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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 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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After a shell-shocked detour into the town of Salvation, reeling from the betrayal of his vampire friend Cassidy, the Reverend Jesse Custer embarks on the final stretch of his journey to find God. But first he must confront girlfriend Tulip, who believes him dead, and has been through hell herself in the intervening months. And then there's the matter of Cassidy, who perhaps isn't quite all he seems. Custer wants answers, and he's finally found someone who can supply them. Meanwhile, Starr gears up for apocalypse, and the beginning of the end of everything!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Leads up to the incredible finale, May 12 2003

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Preacher VOL 08: All Hell's A-Coming (Paperback)

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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ain't Got That Old Feeling, Oct 18 2002

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Kevin Spak (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Preacher VOL 08: All Hell's A-Coming (Paperback)

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Almost there..., Sep 1 2002

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This review is from: Preacher VOL 08: All Hell's A-Coming (Paperback)

This is the next-to-the-last (the penultimate, if you will) in the series of collected Preacher graphic novels, and it's a good one. It's probably not as good as Salvation, but still it's one of my favorites.

This is the last bit of breathing space we're allowed in the series before the plot takes over and bulldozes us towards the conclusion in book nine. Here there's still some room to move sideways as well as forward.

The books starts with some backstory on Tulip. We visit her childhood and find out why she's who she is, and why she's so good with a gun. Then at long last Tulip and Jesse are reunited.

There's also some Grail business to take care of, and we get some QT with Arseface before Cassidy shows up at the end of the book like a mangy dog at the door step. Jesse makes an appointment with him to settle their difference like real men...at the Alamo. And on we go to the rousing conclusion of the series...see you there.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gathering speed for the conclusion makes this a bit slow...
Much is made of the innovative series Preacher. This collection lacks some of the energy the previous volumes had, but makes up for it with feeling and a solid story. Read more

Published on July 27 2002 by Arturo Ruiz

3.0 out of 5 stars No quite in hell, no quite out of it...
Ennis fans won't like what I have to say: the book is fair and that is it, like with almost all the ohter books in the series. Read more

Published on Oct 26 2001 by Mauricio Hern�ndez