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Preacher Vol. 8: All Hell's A-Coming | 
| Author: Garth Ennis
Creator: Steve Dillon
Publisher: Vertigo
Category: Book
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 22363
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1563896176
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781563896170
ASIN: 1563896176
Publication Date: June 1, 2000
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
It's trite but true: you can't keep a good man down. Holier-than-anyone Jesse Custer comes back from the dead--or wherever--in the eighth collection of Preacher, All Hell's A-Coming. Garth Ennis's knack for developing characters slowly and almost effortlessly pays off more and more with each issue, and by now Custer, his lover Tulip, and his vampire friend Cassidy are as complex as anyone you're likely to meet. The story arc focuses on Tulip's own resurrection from her unlife of booze, drugs, and Cassidy as she reunites with the Preacher, and this powerful tale doesn't require any superheroic conflict to affect the readers. (Fans of the Voice will be disappointed to learn that it's only used once, in an amusing throwaway scene.) As this develops, the nefarious Grail suffers from internal struggle, and poor Arseface finds himself on the backside of fame, setting the stage for plenty of future weirdness. In addition to the regular collected issues, All Hell's A-Coming includes the one-shot "Tall in the Saddle," a fast-moving story from Jesse, Amy, and Tulip's younger days. If you've never met the Preacher, isn't it about time you found the fear of God? --Rob Lightner
Product Description
It's trite but true: you can't keep a good man down. Holier-than-anyone Jesse Custer comes back from the dead--or wherever--in the eighth collection of Preacher, All Hell's A-Coming. Garth Ennis's knack for developing characters slowly and almost effortlessly pays off more and more with each issue, and by now Custer, his lover Tulip, and his vampire friend Cassidy are as complex as anyone you're likely to meet. The story arc focuses on Tulip's own resurrection from her unlife of booze, drugs, and Cassidy as she reunites with the Preacher, and this powerful tale doesn't require any superheroic conflict to affect the readers. (Fans of the Voice will be disappointed to learn that it's only used once, in an amusing throwaway scene.) As this develops, the nefarious Grail suffers from internal struggle, and poor Arseface finds himself on the backside of fame, setting the stage for plenty of future weirdness. In addition to the regular collected issues, All Hell's A-Coming includes the one-shot "Tall in the Saddle," a fast-moving story from Jesse, Amy, and Tulip's younger days. If you've never met the Preacher, isn't it about time you found the fear of God? --Rob Lightner
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
getting back on track December 30, 2007
adead_poet@hotmail.com (Austin, tx USA)
Volume eight is a step back in the right direction, while not quite a great as the first six volumes or the final one, it is a step above volume seven. It's great to see the story, Jesse's quest, back on track.
Graphic SF Reader September 3, 2007
Blue Tyson
Some history of the hell raising (among other nastiness) of both Jesse and Tulip, plus a confrontation, reconciliation and more of the same at an old friend's. Jesse fancies her friend, her friend fancies Jesse, especially compared to the usual losers she comes across. Neither will do anything, partly because both of them realise that Tulip will blow the hell out of them if they do, for one thing, and that they are more valuable as friends. Jesse does it to Tulip again.
 Leads up to the incredible finale May 12, 2003
N. Durham (Philadelphia, PA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This collected volume, which leads up to the incredible finale of the Preacher series, finds Tulip leaving her new life of booze, drugs, and Cassidy to try to get her life back together. After that (and a rousing backstory on Tulip's childhood and her meeting with Amy), she and Jesse are re-united proving one of Preacher's many themes: love is stronger than death. The best parts of All Hell's A-Coming is undoubtadly Jesse learning all of Cassidy's dark and dirty past. This part is pivotal for a few reasons: longtime fans of the series have no doubt grown to love Cass, and now their opinions will be surely changed. Also, this is the plot progressing set up the final, pivotal events that come in the next and final collected volume; Alamo. The final story, a backstory on one of Jesse, Tulip, and Amy's criminal misadventures, isn't one of Ennis' better written stories, but think of it as an added bonus.
Ain't Got That Old Feeling October 18, 2002
Kevin Spak (Boston, MA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had really high expectations for this volume. It didn't quite measure up.
Okay, yeah, the characters are great. Fine. But the Tulip backstory feels obligatory and pointless, and I don't think it develops too much about her. It really didn't require two issues, that's for sure.
The rest of this volume seems kind of useless, repeating all the themes that have gone before. And between this volume and the last one, I'm wondering when Ennis will stop feeling the need to include sexual perversion in every issue. I'm not a prude, I just think it's a little past the point where it enhances the stories. It just feels repetitive now.
There's no real action in this book, and not a lot of solid story.
Finally, the action Jesse takes at the end of this volume, together with his actions towards Gunther at the end of Salvation make me truly question Jesse as a hero. This would bother me less, except that Ennis seems to think these actions are fine and jim dandy.
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