5. They Sure Don't Make Them Like They Used To... (Preacher)
As comic books go, Garth Ennis's Preacher is certainly one of the more controversial series of the last few decades, revolving around a preacher called Jesse Custer who has been possessed by the offspring of an angel and a demon. Many of the enemies Custer encounters on his travels are vile creations, such as the aptly named Arseface and the animal loving T.C., but none are as disturbing as Odin Quincannon, a wealthy businessman affiliated with the Klu Klux Klan. After a plan to kill Custer went wrong, Quincannon retreated to his secret hideout in order to recover from his wounds. Custer tracks him down by following a trail of blood and discovers him stripped down, having sex with a giant woman shaped mannequin made out of dead cows, pigs and chickens. In what he describes as a 'mercy killing', Custer crushes Quincannon's neck under his boot and... presumably took the meat home to barbecue. The image above is wrong on so many levels. The blood, the bones, the defilement of perfectly good chicken... everything about Quincannon's love of meat is perverse and could easily turn readers vegetarian with nothing more than a quick glance. Preacher is full of disgusting moments written purely for shock value, but you'd be hard pressed to find one more vile than this.