Shout Out / Preacher

• Jesse's spiritual guide "the Duke" is obviously John Wayne.
• Jesus DeSade quotes and name-drops Oscar Wilde, which is apparently supposed to add to his Depraved Homosexual characterization, though of course Wilde himself was not depraved.
• Comedian Bill Hicks is discussed and even makes an appearance in a flashback.
• Cassidy name-drops a variety of famous people he's known.
  • He claims to have partied with "Bill Burroughs" and that a character in Junky was based on him.
  • He was there when poet Dylan Thomas died.
  • He hung around Brendan Behan, but disliked the poet's friends.
  • He implies being familiar with Norman Mailer.
• In Arseface's special, his teacher has "The Decline of Western Civilization" written on the chalkboard. This is the name of a very famous documentary about the LA punk scene in 1979/80.
• As Jesse's Lancer, Cassidy is compared to Han Solo a few times. When he mentions that he had a falling-out with one of his old friends, Jesse jokingly asks if he won the Millennium Falcon from him in a card game. Notably, the third volume involves Jesse and Tulip hatching a daring plan to storm a desert fortress and rescue him from a morbidly obese villain.
• Cassidy says that when he first became a vampire in 1916, there weren't movies like Fright Night (1985) to tell him what he was.
• Cassidy says he figured out what he is by reading Dracula
• While Jesse is picking up hitchhikers, he jokes about picking up a "Mr. Hauer." This is a reference to The Hitcher, starring Rutger Hauer.
• Jesse quotes King Lear while standing by the ocean.
• In the final issues, Cassidy has a long monologue relating the plot of Breaker Morant and likening himself to its antiheroes.
• In Cassidy's side issue, he looks at a fellow vampire's bookshelf, which contains, among other titles, The 120 Days of Sodom and Necronomicon.
• #21 opens by showing us the brutally murdered crew of the ship San Demetrio, followed by the ever-patient Saint of Killers. This is an obvious shout out to Dracula, wherein the title character sails to England on the Russian ship Demeter after killing all the crewmen.