While the original serialised publication passed without incident, the issue of a collected edition in 1990 drew mainstream controversy; the book was subsequently withdrawn and pulped.

Garth Ennis had received his first professional commission "Troubled Souls" for Fleetway Publications' anthology title Crisis earlier in 1989, to positive reader response.

Fleetway's managing director John Davidge, who had controversially blocked Crisis from publishing Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's "Skin", ordered the collected edition withdrawn after a short period on sale; a press release stated this was due to the story being "inappropriate" for the book market.

[1] The Economist ran an article on the controversy on 19 January 1991, speculating that "no one would think twice about it" if the story was a novel, and felt that the furore was largely caused by the ongoing belief in the press that the comic medium was still exclusively aimed at children.

Another man at the bar - a recent widower called Terry Adair - joins him in arguing against the Christian group, stating he plans to kill God before leaving.

The pair are then grabbed by the Truth Soldiers of one Cornelius Garten, who claims to have the same aim as Adair - to remove the cancer of God from the world - and provides them with a huge arsenal.

When his bullying teacher Mr. Hunt confronts him, Nigel shoots him in the head with Terry's revolver and waits for the police to arrive, reflecting that he has finally found true faith - in himself.

[2] As with several of his early works (including "Troubled Souls"), Ennis has expressed dislike of "True Faith" - comparing Terry Adair to a "rejected Dredd villain" and reserving particularly harsh criticism for author surrogate Nigel Gibson, describing him as a "whiny little sod who needed a good kick up the arse" and referring to the character as a stock "neurotic boy outsider" much like those in Grant Morrison's St. Swithin's Day and John Smith's "Straitgate".

[1] In a retrospective review for Slings & Arrows' online graphic novel guide, Gareth Forest considered the story an "early curio" and felt it was interesting for tracing the development of Ennis' career, regarding it as a "flawed but ambitious book".