Preacher Vol. 8: All Hell's A-Coming

Guess who has gotten back together? This one's heartwarming and and heartbreaking, and the rest of the time, we get to see the dark side of Cass.

Yes, that's right, we get to know just how big a ponce that wanker really is.

My ire is stoked in equal measure to how relieved I am that Jesse and Tulip are on the mends.

As for Starr? Omg he's still one of the most absolutely pathetic super-villains I've ever read and pure comedic gold. Still.

All the dominoes are set up and ready to fall for the last Volume. I can't wait to see if god ever gets properly chastised. :)

Vulgar, violent, and offensive on nearly every level, yet woven through with a distinct moral compass and a keen sense of justice. Unfortunately this penultimate volume in the Preacher series is perhaps the weakest being more a series of disjointed character vignettes rather than a cohesive arc. Having said that it’s still one of the best written series out there, and Dillon’s artwork is always top-notch.

Can't put my finger on why I liked this one so much. Maybe with everyone back together (somewhat), it was nostalgia. There were some great crazy stories, some hilarious dialogue, Jessie kicking everyone's ass, Cassidy being a wanker and Arseface suffering - just like the good ole days.

still excellent. starts delving into Cassidy's past, goes back to Tulip's childhood which explains a lot, brings in some old and new minor characters, all vivid. and the stories dig their tendrils into one another, sometimes invisibly, while moving right along in inventive ways. ultra-violent, as always, but interesting politically. Ennis isn't repeating himself even at this point, and it feels like he's got plenty left to say. not my style, really, so it doesn't land on my 'must read' list, but it is worth following, because it does that thing it does very well. and part of that thing is to never make Jesse and Tulip out to be heroes, which is harder (and rarer) than it maybe looks.

Salvation ya parecía un tomo que echaba un poco el freno antes del apocalipsis final, pero esto lo lleva aún más lejos. Aquí no pasa nada. Sí, hay dos reencuentros importantes, de acuerdo, y recuperamos a un par de personajes que se habían perdido en la aventura de Custer como sheriff, pero... no se avanza en absoluto.

No quiere decir que no me guste, habrá que ver si la conclusión hace que este cambio de ritmo merezca la pena. Y los mencionados reencuentros son momentazos, al fin y al cabo. Pero al mismo tiempo tenemos un pequeño arco de Arseface que no va a ningún sitio, otro de Starr en el que el problema mayúsculo al que se enfrentaba se resuelve prácticamente sin ningún problema (dependiendo de si consideramos que un show more perro te muerda las partes un problema), y una historia flashback que podría haber encajado en cualquier otro sitio (supongo que está aquí porque sale Amy).

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Now it's back to what made Preacher great from the start.

This collection contains Tulip's backstory, fills in the blanks in Cassidy's own tales, and takes everything far closer to the conclusion we all know is coming. The pacing is excellent, old characters return, and the humor that made the comic so attractive in the first place is here in force.

Also - who doesn't love a good Western? The horse thieves deserved what they got.

The strengths of this book were the back story of Tulip and the meetings once again of Custer with Tuip and of Custer with Cassidy. I hate how Cassidy turned out to be a bad character because he was so much fun to watch in action in the beginning. I didn't much care for the lasy part of the book with the tsories about the car s trasnsported and the stolen horses.