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| Preacher Vol. 5: Dixie Fried | 
 enlarge | Author: Garth Ennis
Creator: Steve Dillon
Publisher: Vertigo
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 7918
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.3
ISBN: 1563894289
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781563894282
ASIN: 1563894289
Publication Date: September 1, 1998
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 Another winner for Ennis. June 17, 2005
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Garth Ennis, Preacher: Dixie Fried (DC Comics, 1998)
After I finished Gone to Texas, I checked with the library immediately to get my hands on Pracher: Until the End of the World. But they didn't have it. In fact, I had to go all the way up to book five before I found another one at my local bibliophilic haunt. I resolved not to read it until I could read books two through four, so I'd keep going in sequence. I've forgotten a whole lot about the adventures of Jesse and co. over the intervening years.
That resolve lasted all of three hours. I cracked the cover on Preacher: Dixie Fried the next evening, and like Gone to Texas, it took two sittings to get though (one sometimes has to stop for The Shield's season finale).
Not much has changed in Preacher's world. Jesse is still looking for God. Tulip is still trying to figure out why. Cassidy is, well, still Cassidy. The book opens with a quick look back at the time just before Cassidy met Tulip, and through her Jesse, then comes back to present day, where Jesse has decided to avail a voodoo shaman, one of Cassidy's friends from the bad old days, of an offer to put him into a trace to see if he can get closer to figuring out what it is Genesis wants from him. Then, of course, you can add in old enemies, new enemies, and the usual bag of tricks thrown in their way.
Dixie Fried, like Gone to Texas, is simply superlative. The artwork and story are both fantastic, the characters are three-dimensional creatures with real lives and emotions, and everything is so well-presented that it demands to be read in one sitting-- unless he Shield's season finale comes along before you can finish. ****
 A mixed experience July 27, 1999
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
It starts off fine with cassidy at his best behaviour, battling that sonnuvabitch sheriff. After you go past the first vampire episode you realise that sadly this is the paperback that was destined to backfire, there`s something lacking, something not quite right. After a while i get the feeling that this part of the series has been done much on routine and sadly it affects the ominous feeling of pending doom that`s always present. I`ve noticed that the main characters are getting more brutal and ruthless issue by issue, sure what can you expect with Jesses upbringing and Cassidys condition but what about tulip? Her descent into righteous cruelty doesn`t seem logical it`s more like the writer changed her too fast and i don`t like it. The end of the paperback on the other hand was something else, when jesse realises what`s going on and who set it all up, it sends god damn shivers down the spines of any preacherfan. I`m ready for the next issue.
Ann Rice, deflowed, degraded and smacked up to the eyeballs! October 9, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dixie Fried finds our friends back on the south road after a lot of big hugs and bad love in the Big Apple. heading straight for whole lot of gun toting, malbrouo smoking, throat choking trouble in New Orleans, not to mention a whole shitload of Cass's bad blood past. It cocks it's leg at the traditional Vampyre fare. Clever pardoy, I think not, more total whiskey drenched black humour, thats just got to be bad for your health. Dixie Fried does, as is the norm for Preacher, answer many of the devillishly hounding questions left by the previous book. A superbly crafted item of fiction and another big gleeming piece of the puzzle. Live it, breathe it, love it, devour it, but rest assured you will be left yet again with an empty belly
Pretty good eatin', but not the best April 29, 2002
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Book five in the "Preacher" series was a little bit of a disappointment for me. I usually guage how well I like the installments by how fast I'm compelled to read them. I read book 4 in a couple of days, but it took me almost a month to make it through book five.We return to the main story of Jess, Tulip, Cass, and the Grail here, but it seems to have lost a little of its get-up-and-go after the detour into the back-stories of side characters featured in book four. Not that the story isn't still thrilling and fun. I just found it a little less compelling than it had been before, and hopefully will be again. We do get some interesting new complications in the relationship between our three main protagonists in this one, however. Keep reading, though--I just started book six, and the story seems to really be picking up again.
 Don't believe the hype... April 12, 1999
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
...the Preacher series is graphic literature's most over-rated example. Is it good? Somewhat. But you get the impression that the creative team is making it up as they go along, and, at this stage of the game, that's not a compliment. With this volume and the Preacher off-shoot Ancient History especially, the creative team of Ennis and Dillon have lost direction and are simply keeping it going with all the blood and guts and their attempts at gross-outs - which with this volume consistently miss their mark and are at this point redundant - only because, as far as I can tell, that's what they're paid to do. Don't get me wrong. Earlier volumes of this series are good - particularly "Until the End of the World" - and the later edition "War In the Sun" is also recommended, but Ennis and Dillon should take a cue from the likes of Gaiman, Miller, and Moore and stay focused on the story they're supposed to be telling and then, once that's finished - end the series.
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