Customer Reviews
Preacher the man - By: , 01 Jul 2004 
I believe this is one of the best graphic novels aboutin this day & age. The story of Jesse & his amazing abilty for a cross between good & evil outstands me. I do believe the writers & artists deserve a pat on the back & a drop of the old bourbon. The charcters are well detailed & very well put forward.
I first started to read the novels out of my public library & always eargly awaited the next one to pop up. When it did i thought i wasin heaven so to speak
I hope this will continue as well as the marvel comics did & if you like your graphic novels hot & gory this is the one for you. BUT, you have to read from the beginning to truly understand Jesse's well being & how he came about.
As my old mate Jesse Custer would say.
"Until the end of the world"
Clearification of the Grail - By: , 09 Jul 2001 
This book (volume 3, which collects #18-26) picks up the tale right where the last issuein "Untill the end of the World" left us, with Jesse going on his way to rescue Cassidy from the Grail. Before the actual rescue operation begins we first get a little intermission-window-tale (#18) where Jesse meets a man at the airport who tells him a story about the time when he used to know Jesse's fatherin Vietnam. Not really an important factor for the rest of the story, but plenty entertaining. After that (#19-24) the search for Cassidy is on & you get to read a tale that makes the intentions of both the Grail as Starr a lot clearer (which was indeed a little neccesary). Starr however is expecting Jesse & waiting to ambush him, & the Saint of Killers is also on his trail again. Starr himself isn't having an easy time either since the allfather of the Grail comes checking up on him, a sign he thinks that they suspect something about his little scheme. With that we get to meet "the greatest treasure of the Grail" (who isn't exactly how you expect him to, to say the least) & Jesse meets a creature who learns him more about the Genesis entity. This is really a very good part of the story and, I dare say, the most important part of the TPB for those who are following the main story. Off course it's also filled with humorous little sub-plots you would never have thought of yourselfin a million years, like we're growing used to from Ennis it seems. Finally the last part of the book (#25,26) handles the origin of Cassidy. It shows how & when exactly Cassidy became what he is now, how he learned to live with it, & how come he'sin America now (being an Irish bloke). This little part falls a bit out of linein the Preacher saga sometimes (makes you think of Heartland, for those who've read it) when Garth makes clear how he feels about Ireland.
Like I said, a lot more about the Grail & their goals becomes clear now which really comes to the good of the series. It gets really clear what each player isin it for & what they hope to achieve. The bizar humor stays at the good level it's been for a while now, keeping the series a laugh-riot along the way of the great story. Dillons art is as good as before, clear & expressive without taking the attention of the story too much. A worthy successor after "Gone to Texas" & "Untill the end of the World"
Ouch. - By: , 10 Mar 2001 Preacher - It rocks all the remaining taboosin our society. This book is sick, & should be banned immediately. The very notion of the Grail, lead by the grotesque AllFarther D'Aronique, inbreeding the descendants of Christ for two millenia, & the horrendous depiction of the new messiah are heresy & blasphemy of the highest order. If ever there was a good argument for the burning of books, this piece of depraved filth is it. I loved every page of it. Comics don't get any better than Preacher, & Preacher don't get any better than this. More Please - 5 stars isn't enough. All that & I didn't mention Frankie the Eunoch - it's characters like him that Ennis does best. Pure genius from cover to cover.
Houmoruos and exciting. Love, death and a lot of violence! - By: , 31 Mar 2000 This book starts with a story from Vietnam. It is about Jesse Custer`s father & this story gets really nasty, likein the other "Preacher" books. Then Jesse gets a picture of his father by a former friend of his.
We then get to meet the Allfather,who is an enourmous bloke who leads a christian sect! Here, we also meet Herr Starr, who we can learn much more aboutin later Preacher stories.
The best part of the story is when the Saint of Killers comes into it. He sure lives up to his name! In this issue he also meets Jesse Custer.
At the end Cassidy tells the tale of how he became a vampire. Cassidy is my personal favourite charachter & I loved this story.
What do I think about this comic book? I was brought up by Christian parents, & I want my children to have another kind of life experience then I had as a child. Actually, if I get children I will teach them to despise the Christian morality. I will teach them to like things like sex, death & rock`n roll. To put another way, I will teach them to read "Preacher"!
