Preacher, Book 1 by Garth Ennis
I'm watching the TV series, and man, every now and then, they throw an absolute humdinger at you. Cassidy's fight in the airplane, Tulip's fight in a moving vehicle - and that was just the first episode. There's been some crazy-ass shit going down in this show, and I thought, OK, time to see what the graphic novel has to offer. It's still some crazy-ass shit, but it's a whole new level of bonkers.
Seth Rogan said on the Talking Preacher episode that aired right after the finale that up to this point the TV show has basically been prologue. We're introduced to preacher Jesse Custer, who's not the best preacher on the planet. He's a hard-drinking roughneck kinda guy with a sordid past that has somehow become the recipient of a heavenly entity called Genesis that compels people to do exactly as he says. Then there's Tulip, his ex-girlfriend and Cassidy, an Irish vampire. It's kind of hard to talk about the novel without spoiling the TV show, so if you want to watch that, make sure you read this afterwards.
So we find out at the end of the first series that God has gone missing from heaven and no one knows where he is. Our beloved trio decide to set off across country to try and find Him and make Him answer for Himself. That is where the graphic novel starts. They travel to New York to meet a friend of Cassidy's that researches weird shit to see if he knows where God might be. That doesn't turn out quite so well. Eventually we meet Jesse's relatives and find out how sordid a past can actually be. It is crazy and definitely crazy good.
UPDATE: I had checked the series out from the library, but after finishing, I've decided this is something I need to own. Ennis is amazing. I loved some of it so much I had to post photos on Facebook. That was a first.
Seth Rogan said on the Talking Preacher episode that aired right after the finale that up to this point the TV show has basically been prologue. We're introduced to preacher Jesse Custer, who's not the best preacher on the planet. He's a hard-drinking roughneck kinda guy with a sordid past that has somehow become the recipient of a heavenly entity called Genesis that compels people to do exactly as he says. Then there's Tulip, his ex-girlfriend and Cassidy, an Irish vampire. It's kind of hard to talk about the novel without spoiling the TV show, so if you want to watch that, make sure you read this afterwards.
So we find out at the end of the first series that God has gone missing from heaven and no one knows where he is. Our beloved trio decide to set off across country to try and find Him and make Him answer for Himself. That is where the graphic novel starts. They travel to New York to meet a friend of Cassidy's that researches weird shit to see if he knows where God might be. That doesn't turn out quite so well. Eventually we meet Jesse's relatives and find out how sordid a past can actually be. It is crazy and definitely crazy good.
UPDATE: I had checked the series out from the library, but after finishing, I've decided this is something I need to own. Ennis is amazing. I loved some of it so much I had to post photos on Facebook. That was a first.
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