World Famous Comics: Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas
Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas
By: Garth Ennis Publisher: Vertigo Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 200 Publication Date: March 01, 1996 Release Date: March 01, 1996 Studio: Vertigo
Amazon.com Review: 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.
Product 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.
A Nice Introduction to a Bizarre Series ^ I had read the first issue of the series years ago and decided that it wasn't good enough to keep reading the series. However, after I kept hearing from source after source that this comic was great, I had to give it another try, specially since my brother-in-law lent me all volumes of Preacher.
With all volumes in hand, I decided to give it another try. As I was reading the first issue again (which is a double sized issue), I realized it was better than what I had thought before, it almost seemed like I hadn't understood the story at my first try. The conception of Genesis made sense this time. Genesis is a creature born to an angel and a demon. Genesis is very powerful and takes the body of a priest Jesse Custer. After this Jesse decides that his mission is to find God and confront him.
The first 4 issues introduce us to the main characters: Jesse Custer, an rural preacher, Cassidy, a vampire and Tulip, an ex-girlfriend of Jesse who has a past involving guns. These issues also introduce us to a larger than life character called "Saint of Killers", a seemingly indestructible killer that comes out straight out of a Western movie. Besides introducing us with all these great characters, this volume gives us a reason to care for what will happen with Jesse and his search for God. It also brings in a lot of gore and a lot of funny moments.
The last three issues of the volume are kind of outside the mission of finding God. It involves a nasty detective story. I actually liked these issues more than the first four, mainly because the story had an ending and because it is full of shockingly funny moments. It is a great story that shows us how the characters introduced in the first story could come together in funny, exciting ways.
The first volume is very good, but not quite excellent.
A Great Start ^ The book marks a great start to a long journey. Spanning 60 some issues, Garth Ennis' Preacher is a landmark graphic novel series that pokes fun at Christianity at the same time it's dissassembling it.
It's well worth the time and money put into it, and to be honest it's one of few graphic novel series I find to be totally worth the money invested into it.
I didn't like it ^ I heard fantastic things about Preacher so I decided to pick it up and to be honest its not that good. Garth Ennis basically seems to write the same dark humor on every page, and even when it starts out witty it quickly gets old. Preacher has a decent storyline even though the book starts off pretty slow and just seems to go downhill from their. The reason why I dislike Preacher though is because I felt like Garth Ennis was just trying to be gross or shocking just for the sake of it, and the fact that Garth Ennis tried way too hard to be controversial on his views of religion. By the third issue I basically thought, "Good god theirs more of this?" I felt like I had already read enough.
Over hyped? ^ Was looking for a graphic novel to pick up and this kept coming up as something I would be interested in. Finally purchased it and read it. After roughly 20 pages I almost stopped reading it but thought something might finally happen that would be interesting. There were a few blips here and there but mostly flatlined for me. All of the shock and awe in the book seemed very shoe-horned. It didnt flow and bits that were interesting to me were never really followed up on. I was very disappointed.
Epic 'Good vs. Evil' comics series ^ Volume #1 of Garth Ennis' "Preacher" series compiles the first 7 issues of its original comic book run. The "Preacher" originally debuting in 1995 is best known for its pastiche of genres and tones cleverly blending conventions from horror, western and action comics while frequently including humor, adult language, over the top violence as well as its controversial religious storyline. While most story and character elements that were so 'groundbreaking' back in '95 may seem a bit tame in comparison to the fare of today - "The Preacher" still remains an engaging and epic comics series that really shouldn't be missed.
This volume gets the readers off to a brisk start with the introduction of the main players both on Earth and up in the Heavnens. Fans of mature comics will find much to enjoy here (great writing, art and pacing) but those that easily take offense to re-interpretation of Christianity should be warned up front that certain story/character elements may be offensive.
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