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Preacher, Volume 9: Alamo
by Garth Ennis
This is an abbreviated review since the new Goodreads app apparently lost the lengthy one I wrote earlier this week :-/
We finally get an end to the story started back in Vol. 2 and we get some amazing full page artwork for each of our main characters. We see Arseface get some closure on his story arc (strange as it may have gotten in the past few volumes). We get several epic showdowns—Jesse vs Cassidy; Jesse vs God; Jesse vs Herr Starr; the Saint of Killers vs anyone and everyone—and all of them are well-written and drawn. Hoover grows a spine, we find out what's wrong with Cass's eyse, we revisit Salvation TX (love the way the panels parallel the previous issue), we see Fiore & DeBlanc again, we even found out what happened to Dee's eye (something I had questioned when we were in New Orleans, but I forgot I had questioned it)!
The ending wraps up a little quickly and I would have loved to experience more of the world Ennis & Dillon created after the climax, but the denouement is short and a little sloppy. Besides a few pretty ugly cliches in the prologue, the ending of this series was pretty perfect. I feel let down that there were so many wasted pages in volumes 3-8 when there could have been at least a few single issues following these characters after the story ended. But I guess Ennis & Dillon told the story/stories they wanted to tell and leave the rest of the characters' lives to our imagination.
My ratings for the nine volumes average out to a 3.78 star rating which is pretty accurate for how I feel about the series. Definitely worth reading, but a little frustrating in the middle.
We finally get an end to the story started back in Vol. 2 and we get some amazing full page artwork for each of our main characters. We see Arseface get some closure on his story arc (strange as it may have gotten in the past few volumes). We get several epic showdowns—Jesse vs Cassidy; Jesse vs God; Jesse vs Herr Starr; the Saint of Killers vs anyone and everyone—and all of them are well-written and drawn. Hoover grows a spine, we find out what's wrong with Cass's eyse, we revisit Salvation TX (love the way the panels parallel the previous issue), we see Fiore & DeBlanc again, we even found out what happened to Dee's eye (something I had questioned when we were in New Orleans, but I forgot I had questioned it)!
The ending wraps up a little quickly and I would have loved to experience more of the world Ennis & Dillon created after the climax, but the denouement is short and a little sloppy. Besides a few pretty ugly cliches in the prologue, the ending of this series was pretty perfect. I feel let down that there were so many wasted pages in volumes 3-8 when there could have been at least a few single issues following these characters after the story ended. But I guess Ennis & Dillon told the story/stories they wanted to tell and leave the rest of the characters' lives to our imagination.
My ratings for the nine volumes average out to a 3.78 star rating which is pretty accurate for how I feel about the series. Definitely worth reading, but a little frustrating in the middle.