He knows how to do comedy, which is a big part of the book. There is one sequence in the second issue that I was writing out basically explaining the history of these ancient aliens in our civilization and I gave him all these bullet points and what he came back with was absolutely insane. Somebody like John McCrea, what a series of abilities he has! He does action and storytelling in a way that is so creative and yet so intuitive. Zebrowski: Is it weird that I’ve had Hitman on my desk since I’ve been reading it? It is nice to know that you can kick the ball artistically because, when we worked on The Last Book on the Left, we worked with this fantastic artist Tom Neely and I got to create a rapport with him where you understand that you take an idea and let somebody run with it. I wanted this book to have that same feeling, that people like that might as well look at it like it was a Satanic bible, something evil that you must keep away from the innocence of the world. He looked at me so offended that I would even ask for something as blasphemous and naughty as Preacher, especially some child asking for Preacher.

I go into Sports Cards Plus after reading about Preacher in Wizard, thinking this sounded like the coolest comic book ever, and asking the person there if they had Preacher and the look he gave me was a look that a pastor would give to a demon. I grew up in rural Texas and the nearest comic book store was in Lubbock, so I went to this comic book store in the mall - this is during the great boom of the ’90s, so there was seven comic book stores in a town of 150,000. Parks: The kind of feeling that I wanted for this comic book is the same feeling I had when I went to go look for an issue of Preacher when I was fourteen, when Preacher was still on the shelves. Also included are preview pages penciled and inked by McCrea, colored by Mike Spicer and lettered by Becca Carey, as well as Issue #1’s standard cover by McCrea and Spicer and a variant cover by Riley Rossmo and Ivan Plascencia. They praised McCrea for delivering grimy grindhouse beauty in the artwork and revealed their own personal inspirations in crafting the comic book story. In an interview with CBR, Zebrowski and Parks explained how the new horror story plays upon and subverts Christian tropes. Created by The Last Podcast on the Left creators Henry Zebrowski, Marcus Parks and Ben Kissel with fan-favorite artist John McCrea, the six-issue miniseries follows a disgraced seminary student named Edgar Wiggins who develops a device he believes can clean demons from souls, before he accidentally unleashes an inter-dimensional alien that could threaten all of existence.

Following its launch this past summer, DC Comics’ publishing imprint DC Horror is releasing a new title just in time for Halloween: Soul Plumber.

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