Preacher Vol. 7: Salvation

Mr. Quincannon! Could you put your meat down for just a moment and have a word with our sponsors? Please? Odin? Please, just this once... would you put your meat down?

*shiver* What a creepy MFer. Lordy.

I can't quite decide which was worse, the guy from this comic or the iteration in the TV. Both were pretty damn awesome, and there are just a few things you can't quite do on TV but you can in a comic.

Oh, who am I kidding. The one in the comic was freaking amazeballs. I loved his lawyer, too.

Hell, the whole town of Salvation may have been just a stopover, a place to downshift, to let Jesse get his bearings after all the crap went down in the previous volume, but here's what amazes me most: It's a grand-style western. Stranger comes into show more town and picks up the badge and tries to put down the bad guys. It worked a hella-well, and I guess I feel kinda blessed now to have read this and see exactly where the entire feel of that short-run of Banshee got its gumption from. :)

Oh, yeah, and the reveals were pretty sweet, too, as were the sub-plots. Things are coming out and slapping us in the face pretty regular, now. :) Gotta love it. show less

Me tomé mi tiempo en continuar con Preacher, pero se tarda poco en recuperar el hilo: Jesse lo ha perdido todo y decide irse a un pueblucho de Texas donde le nombran sheriff de manera bastante precipitada y se dedica a impartir justicia de aquella manera que sólo el sabe (pegar mamporros).

El villano aquí es un depravado necrozoófilo acompañado de una depravada nazi, porque esto es Preacher. Y porque esto es Preacher, el malo no se acerca lo más mínimo a la victoria. Jesse es intocable. Entre lo que sucede en el tomo tenemos la reaparición de su madre, un antiguo oficial nazi que intenta ocultar su pasado (su final es... interesante), y una corta sesión de tensión sexual no resuelta con su compañera Cindy.

¡Buena estructura, show more al fin! Los dos capítulos finales, con la historia de como el padre de Jesse ganó una medalla militar, y un breve resumen de la infancia de Tulip (este sí que no tiene tanto que ver con el arco del tomo, aunque por lo menos se puede justificar su inclusión como cliffhanger) resuelven algunos hilos sueltos y dan paso a lo que venga después.

Por lo demás, consistente como suele serlo la serie, si bien quizá más ridícula que en otras ocasiones. show less

Jess is so thrown by the betrayal of Tulip and Cass that he takes a complete break from his quest to find God and bring him to justice. He runs into a girl who he grew up with in Angelville, and decides to stay in her small Texas town for a time, and quickly starts to make waves. Within the space of a day he takes over being the town sherrif, and obviously he starts making enemies since he refuses to allow the ne'er-do-wells their dirty deeds. He has to take on the local head honcho (The Meat Man), who really doesn't respond well to authority or the law, but eventually Jesse manages to get the best of the creepy old man. By the time the book has finished, Jesse has found himself again (and his mother, who isn't dead!) while he gives show more justice back to a sad little town, and he's on his way back to finishing his quest. His first stop will most likely picking Tulip back up, but there is gonna be a reckoning with Cass to come first! show less

In the first part of this volume, Custer teamed up with deputy Cindy and took over as sheriff in the town in which his mom lived. A bit thereafter Custer knew it was time for him to leave. He did so taking peyote to better help himself direct his own mission. His encounter with the Lord did not go well. This volume ended on a very powerful note in which Custer learned the truth about his father's most terrifying experience in Vietnam. I'm still eager to read the rest of this saga. Ever onward...

After the events of War in the Sun, Jesse Custer needs to take some time out to lick his wounds and try to remember just what exactly happened and why his fall from an airplane apparently didn't kill him. He drifts into the town of Salvation, Texas, and in short order finds himself made sheriff and standing off against Odin Quincannon, the local meat baron who runs the town. Great stuff -- as always, this is by turns ludicrous, hilarious, and heartwrenching.

This was a nice break from the overall story arc, with a minimum of the metaphysical, but still some crazy and disgusting. Some character building, some background reveal. Now I'm ready to get back to Jessie kicking God's ass.

Reeling from the sight of Tulip and Cassidy together, Jesse finds himself in the town of Salvation, where he is visited by his past and also has to contend with the oddball villain, Odin Quincannon, who has an unhealthy fascination with meat and meat by-products. After that, Jesse also gets some answers about what happened in Monument Valley, and we get another Vietnam story about Jesse's dad. Each issue makes you want to keep on reading more.