preacher: the movie

They are also interestingly enough making to more superhero considering Tulip's and Cassidys parts in the first show.

― earlnash, Thursday, May 26, 2016 3:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm assuming this relates to Tulip being introduced as a bungling would be assassin in the comic book who leaps into Cassidy's pick up truck and tries to jack it off him which he refuses.
& the tv show has him being introduced having a Bond -like fight on a plane, though a bit more gorey, and her having a fight in a speeding vehicle displaying all kinds of martial arts skills or whatever.

But it is a different medium and does have its own way of showing narrative which maybe this taps into more.
I dunno. Quite enjoyed it anyway.

I enjoyed it! A more comedic tone than the comic, and seemed much more willing to laugh at its protagonists, which can only be a good thing. Remains to be seen how well/if it deals with the more epic storylines coming up.

Re accents - I'm as English as they come so am probably not the best judge, but I thought Joe Gilgun's Cork brogue was pretty convincing.

God Howard Stark's accent is so, so bad. Like, even worse than his Howard Stark accent - but at least he's not the main character in that show!

Whatever Gilgin's doing, it ain't Cork boy

I thought this was pretty good, even if it is the worst of the current batch of comics TV shows that isn't Arrow.

It did seem the plot threw itself about a bit but I guess television narrative style drives that.

Read the full series on a whim, definitely gonna try to sell it on ebay.
First episode of this was pretty bad, i faded out after the gratuitous broken arm scene.

Does it hold up? I've never read it.

I re-read it nine or ten years ago, and it kind of doesn't, except that it didn't really at the time. A new reader might well be carried along by the characters and jokes and twists just as well as a '90s reader waiting month to month or TPB to TPB was, except without the accompanying investment letting them feel disappointed or cheated by a tangent or twist too far. Read it if you're interested, keep going if you like it, bail out if it loses you at some point.

Positive things I have to say about Preacher based on my memory of reading it fifteen years ago or whatever:

1) I really like Steve Dillon's art.
2) For better or worse, Odin Quincannon fucking the meat lady is an indelible image.
3) Turning Herr Starr into a walking penis head was pretty good, as juvenile jokes go.

That's pretty much it.

it doesn't "hold up" but it is a quick compulsive read if you skip over all the proselytizing. Last few issues are terrible.

I don't think I managed to finish the first TPB.

I read a lot of this series (at least the first five trades) in high school during my heavy Vertigo phase, and while I still like Steve Dillon's art, the writing definitely seems glib and ~edgy~ in a strained way that doesn't repay rereading.

so the main way they're trying to keep true to the comic is computer-colouring everything in '90s Vertigo shades of baby-shit brown and green

I.e. the most consistently-lamentable quality of '90s Vertigo.

on the plus side, a copy of preacher #1 sold on ebay for $250 over the weekend so ahma try to sell my whole collection asap

Would that I had not sold my collection years ago. One man's trash...

$150 bid for the collection (1 to 50 plus all the one shots and saint of killer mini in VF+/NM and the last two TPB), 4 days to go

nice. I sold all the one-shots & spinoffs years ago, gotta get my run of TPBs up

I got 340 bucks for the full series btw, think i undersold but happy to have the room on my shelf.

That seems like a good price. are old floppies like old vinyls now?

Wow. I'm not sure what I have in the way of the spin offs but certainly have the original 60 odd issues. Not entirely sure where they are but...

Walking Dead number one is selling for thousands; there's a sudden surge on preacher insofar as if it becomes popular it's a CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE
seems silly but happy to have it happen. Now what do I do with the other 5000 odd floppies? Do people want full runs of Howard the Duck anymore?

I got 340 bucks for the full series btw, think i undersold but happy to have the room on my shelf.

Got the 9 volumes out the door for $130, very happy about that

Also stuck up Troubled Souls and For A Few Troubles More by Ennis & McCrea, which are at $50 and $45 respectively with 5 days to go