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...
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Mar 21, 2011
Kemper
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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.
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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.
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May 16, 2011
Kenny
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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,
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Dec 10, 2008
Jody
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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
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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 More...
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 More...
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Jan 04, 2009
Imogen
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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'
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Jan 15, 2012
Ian
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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".
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Apr 10, 2009
Charlie
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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 storylin More...
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 storylin More...
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Jul 01, 2008
Seizure Romero
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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
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Feb 14, 2011
Matthew
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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, th More...
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, th More...
Mar 21, 2009
Pedro Víctor
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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
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Mar 06, 2009
Erik
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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
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Nov 10, 2011
Vivid Scribe
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Preacher, written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Steve Dillon between 1995 and 2000 was a vampire story I enjoyed and was very popular in its day though it may not be so well-remembered. The vampire of the story is Cassidy, one of the two companions of Jesse Custer, the titular preacher and protagonist of the story.
This Irish vampire is an ugly, drunken, brawling, foul-mouthed junkie. He dresses simply and shabbily, never stylishly, in a white t-shirt and denim jacket, and thinks the More...
This Irish vampire is an ugly, drunken, brawling, foul-mouthed junkie. He dresses simply and shabbily, never stylishly, in a white t-shirt and denim jacket, and thinks the More...
May 24, 2011
Kenny
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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 a
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Dec 27, 2010
Geoff
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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 e More...
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 e More...
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Sep 19, 2010
Supernatural Book Club
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"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 en More...
Aug 22, 2010
Nicole
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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. More...
A great story with great characters - just what I'd expect from Ennis. More...
Jun 12, 2010
Jon
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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 permeat More...
Jesse Custer is a wounded, anti-hero, more in the nature of a Sam Peckinpah gunslinger than a man of God. The western theme permeat More...
Feb 25, 2010
David
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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
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Jan 03, 2010
Steve
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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 Jess More...
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 Jess More...
Jul 23, 2009
Susan
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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
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May 10, 2011
Mark
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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
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Jan 28, 2009
Andrew
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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 disg
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Jul 30, 2010
Amy
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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 start More...
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 start More...
Jun 17, 2009
Tony
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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 de More...
The story revolves around Jesse's breakdown as a preacher and his possession by an entity called Genesis (the product of an angel and de More...
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Jan 09, 2012
Brian
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Staying consistent with my ratings, which is hard to do given all the different genres and such.
This is a decent read, but suffers a bit in that it is quite heavy on introducing characters and conflicts that will presumably be resolved in future volumes (I think there are 9, and I don't know if the story is complete or not, this is essentially a comic book so by design should leave some things open). In fact, the storyline introduced and 'resolved' in this 'novel' gets started pr More...
Jun 24, 2011
Sean
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The synopsis does not do this series justice. Here's the skinny. A faithless preacher goes on a quest to find god and force him to explain to his creation why he abandoned it. This quest is started when an angel/demon hybrid escapes from heaven and takes up residence in Jesse's head. It grants him the power of The Word, which means he speaks and others are compelled to obey. Together with his gun-toting girlfriend Tulip and his vampire best friend Cassidy, they go on a trip across the country an
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Nov 02, 2010
Jenny
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This graphic novel is about Jesse, a preacher who is on a search to find god--in the most literal sense possible. He is joined in his search by his old love, Tulip, and the Irish vampire Cassidy. He is overtaken by a mysterious power, created by god, but not able to be overcome by god, which allows him to make commands that everyone can hear, understand, and obey (no matter what the language).
This book did an amazing job mixing bible parables, southern cowboy culture, and badassery. More...
This book did an amazing job mixing bible parables, southern cowboy culture, and badassery. More...
Aug 28, 2009
Aisha
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This was an interesting read. I came upon it by chance at Barnes and Noble, the hardcover edition and it looked interesting, guy looking for God to make him face his sins against man, etc., but I wasn't going to pay $40 for a hardcover edition so I went online and got the first three from Amazon.com for about $25.
One thing for people who don't care if they offend. It actually makes you think. People who take risks like this aren't worried about staying within the borders of their fai More...
One thing for people who don't care if they offend. It actually makes you think. People who take risks like this aren't worried about staying within the borders of their fai More...
Sep 11, 2009
Joe
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"Gone to Texas" collects the first seven issues of Garth Ennis' excellent Preacher series. The story begins with the reverend Jesse Custer, his estranged girlfriend Tulip and a mysterious Irishman named Cassidy sitting together and talking in an anonymous American diner. Jesse is on a quest to find God and take Him to task for abandoning His creation, while Tulip is on the run from a past she refuses to discuss. Cassidy seems to be just along for the ride, but he has his own dark se
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Mar 23, 2009
Joeylabartunek
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Yes, it's a graphic novel. It's the great American graphic novel. Written by a Scot. A hard tale of the west that explores the concepts of religion and faith, but more importantly friendship through the tale of Jesse Custer a preacher who's lost his faith, but when a divine being merges with him he gains the word of god, the power to make anyone do exactly what he says. But that's not what it's about, in fact that bit is almost trivial. This is about Jesse making his diety pay for the crime
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