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Faker (2008)

by Mike Carey(Favorite Author)

2.94 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1401216633 (ISBN13: 9781401216634)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: Meh. This one felt really phoned in. The characters really only got distinct and interesting in the last 30 pages -- and by then you didn't care about the angel serum plot device that was driving this whole story. The women in this story were particularly one dimensional (a slut and a lesbian, how original. Not) and while I came to like Jess by the end, I could take or leave anybody else. The actual plot was just not interesting and the tone was tired (oversexed college student thing has been done to death). The ending didn't make a lot of sense honestly, except that evil is sorta punished a guess and some people that you didn't really care about died. Ho hum. The only good thing about it was that the art was solid. Not exceptional, but solid. Maybe if you are a ... morehuge Mike Carey fan then you will find something to like here, but for the rest of us, I say give it a pass.
review 2: Eh. I like Mike Carey. Mostly for the work that he did on Hellblazer, My Faith in Frankie, and his Lucifer comic book. I didn't care for this book. It pivoted around some imaginary psychotropic drug that pushed the limits of my suspension of disbelief.Amazing. A comic about the devil and his half-faceless girlfriend is okay to me. A magical drug and college students, not so much. less

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