Im rating this 5 stars only for Preacher Special: Saint of Killers #1-4 and not the other two stories in this collection which isnt as powerful. The first 3 volumes of Preacher issues was good but not as great as the story of Saint of Killers and his old west days. Garth Ennis is a great comics writer and his writing of the Revisionist Western story is one of the best westerns i have read in comics form. Up there with the best Jonah Hex comics. A dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier a...

Holy crap! The Saint's story was even better than I imagined!I mean, we're getting into some great ghost story stuff, but add a mountain of steroids and a man that both the Angel of Death and Satan, himself, is scared shitless of, and we've got Keyser Söze, or um, I mean, the Saint of Slaughter. :) Hell of a good story. Someone in Supernatural has been cribbing from this comic. :)And now that I know so much more about this guy, I can't believe that everyone got off so light, before. :)

"Ancient History" is sort of a sidenote to the main story of Custer and Co. as this book (the fourth in the series) contains back story for the Saint of Killers, Arseface, and Jody and T.C. The best of the bunch is the Saint of Killers' story. From late 19th century wild west, cowboys and injuns, to the gates of Hell and beyond, we see how the Saint became the cold blooded killing machine he is in the main story. Carlos Eszquerra supplies some fantastic drawings for his part in the story, the He...

Ah yes, what I've come to learn is a signature move on the part of Ennis (and others like Aaron in Scalped or Wood in DMZ): the volume of "side character stories".Related tangent: I was obsessed with Preacher when I first read it, and tracked down everything in print. Including some obscure little one-off of story about the Saint of Killers. I awaited that eBay/Amazon purchase like a rabid squirrel, and when it finally arrived I tore it open...only to discover it was the original printing of the...

This is a collection of three stories that provide background information for different characters. This collection does not move the story arc forward so one can read this collection at anytime. In this collection, we find out how the Saint of Killers comes to be, how the accident occurred to Arseface, and a side story to Jodi and T.C. who were characters in Jesse's teenage years.I absolutely loved the stories about the Saint of Killers and Arseface. Even though I knew about these stories from

A "Most Interesting" review:He once read Ulysses by James Joyce… He composed a dirty limerick in Cuneiform… He once… He is… ... “I don’t always read graphic novels, but when I do, I prefer Preacher by Garth Ennis.” ...Nuff said...I mean when the coolest suds spokesman since Billy Dee was telling America that, "It works every time" spills that he enjoys Garth Ennis’s Preacher series, I’m not sure what more my rambling comments can add to the endorsement, so let me just give...

Garth Ennis wrote an introduction to this volume of Preacher where he says that part of his inspiration for the story came from his love of western movies. He doesn’t explain why he included a kid disfigured after a botched suicide attempt who now goes by the name of Arseface. That’s probably for the best. I don’t think I want to know how Ennis came up with that character.This collection breaks away from the main storyline of Jesse Custer’s quest to find and punish God to give us some background...

A slight change of pace with back stories for the Saint of Killers, Arseface and surprsingly T.J. and Cody. On first reading the Saint of Killers origin is pretty hardcore, but tbh, I just wanted to get back to the main story. A solid 8 out of 12 though, as the short stories are all pretty interesting, darkly comedic and most definitely out-there!

I was all prepared to hate this volume.I mean...no Custer? No Tulip? N-n-n-n-o Cassidy, the world's coolest and most inebriated vampire? No freakin' way!But, geez, they got me. Right away I was slapped in the face with a glorious, bloody, Peckinpahish horse opera about how a loner seeking vengeance became the Saint of Killers. What's the devil to do when Hell literally freezes over? Then we revisit the sad, sad story of Arseface, and see the birth of yet another loner out for blood.And finally,

This caught me a bit off guard as this is not a continuation of where we left Preacher in the last volume. Which was, naturally, a bit of a cliffhanger so I was excited to see what happened and instead I found myself reading a collection of short stories set in the world of Preacher. It was solid, however. I enjoyed learning about the Saint of Killers, that really was a heck of a story. Just enough packed to not miss the main events of the series. The story of Assface was...ok. My least favorite...

DISCLAIMER: I wasn't able to find the physical trade of this one and when I went out to get the single issues I could only find The Saint of Killers storyline. So I will only review that portion of this trade and not the other two stories. So with that out of the way, let's hop into this! So the story of this tells us the origin of The Saint of Killers; the unstoppable, completely OP cowboy who hunts Jessie in the main Preacher series. I always found this guy to be really scary and relentless in...

This volume consists of three different Preacher tie in stories. Saint of Killers: This is the origin of the unstoppable gunslinger who has Jesse Custer in his sights. I enjoyed this one the most of the three as I'm a huge fan of Weird Westerns, and that's exactly what this is. Satan and The Angel of Death show up as well. 5 StarsStory of you-know-who: This is the origin of Arseface, and this was surprisingly deep. 5 stars.The Good Ol' Boys: This one was the weakest of the bunch. A story of Jody...

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...

This should really be labeled Volume 3.5, as it does not follow the main cast of characters -- neither Jesse, Tulip nor Cassidy make an appearance in this volume -- nor does it push forward the main story line.That being said, these three unrelated back stories are still engaging and do a good job of fleshing out the ensemble cast of the Preacher universe. The first, chronicling how the Saint of Killers became who he is, is the highlight of the three, but the Arseface story is also revealing and...