Comic Art

This column mentioned one of the previous days the forthcoming comic book “God Save the Queen” by Mike Carey and was actually thrilled to present a new work by him. This is the second time in a short period that we enjoy that privilege, Carey’s new mini series will be released this July by Vertigo and is titled Faker, it also seems capable of rocking your world (I know, I can’t control my enthusiasm).

Jessie is reaching the end of his freshman year in University in a tough Minnesota winter and to celebrate it he and his friends plan a great, wild party. After the party though everything seems to go terribly wrong for everyone, Jessie is hunted by memories she avoided for years, her best friend seems to have lost his identity and nobody outside their circle remembers or recognizes him with every official record of his existence deleted. What begins as a joke soon becomes a horror story where someone is something else than what he showed to his friends.

Faker is written by the great Mike Carey (Lucifer, Crossing Midnight, God Save the Queen) and illustrated by also well known Jock (he made The Losers, a great action story about a missing black-ops military team betrayed by their own bosses which is also planned to become a movie). It’s a story taking place the first year of its heroes’ independent lives when they choose what they want to be and what they want to pretend they are. All that through the prism of Carey’s story telling charisma and Jock’s beautiful drawing, this is something you can’t miss!