Gart Ennis' The Preacher

Are you talking about the Vertigo Sandman? I thought that ended a couple years ago. I never could get into it, I had a couple issues. You guys might like these

BPRD- an offshoot of the Hellboy series dealing with his buddies from the BPRD

Cavewoman- by Budd Root, just Google it and you'll see why I read the comic. The site is probably NSFW

Hellboy- why not!

Liberty Meadows- was reading it, the creator has his hands full at the moment, waiting almost a year for the next issue

Poison Elves- creator might be dead, the guy is a definite mall ninja, but the comic was pretty good, waited almost a year for the next issue.

Star Wars Tales- not bad, no restraints set on them from Lucasfilm

Walking Dead- one of the best comics I've picked up in a long time

Mage- old Matt Wagner comic, heard the third volume is coming out soon, although there was a 20 year interim between the first and second series

Sin City- Frank has some hits and misses with this series, some good, some bad

Lone Wolf 2100- sorry KV, thats the name of the comic. Neat futuristic comic. Sequel to Lone Wolf and Cub (Point44, you might like this)

Grendel- the futuristic stuff is much better
 
I kind of like the impressionist feel that some of the artwork has. Then there are the 15 images of Despair by Barron Storey in Endless Nights. Those are genuinely disturbing. And Sienkiewicz' artwork for the Delerium story makes you feel what it must be like to be in her mind. These so very impressionist stylings make the stories better.
 
FullerH said:
I kind of like the impressionist feel that some of the artwork has. Then there are the 15 images of Despair by Barron Storey in Endless Nights. Those are genuinely disturbing. And Sienkiewicz' artwork for the Delerium story makes you feel what it must be like to be in her mind. These so very impressionist stylings make the stories better.
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You'll get no arguement from me where "Endless Nights" is concerned. A lovely book. I particularly enjoyed "Delerium,Going Inside". Bill Sienkiewicz has always been an incredible talent, I loved his work on "Electra Assassin", "Shadows and Light" and his own "Stray Toasters."
 
Hell, I loved Sam Keith's work on Sandman... And he set the visual style for Dream and Death, right?

Based on _one_ graphic novel, I'd second the recommendation of BPRD; it may help to have background knowledge of Hellboy, but I don't, and it wasn't a crippling disadvantage.

Liberty Meadows is a compilation in comic-book form of the funny-animal newspaper cartoon by Frank Cho (who does some of the most gorgeous Victorian engraving imitations you'll ever wanna see; I think he has an art book out with all his Conan and Kong work in it). Not quite in the same vein as Hellblazer and Preacher, but damned funny stuff. You can see the strip on-line here: Liberty Meadows ...Also check out University^2: The Angry Years for the strip he used to run in his college newspaper, the inspiration for LM.

For comedy, I've liked Richard Moore's Boneyard recently, and Benito Cereno's Tales from the Bully Pulpit, in which Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison steal H.G. Welles's time machine and travel to the near future to battle Adolph Hitler's half-Argentinian son.

Oh, and then there's Groo. Who doesn't love Groo? ;)
 
Preacher == good stuff.

I became interested in Garth Ennis when he was doing Hellblazer (another good read), so I have most of the first two Preacher graphic novels in individual issue format. One advantage of this is Garth's little "Gone to Texas" section, which features contests like "create a limerick whose first line is 'There once was a man from Buckdugget'" and "what does 'T.C' stand for?" (the winner, IIRC, was "Tallywhacker Cramp"). For more of Ennis' wackier side, check out "Dicks".

Grover_Cephas said:
Not nearly the same feel as Preacher and Hellblazer, but definitely the same over-the-top, anti-PC, dress-like-Jesus-and-rape-your-gramma sensibility. Think "Hunter S. Thompson in the Twenty-First Century".
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Hey, that's my new favorite description of Transmetropolitan. :D More good stuff.

oz23 said:
As to Hellblazer, I bought it as it came out for a while and the Jamie Delano stories stand out for me, that said, the one that really got under the skin was the Hellish Grant Morrison story of a small town commiting suicide;"Early Warning".
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I found "Early Warning" to be particularly disturbing also. It's now available in the Hellblazer collection "Rare Cuts".

As for other comics: Sleeper, Sandman, Tank Girl, JTHM, and The Tick are all good ones IMO. Slaine has some nice b&w art by Glenn Fabry (of Preacher cover fame).
 
OK, I admit I read the first 3 or 4 books of "Preacher" in the library some years ago.

Hugh, you are addicted to comics, you read all 9.

The drawing is good, in relation to the characters, not the layouts. The way Tulip is drawn is very lively. Also all the hero's white trash relatives.

I think the strength of the comic is how it makes its characters amusing and interesting, like the gay-supressed hunter, the super-fat "pope", the weird angels, the jesus-retard, the conflicted-god, whatever. Everyone is sort of twisted into an opposite caricature of what they usually are.

But the stories are all sort of disconnected, with the characters tumbling from one adventure to the next. They are also very disrespectful to mainstream christian religion, and would be offensive to my wife(evangelist) if she were to read them.

I would rate the series as mildy amusing, but nowhere near greatness, and after 3 books, I stopped.
 
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