Faker #5

Five strips of photographic film cascade across a stark black background, each tinted a different vivid color — magenta, blue, white, yellow, red, and green — and each carrying repeated close-up portraits of characters whose expressions range from wary to openly hostile. The word "Faker" appears four times in bold handwritten lettering, echoing the film frames' repetition and hammering home the series' obsession with identity and duplication. Jock's design is quietly unsettling, and with Mike Carey's script in its penultimate chapter, this 2008 Vertigo issue promises a tension-soaked ride toward the finale.