{"id":168,"date":"2005-12-24T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=168"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:31:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:31:39","slug":"preacher-gone-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/168","title":{"rendered":"Preacher: Gone to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preacher<\/a> Vol 1 Gone to Texas<\/em> (1996) Garth Ennis<\/p>\n

\"Gone<\/a>First, a disclaimer. I’m squeamish. In fact, I will walk out of the room during particularly violent scenes in movies, and haven’t watched a horror movie since I was in high school. (Why? Because graphic violence gives me really<\/em> unpleasant dreams.) Thing is, it all depends upon how the violence is presented as to whether it bothers me or not. Although I had to turn away a couple times, I didn’t really have a lot of problems with Snatch<\/em>. Sin City<\/em> bothered me quite a bit. For the end of The Last Samurai<\/em> and Braveheart<\/em> I just got up and left the room. Fight Club<\/em> bothered me in places, but I still liked it. So it’s hard to tell what is going to bother me, and what isn’t.<\/p>\n

I’d picked up and put down Preacher<\/em> multiple times. The story as described sounded fascinating, and right up my alley, but I just wasn’t sure. So I finally just got the first volume and decided to see how I felt about it.<\/p>\n

What I decided is that the story was interesting, but overall I didn’t care for it. It was a little too graphic, and in many places squicked me out. Which is too bad because I really liked the story: a preacher goes in search of God, who has abandoned the world. That is just right up there in story lines that I am really going to like. Unfortunately, the art was just too gruesome for me to enjoy the story.<\/p>\n

And I have one really big nit to pick. Two characters are sitting in a car (in the front seats) and the bad guy drives a large knife into the hand of the second character, nailing the hand to the dashboard. The problem here is that in several of the pictures, it looks like the bad guy drove the knife across<\/em> the bones. I’m sorry, but there is not enough space in a car for someone to gain enough momentum to drive a knife through the bones of the hand and then<\/em> several inches into the dash.<\/p>\n

No way. It’d be hard enough to drive a big knife that far into the dashboard anyway, but doing it after having to go through the metacarpals. No way. <\/p>\n

The story completely lost me there. Completely and totally lost me. <\/p>\n

That was bad. Although I have to say that I did have several interesting discussions about the difficulty of driving a knife through someone’s hand, and then the difficulty of gaining sufficient momentum to drive a large knife into the dashboard of a car. (As I said, only certain things bother me. That wasn’t one of them.)<\/p>\n

So, it was an interesting story, but unless Michael picks them up, I probably won’t be finishing the rest of the story. Unless someone tells me that the rest of the books in the series are different.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preacher Vol 1 Gone to Texas (1996) Garth Ennis First, a disclaimer. I’m squeamish. In fact, I will walk out of the room during particularly violent scenes in movies, and haven’t watched a horror movie since I was in high school. (Why? Because graphic violence gives me really unpleasant dreams.) Thing is, it all depends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-paper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1891,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1891","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":0},"title":"Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love","author":"Michelle","date":"August 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Fables: Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love (2010) Chris Roberson, Shawn McManus Well. That was disappointing. Anyone who has read Fables knows that Cinderella has been acting as spy and assassin for Fabletown for years. Not that anyone in Fabletown aside from the sheriffs know this fact, but that's good, because\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fantasy"","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/fabletown_with_love.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24085,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24085","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":1},"title":"Cry Wolf, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"November 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Cry Wolf, Audiobook (2009) Patricia Briggs narrated by Holter Graham (Alpha & Omega #1) Sarai had often thumped him soundly on the head for looking at other women, though she\u2019d known he\u2019d never stray. Now that she was gone, he seldom even looked. Flirting didn\u2019t make him feel disloyal to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cry Wolf","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cry-Wolf-e1511046205243.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":39,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/39","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":2},"title":"People of the Lie","author":"Michelle","date":"October 11, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"People of the Lie (1983) M. Scott Peck I'm taking Legal\/Ethical Issues in Public Health, and this is one of the books my professor has brought up several times, so I thought I'd read it. Parts of the book I like, other parts I was less sure about, and sometimes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Paper"","block_context":{"text":"Paper","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/paper"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6305,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6305","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":3},"title":"Cry Wolf","author":"Michelle","date":"December 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Cry Wolf (2008) Patricia Briggs One of the things I particularly like about this book (and spin-off series) is that we get to spend time with both Bran and Asil. Bran didn\u2019t reply, just spun himself slowly, around and around on the little stool in the corner of the room.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cry-Wolf.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11665,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11665","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":4},"title":"The Cocoa Conspiracy","author":"Michelle","date":"February 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Cocoa Conspiracy (2014) Andrea Penrose Set in England and Vienna in 1814. Lady Adrianna stopped at her husband's favorite bookseller on the way home from the market, only to get into a scuffle with a strange man over a book on chocolate. Sandro, Lord Saybrook, is asked by his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "British"","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Cocoa-Conspiracy.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":621,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/621","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":5},"title":"Hellboy Vol 1: Seed of Destruction","author":"Michelle","date":"July 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Hellboy Vol 1: Seed of Destruction (1994) Mike Mignola and John Byrne After starting my comic reading life with Sandman, it's been hit and miss for me since then. I love Ex Machina and Fables. But didn't care for Preacher or Lucifer or Constantine. Michael reads and likes almost anything\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Hellboy-Seed-Destruction.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}