One of the biggest changes made between the Preacher comic and TV show is making Tulip OHare, Jesse Custers love interest throughout the original series, a black woman. In the comics, shes an expert marksman and Jesses one true love, who dies briefly before being brought back, and has an ill-advised fling with Cassidy when she believes Custers dead. In the comics shes a classically blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty with all the usual proportions, albeit with a filthy mouth on her than the platonic ideal of a shrinking violet. In the TV show, meanwhile, shes set to be played by Ruth Negga, best known for small roles in World War Z, Agents Of SHIELD and 12 Years A Slave. Negga is a brilliant actress, and casting Tulip as a woman of colour in a series thats mostly set across the American South - with the characters getting into enough trouble with ignorant locals thanks to their enlightened views of religion - may provide an extra wrinkle for exploring the prejudices of the modern United States.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
