Faker (comics)

Faker
Cover to Faker #1 (July 2007).
Publication information
Publisher	Vertigo
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date	September 2007 - February 2008
No. of issues	6
Creative team
Created by	Mike Carey Jock
Written by	Mike Carey
Artist(s)	Jock
Letterer(s)	Clem Robins
Colorist(s)	Lee Loughridge
Editor(s)	Shelly Bond Angela Rufino
Collected editions
Faker	ISBN 1-4012-1663-3

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

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 978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC 213309015
2. "Faker trade profile at DC Comics". Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-04-20.

References

• Faker at the Grand Comics Database
• Faker at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

• Vertigo On the Ledge: with Jock, July 5, 2007
• DC profile for issue #1, with some preview pages

Interviews

• Mike Carey'a A Faker For Vertigo, July 28, 2006
• Jock Keeps It Real With "Faker", Comic Book Resources, December 1, 2006
• Carey's Faker: A Thriller Rooted in Paranoia, With Some Existentialism Thrown In, Comics Bulletin, October 28, 2007

Reviews

• Review of issue #1
• Review of issue #2 Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, #3 Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine and #4 Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, at Comics Bulletin