I Guess This Was Inevitable

Given the current love affair between comic books and Hollywood, it only stands to reason that Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's wonderful 1990s Preacher series, which had nearly made it onto cable a couple years back before being killed, would instead pop up now as a film project. With some of the questionable comic book properties getting optioned as movies these days, including some that even I've never heard of, it's not exactly rocket science to take something as well-loved as Preacher and put it on the big screen.

As with the Y: The Last Man movie that's currently in pre-production, I have serious doubts that Preacher will get the right sort of treatment when translated to film. But as Alan Moore always says, making a mediocre movie out of a great comic story does nothing to diminish the source material. So it's sort of a no-lose proposition.