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Preacher Vol. 1: Gone to Texas
by: Garth Ennis

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781563892615
ISBN: 1563892618
Label: Vertigo
Manufacturer: Vertigo
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: March 01, 1996
Publisher: Vertigo
Release Date: March 01, 1996
Sales Rank: 20616
Studio: Vertigo

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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.

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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.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Great series with slow story progression
I love this series and some volumes are better than others. If your going to get into Preacher I don't think you'll be disapointed. The only thing I don't like about Preacher is there are too many volumes that don't progress the story. There are whole volumes that are only side stories. I think they should have concentrated on the main story and had another Preacher series that told the side stories. Even though many volumes just feel like filler volumes to me, I still love them. The story could have been finished in three volumes tops, but i guess you don't sell 9 volumes that way.

Rating:

- Schlock Pulp of the Highest Calibre
I'm not going to go into a complex deconstruction of this great book, its influences, themes and relevance... might save that for one of the follow ups. I just want to discuss it's merit as a piece of literary entertainment.

Being the fist in the series, I know if you are reading a review you want to know whether you should take the plunge or not. If you are considering it, then I can't recommend Preacher more highly.

Firstly this is NOT Watchmen!! But is the second best graphic novel I have read, but comparing it to Watchmen is like comparing 'Dusk 'til Dawn' to 'the Godfather'.

No the Preacher is just a rollicking ride, the best kind of exploitation story telling: violent, gory, funny, scary and clever; think Buffy if she had been a smack addict stripper and Giles had been brought up in the Bronx.

If you're a fan of John Carpenter, Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez ... Read More

Rating:

- Ennis & Dillon at their best (still!)
Sometimes you reread titles and are disappointed. Other times, they've not faded at all. As much as I enjoy all..er... most of Ennis and Dillon's collaborations, they've never topped Preacher.

Any single volume of Preacher makes for a self-contained read, but this, the first in the series, is still the best. Jesse and his band of merry pals are all introduced and the overall plot ('find God') is thrown up on the table within the first few pages. The rest is joyous wackytime, cluttered with some of the most memorable characters in all comics history - from the truly scary (The Saint of Killers) to the real monsters (Sheriff Root).

Offensive, disturbing and a thoroughly satisfying story.

Rating:

- Good but not at that price.
Blood and Rain
Blood for the Masses

Originally Published in SavageNight Ezine

The Preacher: Gone To Texas
Book 1
By
Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon

Reviewed by
B.L.Morgan

3 Stars

I read graphic novels because it's a quick painless way to absorb some books that I otherwise would not get around to reading. The day I bought Preacher Book 1 I'd just finished reading two large novels and with my work schedule my head needed a rest. When I told the guy at the store I wanted something wild that wouldn't tax my brain he told me that Preacher was the best thing going.

He gave me a non-stop sales pitch for at least the next half hour that was so intense that I ended up saying to him, "Alright, alright just shut up and I'll buy the thing!"

I had to get out of there as quick as I could.

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