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Preacher Deluxe
Preacher, Book 4
This title collects the story of Jesse Custer's ultimate battle with the Saint of Killers and the forces of Starr — and the catastrophic outcome — originally presented in PREACHER #34-40. Also included: the PREACHER SPECIAL: ONE MAN'S WAR, PREACHER SPECIAL: THE STORY OF YOU-KNOW-WHO and PREACHER SPECIAL: THE GOOD OLD BOYS, starring Starr, Arseface, and Jody and T.C., the evil bastards of Angelville who haunted the Preacher's childhood.
363 pages, Hardcover
First published June 14, 2011
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About the author
Garth Ennis
2,624 books3,170 followersEnnis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
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April 28, 2019
HUGE, HUGE, HUGE things happen in this one!
I know this is an old comic, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone. All I'll say is that I almost feel bad for Cassidy. It's like he wants to be worthy of Jessie's friendship, but he's so weak, and shit just keeps happening that opens the door to that weakness.
Still! Jesus, man! What the hell?!
I really enjoyed Herr Starr's backstory. That was maybe my favorite of all the non-Jessie stories. I hate to say it, but most of the other extra/flashback stuff just makes me feel sort of antsy and I want them to be over with already. I know they serve a purpose, but...I just want to find out what Jessie and Tulip are doing.
And speaking of...
You finally find out what happened to Arseface in this one. Plus, a story about Jody and whatshisname (<--the dude that fucks all the animals?) that's sort of told like a spoof of an 80's action/crime movie. Both of those were fine, but I just...eh.
Overall, this was a fantastic addition to the Preacher books.
Read 'em!
I know this is an old comic, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone. All I'll say is that I almost feel bad for Cassidy. It's like he wants to be worthy of Jessie's friendship, but he's so weak, and shit just keeps happening that opens the door to that weakness.
Still! Jesus, man! What the hell?!
I really enjoyed Herr Starr's backstory. That was maybe my favorite of all the non-Jessie stories. I hate to say it, but most of the other extra/flashback stuff just makes me feel sort of antsy and I want them to be over with already. I know they serve a purpose, but...I just want to find out what Jessie and Tulip are doing.
And speaking of...
You finally find out what happened to Arseface in this one. Plus, a story about Jody and whatshisname (<--the dude that fucks all the animals?) that's sort of told like a spoof of an 80's action/crime movie. Both of those were fine, but I just...eh.
Overall, this was a fantastic addition to the Preacher books.
Read 'em!
September 2, 2016
In this most excellent volume of Preacher, we get the orgin stories of both Herr Starr and Arseface. (And Arseface's history is NOT the same as it is on the TV show.) We also get a bit of history about The Grail. Lastly, there are some crazy-ass cannibal rednecks. What's not to love?
September 14, 2016
5 stars
This continues to be one of the top series I've read.
Three things I learned in this book:
This continues to be one of the top series I've read.
Three things I learned in this book:
January 4, 2023
3.75 stars. I remember back when I read Welcome back Frank from Ennis and had some thoughts about his views on things. This volume brought back those thoughts….. hmm. Anyhoo, back to the story. Book starts starts off with the one shot, One Man’s War. This gives us the backstory on Herr Star and how he got recruited by the Grail. Man, while it was a pretty good story, there were some F’d up things that went down in there. Then we move back to the main story. Things get wild. Herr Star has been given power over a U.S. military regiment which he plans to use to fight the Saint of Killers. What a crazy battle that was and of course doesn’t do anything to the Saint. In comes the nuke. Yes, the nuke. In the mad dash to escape, something happens to the dynamic that is Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy. I feel kinda bad for Tulip and Cassidy is on some foul shit and I ain’t feeling him anymore. The book closes out with 2 more on shots. The first is the backstory on Arseface telling how his life was before he shot himself. That story was depressing as hell. Then the other was a tale with Jody and T.C., the two crazies Jesse was raised with. Seems like this really didn’t add anything to the overall story but more just to show some cringy macho man shit and some over the top violence.
April 30, 2017
Jesse, Tulip and Cass take a little bit of a back seat in this edition. More insanity ensues in Volume 4 with the great Herr Starr getting his back story, the origin of Arseface and an up close and personal look of the Saint of All Killers. It's pretty safe to say, that Godzilla, King Kong and anyone else you want to throw up against him are going to come up well short. The dark humor in this series is great. I highly enjoy it.
June 9, 2015
This volume opens with the One Man's War special which gives us some much needed background on Herr Starr, and whilst it doesn't make him more sympathetic, it does show why he is the way he is, and the beginnings of his coup of the Grail, too.
The main meat of the volume brings everyone into conflict once again as Jesse, Cass, and Tulip get stuck in the middle of a battle between the Grail and the Saint of Killers, and the aftermath of that storyline is included too. It's clear now that the search for God is definitely a secondary plotline, with all the other insanity constantly taking precedent, but considering how engrossing everyone is, it's not a problem at all. It'll almost be a shame when they find God, because that'll mean the story's over. I'm not sure I like where Tulip and Cass's story is going, but then again, I expect I'm not supposed to.
The back end of the book has the Story of You-Know-Who special, which is the backstory for Arseface. We got the cliffs notes version in the main series but this fleshes it out a lot more, which makes for good, if sometimes difficult reading. Then there's the Good Ol' Boys special which focuses on TC and Jody back before the events of Preacher, and this is the first special I'm not sure about - it doesn't add anything to the main narrative as far as I can tell so far, it just goes on to prove how horrible this pair are, as if we didn't know already.
The main meat of the volume brings everyone into conflict once again as Jesse, Cass, and Tulip get stuck in the middle of a battle between the Grail and the Saint of Killers, and the aftermath of that storyline is included too. It's clear now that the search for God is definitely a secondary plotline, with all the other insanity constantly taking precedent, but considering how engrossing everyone is, it's not a problem at all. It'll almost be a shame when they find God, because that'll mean the story's over. I'm not sure I like where Tulip and Cass's story is going, but then again, I expect I'm not supposed to.
The back end of the book has the Story of You-Know-Who special, which is the backstory for Arseface. We got the cliffs notes version in the main series but this fleshes it out a lot more, which makes for good, if sometimes difficult reading. Then there's the Good Ol' Boys special which focuses on TC and Jody back before the events of Preacher, and this is the first special I'm not sure about - it doesn't add anything to the main narrative as far as I can tell so far, it just goes on to prove how horrible this pair are, as if we didn't know already.
July 21, 2016
Fucked up shit in this volume/book.
So it all comes to a big war. You think shit couldn't turn south anymore than what happened in the last few volumes? You're so fucking wrong. When shit goes even crazier, and a big war happens in the desert, tons of bodies left in the aftermath. Some of our heroes are in danger. The end result leaves us with a lot of "What now!?" and we get a backstory of arseface, which is stupid, but fun.
Overall great volume, enjoyable throughout, and a nice update to the overall art. Worthy of being in the collection of insane as fuck comic series known as Preacher.
So it all comes to a big war. You think shit couldn't turn south anymore than what happened in the last few volumes? You're so fucking wrong. When shit goes even crazier, and a big war happens in the desert, tons of bodies left in the aftermath. Some of our heroes are in danger. The end result leaves us with a lot of "What now!?" and we get a backstory of arseface, which is stupid, but fun.
Overall great volume, enjoyable throughout, and a nice update to the overall art. Worthy of being in the collection of insane as fuck comic series known as Preacher.
January 19, 2025
Preacher continues to be awesome!
Big events in the main story but a fair amount of page time was devoted to back stories for Herr Starr and Arseface which I enjoyed much more than I was expecting to, usually I find the flashbacks frustrating and just want to see what Jesse, Cass and Tulip are up to but everything else was well written and entertaining.
Taking my time with these collections, only a couple more left to read and don't want it to end.
Big events in the main story but a fair amount of page time was devoted to back stories for Herr Starr and Arseface which I enjoyed much more than I was expecting to, usually I find the flashbacks frustrating and just want to see what Jesse, Cass and Tulip are up to but everything else was well written and entertaining.
Taking my time with these collections, only a couple more left to read and don't want it to end.
January 18, 2018
Great volume once again. Some important stuff happens here, including backstory to Herr Starr and Arseface (man, that was an emotional one! Fuck it! Just fuck it!), the introduction of Jessie's iconic eyepatch, the continuing relationship troubles between Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy, some scary shit I won't talk about because spoilers, and the biggest written FUCK YOU in the world, literally. Preacher quickly became one of my favourite series, and, much like with Transmet, I am really glad I gave it a shot, even though I was pretty scared of reading it at first. Turns out, I shouldn't have been. It is awesome.
July 12, 2020
A mixed meddley of stories, it's okay but not too interesting. In the end it got really annoying that Jesse was forgotten completely and we got a huge dump of different characters' stories and backstories and and and. I've found I don't care much for other characters than Jesse. Cass was okay in the beginning but now that I've gotten this far with these he really seems like a side character and an asshole.
August 19, 2021
Estuvo muy bueno este volumen.
Después de que Jessie y sus amigos lograran escapar de la organización de El Grial y regresaran a Texas ahora se encuentran con que Herr Starr se ha convertido en el nuevo lider de la organización y que sigue de cerca sus pasos una vez que ascendió para convetirse en el hombre más poderoso del mundo. Por otro lado este cómic no solo se centra en el conflicto principal pues al igual que el volumen anterior donde se nos contaron los origenes de Cassidy y del Santo de los asesinos, aca de nueva cuenta el libro incluye las miniseries donde se nos explican los origenes de Herr Starr y Cara de Culo y una aventura en solitario de los villanos del primer tomo.
Como siempre, la prosa de Garth Ennis esta cargada de humor negro, irónia y se encarga de ser trangresora en todo sentido y sin duda entretiene bastante por lo mismo, además el dibujo sigue siendo excelente como siempre.
A solo 2 volumenes y con ese cliff hanger que quedó en la historia principal ya quiero ver que pasa con el final de la serie...
Después de que Jessie y sus amigos lograran escapar de la organización de El Grial y regresaran a Texas ahora se encuentran con que Herr Starr se ha convertido en el nuevo lider de la organización y que sigue de cerca sus pasos una vez que ascendió para convetirse en el hombre más poderoso del mundo. Por otro lado este cómic no solo se centra en el conflicto principal pues al igual que el volumen anterior donde se nos contaron los origenes de Cassidy y del Santo de los asesinos, aca de nueva cuenta el libro incluye las miniseries donde se nos explican los origenes de Herr Starr y Cara de Culo y una aventura en solitario de los villanos del primer tomo.
Como siempre, la prosa de Garth Ennis esta cargada de humor negro, irónia y se encarga de ser trangresora en todo sentido y sin duda entretiene bastante por lo mismo, además el dibujo sigue siendo excelente como siempre.
A solo 2 volumenes y con ese cliff hanger que quedó en la historia principal ya quiero ver que pasa con el final de la serie...
September 29, 2016
Though I mostly haven't been enjoying the background stories, I liked delving into Herr Starr's (although "liked" seems like the wrong word). I'm still not sure I can tell where this is going, but the end definitely feels in sight.
January 2, 2021
Well, now things have really gone off the rails.
Jesse Custer has decided that he needs to talk to Genesis to hunt down the exact whereabouts of God, and to do it he's going to go to the Navajo Reservation by Monument Valley. Herr Starr isn't so keen on Jesse getting in touch with Genesis, that could mess up his plans, after all. The Saint of Killers? Well, he's hunting down the both of them - only this time Herr Starr is prepared. Or thinks he's prepared. What I mean to say is, there is a nuclear bomb in the mix now over Monument Valley and everything is going to hell in a handbasket in the way only Garth Ennis can make it happen.
So.
This volume is absolutely bonkers. Collected in the Deluxe Edition are also "The Story of You-Know-Who" which is, as expected, Arseface's history. There is also a short, and side-splitting, story about ole Jody and T.C. Those stories are a nice little capstone to the insane romp that this volume of Preacher is, and adds a bit more context to dear ole Arseface... and adds to Jody's legend. Jody fights a gorilla. Literally.
Preacher just continues to be Preacher overall. We see more of Cassidy doing what he does and things are going downhill fast. Things are just gonna explode, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Herr Starr has come into his own. Jesse has an additional resolve. Cassidy is cracking, just cracking under the pressure and you just know things can't last the way they are between him and Tulip forever. Sooner or later Jesse will learn, and when he learns? Oh, you better not be in the line of this good ole boy's fire.
Jesse Custer has decided that he needs to talk to Genesis to hunt down the exact whereabouts of God, and to do it he's going to go to the Navajo Reservation by Monument Valley. Herr Starr isn't so keen on Jesse getting in touch with Genesis, that could mess up his plans, after all. The Saint of Killers? Well, he's hunting down the both of them - only this time Herr Starr is prepared. Or thinks he's prepared. What I mean to say is, there is a nuclear bomb in the mix now over Monument Valley and everything is going to hell in a handbasket in the way only Garth Ennis can make it happen.
So.
This volume is absolutely bonkers. Collected in the Deluxe Edition are also "The Story of You-Know-Who" which is, as expected, Arseface's history. There is also a short, and side-splitting, story about ole Jody and T.C. Those stories are a nice little capstone to the insane romp that this volume of Preacher is, and adds a bit more context to dear ole Arseface... and adds to Jody's legend. Jody fights a gorilla. Literally.
Preacher just continues to be Preacher overall. We see more of Cassidy doing what he does and things are going downhill fast. Things are just gonna explode, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Herr Starr has come into his own. Jesse has an additional resolve. Cassidy is cracking, just cracking under the pressure and you just know things can't last the way they are between him and Tulip forever. Sooner or later Jesse will learn, and when he learns? Oh, you better not be in the line of this good ole boy's fire.
May 17, 2022
3.5 stars
I said I was sick of the back stories and this deluxe edition brought us THREE new ones…. Of course only one of the three had any semblance of necessity to the progression of the story (Herr Starr’s backstory). The one about Arseface was okay but tell me WHY we felt the need to bring Jody and T.C. back?! I literally do not care about some idiotic unrelated backstory about them. I want to know what is going to happen with Jesse and Genesis and Tulip and Cass and Herr Starr and The Saint of Killers.
This deluxe edition was issues 34-40, so 7 issues and only, like, 3 of them were actually current storyline. Those handful of issues were amazing. They made up for the rest. I am so beyond eager to find out what happens next. The tension that Ennis was able to create was amazing and, hey, maybe I’ll feel differently about all the breaks on the actual plot for all these backstories once it’s all said and done (I’m trying to be optimistic here) but from now on I just want to get back to the matter at hand.
I still plan to finish the story and will get back to it next month for the last few volumes.
I said I was sick of the back stories and this deluxe edition brought us THREE new ones…. Of course only one of the three had any semblance of necessity to the progression of the story (Herr Starr’s backstory). The one about Arseface was okay but tell me WHY we felt the need to bring Jody and T.C. back?! I literally do not care about some idiotic unrelated backstory about them. I want to know what is going to happen with Jesse and Genesis and Tulip and Cass and Herr Starr and The Saint of Killers.
This deluxe edition was issues 34-40, so 7 issues and only, like, 3 of them were actually current storyline. Those handful of issues were amazing. They made up for the rest. I am so beyond eager to find out what happens next. The tension that Ennis was able to create was amazing and, hey, maybe I’ll feel differently about all the breaks on the actual plot for all these backstories once it’s all said and done (I’m trying to be optimistic here) but from now on I just want to get back to the matter at hand.
I still plan to finish the story and will get back to it next month for the last few volumes.
April 30, 2017
“I got a chance to do somethin’ good here. I can use this damn word I got to find the Lord God and make him do right by us all.”—Jesse Custer
The Preacher and Tulip are on their All American Road trip in the tradition of Kerouac and The Swamp Thing, though in Jesse’s version he aims to find the True Christ that Abandoned the World and Left it to Go to Hell. This leg is the Native American Spiritual one, (sort of), though mainly they are in the southwest for the peyote. Yeah, he’s that kinda ecumenical Preacher!
As his Irish vampire good buddy Cassidy says of him, in the waxing-philosophical-while-drinking section of this hyar Southern gothic volume: “I’ve never met a man like yeh, Jesse. You’re a terrible man for carryin’ the weight of the world on your shoulders.”
Yessir, he’s a good guy, is Custer. And we get to see he and Tulip, with their solid loving relationship, quite a bit in this volume, yay. But we have a foil to help us see Jesse’s goodness, Herr Starr, whose back-story we get to see at the beginning of the volume.
Starr is an angry guy, a “Christian” longing for order and world domination, unemotional. We see him getting involved in a highjacking in 1972, and in 1975, a plan for Armaggedon. Yep. A group of Christians is planning on destroying the planet in preparation for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. “Christ is with us. We have protected his lineage since the Crucifixion. We are the Grail that has preserved the sacred blood of Christ.” They can’t allow the bloodline to be compromised, so they have one remaining brother and sister who they are counting on to produce the New Christ. I know, but you don’t have to watch that happen, whew.
In 1982 Starr finally meets D’Aronique, the Allfather, this profoundly obese Pope-like guy whose son is now born to preserve the Pure Line of Jesus Christ. Starr (think Kenneth Starr, the guy who helped prosecute former President Clinton for the horrors of oral sex and you may get the political side our hero the Preacher is working on) works for D’Aronique for a time. Starr knows this whole scenario is nuts, and he plans to kill Allfather. In fact, Starr kills all sorts of people in his desire to get what he wants. Someone notes:
“So you have become a monster to save the world.”
“If that’s what it takes.” –Starr
Now where have we heard that kind of talk before? Kill the world in order to save it.
Starr also says, “Democracy is for the ancient Greeks.”
Anyway, I am way into this now, in spite of the sometime offensiveness, and sometimes because of it. There are lots of battles in this one involving Starr, Preacher, and the Saint of All Killers, who surprisingly makes peace with Our Preacher, but on the whole the action is pretty standard violent comics fare until Something Horrific has to happen, something comically over the top violent, though luckily it happens to Starr, who gets captured by a couple guys in the desert. X-rated for sex and violence. We have to go infantile in every book of this series, it is part of its DNA, like it or hate it.
I very much liked most of this book until a kind of standard ho hum “Good Old Southern Boys” story gets thrown in for kicks in the last issue of the volume, eh. And that issue and a couple of others were drawn by other artists, eh. Overall, 4.5, I’d say.
The Preacher and Tulip are on their All American Road trip in the tradition of Kerouac and The Swamp Thing, though in Jesse’s version he aims to find the True Christ that Abandoned the World and Left it to Go to Hell. This leg is the Native American Spiritual one, (sort of), though mainly they are in the southwest for the peyote. Yeah, he’s that kinda ecumenical Preacher!
As his Irish vampire good buddy Cassidy says of him, in the waxing-philosophical-while-drinking section of this hyar Southern gothic volume: “I’ve never met a man like yeh, Jesse. You’re a terrible man for carryin’ the weight of the world on your shoulders.”
Yessir, he’s a good guy, is Custer. And we get to see he and Tulip, with their solid loving relationship, quite a bit in this volume, yay. But we have a foil to help us see Jesse’s goodness, Herr Starr, whose back-story we get to see at the beginning of the volume.
Starr is an angry guy, a “Christian” longing for order and world domination, unemotional. We see him getting involved in a highjacking in 1972, and in 1975, a plan for Armaggedon. Yep. A group of Christians is planning on destroying the planet in preparation for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. “Christ is with us. We have protected his lineage since the Crucifixion. We are the Grail that has preserved the sacred blood of Christ.” They can’t allow the bloodline to be compromised, so they have one remaining brother and sister who they are counting on to produce the New Christ. I know, but you don’t have to watch that happen, whew.
In 1982 Starr finally meets D’Aronique, the Allfather, this profoundly obese Pope-like guy whose son is now born to preserve the Pure Line of Jesus Christ. Starr (think Kenneth Starr, the guy who helped prosecute former President Clinton for the horrors of oral sex and you may get the political side our hero the Preacher is working on) works for D’Aronique for a time. Starr knows this whole scenario is nuts, and he plans to kill Allfather. In fact, Starr kills all sorts of people in his desire to get what he wants. Someone notes:
“So you have become a monster to save the world.”
“If that’s what it takes.” –Starr
Now where have we heard that kind of talk before? Kill the world in order to save it.
Starr also says, “Democracy is for the ancient Greeks.”
Anyway, I am way into this now, in spite of the sometime offensiveness, and sometimes because of it. There are lots of battles in this one involving Starr, Preacher, and the Saint of All Killers, who surprisingly makes peace with Our Preacher, but on the whole the action is pretty standard violent comics fare until Something Horrific has to happen, something comically over the top violent, though luckily it happens to Starr, who gets captured by a couple guys in the desert. X-rated for sex and violence. We have to go infantile in every book of this series, it is part of its DNA, like it or hate it.
I very much liked most of this book until a kind of standard ho hum “Good Old Southern Boys” story gets thrown in for kicks in the last issue of the volume, eh. And that issue and a couple of others were drawn by other artists, eh. Overall, 4.5, I’d say.
November 30, 2018
3.5
I didn't enjoy this volume, but that doesn't mean there weren't moments that didn't change my opinion. The Preacher series has been on my to-read list for quite sometime and as I move into the later half of the arc, Ennis decides to leap back into the past, I'm not a giant fan of flashbacks in general. The series takes a few misguided steps in this volume and I found myself slowly pacing over the final 90 pages or so.
Ennis keeps the story moving and we learn some backstory and new story elements as we move towards the finale. Preacher is still one of the better long running comics, it showcases crazy subplots and characters, unlike anything I have read. The whole bloodline storyline is laughable and sets the scene for what is coming. Like I mentioned earlier was my annoyance with the flashbacks and past storylines. Some of the characters I couldn't care less about revisiting, they were part of the arc and that was about it.
Why the 3.5?
This didn't have the moments like the previous books. The arc hits a road block and can't move past it without telling backstories, massive amounts of exposition here. Ennis is clever, but even he avoid the corner and he backs himself into one here. Preacher is heading towards the finale arc and apart from a few misguided story beats, we are on the way. Cassidy is heading towards the outside of the three and you can see the writing on the wall now. There is a lot of story to be completed and the craziness is starting to come together. I'm eager to sink my teeth into the finale as book 5 has been completed and will be reviewed shortly, pun was very intended.
My next book is volume 6, volume 5 has already been completed.
I didn't enjoy this volume, but that doesn't mean there weren't moments that didn't change my opinion. The Preacher series has been on my to-read list for quite sometime and as I move into the later half of the arc, Ennis decides to leap back into the past, I'm not a giant fan of flashbacks in general. The series takes a few misguided steps in this volume and I found myself slowly pacing over the final 90 pages or so.
Ennis keeps the story moving and we learn some backstory and new story elements as we move towards the finale. Preacher is still one of the better long running comics, it showcases crazy subplots and characters, unlike anything I have read. The whole bloodline storyline is laughable and sets the scene for what is coming. Like I mentioned earlier was my annoyance with the flashbacks and past storylines. Some of the characters I couldn't care less about revisiting, they were part of the arc and that was about it.
Why the 3.5?
This didn't have the moments like the previous books. The arc hits a road block and can't move past it without telling backstories, massive amounts of exposition here. Ennis is clever, but even he avoid the corner and he backs himself into one here. Preacher is heading towards the finale arc and apart from a few misguided story beats, we are on the way. Cassidy is heading towards the outside of the three and you can see the writing on the wall now. There is a lot of story to be completed and the craziness is starting to come together. I'm eager to sink my teeth into the finale as book 5 has been completed and will be reviewed shortly, pun was very intended.
My next book is volume 6, volume 5 has already been completed.
March 2, 2015
The story takes a turning point in this volume, and Herr Starr suffers further disfigurement.
Sometimes the sense of doom I get from this series makes it hard reading. Oh Jesse... Oh Tulip… Oh Cassidy… Still, it's great to revisit it ten years after my first read-through. Dillon is absolutely on top of his game as an artist, and I found myself laughing out loud at some points, just reveling in the humor he imbeds in the work. Good stuff.
I have to admit, on this read-through I'm finding some of Jesse's anti-PC rants to be a bit hard going; it takes me a bit out of the story to find myself wondering why Ennis made the choice to have his hero express such sentiments. Since Jesse is the hero, are we supposed to take them at face value, a mouthpiece for Ennis's views? Or is it just part of who Jesse is, one of his (many) possible flaws? One of Jesse's downfalls appears to be his strict adherence to a kind of John Wayne moral code, which comes back and bites him in the butt repeatedly, even as it also makes him incredibly appealing. He's absolutely an antihero, and absolutely a hero, at the same time. Fascinating.
Sometimes the sense of doom I get from this series makes it hard reading. Oh Jesse... Oh Tulip… Oh Cassidy… Still, it's great to revisit it ten years after my first read-through. Dillon is absolutely on top of his game as an artist, and I found myself laughing out loud at some points, just reveling in the humor he imbeds in the work. Good stuff.
I have to admit, on this read-through I'm finding some of Jesse's anti-PC rants to be a bit hard going; it takes me a bit out of the story to find myself wondering why Ennis made the choice to have his hero express such sentiments. Since Jesse is the hero, are we supposed to take them at face value, a mouthpiece for Ennis's views? Or is it just part of who Jesse is, one of his (many) possible flaws? One of Jesse's downfalls appears to be his strict adherence to a kind of John Wayne moral code, which comes back and bites him in the butt repeatedly, even as it also makes him incredibly appealing. He's absolutely an antihero, and absolutely a hero, at the same time. Fascinating.
January 22, 2018
4.5 stars! Very solid story. This volume includes a surprisingly hilarious one-shot called “The Good Old Boys,” featuring Jesse’s rather erm eccentric family. This stole the fucking show, it was just too brilliant. For instance, while you might think that the weirdest thing T.C. would feel the urge to fuck is this fish:
you’d be mistaken indeed. For he has previously succumbed to temptation in the form of a goddamn birthday cake! This is the dialogue concerning said cake: “At little Jesse’s tenth birthday? Goddamn, Jody, that was a cheap little prickteaser of a cake! I knew it wanted it, with its sponge an’ its cream toppin’! It was all I could do not to nail that slut right there on the table!”
Tears of laughter, I swear, literal tears. Ennis’ mind is a wonderful thing.
you’d be mistaken indeed. For he has previously succumbed to temptation in the form of a goddamn birthday cake! This is the dialogue concerning said cake: “At little Jesse’s tenth birthday? Goddamn, Jody, that was a cheap little prickteaser of a cake! I knew it wanted it, with its sponge an’ its cream toppin’! It was all I could do not to nail that slut right there on the table!”
Tears of laughter, I swear, literal tears. Ennis’ mind is a wonderful thing.
July 30, 2021
Another great episode in the Preacher series! Seriously can't enough of these.
This one includes Starr's rise to power in the grail, which I loved, Arseface's background before he shot himself, which was sad, but I also enjoyed reading about. Felt a lot of pity for the poor guy. And it also includes a story line with TC and Jody which I wasn't too crazy about - I read the book all in one go, except for the TC/Jody part at the end which took me like 3 stop and gos.
But overall, the book was fantastic. Kept me on the edge of my seat as per usual. Can't wait to get my hands on the next book!
This one includes Starr's rise to power in the grail, which I loved, Arseface's background before he shot himself, which was sad, but I also enjoyed reading about. Felt a lot of pity for the poor guy. And it also includes a story line with TC and Jody which I wasn't too crazy about - I read the book all in one go, except for the TC/Jody part at the end which took me like 3 stop and gos.
But overall, the book was fantastic. Kept me on the edge of my seat as per usual. Can't wait to get my hands on the next book!
July 14, 2016
This is by far the best book in the series!
It should be called Preacher: Origins, since it is basically the origin stories of multiple main characters, including Starr & Arseface.
What's even better is the Jesse Custer's part in this book is one of the most thrilling in his adventure.
Another strong point is that each story in the book is illustrated by a different artist, so you get a different feeling to each story, & while this is harsh, but some of the art, especially Richard Case's, was much better & enjoyable than Steve Dillon's, but it is a matter of a personal taste, though.
5/5
It should be called Preacher: Origins, since it is basically the origin stories of multiple main characters, including Starr & Arseface.
What's even better is the Jesse Custer's part in this book is one of the most thrilling in his adventure.
Another strong point is that each story in the book is illustrated by a different artist, so you get a different feeling to each story, & while this is harsh, but some of the art, especially Richard Case's, was much better & enjoyable than Steve Dillon's, but it is a matter of a personal taste, though.
5/5
October 4, 2015
Tons of backstory in this book, although the one backstory that is really worth mentioning is areseface. Arseface's story feeds into the motivations for future books and fills in the brutal story in how he became disfigured. The volume moves from backstory to present effortlessly, with the main story moving along quickly and scoring high marks. Herr Star's disfigurement is at times comical and satisfying. One problem that I have is with Saint of Killers, there is a character that too overpowered and it seems like Ennis isn't quite sure what to do with him.
November 1, 2018
This was still amazing. Some backstory purely on solo characters. Some really messed up action and plot points occur. Highly recommend this!!
July 29, 2018
This volume is made much more coherent and interesting by the strategic inclusion the three preacher specials which develop backstories for Herr Star and Arseface. The inclusion of Herr Star's backstory makes his arc tragic and thus makes him a fairly compelling villain for the reason of the interestingness of his motives. Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy's story hits a lull as the consequences of Cassidy's betrayal and his feelings for Tulip as well as Jesse's seeming death slows that development. The apex conflict between Herr Star, the Saint of Killers, and the background development of Arseface all particularly work and bring the series to a high point. The only included part of was 80s action movie parody backstory for the TC and Jody seems oddly placed in this collection and sort of distracting from the main narrative and from crucial characterization of side-characters. This, however, is a stronger volume of Preacher. Dillion's artwork continues to work well here, and the subtle shifts Dillion does for genre considerations on the special issues works well.
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February 28, 2020I just don't know about this series, man. I forgot about the near hero-worship of Bill Hicks bit in Book 3 until Jesse (our hero) does an anti-pc rant in the middle of this one. I guess 20 years ago it read as "cool," but all of that is falling flat for me here in 2020.
I guess I'm gonna finish out the series because it's free on Hoopla and I like reading comics on the iPad before I go to sleep. The light doesn't bother my wife (like a booklight does) and I don't need to worry about keeping my place when I fall asleep. Plus... I am curious to know how it all ends and I'm in the home stretch.
If it were bad, I'd stop. It's not bad, not at all. It's well-paced and the drawings are pretty great- even if they're disturbing at times. Maybe it's just not for me. It's like I'm bouncing back and forth between back-stories that are engaging but ultimately (seemingly) pointless and spending time with the main characters who are becoming more and more unlikeable.
But like I said, it's well done, I'm close to the end, and, ultimately, they've got me hooked. We'll see...
I guess I'm gonna finish out the series because it's free on Hoopla and I like reading comics on the iPad before I go to sleep. The light doesn't bother my wife (like a booklight does) and I don't need to worry about keeping my place when I fall asleep. Plus... I am curious to know how it all ends and I'm in the home stretch.
If it were bad, I'd stop. It's not bad, not at all. It's well-paced and the drawings are pretty great- even if they're disturbing at times. Maybe it's just not for me. It's like I'm bouncing back and forth between back-stories that are engaging but ultimately (seemingly) pointless and spending time with the main characters who are becoming more and more unlikeable.
But like I said, it's well done, I'm close to the end, and, ultimately, they've got me hooked. We'll see...
September 11, 2017
It's probably a decade or longer since I last read Preacher and with it's television adaptation now in its second season, I had to revisit. If only to see how close and how far the series wanders from its source material and where it has remained most true. I gradually forgot my quest for comparison and became utterly absorbed in the world created by Garth Ennis and the late and much missed Steve Dillon. It is still a masterpiece of storytelling, the intervening years have not diminished its power to shock, thrill and move (often all at once) and in Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy we have a fine triumvirate of central characters. But it is the motley crew of supporting personalities that truly set Preacher apart, fascinating in their depravity, repulsive in their actions and utterly compelling in their own underlying pathos.
Preacher is a work I will return to time and time again and I will always marvel at its accomplishment.
Preacher is a work I will return to time and time again and I will always marvel at its accomplishment.
March 25, 2017
The first 2/3 of this book is outstanding, and I almost gave it 5 stars. But the last 1/2 is the origin of ArseFace and a separate story about some previous characters from the last volume that didn't feel necessary. The ArseFace origin is dark, and rings a little to close to real life. I'm not sure what Ennis' plan is on the overall story for him, but I'm don't know if I needed all of the details of his origin. Regardless, it was very well done. The other backstory seemed like filler, mildly entertaining, but seems like a throwaway story.
Back to the beginning, everything collides and there is a major confrontation with all of the characters. Some stuff goes down that I wasn't expecting and this arc leaves you in a place where the triangle relationship between the main characters is completely changed.
All around some phenomenal work.
Back to the beginning, everything collides and there is a major confrontation with all of the characters. Some stuff goes down that I wasn't expecting and this arc leaves you in a place where the triangle relationship between the main characters is completely changed.
All around some phenomenal work.
October 20, 2020
This is a review of the entire series.
Preacher follows a gang of three washed-up misfits that have all been dealt cruel hands by fate. First there’s Jesse Custer, a vulgar, foul-mouthed yet all-around upstanding and gentlemanly preacher living a dull life in a small Texas town called Annville. He wears the mantle of a preacher while exuding the aura of a gritty, spaghetti western antihero. He spends more time praying to John Wayne and channeling Clint Eastwood than he ever spends seeking guidance from God.
Things take a major turn for Jesse when he accidentally gets possessed by the spirit of a supernatural entity called Genesis, the cursed child born out of the forbidden fornication between an angel and a demon. The entity contains the essence of absolute goodness and absolute evil, fusing together with Jesse’s soul and granting him unimaginable power. Now a force to be reckoned with, Jesse makes himself quite a few dangerous enemies and he doesn’t plan to let his newfound powers go to waste. He has a bone to pick with the scum of the earth and plans to use his powers to make amends with his past trauma and regrets. Most of all, he has it out for God more than anyone else for allowing all the chaos and evil in the world to spiral out of control in the first place. He goes on a journey to find God and give him a piece of his mind.
Along his journey, Jesse reunites with his ex-girlfriend Tulip and befriends an Irish, vampire junky named Cassidy. Tulip is a hotheaded gunslinger that was raised by her tough-as-nails yet affectionate, sharpshooting father who taught her how to hunt, stand on her own two feet and take no nonsense from anybody. She’s a wild tomboy with a lot of heart and has quite a bit of catching up to do with Jesse after he abandoned her for unknown reasons at the peak of their relationship.
After hearing Jesse’s story about fusing with Genesis and going on a mission to find God with his newfound powers, Cassidy happily joins the preacher on his quest while Tulip works on patching things up with Jesse after learning of the dark secrets behind his sudden disappearance. Cassidy also has some demons of his own to work out as he battles with alcoholism, drug addiction and a wavering moral compass on top of never being able to walk around in broad daylight because of the curse of vampirism placed on him as a young boy. Despite their numerous imperfections, the three come together in hopes of finding God. Not in the metaphorical sense, but to kick his ass for abandoning his throne in heaven, neglecting his duties and letting humanity drown in the cesspool he created with his own hands. The three outlaws seek to set things right through very unsavory means.
Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy encounter some incredibly disturbed villains along the way, including Jesse’s own family of backwater devils that include a tyrannical religious grandmother obsessed with maintaining pure bloodlines, a violent psychopath that brutally murdered anything Jesse dared to love as a child, and a crazed hillbilly with a fetish for farm animals. Then there’s a secret religious order akin to the Illuminati called The Grail, which includes the outrageous Klaus Starr whose violent antics along with his obsession of trying to use Jesse’s powers to fulfill his own plans usually end up leaving him with a few missing limbs and making a mockery of himself. There’s even a KKK loonie that built himself a giant sex doll made out of the severed, bloody body parts of butchered livestock. The violence is so outrageously gruesome that it somehow manages to be equally horrendous and hilarious. A lot of the dark and shocking moments in this series are delivered with heavy undertones of black comedy, making you laugh, cringe and gag all at the same time. It’s a wild ride that pulls no punches, and the scares are absurdly creative if nothing else.
The three protagonists have a lot of depth to them, every villain is a wicked bastard and the side characters all have their own heartwarming struggles to overcome. The most notable minor character that I was rooting for from beginning to end was a mentally disabled boy nicknamed Assface. The boy idolized Kurt Cobain to an unhealthy degree and unfortunately, he thought that following in his idol’s footsteps by blowing his head off with a gun would earn himself the love and admiration he always wanted. After his failed suicide attempt, he’s left with a gaping hole that continuously oozes fluid from his now deformed face, which earned him the nickname Assface. Instead of letting his deformity bring him down, he goes on his own personal journey of self-discovery and finding comfort and acceptance through rock music. This is just one of many touching tales throughout the series.
Preacher is outrageous, shocking, and it isn’t afraid of offending anybody with its sharp-edged humor, but it also captures the personal flaws and imperfections that every single person carries. The action is spectacular, the characters are heroic and monstrous in equal measure, and you can never prepare yourself for whatever bizarre travesties it will throw at you next. Stephen King even cited Preacher as being a big inspiration behind his surreal fantasy masterpiece The Dark Tower, and it’s not hard to see how. It’s the perfect blend of gritty western, dark fantasy, shock humor and over the top horror-fueled action sequences. It’ll definitely send you through an unforgettable trip through the wild west.
***
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Preacher follows a gang of three washed-up misfits that have all been dealt cruel hands by fate. First there’s Jesse Custer, a vulgar, foul-mouthed yet all-around upstanding and gentlemanly preacher living a dull life in a small Texas town called Annville. He wears the mantle of a preacher while exuding the aura of a gritty, spaghetti western antihero. He spends more time praying to John Wayne and channeling Clint Eastwood than he ever spends seeking guidance from God.
Things take a major turn for Jesse when he accidentally gets possessed by the spirit of a supernatural entity called Genesis, the cursed child born out of the forbidden fornication between an angel and a demon. The entity contains the essence of absolute goodness and absolute evil, fusing together with Jesse’s soul and granting him unimaginable power. Now a force to be reckoned with, Jesse makes himself quite a few dangerous enemies and he doesn’t plan to let his newfound powers go to waste. He has a bone to pick with the scum of the earth and plans to use his powers to make amends with his past trauma and regrets. Most of all, he has it out for God more than anyone else for allowing all the chaos and evil in the world to spiral out of control in the first place. He goes on a journey to find God and give him a piece of his mind.
Along his journey, Jesse reunites with his ex-girlfriend Tulip and befriends an Irish, vampire junky named Cassidy. Tulip is a hotheaded gunslinger that was raised by her tough-as-nails yet affectionate, sharpshooting father who taught her how to hunt, stand on her own two feet and take no nonsense from anybody. She’s a wild tomboy with a lot of heart and has quite a bit of catching up to do with Jesse after he abandoned her for unknown reasons at the peak of their relationship.
After hearing Jesse’s story about fusing with Genesis and going on a mission to find God with his newfound powers, Cassidy happily joins the preacher on his quest while Tulip works on patching things up with Jesse after learning of the dark secrets behind his sudden disappearance. Cassidy also has some demons of his own to work out as he battles with alcoholism, drug addiction and a wavering moral compass on top of never being able to walk around in broad daylight because of the curse of vampirism placed on him as a young boy. Despite their numerous imperfections, the three come together in hopes of finding God. Not in the metaphorical sense, but to kick his ass for abandoning his throne in heaven, neglecting his duties and letting humanity drown in the cesspool he created with his own hands. The three outlaws seek to set things right through very unsavory means.
Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy encounter some incredibly disturbed villains along the way, including Jesse’s own family of backwater devils that include a tyrannical religious grandmother obsessed with maintaining pure bloodlines, a violent psychopath that brutally murdered anything Jesse dared to love as a child, and a crazed hillbilly with a fetish for farm animals. Then there’s a secret religious order akin to the Illuminati called The Grail, which includes the outrageous Klaus Starr whose violent antics along with his obsession of trying to use Jesse’s powers to fulfill his own plans usually end up leaving him with a few missing limbs and making a mockery of himself. There’s even a KKK loonie that built himself a giant sex doll made out of the severed, bloody body parts of butchered livestock. The violence is so outrageously gruesome that it somehow manages to be equally horrendous and hilarious. A lot of the dark and shocking moments in this series are delivered with heavy undertones of black comedy, making you laugh, cringe and gag all at the same time. It’s a wild ride that pulls no punches, and the scares are absurdly creative if nothing else.
The three protagonists have a lot of depth to them, every villain is a wicked bastard and the side characters all have their own heartwarming struggles to overcome. The most notable minor character that I was rooting for from beginning to end was a mentally disabled boy nicknamed Assface. The boy idolized Kurt Cobain to an unhealthy degree and unfortunately, he thought that following in his idol’s footsteps by blowing his head off with a gun would earn himself the love and admiration he always wanted. After his failed suicide attempt, he’s left with a gaping hole that continuously oozes fluid from his now deformed face, which earned him the nickname Assface. Instead of letting his deformity bring him down, he goes on his own personal journey of self-discovery and finding comfort and acceptance through rock music. This is just one of many touching tales throughout the series.
Preacher is outrageous, shocking, and it isn’t afraid of offending anybody with its sharp-edged humor, but it also captures the personal flaws and imperfections that every single person carries. The action is spectacular, the characters are heroic and monstrous in equal measure, and you can never prepare yourself for whatever bizarre travesties it will throw at you next. Stephen King even cited Preacher as being a big inspiration behind his surreal fantasy masterpiece The Dark Tower, and it’s not hard to see how. It’s the perfect blend of gritty western, dark fantasy, shock humor and over the top horror-fueled action sequences. It’ll definitely send you through an unforgettable trip through the wild west.
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February 28, 2019
Herr Starr's backstory is told and he goes after the Saint of Killers.
I didn't like book four as much as previous ones, largely because it felt like a lot of filler and not enough storyline being continued. Showing Starr's journey to the evil man he currently is was ok - it's not a bad thing to understand the villain's reasons for why he does the things he does. It definitely didn't make me look at him in a different light, though. And then we got Arseface's back story, and then flashbacks to two of the rednecks that made Jesse's life hell when really what I wanted was - what happens next in Jesse's attempt to track down God? Since there's only a couple of books left in the series, I'm hoping we get back to the meat of it soon.
I didn't like book four as much as previous ones, largely because it felt like a lot of filler and not enough storyline being continued. Showing Starr's journey to the evil man he currently is was ok - it's not a bad thing to understand the villain's reasons for why he does the things he does. It definitely didn't make me look at him in a different light, though. And then we got Arseface's back story, and then flashbacks to two of the rednecks that made Jesse's life hell when really what I wanted was - what happens next in Jesse's attempt to track down God? Since there's only a couple of books left in the series, I'm hoping we get back to the meat of it soon.
September 12, 2017
Not my favorite of the volumes thus far because, quite honestly, I wanted more Jesse. This focused on developing Herr Starr and giving more of Arseface's backstory. Both are worthy things, but I found the end of the compilation fell particularly flat- the special about The Good Old Boys didn't add anything important, and it just felt unnecessary. That said, there is some great humor and absurdity throughout, and everything you expect to get from Preacher in terms of tone and (as usual, NSFW) themes is here...but I definitely missed spending most of my time with Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy.
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