Ennis, Garth – Preacher Book 7: Salvation

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Preacher Book 7: Salvation

How the hell can you have a Preacher book without Cassidy or Tulip? Good question. This is a good story, no doubt about that, but with the exception with the issue right before the end, you could pretty much skip this entirely and go on to the next book. Let me sum it up for you: Jesse is basically a shell of a man, operating without a purpose, since he saw Cassidy and Tulip together. He wanders into his hometown, becomes the sheriff and has to take on the corrupt local rich man. Has a few adventures along the way, makes a few new friends and sees somebody that he never thought he’d see again. He finally gets his shit together and leaves to continue his quest. Get all that? Then you can skip most of this book. If your main concern is the main storyline, that is. That goes nowhere in this book. If you’re just a fan of the Ennis/Dillon team and can’t get enough of them, then I won’t have to convince you to get this.

The issue before the last one in the book finally tells just what happened to Jesse when he fell out of that plane. I don’t want to say too much about it now because maybe this point got cleared up before the end of the series and I missed it, but why… OK, listen. I’m going to have a section on this page called “Spoilers“. In that section I’m going to talk about all the series that I’m going to be reading, and I’m going to say everything that happens in them. I’ll talk all about my problem with that issue in that part, along with everything else I’m reluctant to give away here. Needless to say, I didn’t buy it, and that’s a problem with something as important as that. A damned good issue though, and enough happens there to make this essential to your Preacher experience. Or go out and find #49 and ignore this if you’re too poor to get them all right now. The last part of the book is with Spaceman, the friend of Jesse’s Dad from Vietnam, telling another story of his past. I guess it shows what Jesse is trying to live up to, but it could have just as easily been a special or something and certainly wasn’t essential reading. I’m reading this stuff critically for the first time now. I jumped on this series at #49, so I was too wrapped up in what was happening to be too critical of it. Now that I’m looking at the whole damned thing under a microscope, I’m wondering how my opinion is going to change. I’ll keep you posted…