Preacher Season 2 SDCC Trailer Introduces Herr Starr

07/21/2017 08:49 pm EDT

AMC TV adaptation of Preacher is steadily gaining acclaim - mostly for its wild, wacky, violent, and outrageously funny brew of religious mythos and mayhem. Season 2 of Preacher has seen the odd trio of Jesse Custer, his lady Tulip O'Hare and junkie vampire Cassidy on a road trip to find God (who is missing from Heaven), with the relentless resurrected cowboy The Saint of Killers on their tail, tracking Jesse's Genesis power.

The gang's latest stop has been New Orleans, where they had to clean up a big mess from Tulip's past (no spoilers), while a mysterious organization known as The Grail has caught wind of what Jesse can do, and what his intended mission is. In the new Preacher season 2 preview unveiled at Comic-Con 2017, things will get a lot worse... and a lot weirder.

The big star of this Preacher SDCC trailer is no doubt Herr Starr, a character who plays a prominent (and fan-favorite) role in the Preacher comic book series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Starr will be played in the Preacher TV series by The Crown actor Pip Torrens, who gets a hilariously disturbing Preacher-brand intro in this new trailer.

In the comics, Starr hijacked the order of The Grail (the protector's of Christ's inbred descendants) to get revenge against Jesse for horribly maiming and scarring him, after failing to get indoctrinate Jesse into the order. As this TV trailer reveals to newcomers, Herr Starr isn't known for having an easy live experience, in general.