Okay, so it's officail I'm in love with Preacher:
It's just... perfect; dark, humor has a tendency to be even darker; it's blasphemous, explicit and intelligently written... if you're a comic book nerd who finds religion not a heavy subject or are athiest/agnostic this is right down your alley.
excerpt:
(bedroom scene 1: Tulip being shot in the head get's dragged to Gran'ma's room where God resides the L'Angelles family having captured the Preacher(Jesse))
"Tulip? Why won't you talk to me, Tulip? Why won't you even look upon me?"
"because -- because I'm scared I might -- I think I might be dead..."
"And so you were, you were shot through the head, You died instantly. But I am with you, I am the resurrection and the life, and in me you live again. I love you. Look at me Tulip (Tulip looks upon God.) There's no need to be afraid."
"So... so this is... no, wait a minute, what kind of heaven is this? it looks like someone's bedroom and -- and I don't feel dead."
"You are not. I told you child, I am the resurrection, I am the way and the truth and the light; I am the Alpha and the Omega, and the bright morning star. I am the lord your god. Oh yes: I am your father in heaven, child; i love you as I love all my children on this earth, I want you to live, and I want you to love me: And I want Jesse to love me too. Go to him for me, Tulip, tell him how I love him so, that I have brought you back; tell him there is no need for him to search the world for me, or wonder why I wander far from paradise. All I ask is that he trust me once again."
"Trust you...?"
"Is that so much for the creator to ask of his creation? His grandmother and her cohorts are evil people, tell him I have restored his power over them, that he may judge them as he sees fit; then both of you may go in peace. Now, I have dealt fairly with him, Tulip. His love and trust are all but a little price to ask. What do you think he'd say?"
"I think he'd say cut the shit"
Now... onto my point of this blog aside from nerd crushing...
Too much Preacher = dreams like this...
R'lyeh's Curse
Following fold after fold,
cloth a thick seaweed in
the eastern pacific
until I find a white feather,
shining in the sun light
breaking the waters surface;
traveling upward
waves soften
revealing an Olympus kingdom
stripped down
to a Flavian Ampitheatre --
marble and stone
covered in crawling greens
and trees of immense reaves --
a thunders crackle
greys transgression,
cumulus clouds of black
diminishing a halos nimbus.
Macabre and wide
a gale wind knocks
pottery and cutlery over
making me blink in and out
of this blood filled syringe,
as I drift apart,
cloth in an opaque gyre
fading into elderitchs *abstrection.
by Jeremy Swyck
(01/30/12)
*abstrection = abstrect + abstraction
personal definition:
Abstrect - a creature that has no defining or constantly shifting features, dangerous or not.
It's just... perfect; dark, humor has a tendency to be even darker; it's blasphemous, explicit and intelligently written... if you're a comic book nerd who finds religion not a heavy subject or are athiest/agnostic this is right down your alley.
excerpt:
(bedroom scene 1: Tulip being shot in the head get's dragged to Gran'ma's room where God resides the L'Angelles family having captured the Preacher(Jesse))
"Tulip? Why won't you talk to me, Tulip? Why won't you even look upon me?"
"because -- because I'm scared I might -- I think I might be dead..."
"And so you were, you were shot through the head, You died instantly. But I am with you, I am the resurrection and the life, and in me you live again. I love you. Look at me Tulip (Tulip looks upon God.) There's no need to be afraid."
"So... so this is... no, wait a minute, what kind of heaven is this? it looks like someone's bedroom and -- and I don't feel dead."
"You are not. I told you child, I am the resurrection, I am the way and the truth and the light; I am the Alpha and the Omega, and the bright morning star. I am the lord your god. Oh yes: I am your father in heaven, child; i love you as I love all my children on this earth, I want you to live, and I want you to love me: And I want Jesse to love me too. Go to him for me, Tulip, tell him how I love him so, that I have brought you back; tell him there is no need for him to search the world for me, or wonder why I wander far from paradise. All I ask is that he trust me once again."
"Trust you...?"
"Is that so much for the creator to ask of his creation? His grandmother and her cohorts are evil people, tell him I have restored his power over them, that he may judge them as he sees fit; then both of you may go in peace. Now, I have dealt fairly with him, Tulip. His love and trust are all but a little price to ask. What do you think he'd say?"
"I think he'd say cut the shit"
Now... onto my point of this blog aside from nerd crushing...
Too much Preacher = dreams like this...
R'lyeh's Curse
Following fold after fold,
cloth a thick seaweed in
the eastern pacific
until I find a white feather,
shining in the sun light
breaking the waters surface;
traveling upward
waves soften
revealing an Olympus kingdom
stripped down
to a Flavian Ampitheatre --
marble and stone
covered in crawling greens
and trees of immense reaves --
a thunders crackle
greys transgression,
cumulus clouds of black
diminishing a halos nimbus.
Macabre and wide
a gale wind knocks
pottery and cutlery over
making me blink in and out
of this blood filled syringe,
as I drift apart,
cloth in an opaque gyre
fading into elderitchs *abstrection.
by Jeremy Swyck
(01/30/12)
*abstrection = abstrect + abstraction
personal definition:
Abstrect - a creature that has no defining or constantly shifting features, dangerous or not.