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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Events Apropos of St. Patrick's Day

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM

Since today is a day to celebrate all things Irish, I'd like to request that you read Preacher, which features the single best bastard of an Irish vampire in all of comic bookdom. It's still one of the best comics series ever written.

But, hands down, my favorite Irishman (and I think Kelly's, too) has to be this guy:

Drink your Guinness and take a cab tonight.

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God, Preacher is so awful. Most of it seriously reads like it was written by a third grader.

"And then the other guy shoots his weiner off!! Tee hee hee!!"

Posted by Ben on March 17, 2009 at 5:23 PM

if that's shane mcgowan, paul bobby, he was born in kent, england. i still like his music, though, especially 'fairytale in new york' with the late, great kirsty mccoll.

Posted by scary tyler moore on March 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM

does it have to be Guinness?

because you know what I'm gonna say..........

Posted by red red wwwwwwwwwwine on March 17, 2009 at 7:37 PM

Ah, Preacher. I can't think of a better series (even with the slow parts in books 7-8). My God.

Posted by gayballs on March 17, 2009 at 7:56 PM

What do you get with a room full of Irishmen?

Posted by yeah, you know on March 17, 2009 at 8:37 PM

ya gotta wonder...

If Erica C. Barnett cannot afford to buy a bottle of $9 wine...how can she possibly afford a cab fare home?

Or did her deferred sentence also include a "do not drink" clause?

Posted by Erica we are still waiting for a public disclosure on March 17, 2009 at 9:59 PM

You can't read through Preacher more than a couple times without realizing how amazingly fucked-up it is. I'm not talking about the anal obsession, the increasingly ridiculous physical deterioration of Starr, or Retard Jesus; I'm talking about gender roles. The central conflict between Jesse and Cassidy--the central conflict in the book that you, Paul Constant, are recommending--is the idea that Cassidy is insufficiently masculine. I could go on and on, but I'll just link.

Posted by Fisti on March 17, 2009 at 10:21 PM

If you can't think of a better series, you should read Y:The Last Man, or Sandman, or DMZ, or the half-dozen other superior Vertigo titles....and that's coming from someone with the entire run of Preacher sitting all of 5 feet away. Preacher isn't bad (theodicy in a comic book?), but it's not amazing, either.

Posted by supergp on March 18, 2009 at 2:20 AM

Fisti, that's a great link, and I also think Garth Ennis is responding to this type of criticism with his series The Boys -- though the central characters are just as Macho Sue as the "superhero-villains" they despise and want to destroy.

Posted by Chris Estey on March 18, 2009 at 7:38 AM

I had a dream once that I made out with Shane McGowan. Icky teeth and all.

Posted by mv on March 19, 2009 at 8:59 AM

Preacher is excellent. It has a Bill Hicks storyline! And Tulip is one of the biggest badasses there is.

Posted by marsgirl on March 19, 2009 at 9:55 AM