Preacher, An Observation

[SeanC]

I was skimming through 'Preacher' while bored at work and noticed something after awhile. Most of the white characters, or characters in general, are strange and have these massive 'quirks' to them. Jesse, and his friends themselves, are always running into or have history with insane characters.

However, when Jesse runs into black characters, even though they are few and far between in the series, they are relatively normal and usually play an important role in the series. Spaceman, who tells Jesse a lot about his father, offers guidance and some closure for Jesse. Cindy, who he meets in Salvation, is a close friend and reminds him why, even though she's very special, he loves Tulip dearly.

I would even argue, weakly, that the character from the Grail, the man who was in-love with Featherstone, plays an extremely important role and shows the differences in Jesse from the beginning of the series and the end. He is dealt a harsh punishment by Jesse in the beginning but, when he seeks revenge, in the end Jesse shows him kindness and mercy (an act which surprise Tulip). He was even a pretty normal guy and his one 'crazy' character trait was his love for Featherstone. That's all (that I can remember).

I could just be reaching with all this, though.

[Ryan_ZOOM_Turner]

I was skimming through 'Preacher' while bored at work and noticed something after awhile. Most of the white characters, or characters in general, are strange and have these massive 'quirks' to them. Jesse, and his friends themselves, are always running into or have history with insane characters.

However, when Jesse runs into black characters, even though they are few and far between in the series, they are relatively normal and usually play an important role in the series. Spaceman, who tells Jesse a lot about his father, offers guidance and some closure for Jesse. Cindy, who he meets in Salvation, is a close friend and reminds him why, even though she's very special, he loves Tulip dearly.

I would even argue, weakly, that the character from the Grail, the man who was in-love with Featherstone, plays an extremely important role and shows the differences in Jesse from the beginning of the series and the end. He is dealt a harsh punishment by Jesse in the beginning but, when he seeks revenge, in the end Jesse shows him kindness and mercy (an act which surprise Tulip). He was even a pretty normal guy and his one 'crazy' character trait was his love for Featherstone. That's all (that I can remember).

I could just be reaching with all this, though.

That is a pretty good observation.

[Vonn Hennigar]

All i know is that the Solo issue with Jesse and Spaceman is one of my all-time favorite issues of well anything.

[WillieLee]

I don't think it's much of a reach. Hellblazer had similar portrayals.

[The Roman Candle]

Wasn't there a black dude who was a voodoo priest?

[WillieLee]

Wasn't there a black dude who was a voodoo priest?

In which series?

[SeanC]

Wasn't there a black dude who was a voodoo priest?

I completely forgot about him, but meant to include him. He was actually the one that started me thinking about all this. Jesse comes to him and, like some of the others, offers him guidance and places him on the path that he needs to follow. He also warns Jesse about Cassidy and begins to plant seeds of doubt in the reader's minds about the 'goodness' of ole Cass.

The whole series contains insane white people but then there are these smatterings of intelligent, prominant and important black characters.

[Brad N.]

Yup, I noticed the same. Pretty neat to have black characters play such powerful and pivotal roles in such a dynamic high profile book.

[WillieLee]

Yup, I noticed the same. Pretty neat to have black characters play such powerful and pivotal roles in such a dynamic high profile book.

But it can also be seen as a weakness in the writing.

[bradical]

All i know is that the Solo issue with Jesse and Spaceman is one of my all-time favorite issues of well anything.

fuck communism