What are your favourite works by Ennis?

Section 8

My favorite Ennis books, in order:

>Preacher (his masterpiece IMO. Just so much fun to read and reread.)
>Punisher Max (even more fun to reread than Preacher, if a little bit slighter)
>Red Team (Don't know why it wasn't more popular. I thought it was great. Felt like a solid R-rated cop thriller)
>303 (starts as above-average ennis military wank, ends as something way more interesting)
>Just A Pilgrim (an interesting post-apocalypse world with just enough goofiness to be a breezy fun time and a great Solomon-Kane-esque lead character)
>The Boys (fuck y'all I thought it was fun. Haven't seen the show)
>Caliban (it's just Ennis rewriting Alien, but I love Alien. It's fun!)

The first Bloody Mary miniseries was great. The second one was just okay.

He should do more kids books, that thing was great.

Favorites:
Preacher
Hitman
Punisher Max
Red Team
Rover Red Charlie
Goddess
Bloody Mary
War Stories

Least Favorite
Jennifer Blood
Crossed
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade
Dicks
Wormwood

He's a protestant ulsterman so my favorite work of his will be when the provisional IRA 2.0 uses his head for a football

>Preacher
Ignoring religious views and the whole dated argument, it seriously loses its momentum in the second half. I got less and less interested after Crusaders ended. It is fun though.

>he thinks the IRA had principles.

No money in it anymore, most of the IRA are either on bennies or in the government anyway and rich Plastic paddies in America don't want you killing each other anymore.

Plus, most of the IRA want to fill both parts of Ireland with pakis and poos to get "Muh GDP" higher.

It has a soggy middle, but it picks up again towards the end. Clearly Ennis didn't really have a roadmap for the story, and started wandering around with spin-off specials and the whole Salvation thing, but I thought the last arc was a pretty solid finish. The first 20 or so issues are easily the best, though.

All his PUnisher stuff is great but it's Hitman, hands down. Has the best art of all his long-term ongoings and my favorite characters. Every issue is either the most fun thing in the world or it breaks your heart. Almost all of his war comics are great but I've got a real soft spot for the Stiles Trilogy and the Condors issue of War Stories. You could do that one as a stage play and it would be fantastic.

>dated
Honestly my favorite part of Preacher. It is SUCH a product of the mid-90s. The high-waisted jeans, mullets, grunge, shitty coupes, talk radio, phonebooths, and ironic gen-X attitude are what makes it so much fun, at least for me. It's why I knew the show was never going to work. Being a hugely, unrepentantly '90s product is the secret sauce to Preacher

Nothing tops that part of Until the End of the World where Jesse screams burn you fuckers with the Voice. That shit blew my mind when I was twelve years old.

Until the End of the World is the absolute peak of Preacher. The part where Gran'ma literally explodes out of the house like a rocket, frying to a crisp as she shoots into the air, and a bloodied Jesse just screams "YEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAA!" at the sky is impossibly great

used to be Punisher max
but then i read Hitman and Tommy and Nat became on of my favorite Duo's in DC
leave your guns at the door :(

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I love McCrea's art, but Dillon's work on Preacher is on another level. The level of emotion he could bring out of a character's face in a tiny panel is still amazing. I recently reread Preacher, and Dillon's art is simply gorgeous. Hands-down my favorite art partner for Ennis. RIP

Dillons early Preacher work was great but you really start noticing the Frankface creep in halfway through

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God I hated Salvation. Only really liked the parts with the mayor.

>that page where Arseface sings Wonderwall

Salvation was the Highland Laddie of Preacher. Like, Ennis wasn't really sure where the main story was going, so he played around with a totally unrelated idea he had and awkwardly shoehorned it into the main plot. I like it pretty well on its own, but it's such a weird, pace-destroying digression from the overall narrative.

I genuinely love both those arcs, I get the hate but I enjoy them as fun little side adventures from the main plot.

I mean, I like them both too. In fairness, Salvation does serve a narrative purpose in making Jesse's reunion with Tulip feel meaningful simply because he's been away for a while, and honestly, Preacher is a weird piecemeal beast of a story anyway (try and draw one of those story diagrams for it--it'll look like the EKG of a seizure patient), so it doesn't really derail things too much. And Highland Laddie was technically a spin-off miniseries, so you can't really accuse it of screwing with the main series' pacing.

At the end of the day I guess I'd rather have Ennis following his passion than churning out soulless hackwork. Keep being weird, you goofy Irish bastard.

I wouldn't have minded if Salvation was a limited series like Highland Laddie was. As it is, it messes with the flow.