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Anyone else a fan of Preacher?

I'm currently re-reading the series after buying the whole thing in TPB form, its one of the first ever comics I ever read, and I think its really a great run.

Its the first time I have read some of the backtories, like Ancient History, Blood and Whiskey and Story of You Know Who, and One Man's War which really adds some depth to the characters and the history of the tale.

this is one of the only "biggies" that i haven't read - not that i haven't wanted to.

i seem to remember there were a lot of fan's in the hall of fame thread, and i have the whole collection on my amazon wish list...

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It was a very interesting read. My buddy at work pushed it on me and I ready it. At first though, I have to be honest, I was kinda like "ehhhh wtf" becuase I'm Catholic! But I ended up liking it lol.

It's pretty interesting because of it's length, they cover quite a bit and back stories. And me personally, I like to know why the characters are the way they are, and not just through ambiguous means. They go into detail about each main character. I was very surprised many times - which is good!

I recommended it to people, even one who is into horror films big time and they didn't like it lol.

If it doesn't offend you, I recommend it! The only thing I wish could be different is if they hinted to what happened next at the end. Arrrrg!

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Funnily enough, I'm in the exact same boat! While I'm not a fundamentalist or anything, I am fairly religious and Catholic, so when I initially started reading it and seeing things like God abandoning heaven, and basically being the 'bad guy' I was a bit thrown off. I soon accepted that its just a comic book though, and an interesting look at religion and religious themes from a VERY different perspective I really enjoyed it. Obviously I don't agree with it, but I don't agree that Superman exists either, in the end its just a piece of fiction.

As you said, the characters have a great backstory, in particular Cassidy I think, and they are really fleshed out. Even a bizarre character like Arseface has a really great story behind him.

I liked Preacher, it was a fun over-the-top read (much like Ennis's The Boys).

Plus, the God themes, always up my alley.

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yah cassidy was interesting, and had a unique outlook. arseface was comedyyyyyyyyyy!!!

"ouuu eeyyoobbddyyyy"

too bad his manager was a scum bag. but what did the saint of killers end up doing?? i mean, he is thee man! what's next?

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He killed God.

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Great great book.
Interestingly enough, this was supposed to be turned into an HBO series, with each episode being one of the individual comics. I thought that would have been great.
Unfortunately, the kibosh was put on that this morning
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I really hope they don't go the movie route with it. Think Watchmen has too much to be put in one movie? Try cramming Preacher into 2 hours.

I didn't particularly like Preacher, but the director who was developing it for HBO is an unadulterated disaster: I have no idea why HBO's execs would have approved his pitch after seeing any of his films; the adaptation would have been a mess. So this is good news for Preacher fans.

I'm curious about Preacher and I would have been curious to see what such an HBO series would have been like.

On the other hand, this cancellation is probably for the best. Everything Mark Steven Johnson touches turns to shit and I have little doubt he would have done the property justice.

Hopefully, the series will get its due someday soon.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

While I know the director seems to have a bad track record, I think Garth Ennis himself was writing some episodes and helping out, so it might have been ok.

Either way, shame it was pulled unless we can get another, better prospect sometime. I really doubt it would work as a film, unless they filmed a trilogy or something, and even then... its a stretch. theres just so much story to Preacher, I can't see them squeezing 66 Issues into film/s.

I think they did plan on making a Preacher movie, but it was only the first 7 issues or so, and apparantly the religious themes were cut down significantly.


Either way, we always have the comic though, which is still fantastic.

For that little monkey cap he wears alone, Mark Johnson should be relegated to directing community theater. In his community only. As long as he doesn't live near me.



Obviously, Preacher would be much easier to adapt to another medium than Watchmen, but I still don't understand the obsession to translate evrything into something else. Why do we want a Preacher movie or TV show? Are the comics so terrible that we can't just enjoy them without making them into something else? The novelty of such a thing wore off for me a long time ago, I guess. Like, in 1986.

Preacher would be fun as a miniseries. I'd watch it. It's popcorn material.

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That i know, but what happened next? He's on the throne, all is his. There's nothing he can't do. What does he do?

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Guy Pearce(Memento) for Jesse Custer anyone :

I have a hard time seeing someone like Guy Pearce being interested in Preacher. As far as I know, Pearce had his fill of Hollywood after The Time Machine and Count of Monte Cristo; in any case since then he's exclusively done more interesting stuff. (The Road seems like the most Hollywood-friendly fare in his recent work.) Preacher may be astonishing for its violence and its cheerfully shallow theological provocations, but it's not exactly alternative fare. He'd certainly class up the joint, but I doubt he'd be lured past the front door.

Of course, I've been wrong before....

Rule more fairly, I assume.

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I often think that myself actually, I guess its just that I'm always happy to see more of something I like, so since I loved Preacher, and theres no new comic of it coming out anytime soon/ever, I wouldn't mind seeing it on the big screen. Also it's nice when it reaches a larger audience since so many people will watch TV/Movies than pick up a comic.

maybe its a case of fans loving something so much they would love to see it come to life via tv/films etc.

I hope so! But with his power i'd hope he brings his woman and the baby back.

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