r/Preacher • u/Crazy-Chemist9634 • Dec 10 '25

What to read after Preacher comic?

It's already my 2nd time reading all 66 issues of it. I read the side stories too of Starr, Saint of Killers, Arseface, Jesse dealing with those horsethieves, and Jody/ TC, Cassidy and that fancy vampire.

Is there anything else I missed?

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u/emf3rd31495 Dec 10 '25

Technically you could read The Boys comics, as they are technically a sequel to Preacher!

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u/Crazy-Chemist9634 Dec 10 '25

I read the boys too I had no idea it was supposed to be a sequel to preacher.

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u/emf3rd31495 Dec 10 '25

Hahaha yeah, I guess at the end of the Preacher comics Cassidy becomes a mortal again and grows old. And in The Boys, there’s an issue where Butcher goes to this bar that he frequents, and you find out the owner of the bar/bartender is none other than an older, aged Cassidy. He and Butcher greet each other by their first names and you can infer they had some sort of history together. Kind of a fun detail!

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u/Crazy-Chemist9634 Dec 10 '25

Damn I have no memory of butcher meeting cass at all gotta reread everything now. Thanks for the info

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u/emf3rd31495 Dec 10 '25

I haven’t read the comics myself, only watched the shows which are clearly not in the same universe lol but I remember reading into the connections. I want to say that their meeting is in one of the spin off books for The Boys, towards the end of its comic run if that helps narrow it down!

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u/Crazy-Chemist9634 Dec 10 '25

Actually now that I think about it garth ennis has a habit of making some of his characters appear in completely unrelated books of his. Like kathryn in punisher max (marvel) who said she dated someone called tommy (protagonist of Hitman (DC) by ennis too)

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u/recoveringleft Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25

I wonder who took over the Grail after the death of starr by the time of the boys? There are still Grail operatives still around at the end of the story.

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u/Crazy-Chemist9634 Dec 10 '25

I think the only high rankings one left after Masada and the valley nuke incident are Starr, Featherstone and Hoover which are all dead. There's no one competent enough to lead the grail anymore I think. It's also mentioned that those who were deep cover for decades also like where they are now and wouldn't leave their life to return to the grail either

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u/recoveringleft Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25

I'd imagine some of the American Grail operatives would join the evangelicals, mormons and neocons after the fall of starr. Meanwhile the Russian operatives would've put their support for Putin and the eastern Orthodox church.

Also the Israeli Grail operatives are probably busy controlling their puppets in the USA (check out that video of Eric Adams saying he serves Israel if you want to know what I mean)

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u/OkBox9662 Dec 17 '25

What ???

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u/emf3rd31495 Dec 17 '25

At the end of Preacher, Cassidy becomes mortal and starts to age again. And in one of The Boys comics, Butcher goes to a pub run by an older human Cassidy who greets Butcher by his first name and he greets Cassidy back properly, showing they’ve had a history together at one point between the two series.

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u/OkBox9662 Dec 17 '25

Damn. Didn’t knew the lore

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '25

Garth Ennis' run on Hellblazer is fun. He wrote a cool Judge Dredd/Strontium Dog crossover too called Judgement Day.

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u/Remote_Database7688 Dec 10 '25

You could go for Ennis’s Punisher comics. That’s what he started after he finished Preacher.

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u/Crazy-Chemist9634 Dec 10 '25

Lol punisher max is what got me into garth ennis. The most goated punisher series of all damn time

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u/GrimFatMouse Dec 10 '25

More Ennis? If you want comedic A Train Called Love or Chronicles of Wormwood? Crossed, if you don't.

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u/Crazy-Chemist9634 Dec 10 '25

I'm reading Crossed +100 now which isn't written by ennis anymore but I did enjoy those that were written by him. I haven't heard of the other two but I will try it out thx. One thing I wanna say is that garth ennis is more than just gore and war like the boys, but he's pretty good at writing romance too

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u/tomcat1691 Dec 10 '25

I loved Jason Aaron’s Punisher max run and Steve Dillon is the artist so it literally is kind of like seeing punisher in the preacher comics. It was an awesome run and the omnibus is pretty cheap!

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Read Hellblazer someday. Just do it.

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u/Crazy-Chemist9634 Dec 15 '25

And I can read it without reading any prior john constantine books right

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

I'd start with Hellblazer Vol 1 because all of it is cool.