Whenever she felt like he wasn't following the path of God, she put him through horrible tortures in order to keep him in line.

Born from an unlikely wedding in between a Marine and the runaway daughter of a religious nut, Jesse has always been prisonner from his Grandmother's grip and her religious views. The reader discovers the tortured relationship Jesse Custer has with religion. The second portrait is a lot more interesting than the first. The morally iron willed priest embarks on a journey with Irish vampire Cassiday and his old girlfriend Tulip in order to find the coward God who turned on mankind. First, the inception of Jesse Custer's chase for a forsaken god that abandoned heaven when Genesis was born. Genesis is made out of pure good and pure evil and inhabits Jesse. He's got possessed by a creature named Genesis, who is the product of a sexual relationship between an angel and a demon. Custer never felt fine as a part of the christian minister and that for a good reason. Jesse Custer is a priest undergoing a faith crisis, but he's not a stereotype. He collaborated to many great characters such as Judge Dredd and invented great characters too, but Preacher was where it all started. But it's beside the point for literary reviews. It's arguable that the artist has as big of a role to play and you're right.

I want to acknowledge both guys and get that out of the way first, because we'll concentrate on the creator and writer who is Ennis. Writer: Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon are both Brits that got fished out of the pond by DC Comics and their Vertigo collection.

Genre: Graphic Novel/Urban Fantasy/Horror

Preacher, Book 1 by Garth Ennis