SpeakerAired on AMC from 2016 to 2019, it also helped bring the dark, tense Vertigo comic to the screen in a faithful yet fresh adaptation based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillons. Speaker premiered June 29, 2016Following a series of unsuccessful projects trying to bring Jesse Custer to the screen. Between the James Marsden-led movie and the big-budget HBO show trying to cover a comic book number per episode, Speaker It was known as one of the comics not adapted until the AMC show premiered.