avram | Cassidy's just a comic character; Spike's a real guy!

Anyone remember when the first issue of Preacher (Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon) came out? It came to me this afternoon that Cassidy bears some resemblence as a character to early Spike from Buffy. Not physical, but in general personality and outlook. If you gave quick summaries of their characters, one or two sentences, they could easily come out the same except one’s Irish and the other English. Hm, and Cassidy’s probably too much of a fuck-up ever to kill a Slayer.