Oooooh!

The Good : Preacher, while flawed at times (with a major sag in quality about three-quarters of the way through), was one of the best comics of the '90s. It was funny, violent, spun a cracking yarn and did all that Grail stuff a million times better than The Da Vinci Code (I'm fairly sure that the latter didn't include a grossly corpulent, bulemic priest falling out of a helicopter). The idea of doing a movie, given that it's a lengthy saga that spun out over sixty-odd issues and ten trade paperbacks, is quite a ridiculous one, and it's no surprise that it never got off the ground. As with Watchmen and Sandman, the only way this could ever really work would be as a HBO series. Which is what this will be.

The Bad : Mark. Steven. Johnson. That's Mark Steven "I did Daredevil, but that didn't stop them letting me do another one, so I'm about to release Ghost Rider, which looks even worse!" Johnson. Damn.

The Ugly : Oh, alright then. This is what Preacher's most infamous character, Arseface, might have looked like if the movie had got off the ground (it's a genuine make-up test). Will they pull it off in the series? Will they even pull off the series? Time will tell...