21 F--ked Up 'Preacher' Moments They'll Never, Ever Be Able to Show on TV
Writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon were smart to make Preacher, their sprawling '90s comic book masterpiece, hilarious. Without their equally caustic and big-hearted humor, I might still be under my covers, too scarred by the things I'd seen to face the world, even years after reading.
But now it's on TV. Preacher, which was published in 75 issues from 1995 to 2000 and lives on in paperback and hardcover, finally threaded the development-hell needle with Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Breaking Bad's Sam Catlin in the cockpit. Its network, AMC, is the home of The Walking Dead, one of television's most successful series, also one of its goriest. But a zombie apocalypse inherently, well, dehumanizes all the head-splattering and -stomping and -slicing. Preacher is a modern tale, and the victims of its atrocities are human (or, in a few particularly nightmarish cases, animal).
Until the first season begins unfolding on Sunday (May 22), we won't know how far Preacher will go. But we'll fall out of our seats and blast feverishly emoji'd tweets if any of the following manages to make it to the screen.
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