2023 - Absolute Preacher #1 Var. HC-B - Preacher Absolute Edition - M - ENG - PRE-ORDER

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Title: Absolute Preacher
Publisher: DC Comics
Publishing Date: 2023
Issue: 1
Variant ID: HC-B
Variant Description: 2023 Edition
Format: Hardcover
Barcode: 9781779523341
Language: English
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Grade: 9.9 Mint
Condition: A brand-new, unused, unopened, unworn, undamaged item.
Description: Gone To Texas: Reverend Jesse Custer, a tough and principled Texan preacher who has lost his faith, is possessed by a mysterious entity called Genesis — a conscienceless offspring of an angel and a demon whose power may rival that of God Himself. Through insight granted him by Genesis, now lodged in Jesse's mind in a sort of supernatural symbiosis, Jesse learns that God has left Heaven and abandoned his responsibilities. Soon, Jesse becomes aware that he has been given the power of The Word Of God—depicted in the comic through the use of red text (a reference to the printing method often used for indicating Jesus' speech in the Bible)--allowing him to deliver irresistible commands to any being, including God Himself, whereupon the commanded cannot help but to comply fully. (This power bears somewhat ironic linguistic and physical limitations, explored occasionally throughout the series.) Armed with these newfound attributes, he sets out on a quest to find God and make Him answer for His dereliction of duty. Accompanying Jesse on his journey are Tulip O'Hare, Jesse's former girlfriend who has long thought that he abandoned her, and Cassidy, a 100-year-old Irish vampire who prefers a pint in the pub to the blood of the innocent — though his unavoidable, unnatural hunger is something of a sticking point for the ethical Custer. Meanwhile, in Heaven, a quorum of angels, trying desperately to keep things from falling apart, decide to send the Saint of Killers — an immortal, unstoppable killing machine — to Earth with orders to recapture Genesis at any cost. Until The End Of The World: In "All in the Family", Jesse's secret past is revealed as he is forced to confront his family, and the horrible childhood he's been running from his entire life, when he and Tulip are captured by his grandmother's henchmen. He tells Tulip of his past: how his mother ran away from home and met his father, John Custer, a Marine just returned from Vietnam; how her mother's henchmen tracked them down after Jesse was born and took them back; how they murdered both his father and mother; and how he was forced to become a preacher. In "Hunters", Jesse and Tulip travel west to San Francisco and reunite with Cassidy. Cassidy enlists Custer's help in revenging his (Cassidy's) girlfriend's death by heroin overdose, which leads them to an armadillo-sodomizing, lifelong-partying aesthete by the name of Jesus de Sade. Following them is The Grail, an ancient and immensely powerful religious conspiracy dedicated to preserving the bloodline of Christ and facilitating the Second Coming. The Grail is personified by a clever and ambitious German military expert known only as 'Herr Starr' (who, along with God, serves as one of the series' main antagonists), leader of a conspiracy within the Grail to replace the real descendant of Jesus with Custer for the Grail's planned Armageddon (to occur in the then-future, A.D. 2000). After pretending to be Custer to save Tulip's life, Cassidy is captured by Starr. Proud Americans: While waiting for his flight to France, Jesse meets Billy Baker, a retired Vietnam veteran who was best friends with John Custer, Jesse's dad. Baker, nicknamed Spaceman, tells Jesse the story of how he and John fragged an obnoxious superior who caused the death of another soldier, and gives Jesse a photograph of John from his Vietnam days. Jesse and Tulip journey to France to rescue Cassidy from the Grail's heavily guarded secret fortress ('Masada'), where Cassidy is being held by Herr Starr and tortured by a gelded, sadistic Mafioso named Frankie the Eunuch with a Lee–Enfield bolt-action rifle. The Saint of Killers follows them, but promises to spare Custer if Custer can use Genesis' memories to tell the Saint the story behind his family's death in the late 19th century. Herr Starr, unable to convince Custer to aid him in his quest for Armageddon and world order, initiates his coup against the All-Father of the Grail, resulting in the total destruction of Masada and most of the Grail infantry. Upon their return to the States, a grateful Cassidy tells Jesse his life's story: how he fought in the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, how he was assaulted by a bog-hag outside of Dublin and turned into a vampire, and how he began his long love affair with New York City.
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