Preacher #34

Glenn Fabry's painted cover for Preacher #34 sets a striking, ominous tone: a determined blonde woman strides forward in the foreground while a cigarette-smoking preacher in clerical collar and black jacket looms behind her, both figures dwarfed by a massive, unsettling pair of eyes glowering blood-red from above. This is the opening chapter of the "War in the Sun" four-part arc, written by Garth Ennis with art by Steve Dillon — one of Vertigo's most compelling creative partnerships of the late 1990s. If you've been following Jesse Custer's turbulent journey, this issue promises the arc is about to shift into something even more intense.