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Volume
One:
Gone
to Texas |
by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, & Glenn Fabry
Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale |
Paperback: 200 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563892618 |
$14.95
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| Reverend Jesse
Custer has a mission: to find God, who has disappeared from heaven. Armed
with a peculiar moral code and a voice that must be obeyed. Custer joins
up with his gun toting former girlfriend and a hard drinking Irish vampire
to take on an indestructible gunfighter called the Saint of Killers and
bring down a grisly serial killer. The result is a wildly horrific thriler
in the vein of PULP FICTION. |
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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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Volume
Two:
Until
the End of the World |
by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, & Matt Hollingsworth
Foreword by Kevin Smith |
Paperback: 256 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563893126 |
$14.95
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| The Reverend
Jesse Custer continues on his outrageous mission in the second PREACHER
collection. First Jesse heads south for a brutal confrontatino with the
deoms from his past--a trio of white trash psychos, including Jesse's monstrous
grandmother. The Jesse and company go west, only to crash a party of Babylonian
proportions. |
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and of itself, the story of a man with one foot in Heaven and one foot
in Hell is hardly original. But in the hands of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon,
the story of Jesse Custer becomes a blasphemous masterpiece seething with
originality. Custer is a former Texas minister who was joined with a spiritual
being called "Genesis." Now Custer is on a journey to find God, but not
in the traditional enlightenment sense. I mean track Him down and give
Him a piece of his mind. Along for the journey are his gun-friendly girlfriend
and his Irish punk vampire buddy. Until the End of the World starts with
a flashback to Jesse's childhood, when he watched his father get shot in
the head. That kicks off "All in the Family," the first of two stories
in this collection. The second story, "Hunters," features the character
Jesus de Sade. Yes, even if you've known for years how hip and cool comics
are, you won't believe you're reading something this outrageous. And as
Kevin Smith points out in his introduction, this is one book "that actually
surpasses its hype."
--Jim
Pascoe
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Volume
Three:
Proud
Americans |
by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, & Matt Hollingsworth
Introduction by Penn Jillette |
Paperback: 240 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563893274 |
$14.95
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| The
Reverend Jesse Custer is a Texas minister who swears worse than a sailor
and is not above killing people who get in his way. One might say he's
lost his faith. No, he's just looking for God, and when he finds Him...
Proud Americans is another sick and fun addition to the Preacher series. |
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book contains three story lines: One, a short tale about Custer's father
in Vietnam. Two, a recounting of the transformation of Custer's Irish buddy
Cassidy into a vampire and his coming to America. And three, the conclusion
to the story begun in Preacher: Until the End of the World, the story of
the angelic mafia (known as the Grail) who have come after Reverend Custer
and the secret power inside him called "Genesis."
--Jim
Pascoe
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Volume
Four:
Ancient
History |
| by Garth Ennis, Steve Pugh, Carlos Ezquerra, & Richard
Case |
Paperback: 224 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 156389405X |
$14.95
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| While
technically the fourth book in the Preacher series, Ancient History isn't
part of the main Preacher story line and doesn't even use any of the main
characters (Reverend Jesse Custer, his girlfriend, Tulip, and his vampire
buddy Cassidy). Instead, this collection of side stories delves into the
freakish, perverse, and downright mythic supporting characters. The main
feature is the 106-page demonic Western featuring the "Saint of Killers. |
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In many ways this guy--and the spirit of the ruthless frontier he represents--is
the soul of the Preacher series. Writer Garth Ennis said, taking all of
the characters of the series into account, "I felt one more character was
needed to round out the cast: someone who would directly represent the
Old West, who had walked straight out of history, and who brought with
him the horror and terror of those times." If this is the soul of the book,
then its heart is the "Story of You Know Who," a reference to the character
Arseface, whose self-imposed shotgun wound to the face has left him rather
disfigured. This boy's abusive family is so overblown, his tragedy so all-encompassing,
that a lesser writer would let this swerve into complete silliness. Ennis's
talent is to pull pathos out of such outrageousness. He succeeds here again.
--Jim
Pascoe
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Volume
Five: Dixie Fried |
Written by Garth Ennis
Art by Steve Dillon
Painted cover by Glenn Fabry |
Paperback: 184 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563894289 |
$14.95
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| Jesse, Tulip
and Cassidy head down South in this eye-opening collection, reprinting
PREACHER #27-33 and PREACHER SPECIAL: CASSIDY - BLOOD AND WHISKEY. As our
intrepid band recovers from the battle with the forces of the Grail, Jesse
decides to unlock the secrets of his subconscious, Cassidy decides to declare
his secret affections for Tulip, and Arseface comes after Jesse in search
of revenge. |
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plans work out like they expected. In addition, DIXIE FRIED features the
story of Cassidy's first and only encounter with another vampire from the
popular CASSIDY - BLOOD AND WHISKEY one-shot. |
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Volume
Six:
War
in the Sun |
Written by Garth Ennis
Art by Steve Dillon, & Peter Snejbjerg
Painted cover by Glenn Fabry |
Paperback: 240 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563894904 |
$14.95
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| The story of
PREACHER Jesse Custer's ultimate battle with the Saint of Killers and the
forces of Starr — and the catastrophic outcome — is collected in this exciting
trade paperback, reprinting PREACHER #34-40. Also included: the PREACHER
SPECIAL: ONE MAN'S WAR one-shot profiling the villainous Starr. |
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Volume 7: Salvation
Volume 8: All Hell's A-Comin'
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Volume
Nine: Alamo |
| by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, & Glenn
Fabry |
Paperback: 224 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563897156 |
$17.95
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| The final
volume in the popular Vertigo epic by Garth Ennis!
The final chapter in the
Preacher storyline is the conclusion of Jesse Custer's quest to literally
find God and take Him to task for the world's injustices. As the Preacher's
crusade draws to an end, all of the players converge at the Alamo for a
final showdown. With the love of his life, Tulip, by his side, Jesse makes
his last stand against all of his enemies, including the Irish vampire
known as Cassidy, whom he used to call friend. But as the dust settles
in the Texas desert, no one can believe how this epic battle of good versus
evil will end. |
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