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by **AaronW** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:19 am

Yep. Ennis wrote it like a kid who just learned to cuss and figured if he put a lot of fucks and a lot of offensive goofy perverted crap in there it would be "cutting edge mature" material. No it was just shit. Couple decent ideas here and there but overall it sucked.

Mediocre art too.

by **xaraan** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:21 am

I can't judge the whole series, but I tried to get into it and couldn't myself.

by **Amoebas** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:45 am

I liked it alot and my wife (who's only read two series in her life) loved it.

Yea - it was a permission to curse fest but overall it was a lot of fun. Anytime you put God, vampires, arse-faces, Jesus's great (x500) grandson and true love in a room together- you know it'll be a blast.

However, I feel this was the last (the Pro excluded) good thing Ennis did. Ever since then he's been nothing but a shock-writer. How extreme can he go! It gets boring and immature after a short while.

by **eltopo** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:48 am

this thread is wrong

by **eyp** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:51 am

I disagree as well

by **GHERU** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:01 am

when I was in 2nd grade my teacher told me that opinions could never be wrong
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this thread proves that she lied to me

by **DMM** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:01 am

I've only read the first volume, but I just ordered the second, and I plan on reading the whole series--I heard it's awesome, and the first volume was decent.

by **AaronW** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:03 am

Amoebas wrote: Ever since then he's been nothing but a shock-writer. How extreme can he go! It gets boring and immature after a short while.

That's how I felt about Preacher. Shock for shock value. Like the one panel where the perverted rich guy who throws the party and he rides his bike around naked and parks it by sticking the front tire between the butlers ass cheeks. Wow that deep writing! Shock for shocks sake nothing more. Alan Moore probably wrote similar stuff when he was 8.

The worst part was the letters pages though.

by **C Matty** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:03 am

I agree whole heartedly. Preacher did NOTHING for me. I struggled to read half of the series.

by **C Matty** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:04 am

DMM wrote:I've only read the first volume, but I just ordered the second, and I plan on reading the whole series--I heard it's awesome, and the first volume was decent.

I thought the first volume was decent as well. After that it went downhill for me. It had some real potential, but for me, it just fell flat.

by **b.lumpkin** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:05 am

The Squid wrote:Yep. Ennis wrote it like a kid who just learned to cuss and figured if he put a lot of fucks and a lot of offensive goofy perverted crap in there it would be "cutting edge mature" material. No it was just shit. Couple decent ideas here and there but overall it sucked.

Mediocre art too.

despite what it says in your sig, the above post is 100% bullshit