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Title: True Faith by Karen Berger, Warren Pleece, Garth Ennis ISBN: 1-56389-378-9 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Adolescent, but good
Comment: I'd agree with Benjamin D about this being a 'must buy' only for Ennis completists, but it's not as bad as he makes it out to be. There's some sharp humor, but a certain adolescent tone is evident; a lot of the story took me back to my own profane adolescence. So, if you read that book with that in mind, it works out well. It certainly doesn't stand up to his later work, but whose early work does?

Rating: 2
Summary: Blasphemous, yeah, but poor writing a much larger sin
Comment: Don't get me wrong, I love Garth Ennis' work. His stint on Hellblazer was great, and Hitman and Preacher are seminal works. I just don't believe that Garth hit his stride until Preacher came along, and the proof is here in True Faith. Although the story has elements that would appear later in Preacher (and other Ennis works) the story is very poorly written. The dialogue is terrible, and the story just sort of putters out in the end. Some scenes, like the protagonists brain-dead family's conversations, are a little funny but don't really seem to work. Yeah, it's blasphemous, but the writing is a far more worse sin. For Ennis completists only.

Rating: 4
Summary: This is something else
Comment: This is one of the earliest books Garth Ennis ever worked on (the second actually after "Troubled Souls") but it already has that Ennis-twist in it for which he got so acknowledged later on in his (still going) carreer. Here you have a book that I can best describe as a typical Vertigo book, only it was written long before Vertigo was found. It already has that certain 'feel' about it. To give an impression of what you're going to read when you start this, without spoiling things for anyone, I'll just say the following. The main thing you need to know is that it's about this guy named Nigel who lives in Londen. Nigel isn't very impressed by religion to say the least and oneday he hears a guy in a bar swearing he is "gonna kill God". Curious by what he heard he decides to follow the guy to his home. But then he gets caught when he's secretly reading the guys diaries and he's in a boatload of trouble now. From there on the book is a roller-coaster of semi-sarcastic views on religion in it's most bizarre variants (Quote: "God is like a clocked toilet ...") and general society (Look at Nigels parents and you'll know what I mean) with Nigel having to do and experience things under pressure that seem against everything he thinks himself. But along the way he's learning things about himself, only he doesn't realize it just yet. I finished the book, or must I say "Graphic Novel" in one sit. It isn't the greatest thing I ever read but it was still very good (better than a lot of other things I read these days), also because I couldn't put it away. You just HAVE to know what happens next, and before you know you're at the end of the book. I'd advise it to people who generally like Vertigo books and especially to people who are a fan of Garth Ennis. Be warned though, it's not for anybody because some people might feel a little offended. It's not for nothing it has been banned from bookshelves for years. But see for yourself.