AMC Brings You a Very Dark Preacher

Are you ready for another series based on a comic book?  AMC's Preacher, premiering tonight, brings to life a 1990s comic book series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.  The two authors created about 66 storylines, so this is a series with no end if that is how AMC wants to play it.  But what is it about, you ask.  Here is the outline and trailer:

Preacher is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that causes him to develop a highly unusual power. Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy come together, and when they do, they are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.

In fact, Cassidy is a vampire rather than a "vagabond" and the series is horribly violent, which may or may not bring you on board.  And another character has a very interesting face that may lead to laughs or looks of horror.

Critic Kevin Fallon in The Daily Beast had some trouble defining the show, noting:
 
It’s also impossible to describe succinctly. It’s at once a supernatural thriller, a meditation on spirituality, a portrait of life in the Deep South, a classic Western, horror camp, slapstick comedy, and comic book-inspired character study. It’s ridiculous and unsettling and provocative and perverse. The gore is grotesque. The humor is gut-busting.

Check it out if it piques your interest.  To me it looks like a cross between Supernatural, Dominion, and Justified.  All good shows, but I prefer each alone.  I may sit this one out.