Since today is a day to celebrate all things Irish, I’d like to request that you read Preacher, which features the single best bastard of an Irish vampire in all of comic bookdom. It’s still one of the best comics series ever written.
But, hands down, my favorite Irishman (and I think Kelly’s, too) has to be this guy:
Drink your Guinness and take a cab tonight.
God, Preacher is so awful. Most of it seriously reads like it was written by a third grader.
“And then the other guy shoots his weiner off!! Tee hee hee!!”
if that’s shane mcgowan, paul bobby, he was born in kent, england. i still like his music, though, especially ‘fairytale in new york’ with the late, great kirsty mccoll.
does it have to be Guinness?
because you know what I’m gonna say……….
Ah, Preacher. I can’t think of a better series (even with the slow parts in books 7-8). My God.
What do you get with a room full of Irishmen?
ya gotta wonder…
If Erica C. Barnett cannot afford to buy a bottle of $9 wine…how can she possibly afford a cab fare home?
Or did her deferred sentence also include a “do not drink” clause?
You can’t read through Preacher more than a couple times without realizing how amazingly fucked-up it is. I’m not talking about the anal obsession, the increasingly ridiculous physical deterioration of Starr, or Retard Jesus; I’m talking about gender roles. The central conflict between Jesse and Cassidy–the central conflict in the book that you, Paul Constant, are recommending–is the idea that Cassidy is insufficiently masculine. I could go on and on, but I’ll just link.
If you can’t think of a better series, you should read Y:The Last Man, or Sandman, or DMZ, or the half-dozen other superior Vertigo titles….and that’s coming from someone with the entire run of Preacher sitting all of 5 feet away. Preacher isn’t bad (theodicy in a comic book?), but it’s not amazing, either.
Fisti, that’s a great link, and I also think Garth Ennis is responding to this type of criticism with his series The Boys — though the central characters are just as Macho Sue as the “superhero-villains” they despise and want to destroy.
I had a dream once that I made out with Shane McGowan. Icky teeth and all.
Preacher is excellent. It has a Bill Hicks storyline! And Tulip is one of the biggest badasses there is.