The world of Preacher was actually quite dark as well, but broadly speaking, it was the story of a small-town priest and his friends setting out on a journey to find God after discovering that He had gone missing.
Before Su Ming had transmigrated, he had read both the original comics and watched the TV series. Overall, it suffered from the usual problem with adaptations: anything that could air on television could not convey even a tenth of the comic's core and was already considered extreme.
But it did not matter. Deathstroke had not come here for a vacation. What became of this world in the Future had nothing to do with him. The important thing was finding that person through the idiot angels.
While waiting for the Cloak of Levitation to return with blood, Su Ming watched the priest digging a hole nearby and reviewed the intelligence he could draw upon in his mind.
The priest of this little church was named Jesse Custer. He came from a family shrouded in mystery. After both his parents died, he was sent to be raised by his grandmother, only to find that his uncles and cousins were all deformed psychopaths.
American horror movies had a category called hillbilly horror. It referred to stories where an entire family of dim-witted freaks lived somewhere in a remote backwater. They had no normal concept of good and evil, hunting unwitting passing tourists or pedestrians with twisted, malformed bodies and low-intelligence bloodlust. Such films were often accompanied by cannibalism, incestuous breeding, and similar phenomena.
Some of the more famous examples were Wrong Turn, Timber Falls, and The Hills Have Eyes. The progenitor was Cannibal Holocaust. They were quite entertaining to watch now and then.
But Priest Jesse certainly did not see it that way, especially