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Preacher: where to start reading
Adapts Preacher by Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
FantasyHorrorDrama
4 seasons
on screen
9 books
to read
Diverges
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Volume 1: Gone to Texas.
the season is mostly an original story that never happens in the books; the first volume is still where to begin reading.
Show and books diverge here
The first season is a largely original prequel set in the town of Annville, using the comic's characters and premise but telling a story that isn't in the books.
Start reading at Volume 1: Gone to Texas (the natural starting point, though the show's first season is its own invention)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 leaves off about 10% in. Pick the book up right there:
Volume 1: Gone to Texas
Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon · Volume 1 of 9
or borrow it: your library
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What the show changed here
- InventedThe whole season is an invented slow build in Annville; the comic destroys the town on its opening pages and hits the road at once.
- ChangedGenesis is shown trying out several hosts worldwide before Jesse; in the comic it possesses only him.
- MovedSlaughterhouse boss Odin Quincannon is a central season-1 antagonist; he's a much later, smaller figure in the comic.
- ChangedTulip and Cassidy are folded into Annville from the start; in the comic neither has any tie to the town and they meet Jesse differently.
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The show departs heavily from the comic. Its first season is a largely original prequel set in Annville that never happens in the books, and only from the second season on does it start pulling from the comic's cross-country road-trip arcs, reordered and reinvented as it goes.
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