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Preacher is, without a doubt, one of the more unusual series to come out of DC's adult imprint Vertigo in the 1990s. When a supernatural being escapes the custody of Heaven's angels and merges with Jesse Custer, the reverend of a small, dirt-wipe of a Texan town, it sets off a quest for the Almighty.
This is not, however, your typical quest for spiritual enlightenment - Jesse discovers he now has a power - the Voice - which makes anyone do what he tells them. He has a power equivalent to God Himself and he determines to seek out the Almighty and bring him to account for not doing right by His creation, aided by his ex-girlfriend Tulip (beautiful and deadly with a gun) and Cassidy, a whisky-guzzling Irish vampire.
Oh, but there is much more to it - throw in the ghost of John Wayne (who talks to Jesse), an indestructible gun-fighter (the Saint of Killers no less), a global conspiracy to bring on Armageddon so the world can be run by a direct (and very in-bred) descendant of Jesus Christ's bloodline, love, sex, crime, betrayal, friendship, a bloke with a face like an arse, buggery, drugs, murder, torture, insane Southern families, voodoo and
Okay, you start to get the picture!
One word of warning though - Preacher is likely to offend a lot of people. It broke ground for what a mainstream publisher like DC would allow into even their mature reader comics, from constant profanity (no asterisks to block some of the four letter words here) to frank depictions of drug-use, sexuality and violence to say nothing of its attack on organised religion. The respectable members of the community hated it, so you know it must be really good!
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