Ennis, Garth – Preacher Book 3: Proud Americans

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Preacher Book 3: Proud Americans

Ah, now here’s a fucking book. It starts off with a tale about Jesse’s father, and I guess you could call it “filler”. Maybe they missed a deadline or something, but it’s still head and shoulders above most of the crap that’s in other comics regularly. Then there’s the bulk of the book, which involves Jesse storming the headquarters of The Grail to get his friend Cassidy back, and pretty much everybody is in this one: Saint of Killers, Starr, the father of Genesis, the Messiah, even God. More questions are asked than answered, obviously, as this is still pretty early on in the series. Oh, and it ends with the tale, finally, of how Cassidy became a vampire and some of what he’s done with his life. Told through his rather rose-colored memory, as we learn later in the series, but I digress. If you’ve still got your doubts about this series and you read this book and somehow don’t like it, then stop right now. It gets better, but this is a fine example of what this series can be like at its best. It sounds silly when you put it next to all the violence done in this book, but this series is really all about commitment and friendship. And pride in a lot of ways, but the main point of this series is not the violence. It might be a tough argument to make with a pile of bodies ten high in front of the Saint of Killers, but I’m standing by it.

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