"This volume collects issues #1-7 of the series. One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is a modern American epic of life, death, love and redemption also packed with sex, booze, blood and bullets - not to mention angels, demons, God, vampires and deviants of all stripes. At first glance, the Reverend Jesse Custer doesn't look like anyone special-just another small-town minister slowly losing his flock and his faith. But he's about to come face-to-face with proof that God does indeed exist. Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Jesse now possesses the power of ""the Word,"" an ability to make people do whatever he utters. He begins a violent and riotous journey across the country in search of answers from the elusive deity. by Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon "