Cassidy the hard-living Irish vampire is in top form in the opening story, "Cassidy : Blood and Whisky". A hilarious skewering of vampire myths with a fiery - and shocking - conclusion to boot. And just as we are coming around to Cass's finer qualities, an element of doubt, carried by Tulip and surfacing through some wronged characters from Cassidy's past, keeps the tension alive for the next volume.
Certainly some people will be offended by this series' continual wallowing in the baser realms of human behaviour, but these are great characters of fiction by writer and artist. Beneath all the bestial and beastly beahviour on exhibit, at the core the Preacher series is about love and friendship, oh, and the quest to hunt down God and teach him a lesson. Epic stuff. ( )

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Back to the main narrative of this series of graphic novels, with our heroes in a comparatively tightly plotted narrative arc which takes them to New Orleans. I am enjoying the development of the relationship between Jesse (the eponymous preacher), girlfriend Tulip and vampire friend Cassidy, but still a bit squicked by the graphic violence. I wonder if Les Enfants du Sang were a deliberate homage to BtVS: Lie to Me. ( )

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New Orleans style vampire and mystic shenanigans, and perhaps a tad less brutality here. There is some sort of Anne Rice parody thrown in as well, at a certain level, I think. Still, it is not for the squeamish, as monsters abound, and are dealt with in the usual way, with weapons that slice and dice.

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