crying himself to sleep at night on a regular basis and crafted this as a means of escapism from this world to one where he so obviously belonged - Ennisland, where he reigns as an invincible warrior with the courage of a lion, the strength of a dozen men and the irresistible sexual prowess of a Johnny Depp.

This comic covers so much: the aforementioned masculinity, religion, real personal relationship situations, ethics, lesser of two-evils and much more, spread over 9 garish books. At no point does it begin to mature and confront these topics in anything other than in sensationalist, gore-splattered illustrations with explicit sexual deviancy, a multitude of expletives thrown in all wrapped around a transparent hero-fantasy. Nor does it offer any real message other than "Shoot cops! Swear a lot!". There are deep, complex and thematically fascinating topics - ethics, theology, spirituality, eschatology, existentialism - that are cast aside for shock and more swearing. It gets old fast.

Preacher is like bad sex: sure, it's great while you're doing it, but you feel unfulfilled afterwards.
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Mar 24, 2012 Shane Noble rated it 4 of 5 stars

I finally picked up the last two volumes in this series, so it's time to read the whole thing and see how it ends.

As an intro to a series, it's hard to beat this first volume. You get introduced to the main characters and the primary conflict quickly and efficiently and it leaves you wanting more. It's violent, darkly humorous, profane, and just down right readable. The art is great. I can't wait to see where this goes.

I've always been drawn to stories of heaven, hell, God, and the Devil. My fe...more

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May 24, 2011 Kenny rated it 5 of 5 stars

What can be said of this series? Either your mind is so put off by the sick and twisted delivery of this tale via the words of Garth Ennis and fine illustration by Steve Dillon, or you can see past all that to the greater moralities being discussed. Take an accidental Preacher named Jesse Custer who has visions of John Wayne, gone all supernatural via a spiritual entity called 'Genesis' which enters his physical body and bestows upon him the power of 'The Word', which can make any damn one do an...more

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Dec 27, 2010 Geoff Sebesta rated it 1 of 5 stars

I am the only person in the world who doesn't like Preacher.

I don't like Preacher. Ennis and Dillon were phoning it in and it got real popular and big and more or less killed any creativity they had. It was here that Ennis realized he didn't need to create character, he could just create collections of cliches and have them cuss a lot. And Dillon learned he didn't have to do...anything. No backgrounds, no composition, no framing. He's still a master, he's just a master who isn't even trying. He...more

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Sep 19, 2010 Supernatural Book Club rated it 4 of 5 stars

"Preacher" is a series of comic books, and graphic novels, this is a review for the first graphic novel and comics 1-7, "Gone to Texas". "Preacher" is known for being offensive, extremely violent, and sacrilegious. I can see this as being a valid argument, but really if we spend all our time being outraged and offended, we miss a lot of good stuff. It's fiction, if we take it as such and not a direct attack on God Himself or on the Christian faith, we'll all enjoy a fun ride.

Reverend Jesse Custe...more

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Aug 22, 2010 Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, mature-violence, mature-sex-nudity, fantasy, good_vs_evil

I read my way through part of this series by Ennis years ago, but for some reason or another, I lost track of it after volume 4 (there are 9 volumes in all). But having recently started on another excellent Ennis series, The Boys, I felt compelled to pick this series up again and finally see it through to the end. I think this also may have been my first real experience with reading comics, if you can believe it.

A great story with great characters - just what I'd expect from Ennis. You have com...more

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Jun 12, 2010 Jon rated it 5 of 5 stars

Garth Ennis' Preacher is the Eclectic's Agnostic Bible. It has one simple supposition. If you had the power of God, what would you do with it? In the case of the title character, Jesse Custer, the answer is in the form of another question "Why?" Either 'Why is the world so horrid' or 'Why does it seem that God is not taking part in his creation?'
Jesse Custer is a wounded, anti-hero, more in the nature of a Sam Peckinpah gunslinger than a man of God. The western theme permeates the entirety of th...more

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Feb 25, 2010 David Nickle rated it 4 of 5 stars

This kicks off one of the most offensive, inspiring, surprising and occasionally ingenious graphic novel series that I've ever read. Ennis tells the story of Jesse Custer, a good-old-boy Texas preacher accidentally possessed by Genesis - spawn of a demon and an angel - who takes it upon himself to find the Lord - and ask Him a few questions. In the company of his former and once-again-lover Tulip (found mending her broken heart working as a hit woman) and his new co-dependent friend Cassidy (a d...more

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Jan 03, 2010 Steve Vernon rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel

Decided to dig into this, after digging into a mountain of snow, as an antidote to the somewhat disappointing conclusion of Y - the Last Man.

First off, I am biased. I've owned this collection for several years and have reread it quite a few times. Bluntly, I love it.

Volume 1 is a terrific kick-off to a solid series. From the Joe Lansdale intro to the Willy Nelson tune we are set right into a particular mind-set.

Many great moments in this one. The intro of Jesse, Cassidy and Tulip. Tulip's first...more

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Jul 23, 2009 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Oh Wow! I can review graphic novels! Yay! So I read this because I was at an interview of a director named Enis.. he brought up the comic author that has his same name and said the series was good... the people interviewing didn't hire him but I took the tip -Forbidden Planet was so very close by... and it has been some real fun buying and reading this series;its fan base is SO fervent. On the subway the geeks just cant help themselves, "You're reading Preacher! Oh that is so Awesome! And your a...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Brad rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: forty-for-2013-personal-challenge, comic-books, graphic-novel, generally-overrated, hopes-dashed-like-an-egg-on-cement, read-in-2013

This did not go the way I expected at all. I haven’t heard a dissenting voice from anyone about Preacher. Not one, although I’ve not looked at any of the reviews here on goodreads. In fact, I’ve had numerous friends say, “You have to read this book,” and, “Dude, you will love this book,” and since it was all from people I trusted, loving Preacher was my expectation.

Nope. I hated this book.

First, this book is populated by the most idiotic array of stereotypes and caricatures (certainly these cha...more This did not go the way I expected at all. I haven’t heard a dissenting voice from anyone about Preacher. Not one, although I’ve not looked at any of the reviews here on goodreads. In fact, I’ve had numerous friends say, “You have to read this book,” and, “Dude, you will love this book,” and since it was all from people I trusted, loving Preacher was my expectation.

Nope. I hated this book.

First, this book is populated by the most idiotic array of stereotypes and caricatures (certainly these characters can’t be called archetypes) outside of a Circus Sideshow:

Foul-mouthed, sexed-up, lost his faith Preacher? ✓
Foul-mouthed, sexy, Preacher-loving-hating Moll? ✓
Foul-mouthed, ultra-violent Vampire (but he’s Irish. Isn’t that original? No. Not terribly.) ✓
Foul-mouthed, racist, Texas sheriff? Cormac McCarthy-style, unstoppable, amoral Saint of Killers? ✓
Cocky, arrogant, bureaucratic, disbelieving FBI Agent? ✓
Too butch, sado-masochistic, homophobic homosexual? ✓
Big city, throw-the-book-out-the-window, abusive super-cop and his bumbling partner? ✓
Overbearing warrior Angels, sexy Demons, idiotic heavenly functionary Angels? ✓
An absentee God? ✓
Dog-faced boy?✓

I find nothing compelling about this cast of assholes, and I am usually a fan of assholes. I can care about assholes if they are unique and I can believe their behaviour. Not this bunch, though.

Second, Garth Ennis is an Irishman writing about a Texan douchebag wandering the U.S., and there are times when it is distractingly obvious that Ennis is not American. His Texan characters speak in ways Texans would never speak. It might not happen often, but it happens enough that I noticed, and oddly enough, when they slip, they speak precisely like someone from Ireland. Go figure. Couldn’t this story have been told just as effectively in Dublin or Belfast as the starting point? Couldn’t the Preacher have been a priest? Perhaps the Vampire could have been a Yank, then? I think it could have been all of these things, and had it been I wouldn’t have found myself constantly being yanked out of the comic by inappropriate vocabulary and regional cadences.

Third. the humor was awful. Had one character been a smarmy dipshit, quick with the cutting, insulting banter, I probably would have loved him/her? But the fact that EVERY-SINGLE-CHARACTER (with the exception of Saint of Killers and a cop named Tool) was capable of smarmy dipshittery drove me mad. The dialogue was painfully one note -- and there was a ton of it. The dialogue just goes on and on, like a Quentin Tarantino table talk, but without the entertainment value. If this is any indication of Ennis’ usual writing, my expectations have fallen into a muddy trench; one I’d be happy to leave for the danger of No Man’s Land.

Sure there were some interesting moments and wannabe twists (all of which Ennis telegraphed too obviously), but they were not enough to save this comic for me. I worry that I expected too much, though. I truly expected greatness. I thought I was opening something on par with Alan Moore’s best, and with expectations like that there was no way Preacher Gone To Texas could succeed. For that reason alone, I will take a crack at the second volume, but Ennis better hook me with that book or I am all out.(less)

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May 06, 2012 Robert Kiehn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books

Preacher Vol. 1 by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
covers the first 12 (out of 66) issues about
the adventures of Jesse Custer (who has the
same initials as Jesus Christ I've noticed)
who, through the first 12 issues, along with his
girlfriend Tulip and Vampire from the UK Cassidy
(an Irish vampire actually)are on a mission to find
God and make him pay for abandoning his creation.

Of course the story is a bit more complex then that,
but I don't wanna give any any details to spoil the plot
other then, along...more

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May 10, 2011 Mark Westmoreland rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels, urban-fantasy, western, favorites

I picked Preacher up because a friend recommended it to me. About the first hundred pages I wondered just what the hell I was reading, and as the story goes on it gets stranger and stranger. As the story gets stranger it keeps getting better. Preacher is pretty different than any comic I've read. Reverend Jesse Custer is searching for God. Along the way awesome-weird-bad things start happen. Being a graduate of Bible college I've met religious cooks and nuts. This book's take on religion leaves...more

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Jan 28, 2009 Andrew rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, vertigo, preacher

Haha this is ridiculously over-the-top, but lots and lots of fun. There's so much extreme violence, colorful profanity, metaphysical nonsense, and general moral depravity, that it's as if the early issues of The Sandman are being re-written by Chan-wook Park. What keeps Preacher for getting lost in its own gory excess is the suspenseful pacing, the clever dialogue, and the strangely likable main characters. In Ennis's skewed version of American Gothic, our three antiheroes - a drunken and disgra...more

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Jul 30, 2010 Amy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel-horror, horror

I read this on the recommendation of a friend. I did not enjoy it.

From the "Product Description" on Amazon.com: "Here's a book guaranteed to offend a bunch of people, not only because of its profuse profanity and graphic violence, but because it's the epitome of iconoclasm. Like a brutal accident, you can't watch but you can't turn away. The story follows an ex-preacher man, Jesse, who has become disgusted with God's abandoning of His responsibilities. So Jesse starts off into the wilds of Texas...more

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Jun 17, 2009 Tony rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: awesome-books, comics-can-be-cool, the-best-of-the-best

One of my favorite comic book series of all-time. It's dark, extremely offensive, but compulsively readable. This first collection of PREACHER serves to introduce our hero (?) Jesse Custer, the love of his life Tulip, an Irish vampire named Cassidy, the brutal Saint of Killers, and, of course, the ever-loving Arseface (must be seen to be believed).

The story revolves around Jesse's breakdown as a preacher and his possession by an entity called Genesis (the product of an angel and demon's unholy l...more

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About Garth Ennis

Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting ch...more Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.

Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.

Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.

Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.

While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.

Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.

After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.

In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.

Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.

In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.

In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).

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