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P E R S P E C T I V E | J U LY / AU G U S T 2 0 1 7 27 © American Movie Classics by Dave Blass, Production Designer Preaching to the Choir This was my second comic book adaptation—after Constantine for NBC—and I had learned quite a bit about fan expectations and the backlash you can face for getting things wrong. There are recognizable images that people are so attached to that you just can't mess with them. For Preacher, it's the first edition cover art by Glenn Fabry. It's Jesse hovering over his church which has a simple center steeple. I told the author Garth Ennis when I met him that I always felt that that image was basically a giant middle finger to the world, which I felt described much of the tone of the books. Garth, Glenn Fabry and artist Steve Dillon had also worked on Hellblazer which was adapted into Constantine, so I had spent quite a while pouring over their artwork and wanted to do it justice. The pilot had featured a visual effects church with an off-center steeple that just wasn't as dramatic, but convincing executives to go back and pay to redo tens of thousands of dollars' worth of set extensions just because I didn't feel it served the stylistic integrity was probably a bad way to start a project. Nonetheless, I knew in my heart it was the right