Awww, some really awesome scenes in this one. Now I know how Jesse lost an eye, and I really didn't see that coming.I mean, sure, a nuclear blast is dangerous... but to have one put out his eye??? Shameful. They should put a warning on such things. Seriously. Someone could sue.Great action, great weirdness, and a little landscape remodeling. Or two landscape remodelings, I ought to say. A comic about landscape remodeling. Sure. That's what this is. With tanks blowing up. That works. :)Seriously,...

The first part is actually really good with Starr and the Saint of Killers and the awesome showdown in the desert ...then the second half gets into the worst plot line in the entire series. (view spoiler)[I mean first of all I just ...literally don't care about the Jesse/Tulip romance AT ALL. I don't like Jesse. I think she's too good for him. I hate that she falls apart completely when he 'dies'. AND THEN you throw in the whole Cassidy thing on TOP of that and I'm just sitting here like uuuuuuu...

Filled with blasphemy of all sorts and a handful of action and violence, War in the Sun delivers yet a satisfying chapter in Preacher. It felt like one explosive season finale.This book proves that the Saint of Killers is literally a one man army, with possibly only Jesse Custer as the one who could beat him and Herr Starr as a literal prick/dickhead and Arseface as a rock star. Starr's origin story was told as well and it was dark and very twisted!What I still don't buy is the love triangle bet...

In this latest brilliantly blasphemous installment of Preacher, you’ll find another hefty dose of Garth Ennis gold as he deftly advances the God vs Jesse vs Saint of Killers vs The Grail main story arc and also manages to hit a home run with a much anticipated backstory that is entertaining as hell. Yes, there is much for fans of the series to fawn over starting with One Man’s War. This terrific piece recounts, at long last, the origin of Herr Starr, the Grail’s current “All Father” and relen...

Once you get this far along in the series, it's fairly easy to predict that when a character named Mr. Dicks is introduced, (view spoiler)[he's only going to last a couple of pages. (hide spoiler)] Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

If Preacher was a TV series, then the preview for the events here would have dramatic music and the voiceover would ominously say something like, “This is where everything changes.” The voodoo encounter with the giant snake in New Orleans *shudder* gave Jesse some info from the Genesis entity that bonded to him, but he needs more if he’s going to track down God. The trio heads to Monument Valley in Utah so Jesse can score some peyote to go on a desert vision quest to see if he can get more clues...

Another storming volume - the worse being a privileged character's ongoing rant about political correctness (yawn), - the best being ...everything else! This time we're in New Orleans and then the desert!All Jesse wants is to be able to learn more about Genesis and this sees the deathly dark comedy go into overload with the hugely ineptness of their antagonists followed by the catastrophic, yet hilarious desert showdown and its aftermath! Some classic Preacher storytelling goes from the extreme

Another Great Volume Jesse lost one eye he found out that Cassidy and Tulip are an item now after they thought he was dead he doesn't know that tulip is devastated he doesn't know anything really lets see what happens next volume Starr on the other hand lost one leg lets see if they make us watch next issue leg replacement show as they did the hat show interesting The Saint of killers found out that god was reason for his family dying and for him ending up being cursed what will he do we don't k...

Ok that ending.....(view spoiler)[Of course more contrived romance drama. The most unoriginal conflict you can come up with (hide spoiler)]

I really loved book 1 in the Preacher series and found that ever since then my enjoyment of each successive graphic novel has been declining, to the point where I stopped thinking of them as a good investment of £13.99. Graphic novels are expensive things - £13.99 is a lot for something I can read in a day. A book typically occupies my reading time for a month.Still, I was in Forbidden Planet and it had been a long time since I bought volume 5 ... and I caved.#6 is actually the first step up in

The sun was at war...

If you were heating up a pot of water, War in The Sun would exist in that time frame seconds before the water boils over and soaks the stove.Much like that water, tensions are beginning to rise. Cassidy and Tulip are teetering on the edge of mutually assured destruction, the Saint of Killers makes an appearance and Herr Starr is ready to unleash the big guns in his quest for power.One of the characters we were still left in the dark about had been Herr Starr. Granted, we known bits and pieces of...

All the stars! This was an amazing tale, beginning to end.This is a comic and I know some people don't think of comics as serious, but this is. An overview would be that this is about one man's searching for, not only God, but why God allows what he allows. Preacher Jesse Custer, because of very strange circumstances spends this series not only searching for God, but hoping to call God to task for what he feels is wrong with people and the world they live in. The series explores so many relevant...

Now that is more like it!Holy intense last half, Batman! As Cass would say, JAYSIS!

After enjoying Vol 6 of the Boys so much, I jumped right into another Garth Ennis Vol 6.Preacher finally shakes some things up here, but we start with the backstory for Starr, the new head of the Grail and how he ended up where we see him today. Equal parts badass and funny; a combo mastered by Ennis and few others.We also see thing escalate to ridiculous levels, including Starr trying to nuke the Saint of Killers in Monument Valley..ya, that happened.There's also a new development with the Cust...

A great addition to one of the greatest comic series of all time!

This continues the story of our little triumvirate and their quest to find God. We also get an origins story of Herr Starr.I wasn't a big fan of the last collection. Thankfully, this collection gets things back on track and is more of the norm from this series. The highlight of this collection is the origins story of Herr Starr. I did not know I needed that story and I am glad that the authors decided to give it to us. It was fantastic and a great exploration of the character. I also thought the...

Religion tends to be an easy touch point for satirists, so much so that it becomes dull rather quickly. We get it, religion has some rather silly concepts behind it, so much so that it almost makes fun of itself. With that in mind, I avoided Preacher for a while, fearing it would be another 'fuck religion' polemic disguised as a story (a la His Dark Materials), and while there are the 'fuck religion' moments layered in Preacher from time to time, Ennis never gets too lost in his message and allo...

Herr Starr gets a full-blown origin story, plus some brilliant intrigues and quiet adventures. Best parts are the explicit evolution of a pervert, and the amazing way he acquired his eye scar. Cassidy's running headlong into a big-ass betrayal/disappointment. What with hitting on his "best friend"'s girlfriend - repeatedly - last volume, and now turning it around/begging forgiveness/making grandiose promises...if I know anything about Ennis, he's going to enjoy the living fuck out of seeing how

I'm so in now that I'm retroactively upping my past rankings. I'm over my reservations. This is cruel, brutal, offensive and sacrilegious, but it is so dang good that it transcends and becomes it's own wholly unique piece of art. And I'll be damned if there isn't some serious truth about humanity woven into what Ennis and Dillon put into Preacher. This is an exaggerated reflection of our society that is actually an effective commentary on our culture. Especially right now.