Missionary Man (comics)


Missionary Man is British comic strip. It debuted in the Judge Dredd Megazine in May 1993 with the introductory 7-page story "Salvation at the Last Chance Saloon", illustrated by Frank Quitely. It established that tall Preacher Cain rides the Cursed Earth performing "special sermons" in the radiation-poisoned towns, tutoring the damned with a bible and his guns. In this first outing, having educated and decimated a table of gambling mutant heavyweights he rides into the sunset, tossing a bible at the surviving townspeople - which contains a thermonuclear explosive.
In 1998 the strip transitioned to the weekly 2000 AD.

Stories

All written by Gordon Rennie:
  • Missionary Man:
  • * "Salvation at the Last Chance Saloon"
  • * "A Town Called Intolerance"
  • * "Legend of the Unholy Drinker"
  • * "Bad Moon Rising"
  • * "Season of the Witch"
  • * "Sanctuary"
  • * "The Undertaker Cometh"
  • * "Treasure of the Sierra Murder"
  • * "Medicine Show"
  • * "Nightriders"
  • * "Mississippi Burning"
  • * "Crusader"
  • * "The Big Sleazy"
  • * "Night of the Hunter"
  • * "Mortal Combat"
  • * "Juggernaut"
  • * "The Shootist"
  • * "Storm Warnings"
  • * "Missionary Man: Prologue"
  • * "Mardi Gras"
  • * "Goin' South"
  • * "Apocrypha"
  • * "The Promised Land", Trevor Hairsine, Colin MacNeil, Simon Davis, and Dean Ormston
  • * "Mark of the Beast"
  • * "Silence"
  • * "Place of the Dead"
The character also makes a cameo appearance in the Judge Dredd novel Cursed Earth Asylum, by David Bishop.

Collected editions

Some of the stories have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks:Bad Moon Rising collects:
  • * Missionary Man collects:
  • ** "Salvation At The Last Chance Saloon"
  • ** "A Town Called Intolerance"
  • ** "Legend of the Unholy Drinker"
  • ** "Bad Moon Rising"
  • ** "Season of The Witch"
  • * "Sanctuary"
  • * "The Undertaker Cometh"