Preacher

[Hulk Smash 80s]

Just wondering if anyone else here has ever read Garth Ennis masterpiece work? It truly is amazing and makes all other Vertigo look like crap. In fact in my mind it rules the comic kingdom!

Any thoughts, opinions?

[Terry Verticchio]

I had heard of it at the time it came out, but I was more of Invisibles kind of guy.

[Cardiac]

I had heard of it at the time it came out, but I was more of Invisibles kind of guy.

And I love both. But I love Invisibles more. :banana:

[Hulk Smash 80s]

Eh the Invisibles is too counter culture for my tastes, and I'd much rather prefer Grant Morrioson's Animal Man, or Doom Patrol.

[Blake Petit]

I love Preacher, although I didn't read it when it was coming out. I picked it up in paperback after the fact.

[j3ffro420]

I happened to discover this brilliant comic after eventually succumbing to the non-stop praise I was hearing from every reputable comic fan/reviewer. Along with 'Fables', '100 Bullets', and 'Y:The Last Man' (all three are excellent reads that I highly recommend), I started on the first volume of 'Preacher' in trade form and quickly found myself captivated by the characters and story. I still haven't finished all the volumes (though I do own them all), but from what I've read so far, I have to agree with the initial post. This has masterpiece written all over it.

[Blake Petit]

It truly is amazing and makes all other Vertigo look like crap.

Okay, I'm assuming you edited this in later, because I KNOW I would have replied.

Preacher is great, yeah, but why does that automatically mean that all other Vertigo is crap? Personally, I place it #3 on my Vertigo favorites list, after Fables (#1) and Sandman (#2).

[j3ffro420]

Okay, I'm assuming you edited this in later, because I KNOW I would have replied.

Preacher is great, yeah, but why does that automatically mean that all other Vertigo is crap? Personally, I place it #3 on my Vertigo favorites list, after Fables (#1) and Sandman (#2).

Don't forget about Y:The Last Man! :D

[Blake Petit]

I didn't forget it. I'd probably put that at #4 on my all-time list. ;)

[j3ffro420]

Interesting. I would have thought you'd prefer 'Y: The Last Man' over 'Preacher'. Veddy veddy interesting! :)

[BeyondtheGrave]

Hey no love for the Losers :banana:

[Blake Petit]

Not from me -- leaves me pretty cold.

[j3ffro420]

I've never read it, but I've heard good things. Oh man! I just remembered about "100 Bullets". How could I forget about that title? I remember reading on some posts that Blake's not a big fan, but I can't get enough. The first trade was a little slow for me, but by the time I finished the second trade...I was hooked. As stand-alone issues they don't work so well, but as a collected work, it's fantastic stuff.

My top ten Vertigo's:

1) Fables
2) Y:The Last Man (a close second)
3) Preacher
4) Sandman (though I admit, the most brilliantly written of the five)
5) 100 Bullets

Has anybody read "Transmetropolitan"? Is it something I should check out and why/why not?

[Blake Petit]

I gave 100 Bullets a try. Two tries, in fact -- several issues of the comic and I got the first TPB, but I didn't like it. In fact, I've never liked anything by Brian Azzarello. Sorry to disappoint, guys. ;)

[BeyondtheGrave]

I gave 100 Bullets a try. Two tries, in fact -- several issues of the comic and I got the first TPB, but I didn't like it. In fact, I've never liked anything by Brian Azzarello. Sorry to disappoint, guys. ;)

Can't love everything :shehulk: I agree with j3ffro420. I like 100 Bullets but I have been reading Stand alones since 1 and I don't remember much and it backtrack to previous arc alot. I am think about just getting them in trades myself.

[Andrea Speed]

I've read Preacher in trades, and it's very good - but come on! Transmetropolitan remains my all time favorite Vertigo "stick it to the man" freak out.:D

[Hulk Smash 80s]

Okay, I'm assuming you edited this in later, because I KNOW I would have replied.

Preacher is great, yeah, but why does that automatically mean that all other Vertigo is crap? Personally, I place it #3 on my Vertigo favorites list, after Fables (#1) and Sandman (#2).

I never said that all other vertigo was crap but that it made all other vertigo look bad in my opinion. Sorry if I offended anyone but I like Preacher an awful lot. There's just something about how Garth Ennis writes it. I've also read Sandman and it's done nothing for me what so ever. I really that Ennis had a personal adgenda to make stuff like The Sandman look stupid, especially with that Neil Gaiman cameo in Cassidy: Blood and Whiskey.

[the rainking]

I was actually trying to think of a vertigo series I don’t (or didn't) like but I can't think of one!

I'm also loving Lucifer and hellblazer!

[Ammar Al Subahi]

How convinient...I was just talking with the owner of the comicbook shop I buy from and I was asking if they had back issues of Ennis' Punisher series, then he told me about Preacher, how it was this series that made him famous and that it was really awesome and he recommended it strongly to me, so can anyone tell me what it's about?

[S.A. Parvaze]

In a nutshell (and apt to be incomplete), Jesse Custer is the preacher for a small town in Texas. In the middle of a sermon one night, something from Heaven flies down, strikes him, and joins with him, granting him the power of the Word of God (it also destroys his church and kills his congregation, which amounts to everyone in the town) -- the Word amounts to Jesse being able to force people to do what he says.

Now, Jesse wasn't exactly the best of preachers, and had quite a few qualms in his relationship with God. So he decides (along with his former girlfriend, an Irishman named Cassidy, the spirit of John Wayne, and others) he's going to find and have a reckoning with God about why the world is so messed up. Of course, there are plenty of other people who think that controlling a man with the Word of God is in their own best interest.

[Ammar Al Subahi]

Sounds interesting, I hear it also kinda flips out later. Doe sit have Ennis' usual charm?

[S.A. Parvaze]

I wouldn't say flips out... But yeah, it gets pretty darn entertaining. And there's plenty o' Ennis charm to go around.