Salvation, Texas

Salvation, Texas is the name of a fictional town from the Comic Preacher. It is the eponymous setting of Preacher Volume 7: Salvation (which collects issues 41-50) and also features in the final volume The Alamo (Volume 9).

Having myteriously survived the fall from a jet, seen in War in the Sun, (This is later revealed as a literal act of God) Jesse Custer recooperated for a time before tracking down his true love Tulip and his best friend Cassidy. Finding them now a couple, Jesse allowed them to continue believing he was dead and abandonned his quest for vengence against the Lord.

Wandering once more through America Jesse eventually found himself in the small town of Salvation Texas eating at Jody's Bar and Grill. Looking for work and displaying his usual tendency to get into fights, Jesse was recruited by the towns Sherrif. Jesse however declined instead insisting that he become sherrif. The incumbant, seeing an oppurtunity to free himself from the troubled town quickly agreed.