- Faker (comics)
Infobox comic book title
title = Faker
caption = Cover to "Faker" #1 (July 2007).
schedule = Monthly
limited =y
publisher = Vertigo
date = September 2007 - February 2008
issues = 6
main_char_team =
writers =Mike Carey
artists = Jock
colorists =Lee Loughridge
letterers =Clem Robins
editors =Shelly Bond Angela Rufino
creative_team_month =
creative_team_year =
creators =Mike Carey
Jock
TPB = Faker
ISBN = 1-4012-1663-3
subcat = Vertigo
sort = Faker"Faker" is a six-issue
comic book limited series that started in July 2007 by Vertigo, written byMike Carey , art by Jock.Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = Faker | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 82 | publisher =Dorling Kindersley | place = New York | year = 2008 | ISBN = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015]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, isn't 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 Angels 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.
Collected editions
The series has been collected into a trade paperback:
*"Faker" (160 pages, April 2008,
Titan Books , ISBN 1845768388, DC Comics, ISBN 1-4012-1663-3) [ [http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=8909 "Faker" trade profile at DC Comics] ]Notes
References
*gcdb series|id=25413|title="Faker"
*comicbookdb|type=title|id=14348|title="Faker"External links
* [http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=8090 Vertigo On the Ledge: with Jock] , July 5, 2007
* [http://www.dccomics.com/comics/?cm=7709 DC profile for issue #1] , with some preview pagesInterviews
* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=005432;p=0 Mike Carey'a A Faker For Vertigo] , July 28, 2006
* [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=8745 Jock Keeps It Real With "Faker"] ,Comic Book Resources , December 1, 2006
* [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/119363154913343.htm Carey's Faker: A Thriller Rooted in Paranoia, With Some Existentialism Thrown In] ,Comics Bulletin , October 28, 2007Reviews
* [http://www.popsyndicate.com/site/story/faker_1/ Review of issue #1]
* [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/118616314184942.htm Review of issue #2] , [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/118953176489507.htm #3] and [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/119160460066898.htm #4] , atComics Bulletin
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