That weird Cerebus Preacher/Punisher crossover?

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House of Cerebus. (FOC should be REAL soon...)

The Silver Cerebus

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As was mentioned in an old Please Hold For Dave Sim (you're gonna have to find it yourselves, I got a headache...) Dave was once a guest at an Australian Comic Con, along with Garth Ennis. They ended up spending a lot of time together. Which makes the following even stranger:

So, just before the 2/3rds mark of Cerebus (Issue 198), Dave does this bit:

We all know how it ends.

Well, at just before the 2/3rds point in Preacher (Issue 39 (of 66)), Garth Ennis does this bit:

Weird coincidence right?

It gets weirder:

Everybody remembers this bit:

Well, AMOC's ol' friend Paul Slade sent in:

Dear Matt,

I’m currently working my way through Garth Ennis’s Punisher Max run. In issue #39, I found this scene featuring a Russian general called Zakharov. It’s the 1980s, and he’s executing a village full of Afghan civilians by marching them off a cliff when one of them begs him to save her baby. Zakharov agrees to take it, and then this happens:

TWO issue #39s by Ennis, that echo Cerebus?

Weird...

Next Time: Oliver!