God

In Garth Ennis's Preacher, God is portrayed as a literal divine being who abandoned Heaven, setting the entire series' central conflict in motion. Jesse Custer's quest to find and confront this absent Creator drives the narrative's core tension.

Few comic characters carry a title quite this weighty — and Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's God, debuting in Preacher #9 in 1995, is exactly as audacious as that sounds. Born from the irreverent, boundary-pushing Modern Age, this figure strides through one of DC/Vertigo's most celebrated and controversial series, sharing the page with the likes of Jesse Custer, Tulip O'Hare, and Marie L'Angell in a story that never once flinches from the big questions. With appearances spanning 25 years across Preacher and its collected editions, this is a character whose very existence in comics is a statement — rare in the catalog but impossible to ignore.