Yeah, I thought this was pretty blatant knobspawn, myself. The ur-source for all this material is, of course, none other than Harlan Ellison's dead-on 'Man Of Steel, Woman Of Tissue Paper', featuring the memorable phrase "simultaneously blow her head off, while gutting her like a haddock. Those of you who can't guess what this is describing should probably go back to reading 2000AD. This essay was also the originator of much of Brodie's talk about Wonder Woman's uterus in Mallrats. But the difference is that I enjoyed Mallrats for all of its infantility, whereas this leaves me lukewarm.
Preacher by turns enchanted and enraged me. Ennis is very good with dialogue and pretty handy with characterization. And, once he'd proven his ability to be "bad" he let up a bit and got on with some pretty interesting storytelling. But at the end the whole thing kind of failed to be a story about a man who wants to take God to task for the inherent shittiness of the universe and turned into a kind of warped 'The Road To...' movie with Heaven and Texas as interchangeable destinations and lots of rubber violence. Oh well.
DC/Vertigo recently reprinted Ennis' 'Goddess' series from early in the '90's and I made the mistake of laying down hard cash without flipping through it first. It's kind of proto-Preacher without any of the saving graces.
Bit of a shame, really. |
