Saint of Killers

The Saint of Killers is a fictional character appearing in the Preacher comic book by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and published by Vertigo. He was also the subject of his own four-issue miniseries, which was later collected in Preacher Vol. 4: Ancient History. According to Ennis, the Saint's look was based on Lee Marvin's, with the speech and mannerisms of Clint Eastwood. The Saint of all Killers was at one time a soldier serving in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was simultaneously respected and feared for being absolutely merciless on the battlefield — his bloodlust verged on that of a berserker frenzy. After the war, he made his living in the American West by collecting Native scalps and bounty hunting. His life changed when he found a young woman whom he had inadvertently rescued when he killed her Indian captors. As they were far from civilization when they met, the woman pleaded to be taken with him and, in spite of himself, her plea made it through... full article at wikipedia