Peter's review
Preacher Vol. 1: Gone To Texas by Garth Ennis
Its not actually that good. I've always heard about how amazing it was, but the writing was mediocre, the story didn't work for me, and the pacing was just bad. I may check out later volumes to see if it picks up, but I'm not burning to see what happens next. The story basically revolves around this being that is born when an angel and a demon have an affair. The being is as powerful as God. As soon as this thing is born, God "quits." So our main character, who has been possessed by this new entity, is wandering around Texas looking for God. Oh, yeah, and our main character is a preacher. And his new best friend is a Vampire. And our Preacher is also going around with his old flame, who he's constantly trying to get into bed. Oooooo! Soooo controversial and shoooooccckkking! It just feels like someone who is a passionate atheist and has no trouble just grabbing cheap shock-value writing a "religious" story. And its clearly trying really hard to push the...more
It sounds like most comic books, Lets take a ridiculous premise and be 30 year old male nerds with it!!! BESTSELLER!
Pretty much.
I actually agree with you a lot. I read a few of them, and couldn't really understand why so many of my friends liked the series. I kind of fluctuated between 2 and 3 stars because every so often I found some thing that I really did like. With the kind of characters, and the potentially blasphemous themes, I thought I would have liked it a lot more than I did. But more often than not I'd say to myself: "this is just dumb".
