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  <title><![CDATA[Preacher Vol. 1: Gone To Texas]]></title>
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  <default-description>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 with his hitman girlfriend and new best friend (a vampire) to find God so that he can give Him a piece of his mind. Despite its superficial perversity, this book contains what may be the most moral character in mainstream comics. A cult hit in the making. Fans of Quentin Tarantino take note.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1996</original-publication-year>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 27 10:16:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series of comic books is horribly offensive. To...everyone. Women. People of color. People who belong to any religion whatsoever. Children. Animals. Also, it's incredibly violent. Uhhhhhh...it's also really, really, really entertaining. Incredibly well written with fantastic art. It's packed wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2446860">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="41844938">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 tou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41844938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36708754">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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*<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36708754">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26030021">
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jul 01 12:10:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26030021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16466921">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who enjoy watching car wrecks or animals being slaughtered]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 26 17:41:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16466921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49915663">
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 20 18:42:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49915663">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48405520">
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 06 06:16:55 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 06 06:17:08 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 Gar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48405520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64681669">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 23 13:36:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64681669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44689063">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 28 15:52:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 28 19:05:02 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661791/">Chan-wook Park</a>.  What keeps Preacher for getting lost i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44689063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60013994">
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60013994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68071991">
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    <body><![CDATA[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 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68071991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70892709">
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Gone to Texas&quot; 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 qu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70892709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50146907">
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    <body><![CDATA[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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50146907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58208365">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pros and Cons.  The dialogue sounds like a student-made Tarantino rip-off.  The british character is less authentic than Austin Powers.  I like the set of angels that talk like a bunch of lazy cooks on break.  Actually, by making the deism just a bunch of shit-shooters, this book actually made some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58208365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10971108">
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    <body><![CDATA[Garth Ennis is a hardcore storyteller.  This is one of the toughest, hardboiled, &quot;rusty nail through your shoe&quot; books I've ever read.  Not for the faint of heart, or for those easily offended.  It's purposefully brash, vulgar, and violent.  Eat red meat, drink beer, and read Preacher.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reread. Jesus, what the fuck was I doing reading this when I was 16? If anything, it's <em>more</em> gruesome and fucked up than I remember. Nevertheless, it's still really good. And the parallels between this and the current storyline on <em>Supernatural</em> are hilarious. I'd forgotten the seemingly obvious tidbit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65598348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to re-read this series over the summer, as I haven't read it in its entirety in years.<br/>I was surprised how many of the big plot points that play out over the series' run don't actually show up in this first volume (The Grail, Jesse's family), though they get a brief teaser mention. I t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59139074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WTKF? That's a quote from &quot;Parks &amp; Recreation.&quot; But I thought it fitting.<br/><br/>This is some dark, crazy stuff that seems like a no-holds barred, first blood wrestling match. Don't eff with the Preacher, or his grandma, or his girlfriend, or his blood-sucking friend, or . . . you get ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75896794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A minister, forced into his calling by his rabid backwoods clan, loses his faith.  As he begins to excoriate his congregation from the pulpit he is possessed by a half-angel, half-demon that escaped from heaven.  With his hit-woman girlfriend and an Irish Vampire, The Preacher searches a morally bli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42666370">more...</a>]]></body>
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