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A fun new addiction
Apr. 19th, 2003 12:33 amYesterday I made a trip to Forbidden Planet down in the city centre to pick up the two Ultimate Spiderman volumes I'm missing. On a whim, figured I might as well try something I hadn't read, so I picked up the first trade paperback in a series called Preacher.
There are nine books in the Preacher series. Today I went back to the store and charged numbers 2 through 9 on my credit card, then came home and spent seven straight hours reading them. Then about fifteen minutes crying. I can't believe I haven't read this series before (but then I'm pretty new to comics - (doyle glares at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
connorbeast for starting her down this treacherous path) and I only picked up volume one at all because I knew it had a vampire main character. I should put this behind a tag...
So the main character is a preacher called Jesse who gets possessed by this demonic/angelic entity called Genesis and decides to take on God. Weirdly, this isn't all that important to the story except that it gives Jesse the power to make anyone do anything he wants. There's a bunch of brilliantly written stuff with the bloodline of Christ and an ancient organisation called The Grail, but the focus of the story is on Jesse himself and his relationships with his girlfriend, Tulip, and his best friend, Cassidy. Cassidy is charming and loveable and an utter bastard. And also a vampire.
( in which I spoil the ending )
Thoughts on Magic Bullet to follow when my brain is up to speed again... (but needless to say: Wescon is canon. My god, it's so canon. Connor's in loooove...)
There are nine books in the Preacher series. Today I went back to the store and charged numbers 2 through 9 on my credit card, then came home and spent seven straight hours reading them. Then about fifteen minutes crying. I can't believe I haven't read this series before (but then I'm pretty new to comics - (doyle glares at
connorbeast for starting her down this treacherous path) and I only picked up volume one at all because I knew it had a vampire main character. I should put this behind a tag...So the main character is a preacher called Jesse who gets possessed by this demonic/angelic entity called Genesis and decides to take on God. Weirdly, this isn't all that important to the story except that it gives Jesse the power to make anyone do anything he wants. There's a bunch of brilliantly written stuff with the bloodline of Christ and an ancient organisation called The Grail, but the focus of the story is on Jesse himself and his relationships with his girlfriend, Tulip, and his best friend, Cassidy. Cassidy is charming and loveable and an utter bastard. And also a vampire.
( in which I spoil the ending )
Thoughts on Magic Bullet to follow when my brain is up to speed again... (but needless to say: Wescon is canon. My god, it's so canon. Connor's in loooove...)
