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A review by ponch22
Preacher, Volume 3: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis
3.0
I think I found the part where I had to stop reading back in ol' 1999... First half (or so) of Vol. 3 felt familiar like I had read it before heading off to college, but I think I had to give it back to my friend before getting to the Cassidy stories.
The volume starts with a one-off story of Custer's dad, told through flashback with the help of an old war buddy in the airport while our hero is waiting for a flight... Messed up things happen, but that's normal for Ennis & Dillon, right?
Last we saw Cassidy, he was being held by Herr Starr in France and Tulip & Custer are on a mission to rescue him. We find more out about All Father and the Grail, but what really bugged me was the layout of the panels... I felt the story was really divided into a lot of different sections and the story kept cutting back and forth between them.
It's not that I don't like this kind of storytelling (Quentin Tarantino damn near perfected it), but I had a hard time remembering key parts from just a few issues (or maybe one volume) ago... I actually googled what happened to Starr's left ear because I didn't remember, and I read that story not that long ago!
Maybe my memory was failing, but it usually felt like dialogue picked up mid-scene at the start of a page, and I often checked to make sure I didn't somehow flip two pages at once...
That is another weird thing about this volume... The pages are paper, almost like newsprint. Every other volume I looked at is made of glossy paper, like photographs. It didn't ruin my reading experience but it definitely was a change I wasn't expecting...
I almost forgot the last few issues center around Cassidy and his backstory--we meet two brothers during the Easter Rebellion in 1916 Ireland and I was fooled (I think in purpose) about which brother was our beloved Cassidy. His story was cute, but long and drawn out and not connected to the main story and I fear when I get into volume 4 I'll again have to google the plot to see what's happening... Really looking forward to finishing this just to say I completed it... My actual interest in the writing & story is waning...
The volume starts with a one-off story of Custer's dad, told through flashback with the help of an old war buddy in the airport while our hero is waiting for a flight... Messed up things happen, but that's normal for Ennis & Dillon, right?
Last we saw Cassidy, he was being held by Herr Starr in France and Tulip & Custer are on a mission to rescue him. We find more out about All Father and the Grail, but what really bugged me was the layout of the panels... I felt the story was really divided into a lot of different sections and the story kept cutting back and forth between them.
It's not that I don't like this kind of storytelling (Quentin Tarantino damn near perfected it), but I had a hard time remembering key parts from just a few issues (or maybe one volume) ago... I actually googled what happened to Starr's left ear because I didn't remember, and I read that story not that long ago!
Maybe my memory was failing, but it usually felt like dialogue picked up mid-scene at the start of a page, and I often checked to make sure I didn't somehow flip two pages at once...
That is another weird thing about this volume... The pages are paper, almost like newsprint. Every other volume I looked at is made of glossy paper, like photographs. It didn't ruin my reading experience but it definitely was a change I wasn't expecting...
I almost forgot the last few issues center around Cassidy and his backstory--we meet two brothers during the Easter Rebellion in 1916 Ireland and I was fooled (I think in purpose) about which brother was our beloved Cassidy. His story was cute, but long and drawn out and not connected to the main story and I fear when I get into volume 4 I'll again have to google the plot to see what's happening... Really looking forward to finishing this just to say I completed it... My actual interest in the writing & story is waning...