Hugo Root

Few characters in comics announce themselves quite like Hugo Root — a figure born in the pages of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher in 1995, right at the heart of the Modern Age's most transgressive and celebrated Vertigo-era storytelling. A small but memorable presence in one of DC's most audacious series, Root shares his pages with an extraordinary cast — Jesse Custer, Tulip O'Hare, Cassidy, Arseface, and the Saint of Killers — which tells you everything about the wild, irreverent world he inhabits. His appearances have been collected and recollected across Absolute Preacher and the anniversary omnibus editions, a testament to how lovingly that series has been preserved for new generations of readers. If you're working your way through Preacher's unforgettable ensemble, Hugo Root is one of those faces you won't soon forget.