Customer Reviews
Hmmmmm - By: , 09 Jul 2001 
In all honesty I must firstly say that this isn't exactly the best Preacher TPB of the series. The story takes itself a teensy bit TOO serious here, with TOO much pointless graphic violence, & the bizar humor is also on low-profile for the time being (which is not a good thing here). Cassidy has some good oneliners but that's pretty much it for the humorous bitin this trade. The first two issuesin here are about Jesse having to face Tulip again after what he did to herin France (see "Proud Americans" for that). Tulip handles itin her own manner & then wents out to get a drinkin the bar, where she gets to hear a disturbing confession from Cassidy. After that she meets an old friend & the rest of these issues is filled with them talking & reflecting on their lives & relationships these last couple of years. In the rest of the issues (#29-33) Jesse thinks of (and tries) a way to try & getin contact with the Genesis entityin his head (an idea he had because of what the angelin the previous volume said). When he goes to meet the person who can possibly help him with this it turns out that Cassidy & this person have a (negative) history together, & if that isn't enough there's also a group of wannabe vampires called 'Les enfants du sang' who know Cassidy from the past & need him to do something for them now (a past that is cleared upin the Preacher Special "Cassidy: Blood & Whiskey" which is also collectedin this trade). One of the positive notes that I need to share here is the return of Arsefacein this trade. His goal is to avenge his father but he turns out to have another carreer-perspective ahead of him (a hysterically funny one I might add), which DOES really come to the good of the moodin this trade. Also, the included Preacher Special about Cassidy is also good reading. Not that important for the general story, but very nice. In here the humor IS at level.
The storyin this TPB seems nothing more than a filler, which wouldn't even need to have been so bad if the humor had been at level. But that, like I said, isn't really the case. Overall pointless violence has the upper hand without the sub-plot adding anything to Jesse's quest. Now I don't wanna make it sound like it's an awful book because it IS pretty nice reading, but for Preacher standards I consider this one of the lesser volumes.
A little off the wall - By: , 11 Mar 2001 
Personally, I like the pseudo-vampire wannabiesin this volume, (Especially Lilly) as well as the Cassidy backstory. This is the first real glimpse we get that Cass isn't the good time guy with a nasty side that we thought he was, but something far darker. The echoes of Xavier's previous friendship with Cassidy resound throughout the rest of the series. This one is a little short of the mark next to the rest of Preacher, but 5 stars anyway
Preacher, you know em you love em so why not read some more - By: , 20 Sep 2000 I first started reading preacherin Judge Dredd megazine, when i realised i was on;ly buying it for preacher i decided it was time to buy the books.
Dixie fried is yet another excellent installment of the preacher series. As with most of the preacher books, it keeps you hanging on with twists, action & excellent artwork.
be prepared to see charactersin a whole new light & see Jesse Custer confront genesis to find out the truth about the saint of killers.
all round, an excellent buy.
