Ennis, Garth – Preacher Book 5: Dixie Fried

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Preacher Book 5: Dixie Fried

When I was looking ahead at reading series again, this was another one of those books that I wasn’t all that excited about. Why? Honestly, it’s because I know what’s coming next, and it’s just pure action candy. With all the stuff I read these days, you’d think I’d be able to look forward to a whole hell of a lot of character development too, and I have to say that this might be the best book in the series. It has the Cassidy: Blood and Whiskey special (which is by far the best of the specials, and I liked the Saint of Killers one more than a little bit) and also is chock full of hints about what Cassidy really is. You don’t get to see those bits in the first few books. Oh sure, his friend in the first book is a… I’m not supposed to be giving anything away, right? Anyway, it’s obvious that his friends aren’t much, but this is the first chance we get to see that some of them actively loath him. Why? What has he done that’s so bad? We still don’t see, but we do get a whole lot of hints.

The book itself is mostly about Jesse and his quest to try to get in touch with Genesis and what method he’s going to use to do it. We get some great lines on shrinks and psychology in general and he ends up deciding to use voodoo. The goth gang from the Cassidy special comes back to find him, and hilarity ensues. Or maybe bloodshed, I get those two mixed up. Have I raved about Steve Dillon yet? Man, I take that guy for granted until I see somebody else try to draw this story. I don’t know a thing about what he draws in the backgrounds, I’m sure it’s just fine. The thing that always stops me is his expressiveness with the faces of all these people. Cassidy when Tulip is telling him what she really thinks of him, Jesse when Cassidy overprotects him at a bar… Hell, nobody else in the world can draw Arseface. Glenn Fabry comes close with the covers, but he doesn’t quite get it right. Even if I think that this might be the best book in the series (and I have a few more left), don’t buy this one first. You need to see Cassidy as he can be before you see him as he really is…

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