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Title: Preacher: Dixie Fried ( Preacher Library, Vol. 5) by Garth Ennis ISBN: 1-56389-428-9 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worst of the series...but keep reading
Comment: I by no means want to jump on the bandwagon here, if you're reading up on Dixie Fried on this page and wondering whether or not to buy it you're probabley getting pretty discouraged. However, hear me out, no puzzle is complete without all of the pieces, and the same goes for the Preacher volumes. This is essential reading for any fan of the series who is embarking upon the entire literary journey from Gone to Texas to Alamo. Dixie Fried reuintes Jesse with Tulip after he ditched her in Proud Americans, and a revelation from Cass impacts the entire series for the remainder of the story. So hear me out, this is NOT a bad story, it's fine, but not slack jawed bliss like the other volumes. It's essential reading for anyone who isn't too lazy to get the entire story from the prolouge in Alamo. Also take note that there is a exceptional romp that starts the story collected from the Preacher SPECIAL: Cassidy, Blood and Whiskey. This is the best part of the book and the reason I didn't give Dixie Fried a ***. And I'm out.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hmmmm
Comment: In all honesty I must firstly say that this isn't exactly the best Preacher TPB of the series. The story takes itself a teensy bit TOO serious here, with TOO much pointless graphic violence, and the bizar humor is also on low-profile for the time being (which is not a good thing here). Cassidy has some good oneliners but that's pretty much it for the humorous bit in this trade. The first two issues in here are about Jesse having to face Tulip again after what he did to her in France (see "Proud Americans" for that). Tulip handles it in her own manner and then wents out to get a drink in the bar, where she gets to hear a disturbing confession from Cassidy. After that she meets an old friend and the rest of these issues is filled with them talking and reflecting on their lives and relationships these last couple of years. In the rest of the issues (#29-33) Jesse thinks of (and tries) a way to try and get in contact with the Genesis entity in his head (an idea he had because of what the angel in the previous volume said). When he goes to meet the person who can possibly help him with this it turns out that Cassidy and this person have a (negative) history together, and if that isn't enough there's also a group of wannabe vampires called 'Les enfants du sang' who know Cassidy from the past and need him to do something for them now (a past that is cleared up in the Preacher Special "Cassidy: Blood & Whiskey" which is also collected in this trade). One of the positive notes that I need to share here is the return of Arseface in this trade. His goal is to avenge his father but he turns out to have another carreer-perspective ahead of him (a hysterically funny one I might add), which DOES really come to the good of the mood in this trade. Also, the included Preacher Special about Cassidy is also good reading. Not that important for the general story, but very nice. In here the humor IS at level.
The story in this TPB seems nothing more than a filler, which wouldn't even need to have been so bad if the humor had been at level. But that, like I said, isn't really the case. Overall pointless violence has the upper hand without the sub-plot adding anything to Jesse's quest. Now I don't wanna make it sound like it's an awful book because it IS pretty nice reading, but for Preacher standards I consider this one of the lesser volumes.
Rating: 3
Summary: Well...
Comment: Good art (as always) but mediocre plotting (note: "plotting", not "writing". The writing is excellent) make this the least essential of the Preacher books. It's entertaining enough, I suppose, but feels soulless. Happily, you're not buying an issue a month, so you should wince your way through this storyline as quick as you can and then rush out and pick up the excellent 'War In The Sun'. Continue your enjoyment from there, and forget 'Dixie Fried' ever happened.
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Title: Preacher: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis ISBN: 1563893126 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis ISBN: 1563892618 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dream Country (Sandman, Book 3) by Neil Gaiman, Malcolm Jones III, Colleen Doran, Kelley Jones, Charles Vess, Steve Erickson ISBN: 156389016X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 24 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Preludes and Nocturnes (Sandman, Book 1) by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Michael Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III ISBN: 1563890119 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 07 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Endless Nights (The Sandman, Book 11) by Neil Gaiman ISBN: 1401200893 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 17 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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