Should I give Preacher another shot?

I thought the end was just fine, the last issue is great actually. You know he's doing something interesting when I felt most sorry for Starr, who by the end was ostensibly the main villain (besides God).

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=16977

Found via Comic Book Resources.

Since the movie is loosely based on the two trades, I'd be interested to see it. I just hope it's not going to be a piece of "dogshit" that this Moriarty guy says it's going to be.

As a whole, I liked it, it didn't blow my sox off, but as Tico and Vic say, there was too much of Ennis's "Here's a real mensch" in Custer, which pushed the series towards a flatter space in my mind.

The filthiness was juvenile, though. I laughed in spite of myself.

Still, the story features many great moments, of which the Chunt Brothers has to be a particular favourite.

"100 good bits in Preacher" might be a thread worth doing...

In a space of three days everything seemed fairly tightly packed.

I really really liked the Fairytale of New York bit, particularly the speech at the end about the first day of the Empire State, but I am a sentimental old bollix at times.

Completely classic: "If I have a face like an arse, then so be it! I will become... ARSEFACE!". If you don't find that page funny, the books is simply not for you.

When the guys at the comic shop heard I returned the trades, they were like, "Did you get to the part where TC fucks the chicken??!?!" Like that was magically supposed to make me say, "... Oh YEAH!! That was hilarious! [smack on forehead] What was I thinking returning this precious gem of storytelling?!"

Reading people's comments makes me realize I made the right decision for me: Preacher just isn't my cup of tea.

wasn't it actually "Suh whuh uhf uh huv uh fuh luh un uhs, uh wuh bucuh UHSFUH!"?

But, really, if you can't look past that and see the intelligent, powerful story-line, then please stick with Sonic the Hedgehog.

... ahem. No offence.

It was obviously Ennis' magnum opus. He put everything into it and you could tell he loved it much more than any of his other work. But someone upthread was OTM when they said it was just him and his fantasies about being a badass. It became a tad too lecturing in its determination to define what was "right" (being a man, standing by your friends, telling the truth) and what was "wrong" (running a secret global religious organisation?).

And it was his excuse to work his homages to everything he loved - Westerns, War movies, road movies - into his own work. This can work with a lot of pop culture - Quentin Tarantino does it successfully, for one. But Ennis just regurgitated what he liked without illuminating it, without revising it, without exploring it. The Bill Hicks guest appearance really made me cringe at the time.
And the story was essentially silly and really dragged out. But it did have some great genre moments - the Saint of Killers taking on Starr's army...
And Steve Dillon's art was always good.
Now that I think of it, I prefer their work on Hellblazer.....

he may just have a point, though.

:)

Or I could just not read this thread.

Only...I have to.

On the other hand, maybe you just read a lot of comics.

"an armadillo being primed for anal sex and delivered on a silver platter"

At least I know what I'm missing.

Ennis' obvious love of American culture is very charming though. He reminds me of myself. But vaguely homophobic. Preacher often reminds me of Barry Gifford, which is a good thing.

I finished Preacher last night. I think the series was great and one of the craziest collection of characters in a comic. I laughed out loud quite a few times reading through the series.

"That's a big fxxxin' snake."

They didn't leave anything too open either in the end, although I would have maybe liked to see a side story with a bit more back story about Arseface's manager and maybe Conan Quincannon, who was kind of thrown into the story at the end.

Odin Quincannon cracked me up, every time I saw him speak I heard it spoken in my mind with Ross Perot's voice.

I enjoyed Preacher while it ran

This is still probably the most accurate thing to say about this. It is mostly fun while you read it, but in retrospect you think "jesus, what was a I doing?". Earlash is also right, in that it does have some very chortlesome moments and characters.

I enjoyed Preacher while it ran - well, all except for one six month stretch when Jesse was a Sherriff and Ennis indulged his Western fantasies and it came off more like an episode of the A-Team - but have never felt any inclination to go back and reread the back issues. I've never thought about this until now.
It was obviously Ennis' magnum opus. He put everything into it and you could tell he loved it much more than any of his other work. But someone upthread was OTM when they said it was just him and his fantasies about being a badass. It became a tad too lecturing in its determination to define what was "right" (being a man, standing by your friends, telling the truth) and what was "wrong" (running a secret global religious organisation?).

And it was his excuse to work his homages to everything he loved - Westerns, War movies, road movies - into his own work. This can work with a lot of pop culture - Quentin Tarantino does it successfully, for one. But Ennis just regurgitated what he liked without illuminating it, without revising it, without exploring it. The Bill Hicks guest appearance really made me cringe at the time.
And the story was essentially silly and really dragged out. But it did have some great genre moments - the Saint of Killers taking on Starr's army...
And Steve Dillon's art was always good.
Now that I think of it, I prefer their work on Hellblazer.....

just read the lot over a day or two and that's mostly otm