Preacher

Preacher is a Comic-book of Garth Ennis (scenario) and Steve Dillon (drawing). Titrate headlight of the collection " adulte" Vertigo initiated by cd. Comics, it reports the adventures of Jesse Custer, a young person Pasteur in the search of God.

The series received 4 Eisner Award, of which those of the Meilleur scenario writer (Best Writer) in 1998 and that of the Meilleure regular series (Best Continuing Series) in 1999.

Summary

If it appears quite difficult to summarize Preacher , one can however try to synthesize his first episodes:

Raised by his/her sadistic grandmother and her two henchmen in fear of the Lord, Jesse becomes in spite of him the reverend of a small village of New-Orleans. At his place the capacity appears then to be made obey of all by the grace of one vote which nobody can disobey.

Its meeting with Tulip', an young woman in mare and Cassidy, a Vampire Irish, will lead it in an escape ahead in the search of God, continued by the two servants of its grandmother and by the Saint of the Killers, a Cow-boy whose only motivation seems to be to kill it…

The special issues stick on the characters, adapting in their context: thus, one finds oneself in full western in that devoted to the Saint of the killers, in the skin of a teenager grunge in that on tronchdecul or in war of Irish independence, and arrived of an immigrant at the United States in that on Cassidy.

A masterpiece of black humor

Preacher represents the leader of a new disrespectful and shifted kind, with very black humor. But it would be a shame to summarize the data base with its only provocations: Garth Ennis, known Irish scenario writer for humor and the extreme character of its work, show an extraordinary control of the narration there, in particular when it evokes the childhood of Jesse Custer.

One can note in Preacher several references to passions of Garth Ennis, for example concerning the Western S (John Wayne appears in Jesse in the moments of doubt, a such Mentor).

As he had announced, Ennis stopped the series with episode 66. The editions Marvel Comics were not long in sticking its services; what made it possible the title Punisher to return, in the space of some numbers, on the front of the scene.

Thereafter, Ennis left its signature on good number of titles ( Nick Fury, Thor …), all confused editors, with the assistance of sound comparse Steve Dillon or of other draftsmen. The best of its production concerns the most realistic characters however, without capacities, with the detriment of the supermen whom he acknowledges to hate.

Publication

France

In France, the series forever been able to be published in its entirety. The bankruptcy of the French editor Bold the indeed put a term at the publication, in the form of albums, of Preacher .

10 albums are appeared in France:

  1. Ballade in Texas

  2. New York, New York
  3. a Family of Hell
  4. Until the end of Times
  5. Sodome & Gomorrhe
  6. the Night of the Judgment
  7. Which Breath the Storm
More 3 special issues:

  1. the Saint of the Killers

  2. Cassidy
  3. the Tragedy of Tronchdecul

However, the editions Panini, from now on holder of the rights on totality of the production cd. Comics (Vertigo and WildStorm included) launched out in a wave of republications. This one includes with identical the American TPB but in an edition connected and increased interventions of the illustrator of cover Glenn Fabry.

  1. Dead or Sharp (takes again volumes 1 and 2 of Bold)

  2. Until the end of the World (takes again volumes 3,5 and part of the 4 and 6 of Bold)

Bonds external

  • Legal downloading of the #1 of the series on the official site

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