Preacher

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:48 pm

I've read Preacher now. All of it.

Pretty great innit?

Did I hear somewhere that a lot of people weren't happy with the ending?

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:15 am

Preacher is awesome

Although I felt the Salvation arc was treading water a little, I still luv the whole thing. The beats of the story are excellently measured out, little ones and the larger themes and moments.
And there's so many cool things in that book...jayis, it has Bill Hicks in it! I mind when I read that issue I let out a whoop when Jesse first mentioned his name. I had been trying to get people I knew at Uni to remember Hicks for ages, and no other bugger had heard of him, and I hadn't seen/heard any of his material for years (it was bloody difficult getting hold of his tapes and videos around the end of the 90s there, up here anyway. Not like now) So you could probably imagine I was ******* delighted with that issue.

The end.
I liked it.
There was unhappiness with the last issue in particular? Or with the material in the last story?

Heh. "Hell, girl, can't you guess?"

Post by **Best First** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:40 am

i thought the ending was miami vice.

frigging love preacher.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:40 am

Best First wrote:i thought the ending was miami vice.

cheesey 80s *****?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:20 am

spoilers...

Personally, I thought everything fell into place at the climax wonderfully. I wasn't sure about the direction the Cassidy character was being taken in, until his redemption which was great. Maybe Hoover and Featherstone deserved to do a bit more before they died?

Preacher was such a page turner. It also made me laugh... a lot.

I liked the Salvation arc and enjoyed the gruesomeness of it. Perhaps it didn't advance the plot much, but at least Jesse was reunited with his mum, which I suppose lifted his character somewhat.

Herr Starr is just bloody hilarious.

Post by **Best First** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:05 pm

doom cock!

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:50 am

Preacher is right up there with Sandman in the category of "comics you give to people to keep them from ever giving you crap about reading comics."

The Saint of Killers mini-series was ace as well. As was the Arseface one-shot.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:49 pm

I've not read a post in this topic so as to avoid spoilers.

It's been on my list of "**** to get around to reading" for awhile now. Never seem to have the time or money though.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:28 am

I hope you can pick it up at some point, Saydie. It's hella good fun. Library, maybe?

Anyways, dragging this back up as I just found a concept pic apparently from the pitch Ennis and Dillon made for the series.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/ ... pt-art.jpg

Pretty cool.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:10 pm

Hell yeah!

Dunno what I'm gonna do with my life now I've finished it.

Will they make a movie?

Hope not. Though it would make a good tv series. A really f**ked up one that is.

By the way, has anyone seen Oldboy? Seriously f**ked up film! Go see it!

Post by **Best First** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:09 pm

there has been talk of a movie for a while, with Jesse played by...

James Marsden

oh dear oh dear. please no.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:45 pm

Oh, what? Eh, no thanks. Although he does have the accent for it, I suppose.

Remember the old rumours about Depp/Diaz/Leary? Although it was interesting casting, that would probably have been a terrible movie.

...who would play Cassidy now? Or Starr?

Proper mad TV series would be cool.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:13 pm

Depp could do Jesse surely?

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:28 pm

Oh yeah. But I get the feeling that a movie put together with that cast package - all 3, not just Depp - would have been one of those things that sounds really good but would actually suck.
edit: think it would be easy for the producers to let it slip into cliched melodrama/buddy movie territory. Also suspect Tulip's role would suffer enormously.

Would still like to have seen them try, of course.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:35 pm

Leary is a plagerising kent and deserves no work whatsovere.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:48 pm

Best First wrote:Leary is a plagerising kent and deserves no work whatsovere.

Damn straight.
Funny how he seemed to stop coming up with any particularly noteworthy 'new' comedy material in the mid-90's...

...All this is making me yearn for the cigs again, gah.

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:28 pm

I loved the comic but I agree that the ending was poor. It was the writer having a wankfest (Like so many do) over his own characters and undermined everything else in the series. It reminds me of Grant Morrisons end to his X-men run who also ended with a bit of a crap wankfest.

Still arseface was great.

Post by **Denyer** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:46 pm

Will be looking for a scan set at some point, feeding my non-completist (and in some eyes irritating) habit of reading series and then getting shelf copies of the bits I'm actually going to re-read...

Oldboy? If it's the one I'm thinking of, my reaction was "so just don't have kids". Worth a watch though.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:45 am

Jetfire wrote:I loved the comic but I agree that the ending was poor. It was the writer having a wankfest (Like so many do) over his own characters and undermined everything else in the series.

er... how so?

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:46 pm

Maybe I'm easily pleased or somthing, but I thought the end was fine.

It, like, brought everything to an end and tied up the loose ends. Thats nice at the end, I think

Osku · Post by **Osku** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:30 pm

Read the series (might have missed one TPB somewhere), but never quite liked it. Characters and storyline didn't interest me. Not a fan of Ellis' monologues either. Too many "Me Grim.. er Jesse badass!" onliners as well. Not just my cup of tea (no sugar, absolutely no milk).