Faker (comics)

Faker is a six-issue comic book limited series that started in July 2007 by Vertigo, written by Mike Carey, art by Jock.[1]

Faker
Cover to Faker #1 (July 2007).
Publication information
PublisherVertigo
ScheduleMonthly
FormatLimited series
Publication dateSeptember 2007 - February 2008
No. of issues6
Creative team
Created byMike Carey
Jock
Written byMike Carey
Artist(s)Jock
Letterer(s)Clem Robins
Colorist(s)Lee Loughridge
Editor(s)Shelly Bond
Angela Rufino
Collected editions
FakerISBN 1-4012-1663-3

Plot

Minnesota college students Jessica, Yvonne, Marky and Sack are at a party when an ex-girlfriend of Marky's slips a bottle of "Angel's Kiss" into their drinks. Angel's Kiss turns out to be an experimental medium for liquid data storage. Shortly afterwards, a friend of the four students, Nick Philo, turns up in their dorm. After a bizarre series of events, all five come to realize that "Nick", though possessing a physical body, is not real at all, but is a creation of their minds under the influence of Angel's Kiss.

The five are then abducted by the United States government, the creators of Angel's Kiss, who are now extremely interested in its potential for weapons research as well as data storage. Jessie leads her friends on a breakout of the installation at which they are being held captive, but falls into an entire vat of Angel's Kiss in the process; she emerges transformed in some unknown manner. On the run in the open country, Marky and Yvonne are shot and killed by the soldiers pursuing them. Nick dives into a rural reservoir, and his body dissolves, apparently contaminating all the local drinking water with Angel's Kiss. Jessie ultimately escapes but, returning to her old life, finds herself constantly drinking tap water, in the hope of recreating at least part of the reality of Nick's existence.[1]

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a trade paperback:

  • Faker (160 pages, April 2008, Titan Books, ISBN 1-84576-838-8, DC Comics, ISBN 1-4012-1663-3)[2]

Notes
  1. Irvine, Alex (2008), "Faker", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, p. 82, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
  2. Faker trade profile at DC Comics
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