If Arse-Face is one of the most memorable characters in the Preacher comics purely for his look, then Cassidy is the one that readers love to hate because of his personality, and his really terrible behaviour. The amoral friend of Jesse Custer and Tulip OHare, Cassidy is a hundred-year-old Irish vampire just looking for a good time. Throughout the comics he varies between being a charimsatically likeable arsehole and a total monster, peaking when he takes advantage of Tulips sorry state after thinking Jesse was dead, getting her drunk and drugged up and sleeping with him until she snaps out of it, shoots him so hard he flies out into the sunlight and perishes. Hes a tough nut to crack, so its reassuring to know an actor of Joseph Gilguns calibre has been cast in the role. Known for his show-stealing parts in This Is England and Misfits (with a brief stop-over in soap opera Emmerdale), Gilgun has exactly the sort of devilish cheeky-chappy charm of Cassidy, along with being able to portray real darkness.
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/
