"Preacher" is a graphic novel series that follows the footseps of the three very different characters - Jesse Custer (a former Reverend and vassal of the mysterious entity Genesis, which may be more powerful than God), Tulip (once a flame of Custer's), and Cassidy (a vampire), as they get into adventures in Jesse's search to find God.

In Volume 2 of the series, Jesse's quest gets somewhat side-tracked - Jesse meets up with his fundamentalist religious family, and assists Cassidy after one of Cassidy's former lovers dies from a drug overdose. Jesse and his group also encounters a secret religious organisation that wishes to control Jesse Custer for their own purposes.

Violent, stylish, quite dark humour, and some interesting ideas in here. Probably not a book that would appeal to religiously-conservative people, or those that dislike explicit violence. However, I will definitely be reading the rest of this graphic novel series. ( )

Some parts of the story can be completely cracked out. Love it! ( )

Ennis gives us some background into Jessie's childhood...and it's far from pretty. Anything that one could imagine that crosses the line into abuse or strict religious upbringing is cranked up to 11. But even through this story of Jessie's awful family, we learn more about God's disappearance (he's around, he can intervene if he wants, he just doesn't want to be found) and we learn that Jessie's involvement is likely part of a much bigger destiny.

This is also the introduction of The Grail, a shadow organization who has also become very interested in Jessie. Things come to a head a party thrown by one Jesus de Sade - one that even Bacchus would find a bit over the top in terms of pure debauchery - where Ennis pushes the story a bit into "weekly adventure for good" territory, but still manages to move forward the main story. ( )

As Jesse's past is revealed, the story takes a few interesting turns... ( )

Uttelry absurd but gripping. Extremely sexually explicit and very horrible at times. Brilliant, however. A reverend merged with Gabrial and the power of 'the word'. Saints of killers after him. Horrible coffin scheme, family from hell. ( )