Topic: Preacher (Read 17692 times)

MusicScribbles · « **on:** 18 Aug 2007, 20:09 »

Is this comic at all worth looking into? A lot of reviews suggest it as an amazing comic that has depth to the story.
I guess my real question is: Would you recommend it to someone whose comic library consists of Alan Moore, Sandman, Fables, Bone, The Walking Dead, Flight, Penny Arcade, and Scott Pilgrim?

Ishotdanieljohnston · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 20:18 »

DEFFINITELY. It was the first series i read through and i absolutely loved it. Funny, gripping involving. Great story, great character's, drawing and dialogue. I couldn't reccomend anything more in fact. Especially good if your a fan of Westerns or old school American films in general

Michael Nehora · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 20:31 »

I second that recommendation. After a fellow DC Vertigo fan suggested it to me, I read the whole thing earlier this year and was impressed with the concept, the writing and the variety of moods (action, suspense, gross-out humour, satire, horror, relationship drama...it's all there and somehow it all works). Also noteworthy, for a long-running Vertigo series, is the use of a consistent artist for nearly the entire run, thus avoiding the problems that Sandman and, especially, The Invisibles encountered at times.

DirtyHippie · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 Aug 2007, 13:59 »

Dude! Yes! I have read many comics and I'd have to say this is one of my favorites.

Narshada · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 Aug 2007, 13:45 »

Good god yes! If you like Moore and that kind of thing I'm pretty sure Preacher will be up your alley - as long as you aren't a fundamentalist Christian...

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 Aug 2007, 15:22 »

If I was I wouldn't be reading Alan Moore

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Thanks for the advice guys. I'll be sure to pick up the first volume.

Shishio · « **Reply #6 on:** 21 Aug 2007, 17:01 »

Just to give you fair warning - Garth Ennis really goes over the top with his work. But if depictions of all manner of violent and degenerate behaviour do not bother you, you'll be fine.

I thought it was fucking fantastic.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #7 on:** 22 Aug 2007, 06:47 »

It's a bit redundant at this point to say so, but Preacher is fucking phenomenal.

Shishio · « **Reply #8 on:** 22 Aug 2007, 14:41 »

Yeah, the ending was awesome.

The only thing I didn't like about Preacher was Cassidy. I mean, he was so badass at first, and then... well, I won't spoil anything.

But man.

RachelEvil · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 Sep 2007, 17:20 »

It's great in many parts, and horribly fucked up in many others. The fucked up parts are not always good. They can be ignored, though. Very good overall story, even though I got put off by a lot of moments of... well, Ennis being Ennis, I guess.

Ishotdanieljohnston · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 Sep 2007, 19:32 »

Quote from: Shishio on 22 Aug 2007, 14:41

Yeah, the ending was awesome.

The only thing I didn't like about Preacher was Cassidy. I mean, he was so badass at first, and then... well, I won't spoil anything.

But man.

You didn't like cassidy!!?? What the fuck? cassidy is one of the best comic book inventions ever! in fact i'd love too see a cassidy spin off series detailing his one hundred year career as an irish vampire slease bag. That would be fucking awesome.

RentAThug · « **Reply #11 on:** 22 Sep 2007, 14:59 »

I've only read the first volume of Preacher, but I'm planning on picking up the rest of the series. Ennis is one of my favourite writers in comics, and Preacher is one of the reasons why.

pentaen · « **Reply #12 on:** 22 Sep 2007, 16:10 »

SOOO GOOD

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #13 on:** 25 Sep 2007, 10:36 »

Preacher is awesome. I love how there are no really good good guys or really bad bad guys; everyone has a reason for doing the screwed up things they do, even if those reasons are seriously misguided.

Also, the Saint of Killers is the baddest badass ever. THIS CANNOT BE DISPUTED.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #14 on:** 05 Oct 2007, 09:14 »

Ennis's run on Hellblazer is a tiny bit better than Preacher.

Preacher was, however, the first book I ever bought every single issue of.

1-60+specials, mini series, and 1 shots for 101 dollars on ebay booyah.

Wink · « **Reply #15 on:** 05 Oct 2007, 15:36 »

why did you even ask that question? go read it! masturbate furiously!

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #16 on:** 09 Oct 2007, 07:20 »

Whenever I hear the term "masturbate furiously", I always picture some dude jerking off all kinds of angry; straight up dry-handed and everything, like he's trying his hardest to remove his own penis with his bare hands. All screaming how much he hates his own dong and shit.

Clobbersaurus · « **Reply #17 on:** 11 Oct 2007, 18:43 »

since everyone and their mother knows this is easily one of the top 10 best graphic novels to date, i'll have to bid you fair warning (just in case you're still in the middle of the series):

PREACHER is crack.
you will be unable to put it down, and when you're done with one book, you will be unable to keep yourself from splurging on the next book. With that said, can you imagine how it was like for folks who were buying it when it was released monthly? I can tell you: it was like being in a William Burroughs novel.

but that's not the worst part. oh no. once you hit the end of the series, you will deal with the most difficult withdrawl you will ever experience in your life. no future break-up will measure to it. perhaps the closest thing to the feeling would be losing your favorite uncle.

prepare yourself with what i feel are the perfect post-partum rehab books:

HITMAN: Ace of Killers (ennis/mccrea). <---consider this book as walking into rehab.
BODYBAGS: Father's Day (pearson)
Top 10 (moore/gene ha)
X-Force/X-statix (milligan/alred)

caution: i dont recommend Pilgrim. it'll just make you miss Preacher in a really wierd way.

har

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #18 on:** 11 Oct 2007, 21:16 »

I should have posted again in here a while ago, near the time of my last post in this thread.
At that time I had torrented the first volume of the series and read it Adobe Acrobat Reader style.
This worked for me as I was unable to, metaphorically, since I was using a computer, "put it down".
This is a great comic, and I really fucking pissed that when I first started this thread, because my Borders had just gotten the entire series on the shelf, I went back to find them all purchased a week later. I have yet to purchase any, and I'm working on Fables, which I recommend as just as awesome, but incomplete. I plan on visiting my closest comic book store, or Amazon, after I get a job.

Wink · « **Reply #19 on:** 11 Oct 2007, 21:49 »

and just like crack the first time is really the best it's goign to get

SeanBateman · « **Reply #20 on:** 12 Oct 2007, 08:11 »

Everyone should read this comic.

beat mouse · « **Reply #21 on:** 17 Oct 2007, 18:33 »

I actually just sat down and read the entire series yesterday, and I can only continually back the recommendations. Cassidy is an excellent character, and while intentionally not the most likable at the end you can see how truly deep he is. Wonderful read.

edit- cassidy fans: there was a 4 issue spinoff of his story.

Helixdaunting · « **Reply #22 on:** 26 Dec 2007, 02:25 »

I registered just to post this. If you love Preacher in the same way that I do, you might enjoy Transmetropolitan. It's a series by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson. It follows the later career of a journalist by the name of Spider Jerusalem, trapped in a city he both loves and loathes. This is to politics what Preacher was to religion. They should both be mandatory reading.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #23 on:** 30 Dec 2007, 10:35 »

They are nothing alike

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #24 on:** 30 Dec 2007, 11:23 »

They are both bloody. This is the only comparison I can see here worth mentioning.

jbn · « **Reply #25 on:** 31 Jan 2008, 04:41 »

I think Hellblazer beats Preacher, but both should be read thoroughly

rotham · « **Reply #26 on:** 02 Feb 2008, 21:10 »

Quote from: jbn on 31 Jan 2008, 04:41

I think Hellblazer beats Preacher, but both should be read thoroughly

i can't really compare the two of them, mostly due in part to the fact that Hellblazer has about four times as many issues as Preacher. all in all, i would tend to favor Preacher though...if you were to select at random sixty six issues of Hellblazer, and compare them to the whole sixty six issue run of Preacher, i feel as though i would go with Preacher.

Quote from: MusicScribbles on 30 Dec 2007, 11:23

They are both bloody. This is the only comparison I can see here worth mentioning.

Transmet is nowhere near as bloody as Preacher. Preacher more or less set the standard for gross-out violence in comics.

RachelEvil · « **Reply #27 on:** 12 Feb 2008, 10:26 »

Quote from: Anyways on 31 Jan 2008, 05:51

The first Hellblazer compendium beats the first Preacher compendium, but after that Preacher rockets and Hellblazer takes a nosedive.

Oh, I'd say Hellblazer is fucking fantastic if you ignore the parts Garth Ennis wrote (except for Dangerous Habits, which is quite good).

Honestly, Preacher is the only thing of his I've found readable.

RachelEvil · « **Reply #28 on:** 19 Feb 2008, 08:45 »

Quote from: Anyways on 16 Feb 2008, 18:53

I think I need to pick up Hellblazer again, I've heard so much good about it lately.

Mike Carey's and Denise Mina's recent runs on it were both fantastic. Can't say anything for Andy Diggle's run, as it has yet to be collected in tpb, and thus I've yet to read it.

sleepingfingers · « **Reply #29 on:** 19 Feb 2008, 14:29 »

Quote from: MusicScribbles on 18 Aug 2007, 20:09

Is this comic at all worth looking into? A lot of reviews suggest it as an amazing comic that has depth to the story.
I guess my real question is: Would you recommend it to someone whose comic library consists of Alan Moore, Sandman, Fables, Bone, The Walking Dead, Flight, Penny Arcade, and Scott Pilgrim?

If by any chance you didn't enjoy your grandmother growing up...this comic will make you cherish her.

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