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‘The Walking Dead: Volume 3’ & ‘Preacher: Book Two’

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So, I’m back at my ex-partner’s place, looking after house and cats while her and my daughters are away. And… I don’t want to jinx it but here goes… I think I may have finally got the hang of this cat-sitting business :o) Cat Number 1 still isn’t too keen on me but knows that ‘Graeme = Being Fed’ so I’m tolerated. Cat Number 2… I’m pretty sure I saw her, from the bathroom window, trying to catch a sparrow, the little psycho. And just to clarify… If I see her with a bird, that bird will be rescued. Anyway, the cats being cats, yesterday was quite a nice one actually. While they were doing their thing, I did mine; that being just sitting there and working my way through a couple of comic books that I’ve been meaning to get to. One re-read, one ‘first time read’. Today will be more of the same :o) While I do that, have some quick thoughts on yesterday’s comic book reading… ‘The Walking Dead: Volume 3, Safety Behind Bars’ – Kirkman, Adlard, Rathburn (Image) Page Count: 136 Pages Last week...

‘Preacher: Book One’ – Ennis, Dillon (DC, Vertigo)

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  Page Count: 352 Pages Just a quick one today, mostly because I’m shattered already (and today is going to be a busy one) but also because I’m 99% certain that I’m the last person to have read ‘Preacher’ and I don’t think I’m going to say anything that people don’t already know. Having said that though, I hadn’t read any ‘Preacher’, until the other day, and this blog helps me keep track of what I’ve read (amongst other things) so… Here we are. The other week, I had a rather nice scratch card win and there was a copy of ‘Preacher: Book One’ on the shelf in Waterstones. I’m not a hundred percent sure what happened next but all of a sudden, I was outside the shop and there was a copy of ‘Preacher: Book One’ in my bag. Funny how that seems to happen… It took me a while to get round to actually reading it but read it I did and… Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Texan Preacher Jesse Custer becomes completely disillusioned with the beliefs that he had dedicated his ...