Marcus Mattsson

Thanks to polt I've begun reading Preacher, a comic book series from the late nineties. Me being lazy I'll just paste a synopsis from the series' Wiki-page:

Preacher tells the story of Jesse Custer, a down-and-out preacher in the small Texas town of Annville. Custer was accidentally possessed by the supernatural creature named 'Genesis' in an incident which killed his entire congregation and flattened his church.

Genesis, the product of the unauthorized, unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon, is an infant with no sense of individual will. However, as it is composed of both pure goodness and pure evil, it might have enough power to rival that of God himself. In other words, Jesse Custer, bonded to Genesis, may have become the most powerful being in the universe.

Custer, driven by a strong sense of right and wrong, goes on a journey across the United States attempting to (literally) find God, who abandoned Heaven the moment Genesis was born. He also begins to discover the truth about his new powers, which allow him to command the obedience of those who hear his words. He is joined by his old girlfriend Tulip O'Hare, as well as a hard-drinking Irish vampire named Cassidy.

Sounds weird? It is, weird in the most magnificent way, I just finished volume two, and it's probably the best comic book I've ever read (that doesn't say alot though since I haven't read a lot of them, just trust my taste in litterature, okay?). The theme is pretty dark: brutal murders, rape, child-molestation, disfigured characters, stuff like that, the language is written like it's pronounced and it's very harsh, profanity on almost every page, very Tarantino-like actually, which means it's great and it's one of the things that makes Preacher so entertaining. The stories are very interesting, so are the characters, it's just incredible. If you want to start reading comic books but are tired of superheroes then buy Preacher.