[Dr.Kelvinstein]

It's from what's maybe my favorite comic of all time. It's about this small-town preacher from Texas whose soul fuses with a demon/angel hybrid, and that means that Jesse now has the Word of God, and everyone has to do whatever he says. Well, Jesse doesn't like playing host, so he and his girlfriend Tulip and a whiskey-drinking Irish vampire take to the road to find out some answers, and he intends to have a little chat with God no matter what and ask the Big Guy "Why have you forsaken us?" And for some reason Jesse is followed and given advice by John Wayne.

This is all very witty and well done. Jesse is also the cockiest character in comic history. And all this plays out using Western themes as set down by John Ford (one of the big fights actually takes place in Monument Valley where The Searchers was filmed).

And there's also The Saint Of Killers, a Wild West gunman ressurected from the dead and sent to stop Jesse. He's so fast on the draw that he can actually pull leather before Jesse opens his mouth to use the Word of God.

You can pick the complete series up in trade paper from DC/Vertigo now, and it's well worth the read.