April 2010

  • Preacher: War in the Sun

    By msarko on 4/28/10 7:52pm
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    Just like Dixie Fried was a collection of stories about Cassidy, Volume 6 of the collected Preacher series is an arc devoted to fleshing out Herr Starr. War in the Sun spends most of its time explaining Starr's motivations, as well as balancing our newfound sympathy for him by taking him down a few pegs. The Preacher universe in one in which jackassery gets punished with violence. At this point in the story, it's easy to pick out who is doomed and who will survive to see another panel. Guys like Starr are just weak and mean enough to get knocked around, but not so much that they're instantly marked for death.



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  • Preacher: Dixie Fried

    By msarko on 4/22/10 2:25am
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    Of all the characters in Preacher, Cassidy is the most confounding. He has every reason to be the wisest, most knowledgeable person in the story, yet he's often clueless, if not a downright liability. Perhaps its the fact that there's only one thing that can kill him, or maybe it's that he just stopped learning after that vampire in the woods bit him. As he's depicted in Dixie Fried, the fifth trade paperback volume of the collected Preacher series, it's clear that Garth Ennis wants us to re-examin the sympathy the protagonists, and by extension us readers, have had for him in the past.



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  • Preacher: Ancient History

    By msarko on 4/14/10 7:41pm
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    When the first major story arc of Garth Ennis's Preacher comic concluded with the showdown at the Grail headquarters called "Masada", the author decided to spend some time on a few one-off issues with other artists to fill in some back story and spend a little more time with some of the series' most interesting minor characters. The first three of these stories were compiled into the fourth trade paperback volume Ancient History. The three segments of the book are the multi-issue The Saint of Killers spin-off, The Story of You-Know-Who which is the bleak tale of Sheriff Root's son and how exactly he became "Arse Face", and Good Old Boys, an ultra-violent farce starring Jody and T.C.



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