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T2 WHATS UP! August 26 - September 1, 2018 BY KENNETH ANDEEL TV Media J esse Custer is not a proto- typical man of God. He drinks. He smokes. Of course he swears. He breaks limbs in bar brawls and he'll shoot important bits of anatomy off of anyone who'd dare try to take his dead dad's church by force. He pals around with a drug-gorging vampire and he's in love with his child- hood friend, a hardened crimi- nal. But, craziest of all, Jesse dares to confront God mano a prime mover, and insists he be given answers to all those mys- teries of creation that it's gener- ally assumed we puny humans aren't meant to know. You might imagine that an al- mighty God who didn't want to be bothered by an audacious mortal could just hit the "smite" button and have done, but Jesse is special. For un- known reasons, he's been cho- sen as the host for a celestial being of unprecedented might that rivals God's own — and there you have the wicked con- ceit of "Preacher," set to con- clude its third season on AMC. Watch on Sunday, Aug. 26, as Preacher Jesse (Dominic Coo- per, "Mama Mia!" 2008), on- again, off-again assassin/lover Tulip (Ruth Negga, "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.") and Irish blood- sucker Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun, "Misfits") try to find God and hold Him to account without any of them dying (or worse). "Preacher" arrived at AMC after spending nearly two de- cades in development hell. The story was originally told in comic book format by writ- er Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon. Their 66-issue run spanned from 1995 to 2000 and was part of an era of explicit comics targeted at mature readers. Ennis, realizing the story's screen potential, start- ed shopping it as a script in 1998, before he'd even con- cluded the narrative in its original medium. Obstacles abounded, and the screen adaptation passed through multiple hands until it finally made it into the clutch- es of an unlikely pair, who just happened to have obsessively coveted it for years. Seth Rog- Joseph Gilgun and Dominic Cooper star in "Preacher" Love the sinner continued on page T10 TV FEATURE