History Headscratchers / Preacher

* Could someone please explain how the Grail supposed to work. Halfway through the comic it is explain that the role of the Allfather is in charge and it seems to show that but near the end Herr Starr faces opposition from various people such as Einstein despite the fact that he should be his boss and from a small group of council people who seems to be really running things despite the fact I never seem to recall a instance where they were mention. Could someone clear this up for me?
** No organization is without factionalization and politics. The Grail operates based off of individual influence and Starr's is very much at a low after the repeated disasters he's run into by the time Einstein comes into the picture. Starr might have the power ''technically'', but much like how he wasn't loyal to the FatBastard of a previous Allfather, his underlings will not be loyal to ''him''. Tl;dr, everyone's got people personally loyal to them and a fancy title won't make those with power stop hating you.

** Pshh, like that's an isolated incident? Jesse is one of the most BoringInvincibleHero characters I've ever seen. In 'Salvation'' he beats up FOUR other guys simultaneously without getting so much as a bruise or a black eye to show for it. Completely fucking absurd.

** Miss Marie (Gran'ma) told Jody that The Word wouldn't work on them (meaning Miss Marie and her associates) because God made it so. But later, God tells Tulip that He restored Jesse's power to him so that he might exact whatever retribution he saw fit. However, in a much later confrontation, Jesse postulates that since God fled Heaven because Genesis (the source of The Word) was so powerful, maybe God didn't "restore' The Word; it came back on by itself. Nevertheless, it remains that Jody and co. were indeed immune to The Word at the beginning of the storyarc, but became vulnerable to it again by the end.

*** Cassidy's not the most imaginative, perceptive person; this is well documented. He is reckless, thoughtless, and surprisingly naive for someone who has lived so long. Also, the drug dealer he does threaten makes it clear that if Cassidy did try strong arming him out of some drugs, "his brothers would find him when he's good and weak and pay him back double".

** The StartOfDarkness for the man who becomes The Saint Of Killers is well documented, so I won't recount it here. let's just jump to the point where he's murdered and goes to his rightful reward in Hell. The killer's hatred is so strong, it violates all the physical laws of Hell and causes it to freeze over, utterly thwarting the Devil's power over his own realm. ThePowerOfHate gave the bounty hunter dominance over the universe's figurehead of evil, an act that so impressed the Angel of Death, he handed over his mantle, mission and powers to the man, turning him into The Saint Of Killers. I contest that the man's reality warping Hatred coupled with that of the Angel of Death to magnify it, making the result far greater than the sum of its parts, not unlike Genesis. The Angel of Death, Satan or God did not foresee this, realizing too late that they'd created a force of murder and destruction that would ultimately prove beyond their power to control.

** The man who became The Saint was already widely feared as a cold-blooded, murderous psychopath, who used the horrors of the Civil War as his personal playground and later became a bounty hunter because he loved killing so much. Even when he wasn't on the job, he was known to shoot people in cold blood on the flimsiest of pretexts. He was not a nice guy, apparently from the start. Then, after forging a family for himself, he loses it due to the depredations of even more evil assholes, is murdered, then goes to his rightful reward in Hell. But the killer's hatred is so strong, it violates all the physical laws of Hell and causes it to freeze over, utterly thwarting the Devil's power over his own realm. ThePowerOfHate gave the bounty hunter dominance over the universe's figurehead of evil, an act that so impressed the Angel of Death, he handed over his mantle, mission and powers to the man, turning him into The Saint Of Killers. I contest that the man's reality warping Hatred coupled with that of the Angel of Death to magnify it, making the result far greater than the sum of its parts, not unlike Genesis. The Angel of Death, Satan or God did not foresee this, realizing too late that they'd created a force of murder and destruction that would ultimately prove beyond their power to control.