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Bookmunch Online Book Reviews- June 2002
This reads like an unholy (a very definately unholy) amalgam of Stephen King and that show American Gothic whic hran a few years ago.
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In the wake of the apocalyptic events in Preacher: War in the Sun, the Reverend Jesse Custer's quest to find an absentee God takes an unexpected detour, one which leads down a backwater road to the godforsaken town of Salvation! Separated from gun-toting girlfriend Tulip and Irish vampire Cassidy, Custer's looking to lose himself for a while, take stock of a life that has been torn apart. But there's no rest for the good or the wicked in Salvation, a small town with a lot of very big secrets, as Custer soon discovers.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The art, the humour, the characterisation, the dialogue - there is simply nothing not to like about Preacher.
If you're not familiar with the story, go buy Gone To Texas (Preacher Vol 1) and begin reading one of the best comic book series ever made, if you've been following till here...
In This volume Jesse is a little lost after the events of War in the Sun. Going his separate way from Tulip & Cassidy, Jesse & Skeeter wind up in the small texas town of Salvation where they decide to clean up the local scum and do a bit of old fashioned police work, encountering along the way the KKK, a Nazi dominatrix and someone Jesse thought he would never, ever see again.
A masterful installment of a masterful series.
If you're not familiar with the story, go buy Gone To Texas (Preacher Vol 1) and begin reading one of the best comic book series ever made, if you've been following till here...
In This volume Jesse is a little lost after the events of War in the Sun. Going his separate way from Tulip & Cassidy, Jesse & Skeeter wind up in the small texas town of Salvation where they decide to clean up the local scum and do a bit of old fashioned police work, encountering along the way the KKK, a Nazi dominatrix and someone Jesse thought he would never, ever see again.
A masterful installment of a masterful series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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After reading the previous six novels in the Preacher series, I had a feeling that this might not live up to it's previous expectations. I should have known better! Although not the strongest of the Preacher collection,(my personal favouite is Proud Americans)it shows the depth that Garth Ennis can go in to, given the opportunity. This particular installment doesn't touch too much on the main story at hand,(the main story being Jesse's continued search for God) but it is still charming and thought provoking. He also gives an insight in to his belief of what middle America looks like in his eyes. Sometimes scary, but most of the time, shocking. The story might be thought of as weak by many Preacher fans, but I don't suscribe to that opinion. Call me biased if you will, but I personally feel that I can read any work by Ennis, and come away feeling renewed.(Fans of Ennis should try Unknown Soldier and his current 12 piece issue of The Punisher, in which he is reunited with artist Steve Dillon). The characters that Ennis provides in Salvation are strange to say the least. Most notably Odin Quincannon. I won't continue to give away the story, but I will say that if you like Preacher, or graphic novels in general then you should love this. I would recommend it to anyone, no matter who they are. Enjoy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Regular readers of Preacher will be fully aware of the genius at work here. Garth Ennis has created a work of art which surpasses most of the so-called contemporary literature available, which this would be pompously excluded from simply because it also has (very good) drawings accompanying and complementing the text.
This is the seventh collection of the stories of Jesse Custer, a man of God who wants to make the Almighty take responsibility for the state the World is in today. You will need to have read the previous volumes, starting with "Gone to Texas", to know the story as I am not going to go into it now, and if you have even the vaguest interest in graphic novels, be assured that you will not regret doing so.
"Salavation" reeks of being a stop-gap. The previous volume, "War in the Sun", was an epic and finished with Jesse and his cohorts facing some monumental situations. To this end, maybe it was necessary that there should be a while for us all to reflect and take a breath, because "Salvation" does nothing to move along the main story. It does, however, answer some interesting questions from Jesse's early life that regular readers may well have forgotten about, and it is a reasonable yarn in itself. The problem with "Salvation" is that we read it expecting answers to the situations that preceeded it, and instead they are hardly even mentioned.
It's not that this book is bad - it is action-packed and follows the usual Preacher guidelines of addressing issues whilst having fun and throwing in a bit of dirty sex as well. It's still better than most other examples of the genre, and most othe rbooks generally. It's just that as a part of the series, it is almost inconsequential.
Having said all that, this review is insignificant - if you are a Preacher fan, you will buy it, and if you aren't then where have you been? Start at the beginning, and we'll see you back here in six volumes time, OK?
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Returning from death...
This volume is a bit of a teaser, delaying the showdown between Jesse and Cassidy, but it prepares the way well. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mark Lockett
A pretender, not a contender
The Preacher series get rave reviews all over Amazon. As a big fan of comics I decided to give them a try based on these recommendations, but was really disappointed by what i... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Matt Share
Absolutely whatever you want it to be...
This is the seventh installment of Garth Ennis's simply breathtaking work that is Preacher. Now although it is not my favourite of his Preacher installment (Proud Americans still... Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2000
Preacher Perfect
Jesse Custer is back! Ennis and Dillon again come up tops with the next part of the Preacher saga. Feeling betrayed by Cass and Tulip, Jesse wanders the country looking for a... Read more
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